User's Manual

M033103V10

select the

Cancel

button.

Note: Choose the WEP Encryption command from the right-click menu of PRISM Configuration Utility tray

icon will launch this tab too.

Figure 4.3-4: The Encryption Tab

Encryption (WEP security)

If you choose Disabled from the pull-down list, you will have the wireless module communicated

with all stations within the same networking community without any data encryption. Otherwise, two

key lengths are offered:

64 bit

and

128 bit

Specify a preferred one from the two, so that you may

use the identical WEP key to make a communication with the chosen access point.

Create Key Manual

Once you set the

Encryption

type as

64 bit

128 bit

, you may choose to edit WEP keys manually

or create them via the passphrase of your wireless network. If you choose the Create Key Manual

option, you may directly enter up to 4 WEP keys for use in WEP encryption. To generate the WEP

keys, please define the key entry method as

Alphanumeric

Hexadecimal

(for hexadecimal

characters, only digits 0-9 and letters A-F are valid). Then edit the texts in the blank fields below,

from Key 1 to Key 4, as the encryption codes. Note that these codes/keys shall be identical between

the wireless nodes within the range and the access point only. Check the table below to see valid

key length for each encryption type:

64 bit 128 bit

Alphanumeric

5 characters

13 characters

Hexadecimal

10 digits

26 digits

Use WEP Key

Indicate which WEP key you intend to apply to activate the WEP encryption from the pull-down