Wireless
54
Mbps PCI Card
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Select a Wireless Network Type
Clicking the Advanced button opens the following dialog box, which allows you to select
the type of wireless network you want to connect your PC/PCI Card to.
The Advanced dialog box allows you to choose the type of WLAN connection you need.
Any available network (access point preferred) will attempt to make a connection to an
Access Point first, but will allow a 802.11 Ad Hoc peer to peer connection if no Access
Point is within range of the PC/PCI Card.
Access point (infrastructure) networks only will allow a connection to an Access Point only.
Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only will allow only an 802.11 Ad Hoc peer to
peer connection.
Automatically connect to non-preferred networks will allow roaming by connecting to
networks other than the preferred network, if they can be detected by the PC/PCI Card.
Clicking the
Close
button will bring you back to the Wireless Network Connection
Properties dialog box, as shown below.
Network SSID and WEP Encryption
To choose a network, click on the network’s SSID and then click the Configure button.
This will open the Wireless Network Properties dialog box, as shown below.
