User's Manual

Wireless PCMCIA Card
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during the installation and operation of this Wireless PCMCIA
Card. Read the description below to solve your problems.
ü What is the IEEE 802.11b standard
？
The IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN standards subcommittee,
which is formulating a standard for the industry. The
objective is to enable wireless LAN hardware from
different manufactures to communicate.
ü What IEEE 802.11 feature are supported
？
The product supports the following IEEE 802.11 functions:
•
CSMA/CA plus Acknowledge protocol
• Multi-Channel Roaming
•
Automatic Rate Selection
•
RTS/CTS feature
• Fragmentation
•
Power Management
ü What is Ad-hoc ？
An Ad-hoc integrated wireless LAN is a group of
computers, each with a WLAN adapter, Connected as an
independent wireless LAN. Ad hoc wireless LAN is
applicable at a departmental scale for a branch or SOHO
operation.
ü What is Infrastructure
？
An integrated wireless and wireless and wired LAN is
called an Infrastructure configuration. Infrastructure is
applicable to enterprise scale for wireless access to central
database, or wireless application for mobile workers.
ü What is BSS ID ？
A specific Ad hoc LAN is called a Basic Service Set
(BSS). Computers in a BSS must be configured with the
same BSS ID.
ü What is WEP ？
WEP is Wired Equivalent Privacy, a data privacy
mechanism based on a 40 bit shared key algorithm, as