User Manual

About WaveLAN/IEEE
WaveLAN PC Card Features
1-6 WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo 11 Mb PC Card
WaveLAN PC Card Types 1
The WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo 11 Mb PC Card is a wireless network
adapter card that complies with the IEEE 802.11 standard on
wireless LANs Rev. B. This card that supports data rates up to 11
Mbit/s is available in two variants:
■ WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo 11 Mb Silver Label, and
■ WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo 11 Mb Gold Label
Both types of WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo 11 Mb PC Cards are:
■ Fully compatible with any other wireless LAN system based on
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) radio technology
that complies with the “IEEE 802.11 standard on wireless
LANs (Revision B)”.
■ Backwards compatible with any other previously released
model of the WaveLAN/IEEE product family.
Silver Label Cards 1
The WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo 11 Mb Silver PC Cards supports the
following wireless LAN features:
■ Automatic Transmit Rate Select mechanism in the range of
"High, Medium, Standard and Low".
■ Frequency Channel Selection (2.4 GHz).
■ Roaming over multiple channels.
■ Power Management.
■ Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) data encryption, based on the
64 bit RC4 encryption algorithm as defined in the IEEE 802.11
standard on wireless LANs.
These features are described in more detail in Chapter 4
”Advanced WaveLAN Parameters”