Station Status Tab - Black Box LW0050A Manual

PRO 11 SERIES WIRELESS ETHERNET
• Undo – Causes the window to display currently active values. This is useful if
you started changing values and you want to start again from the current
values.
• Cancel – Closes the window without implementing any changes you made.
• Apply – Implements any changes you made but leaves the window open.
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TATION TATUS
The Station Status tab of the Wireless LAN Configuration utility displays
information regarding the Adapter and its status.
The Station Status tab contains the following parameters:
• Network Type – In the current version, the value of this parameter should be
always set to Infrastructure.
• Firmware Version – Displays the version of unit's current firmware (internally
installed software). The first two numbers of the firmware and driver versions
should be identical. The remaining numbers (if any) indicate the minor
version. The final letter indicates the hardware version.
• Driver Version – Displays the version of unit's current driver.
• MAC Address – Displays the unit's unique IEEE MAC address.
• BSS Address – The MAC address of the Access Point with which the unit is
currently associated.
• Station Status – Current status of the unit.
Scanning – The unit is searching for an Access Point with which to associate.
Associated – The unit is associated with an Access Point and has adopted the
attached PC MAC address.
• WEP Enabled – Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is an authentication algorithm
which protects authorized Wireless LAN users against eavesdropping. WEP is
defined in the 802.11 standard.
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Parameter changes take effect only after reset.
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