User Manual

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WhereLAN III User’s Guide

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User’s Guide, WhereLAN III draft D1675 rev F

Zebra Confidential

From the Main Menu, select Diagnostics, and from the Diagnostics Menu select

802.11 Client. Then, in the 802.11 Client Menu, select the number that

corresponds to “Select Antenna”, and enter the value that corresponds to the

antenna that will be attached to the WhereLAN-III.

Escape “ESC” to save selection, ‘ff2’ is the password. The unit will need to be

rebooted for the setting to take effect.

All the Wi-Fi network parameters are under the control of a file called

wpa_supplicant.conf. In order to configure the WhereLAN III Wi-Fi client

card to access your network, you must first edit or create this file to match

your Wi-Fi network configuration and then upload the file onto the

WhereLAN III unit. The wpa_supplicant.conf file must be created or edited

with a Linux friendly text editor. Do not use Notepad or similar. A popular

free Linux editor is called VIM and is found at http://vim.sourceforge.net/.

5.4.2 Configuring the Wi-Fi Network Parameters