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Microchip MRF24W Getting Started Guide for MRF24WB0MA/B, MRF24WG0MA/B for MLA v5
DS52108A-page 14 Preliminary  2013 Microchip Technology Inc.
• 802.11 access point (AP) (b, b/g, or b/g/n) required for using the development
board in Infrastructure BSS mode
- Linksys WRT54G or WRT54G2 is recommended, and it is used as a refer-
ence in this document. If other types of APs are used, the approach remains
similar and user must refer to the APs operating manual.
1.4 SOFTWARE
This user’s guide consists of sections on installing the Microchip MPLAB X IDE, the
Microchip MRF24WB0MA/B or MRF24WG0MA/B Wi-Fi
®
SDK and TCP/IP stack, and
the necessary changes to configure the demonstration software for networks with
different characteristics apart from the default settings. Refer to Appendix A, for direct
links to the specific Microchip software you may require for your project. The latest
Microchip documentation is available on the Microchip web site, and takes precedence
over software bundles on the installation CD. The latest MRF24WB0MA/B and
MRF24WG0MA/B Wi-Fi
®
documentation is available on the Microchip Wi-Fi
®
support
web site (http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/technology/wifi), and is the
most accurate.
This user’s guide documents how to configure the wireless network by hard coding the
network parameters into the software, then compiling, and storing this information on
the Microchip MCU. The software uses the C function calls to modify the values in
variables used to keep the configurations. Customer application code can therefore
create a user interface that allows scanning for networks and then configuring based
on the end users selection. As an example of using the variables, the included
demonstration projects have a number of source files to allow run-time configuration of
the networks (for example, select Ad hoc or Infrastructure network type, change the
SSID, change the security methods and keys, and so on).
The required software installation to build the project are:
• Microchip MPLAB
®
XC compiler
• Microchip MPLAB C18 compiler (PICDEM.Net 2 and PIC18)
• Microchip MPLAB X IDE
Refer to Appendix A, for download information.
1.5 REFERENCES
For more information, refer to the following:
• Microchip TCP/IP Stack Help
The help file comes with the TCP/IP source code releases.