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available rate according to the received signal quality and the capabilities of the associated
access point or station.
The Encryption Tab
Click the
Encryption
tab to define the encryption settings for a specific profile. It offers you various
options concerning the so-called WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) to maintain the secure
management in a wireless LAN environment. See the explanations below for more details, and
before making an activation of any new settings, click
Apply
. To leave the window, click
OK
. To
undo the new settings, select the
Cancel
button.
Note
: Choosing the
WEP Encryption
command from the right-click menu of Wireless 11Mbps Configuration
Tool tray icon will launch this tab too.
Figure 4.3-4: The
Encryption
Tab
Note:
The 802.11b Wireless LAN P3 PCMCIA Card has been built to support the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected
Access) encryption standard.
Encryption (WEP security)
If you choose
Disabled
from the pull-down list, you will have the wireless LAN PCMCIA card
communicated with all stations within the same networking community without any data
encryption. Otherwise, two key lengths are offered:
64 bit
and
128 bit
.
Specify a preferred one
from the two, so that you may use the identical WEP key to make a communication with the
chosen access point.
Create Keys Manually
Once you set the
Encryption
type as
64 bit
or
128 bit
, you may choose to edit WEP keys
manually or create them via the passphrase of your wireless network. If you choose the
Create
Key Manually
option, you may directly enter up to 4 WEP keys for use in WEP encryption. To
