Overview; Chapter 5 Configuring The Client Adapter - Cisco CB21AG Installation And Configuration Manual

Overview

Overview
When you choose to create a new profile or modify an existing profile on the Cisco Aironet Desktop
Utility (Profile Management) window, the Profile Management windows appear. These windows enable
you to set the configuration parameters for that profile.
Note If you do not change any of the configuration parameters for a newly created profile, the default values
are used.
Note If you are planning to set parameters on more than one of the Profile Management windows, wait until
you are finished with all of the windows before clicking OK. When you click OK, you are returned to
the Cisco Aironet Desktop Utility (Profile Management) window.
Each of the Profile Management windows (listed below) contains parameters that affect a specific aspect
of the client adapter:
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Table 5-1
parameters.
Table 5-1
Parameter Category
General
Advanced
Security
If your system administrator used an administrative tool to deactivate certain parameters, these
Note
parameters are disabled on the Profile Management windows and cannot be selected.
You can also set two roaming parameters for your client adapter outside of ADU using the Windows
Note
Control Panel. Refer to the
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General—Prepares the client adapter for use in a wireless network
Advanced—Controls how the client adapter operates within an infrastructure or ad hoc network
Security—Controls how a client adapter associates to an access point, authenticates to the wireless
network, and encrypts and decrypts data
enables you to quickly locate instructions for setting each Profile Management window's
Locating Configuration Instructions
"Setting Roaming Parameters in the Windows Control Panel" section on
for details.
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