Accessing Online Help; Astu Procedures; Enabling Or Disabling Your Client Adapter's Radio - Cisco CB21AG Installation And Configuration Manual

Chapter 9 Routine Procedures
Table 9-1
Table 9-1
Status
Card Name
MAC Address
Driver
Driver Version
Driver Date
Client Name
Serial Number
Click OK to close the Adapter Information window.

Accessing Online Help

To access the ADU online help, open ADU. Then choose the Aironet Desktop Utility Help option from
the Help drop-down menu.

ASTU Procedures

Refer to

Enabling or Disabling Your Client Adapter's Radio

Your client adapter's radio can be enabled or disabled. Disabling the radio prevents the adapter from
transmitting RF energy. You might want to disable the client adapter's radio in the following situations:
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When the radio is enabled, it periodically sends out probes even if it is not associated to an access point
(in infrastructure mode) or another client (in ad hoc mode), as required by the 802.11 specification.
Therefore, it is important to disable it around devices that are susceptible to RF interference.
Note Your client adapter is not associated while its radio is disabled.
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interprets each element of the Adapter Information window.
Adapter Information
Chapter 8 for instructions on using ASTU.
You are not transmitting data and want to conserve battery power.
You are using a laptop on an airplane and want to prevent the adapter's transmissions from
potentially interfering with the operation of certain devices.
Description
A description of your client adapter.
The MAC address assigned to your client adapter at the factory.
The filename and location of your client adapter's driver.
The version of the NDIS device driver that is currently installed on your
computer.
The date that your client adapter's driver was created.
The name your client adapter uses when it associates to an access point.
Refer to the Client Name parameter in
Note
information on setting the client name.
The serial number of your client adapter.
Enabling or Disabling Your Client Adapter's Radio
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