Driver Keywords And Settings - Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Client Installation And Configuration Manual

Driver Keywords and Settings

The following general information is pertinent:
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The PROTOCOL.INI file does not support some of the white space characters in a quoted string. If
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a string begins with an alphabetic character and contains no special characters, the quotes can be
omitted.
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If double quotes are used for a delimiter, a single quote can appear in the string, and vice versa. If
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the string begins with an alphabetic character and contains no special characters, the quotes can be
omitted.
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Driver Keywords and Settings

The default PC Card configuration is set to:
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Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Client Adapters Installation and Configuration Guide for MS-DOS
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Multiple sections are supported.
Blank lines are supported.
Comments begin with semicolon and can appear anywhere on a line.
Keywords can be uppercase or lowercase and can be surrounded by white space if desired.
Any parameter or variable that can be set to ON or OFF can also be set to YES or NO, respectively.
Any parameter that begins with 0x will be assumed to be hexadecimal. Any parameter that begins
with a digit (excluding the 0x case) will be assumed to be decimal. Any parameter that begins with
quotes will be assumed to be a quoted string parameter. Any other parameter will be assumed to be
an unquoted string parameter.
For string parameters, double quotes are required around the string if the string contains any special
characters.
For Packet string parameters, the string can be enclosed with double quotes or single quotes. If a
string is quoted, any character except a "null" and the quote delimiter itself can occur between the
quotes.
For numeric parameters, the value can be hexadecimal or decimal. Hexadecimal numbers must be
preceded with the characters 0x but all characters can be uppercase or lowercase.
Constant Awake Mode.
Infrastructure Mode—allows association with any access point matching the SSID supplied by the
user.
The factory-supplied network address.
Receive directed packets to this address as well as multicasts and broadcasts.
Retry data packets up to 16 times before discarding the frame.
Retry RTS sequence up to 16 times before discarding the frame.
RTS exchange on all frames greater than 300 bytes.
Fragment frames longer than 700 bytes.
Discard fragmented transmit packets if not delivered in 5 seconds.
Discard fragmented receive frames if not complete after 10 seconds.
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