Sony
Notebook U
s
er Guide
Using your notebook
60
7
Deselect the
The key is provided for me automatically
option button.
Some information becomes visible.
8
Fill in the
Network key*
.
The network key should be
5 or 13 ASCII characters
or
10 or 26 hexadecimal characters
long. You
can choose whatever you want**.
9
Select the option
"This is a computer to computer (ad hoc) network; wireless access points are
not used"
at the bottom of the screen.
10
Click
OK
.
11
Click
OK
again.
Your computer is ready to communicate with another computer.
* If you want to communicate between two or more computers, you need to configure all these computers the exact same way.
This means that you need to enter the same
Network name
and the same
Network key
on all computers as on the first computer
you configure.
**
ASCII
: The basis of character sets used in almost all present-day computers. ASCII is a code for representing English characters as
numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127.
Hexadecimal
: A number representation using the digits 0-9, with their usual meaning, plus the letters A-F (or a-f) to represent
hexadecimal digits with values of (decimal) 10 to 15.
✍
In France, only channels 10 and 11 are legally allowed when using WLAN.
For more information, see the Wireless LAN Regulations leaflet.
