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Contents
Safety: Read first . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
About this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Registering your option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Quick Installation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Product description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Installing the device drivers and software . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Installing the IBM High Rate Wireless LAN (PCI) Card . . . . . . 1-2
Installing and removing the antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Installing and removing the antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Installing device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Installing the device drivers for Windows 95 and Windows 98 . . . . 1-5
Installing the device drivers for Windows Me. . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Installing the device drivers in Windows NT with networking already
installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
Installing the device drivers in Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . 1-17
Setting up TCP-IP for Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me . . . 1-21
Setting up TCP-IP in Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-23
Setting TCP-IP in Windows 2000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-26
Installing the IBM Wireless LAN Client Manager . . . . . . . . . 1-29
Using the IBM Wireless LAN Client Manager . . . . . . . . . . 1-31
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-31
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-32
SSID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-33
Transmit Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-34
Power Save Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-35
AdHoc Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-35
Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-36
Encryption (WEP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-36
Create Key with Passphrase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-36
Create Key Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-37
Link Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-39
State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-39
Current channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-40
Current Tx Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-40
Throughput. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-40
Link Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-40
Signal strength. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-40
About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-41
Adjusting the antenna orientation to get better performance . . . . 1-41
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