User's Manual

PRELIMINARY
Atheros Communications, Inc. Page 18
COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL March 2004
Diagnostics Tab
The Diagnostics tab of the Atheros Client Utility provides buttons used to retrieve receive and
transmit statistics. The Diagnostics tab does not require any configuration.
The Diagnostics tab lists the following receive and transmit diagnostics for frames received by or
transmitted by the wireless network adapter:
• Multicast frames transmitted and received
• Broadcast frames transmitted and received
• Unicast frames transmitted and received
• Total bytes transmitted and received
Click the Adapter Information button for more general information about the the wireless network
adapter and the network driver interface specification (NDIS) driver.
Click the Advanced Statistics button on the Diagnostics tab to also show receive and transmit
statistical information for the following receive and transmit diagnostics for frames received by or
transmitted to the wireless network adapter:
Transmitted Frames
• Frames transmitted OK
• Frames retried
• Frames dropped
• NoACK frames
• ACK frames
• RTS Frames
• Clear-to-send (CTS)
Frames
• No CTS frames
• Retried RTS frames
• Retried data frames
Received Frames
• Frames received OK
• Beacons
• Frames with errors
• CRC errors
• Encryption errors
• Duplicate frames
• AP mismatches
• Data rate mismatches
• Authentication time-out
• Authentication rejects: the number of AP
authentication failures received by the
wireless network adapter
• Association time-out
• Association rejects: the number of access
point authentication rejects received by the
wireless network adapter
• Standard MIC OK
• Standard MIC errors
• CKIP MIC OK
• CKIP MIC errors