CHAPTER FIVE - CONECTIVITY
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Associating PL3000 with Access Point under SDC
Supplicant
Before you can begin to associate your PL3000 with your access point under
the SDC Supplicant, in the SCU utility, there has to be a SCU profile with the
proper configuration in addition to the proper global settings for your WLAN
connectivity; see the sections ‘Thinking about Global Settings’ on page 62 and
‘Configuring WLAN Interface of SDC Supplicant’ on page 78.
To associate PL3000 with access point under the SDC Supplicant:
1. Open
the
Main
property page in the SCU
2. Select
the
SCU profile
for your WLAN connectivity to be an active one
3. SDC
Supplicant
starts to associate
with your WLAN network, that is,
with the access point for which it has configuration.
Note!
If your PL3000 does not associate with your access point, you may
need to warm-boot your PL3000. After the PL3000 is up and running
again it should associate immediately your access point. If that is not the
case, check configuration of the SCU profile, especially the security
information.
When you have assigned the SCU profile of your WLAN connectivity to the
SDC Supplicant (the Active Profile), the SCU remembers it over the different reboot
types until you assign a new profile to the SDC Supplicant. When the PL3000 is
rebooted or powered up, the SDC Supplicant starts automatically associating with
the access point that it has the profile for (of course, with the exception of the
‘ThirdPartyProfile’ in which case the SCU hands over the responsibility for WLAN
association to the WZC supplicant).
Note!
When your PL3000 has associated with your access point (see the
‘Status’ field on the Main page in the SCU), it does not guarantee you
connectivity over the access point unless your WLAN network issues an
IP address to your PL3000. By default on your PL3000, the WLAN
interface expects to receive the IP address from DHCP server. If there is
no DHCP service available on your wireless LAN, see the section
‘Assigning Static IP Address to WLAN Interface’ on page 84.
If you do not know whether or not the IP address is assigned to the WLAN
interface, tap on the ‘Status’ tab in the SCU. If there is no IP address
below the text ‘Device Name’, your PL3000 has no IP address by means
of which it could have a networking. However, if there does be an IP
address below the text ‘Device Name’, see the next ‘Note’ box.
