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Atheros Confidential and Proprietary

AP User’s Guide

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Subject to change without notice.

October 2001

FCCID: PPD-AR5BAP-00030

AP User’s Guide

Revision October 2001 for Release 1.2

Summary of Contents for AR5BAP-00030

Page 1: ...Atheros Confidential and Proprietary AP User s Guide Page 1 Subject to change without notice October 2001 FCCID PPD AR5BAP 00030 AP User s Guide Revision October 2001 for Release 1 2...

Page 2: ...of this document may be reproduced adapted or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical for any purpose except as expressly set forth in a written agreement signed by Atheros At...

Page 3: ...TENTS 4 1 2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 4 2 GETTING TO KNOW THE ATHEROS ACCESS POINT 5 2 1 FRONT VIEW 5 2 2 REAR VIEW 6 2 3 AP NETWORK ATTACHMENT AND CONFIGURATION 8 2 3 1 Booting VxWorks From the Ethernet Co...

Page 4: ...VxWorks documentation can be obtained through a license agreement with WindRiver Systems See www wrs com for more information about VxWorks licensing The AP contains a small boot executive that allow...

Page 5: ...nted antennas that rotate 180 for alternative reception positioning and compact packaging Table 1 LED Functionality LED 1 Description Off No Power On Power On and Ready for Operation Blink Power On bu...

Page 6: ...etected but No Activity Amber Blink 10 Mbps Link Activity blink rate is proportional to activity LED 3 Description Off Wireless Link Disabled Very Slow Blink Looking for Network Association Slow Blink...

Page 7: ...o a terminal or PC for AP configuration The RJ 45 Ethernet jack is provided for 10 100 Mbps connectivity to a wired Ethernet LAN The Ethernet subsystem is based on a single chip 10 100 Mbps integrated...

Page 8: ...t crossover cable An Ethernet switch hub or crossover cable is not included with the Atheros AP Reference Design 3 Plug in the 3 3 V power supply adapter provided by Atheros to the AP power supply con...

Page 9: ...liminary Atheros Confidential and Proprietary AP User s Guide Page 9 Subject to change without notice October 2001 3 Within the Local Area Connection Properties window choose Internet Protocol TCP IP...

Page 10: ...o change without notice 4 Configure the IP address for the Ethernet connection in the Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties window Click OK to continue and close Local Area Connection Properties Note th...

Page 11: ...sure there is no other FTP program such as Internet Information Service IIS running on the HPC Double click a ftp exe under the utils folder in the distribution CD to start the FTP server This utilit...

Page 12: ...idential and Proprietary October 2001 Subject to change without notice 7 Type any name under the Name field in the Connection Description dialog box and click OK 8 Select COM1 or the COM port that is...

Page 13: ...n HyperTerminal a few seconds after the AP is connected to the power source Press any key to stop the auto boot process and follow Section 3 1 1 to load the VxWorks file over the Ethernet connection o...

Page 14: ...h Boot from Ethernet Default Setting National Semiconductor boot device tffs0 dp0 processor number 0 0 host name Any value file name fl vxworks Location of VxWorks stored in Host PC inet on ethernet e...

Page 15: ...xWorks from Flash memory Refer to Appendix B Download Software Image section on page Error Bookmark not defined for CLI commands to load the VxWorks image file to the Flash file system if VxWorks does...

Page 16: ...in AP web server or by issuing commands through the serial port command line interface CLI 2 4 1 Web Browser The following procedures show the steps to configure the channel frequency and SSID using...

Page 17: ...ary AP User s Guide Page 17 Subject to change without notice October 2001 2 Click Setup A dialog box appears that requests login authorization When prompted enter the following information to log in L...

Page 18: ...ly you can also set up Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP for security purposes To set up WEP click WEP and the configuration screen appears Refer to Appendix A for a detailed explanation of the WEP configu...

Page 19: ...rface The following procedures show the steps required to configure the AP channel frequency and SSID using the command line CLI interface and HyperTerminal 1 After the AP boots and VxWorks loads pres...

Page 20: ...nd Proprietary October 2001 Subject to change without notice 2 Type set ssid SSID to change the SSID that you wish to specify Type set channel channel to change the IEEE radio channel You must type re...

Page 21: ...eliminary Atheros Confidential and Proprietary AP User s Guide Page 21 Subject to change without notice October 2001 3 To view CLI command options log in and type help or refer to Appendix B for detai...

Page 22: ...accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment d...