CHAPTER FIVE - CONECTIVITY
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If the guided configuration task is not suitable to
configure the WLAN interface of your PL3000, there is
an alternative way of configuring WLAN by inserting the
required configuration information manually. Before
entering an actual configuring task you have to create a
SCU profile, a skeleton for configuration data. After that
you can assign a network name (SSID), and the type of
network authentication and encryption with the required
security information to the created SCU profile. Once
you have got the SDU profile ready for your WLAN
connectivity, you can set the Active Profile field (on the
Main page in the SCU) to the name of your new WLAN
profile: the SDC Supplicant starts to associate with your
WLAN network.
Before you begin the profile creation, open the
SCU utility; see the section ‘Before Starting to
Configure WLAN’ on page 62. After that, tap on the ‘Profile’ tab to open the Profile
page.
To create SCU profile for your WLAN connectivity:
1. Tap on the
‘New’
button on the Profile page to give a name to your
WLAN connectivity in the SCU.
2. Enter
the
name of your choice
in the field in the window opened on
the screen.
3. Tap on the
‘OK’
button in the window; the profile is created.
Before you continue with the WLAN interface configuration on the Profile page,
make yourself familiar with ‘Radio’ properties of the profile; see the section ‘Radio
Settings Relating to SCU Profile’ on page 70. Be aware that there is only one
mandatory parameter for the WLAN configuration among the ‘Radio’ settings; you
have to define SSID, the others may work OK by default.
To assign configuration information to the just created profile:
1. Tap on the
SSID
in the ‘Radio’ property list to select the SSID
property.
2. Enter
the
SSID of your WLAN network
in the field on the right-hand
side of the ‘Radio’ property list.
3. Tap
on
other ‘Radio’ settings
in the list and change their values,
if
need be
(see the section ‘Radio Settings Relating to SCU Profile’ on
page 70).
4. In the ‘EAP Type:’ field, ‘None’ is OK unless
your WLAN connectivity
uses EAP authentication.
If that is the case,
a. Tap on the
‘EAP Type:’
field to get the list of EAP
authentication methods in view the SDC Supplicant supports.
b. Select
the
relevant EAP type
by tapping on it in the list
Configuring
WLAN Interface
by Creating SCU
Profile