Wireless LAN
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WL-211 PC Card
User manual
“C
ONFIGURATION
” tab
You can change the configuration by clicking on the
Change Configuration.
When you click on the
Change Configuration, you see the screen given below.
Figure 4 Management window with "C
ONFIGURATION
" tab open
Five changeable fields in this field show desired GemTek NIC configuration.
The fields are following:
Station ESS ID
Extended Service Set Identifier (Wireless Network Identifier) is the group name that
will be shared by every member of your wireless network. You will only be able to connect with an
Access Point
, which has the same
ESS ID
.
Network mode
shows one of these network modes:
•
Pseudo BSS
-this is the 802.11 peer-to-peer mode of operation. In
Ad Hoc
only one wireless
"cell" is supported for each different
ESS ID
. All communication is done from Client to Client
without the use of an
Access Point
.
•
Infrastructure
This mode of operation requires the presence of an 802.11
Access Point
. All
communication is done via the
Access Point
, which relays packets to other wireless Clients in
the BSS (Basic Service Set) as well as to nodes on a wired network such as Ethernet.
