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Roaming means the Wireless LAN NIC Card will maintain your network connection
as you roam between Access Points in the same subnet. You can also roam across
routers, depending on how your Extended Roaming configuration is set. When
configured for Extended Roaming, the wireless client retains its network address
as it moves between subnets, between Ethernet segments, or from an Ethernet
segment to a wireless LAN. See "Easy Setup" on page 13 for details.
The wireless LAN NIC cards support Continuous Active and Power Save Polling
power-management modes.
In Continuous Active Mode , the radio that establishes and maintains the link to
the network remains on. Continuous Active mode is not recommended for
battery powered devices.
Power Save Polling conserves power by suspending the adapter's
communication with an associated access point. The access point saves data
for transmission to the wireless client when it wakes at given intervals. When
the adapter wakes to check for data, it switches back into Continuous Active
Mode until it is ready to suspend communications again.
Installing the Wireless LAN network PC or PCI card involves these tasks:
Running the Setup program from the End User Utilities CD . See "Installing the
Drivers" on page 9.
Installing the card in a PC Card slot on your computer. Do not install the card
until instructed to do so by the setup software. The procedure for installing the
PC card is described in "Installing the PC Card" on page 19. The procedure for
installing the PCI card is described in "Installing the PCI Card" on page 23.
Installing the software, including the drivers for the card and the Wireless LAN
software utilities. See "Installing the Card Software" on page 10.
If you are reading this manual from the CD and want to install it on your hard
disk for easier access, see "Installing the Documentation" on page 10.
The card installation procedure covers basic configuration. For advanced
configuration options, or to explore the utilities available for managing and
configuring the card, see "Software Tools and Utilities" on page 13.
If you are installing the software on a computer that does not have a CD-ROM
drive, or if you choose to install the drivers manually, you will have to make
diskettes from the End User Utilities CD . The setup application includes Disk
Factory, a utility for creating disks from CD. To use disk factory, you need access to
a computer with a CD-ROM drive and a floppy drive.
1 For a transfer of the driver software to a diskette, prepare a diskette labeled
Drivers.
For a transfer of the application software to diskette, prepare three disks labeled
as follows:
Wireless LAN Application Disk 1
Wireless LAN Application Disk 2
Wireless LAN Application Disk 3
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