Table Of Contents - Lenovo 20074CU User Manual

Contents
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
About this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
How this book is organized
Notices used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Syntax conventions that are used in this book
ThinkVantage Access Connections resources on the World Wide Web . . . . viii
Chapter 1. Introducing Access Connections
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
New features in Access Connections v.4.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2. Using location profiles
Creating a location profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Managing location profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Connecting to a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Switching location profiles automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Viewing the connection status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 3. Configuration options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Network global settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Notification global settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
User preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Toolbar options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Peer-to-peer options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 4. Using a wireless WAN connection
Creating and applying a wireless WAN profile
Using Short Message Service (SMS) interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Chapter 5. Introducing a peer-to-peer connection . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Preparing the peer-to-peer connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Creating the peer-to-peer connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Using peer-to-peer connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Appendix A. Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Appendix B. Command line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Appendix C. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 79
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . 79
Appendix D. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
© Lenovo 2006. Portions © IBM Corp. 2006.
Supported operating systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Updating Access Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Additional settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Wireless security settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Editing VPN settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using shortcut icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Connecting to a wireless network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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