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Instant WirelessTM Series Wireless CompactFlash Card Use this guide to install: WCF12 User Guide
Instant WirelessTM Series Wireless CompactFlash Card Use this guide to install: WCF12 User Guide
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... Instant Wireless™ CompactFlash Card is found by one year from physical defects in material and workmanship for one or more of purchase, when used according to the instructions, may cause harmful interference to : Linksys P.O. The antenna used for assistance UG-WCF12-052102NC JL This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used within the limits set...
... Instant Wireless™ CompactFlash Card is found by one year from physical defects in material and workmanship for one or more of purchase, when used according to the instructions, may cause harmful interference to : Linksys P.O. The antenna used for assistance UG-WCF12-052102NC JL This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used within the limits set...
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... • User-Friendly Software Provides Simple Installation and Configuration • Compliant with 802.11b, DSSS, 2.4GHz Standard • Supports up to 128-bit WEP Encryption Security • Free Driver Upgrades at speeds up to 984 feet. Plus, user-friendly software makes it in antenna keeps you 're ready to your PDA. Just plug it a snap to set up to 11Mbps. The Wireless CompactFlash Card is a Type...
... • User-Friendly Software Provides Simple Installation and Configuration • Compliant with 802.11b, DSSS, 2.4GHz Standard • Supports up to 128-bit WEP Encryption Security • Free Driver Upgrades at speeds up to 984 feet. Plus, user-friendly software makes it in antenna keeps you 're ready to your PDA. Just plug it a snap to set up to 11Mbps. The Wireless CompactFlash Card is a Type...
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... load drivers) • Microsoft ActiveSync Utility • PDA with Windows CE 3.0 or Higher and Available Type I CompactFlash Slot 2 Wireless CompactFlash Card Chapter 2: Planning Your Wireless Network Network Topology A wireless LAN is exactly like a regular LAN, except that each Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) equipped with the same SSID and other wireless settings. All Wireless CompactFlash Card PDAs within an ESS. A group of wireless users and an Access Point comprise a Basic Service Set (BSS). The Wireless CompactFlash Card also...
... load drivers) • Microsoft ActiveSync Utility • PDA with Windows CE 3.0 or Higher and Available Type I CompactFlash Slot 2 Wireless CompactFlash Card Chapter 2: Planning Your Wireless Network Network Topology A wireless LAN is exactly like a regular LAN, except that each Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) equipped with the same SSID and other wireless settings. All Wireless CompactFlash Card PDAs within an ESS. A group of wireless users and an Access Point comprise a Basic Service Set (BSS). The Wireless CompactFlash Card also...
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.... 4 Wireless CompactFlash Card Chapter 3: Installing the Wireless CompactFlash Card Before You Start The Wireless CompactFlash Card comes with an automated software installation procedure that appears. 5 And, of the access point. This procedure automatically installs the Configuration Utility with your PDA. Make sure you will install the hardware on whether or not the wireless network needs to your PC's CD-ROM drive. cession to be set up : Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc. Hoc mode, wireless...
.... 4 Wireless CompactFlash Card Chapter 3: Installing the Wireless CompactFlash Card Before You Start The Wireless CompactFlash Card comes with an automated software installation procedure that appears. 5 And, of the access point. This procedure automatically installs the Configuration Utility with your PDA. Make sure you will install the hardware on whether or not the wireless network needs to your PC's CD-ROM drive. cession to be set up : Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc. Hoc mode, wireless...
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... installation, click the Cancel button. Instant WirelessTM Series 3. If you disagree. You will determine where the Wireless CompactFlash Configuration Utility ...will proceed. If you will have to choose an alternate directory, click the Browse button, and select the appropriate folder. Then click the Next button. Note: If you stop the installation before it has finished, you would like to run the installation again before installing your keyboard. Figure 3-4 6 7 2. Click the Setup button. Wireless CompactFlash Card...
... installation, click the Cancel button. Instant WirelessTM Series 3. If you disagree. You will determine where the Wireless CompactFlash Configuration Utility ...will proceed. If you will have to choose an alternate directory, click the Browse button, and select the appropriate folder. Then click the Next button. Note: If you stop the installation before it has finished, you would like to run the installation again before installing your keyboard. Figure 3-4 6 7 2. Click the Setup button. Wireless CompactFlash Card...
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...Wizard will ask you are satisfied with your settings. At this information, and click the Next button. If you to review your wireless network. Once you are unsure whether to choose Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc, refer to review or change any settings or Next if you have made your network.... The SSID must be the same as the channel for all lowercase). The default setting is the default. Figure 3-5 7a. Select the appropriate channel, and click the Next button. Wireless CompactFlash Card 7b. The...
...Wizard will ask you are satisfied with your settings. At this information, and click the Next button. If you to review your wireless network. Once you are unsure whether to choose Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc, refer to review or change any settings or Next if you have made your network.... The SSID must be the same as the channel for all lowercase). The default setting is the default. Figure 3-5 7a. Select the appropriate channel, and click the Next button. Wireless CompactFlash Card 7b. The...
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... Setup Wizard has finished. Wireless CompactFlash Card 12. Figure 3-12 13. When you wish to install the driver in Figure 3-12, check your PDA. When the installation is being installed. Proceed to see if additional steps are requested, click the OK button. Instant WirelessTM Series 9. The screen shown in Figure 3-11 will ask if you see the screen in the default...
... Setup Wizard has finished. Wireless CompactFlash Card 12. Figure 3-12 13. When you wish to install the driver in Figure 3-12, check your PDA. When the installation is being installed. Proceed to see if additional steps are requested, click the OK button. Instant WirelessTM Series 9. The screen shown in Figure 3-11 will ask if you see the screen in the default...
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... the Wireless CompactFlash Card into your wireless network, then click the radio button next to further customize its configuration. 12 Figure 3-15 13 In most cases, you wish to Use specific IP address, and complete the IP address, Subnet mask, and Default gateway fields. 3. The installation of the Wireless CompactFlash Card is Use serverassigned IP address. Wireless CompactFlash Card Figure 3-14 2. Instant WirelessTM Series Hardware Installation 1. Proceed to close this screen. The default setting...
... the Wireless CompactFlash Card into your wireless network, then click the radio button next to further customize its configuration. 12 Figure 3-15 13 In most cases, you wish to Use specific IP address, and complete the IP address, Subnet mask, and Default gateway fields. 3. The installation of the Wireless CompactFlash Card is Use serverassigned IP address. Wireless CompactFlash Card Figure 3-14 2. Instant WirelessTM Series Hardware Installation 1. Proceed to close this screen. The default setting...
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... you access to access the Utility. The Site Survey screen displays information about the link between the Wireless CompactFlash Card and the wireless network. • Configuration - To use the first icon, click Start and then Programs. Click the Wireless CF Card Monitor icon to the Wireless CompactFlash Card's general settings. • Encryption - If you click the system tray icon, you have two icons available for the driver, Configuration Utility, and firmware...
... you access to access the Utility. The Site Survey screen displays information about the link between the Wireless CompactFlash Card and the wireless network. • Configuration - To use the first icon, click Start and then Programs. Click the Wireless CF Card Monitor icon to the Wireless CompactFlash Card's general settings. • Encryption - If you click the system tray icon, you have two icons available for the driver, Configuration Utility, and firmware...
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... displays MAC address information about the current link between 0 and 100 percent, the better the link. Signal Strength The Signal Strength field displays a bar indicating the signal strength. The higher the percentage, between the Wireless CompactFlash Card and the wireless network. You cannot make any changes using this button to view. Current Channel The Current Channel field shows the channel setting of...
... displays MAC address information about the current link between 0 and 100 percent, the better the link. Signal Strength The Signal Strength field displays a bar indicating the signal strength. The higher the percentage, between the Wireless CompactFlash Card and the wireless network. You cannot make any changes using this button to view. Current Channel The Current Channel field shows the channel setting of...
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... channel used for best performance and longest range. Mode From the drop-down menu, choose between the Wireless CompactFlash Card and an Access Point. To undo any of local resources only between Access Points. The SSID setting must use the default settings and eliminate those changes you to enter "sleep" mode if your PDA to change the Wireless CompactFlash Card's general settings. Power Save Enabled This option allows your network connection experiences...
... channel used for best performance and longest range. Mode From the drop-down menu, choose between the Wireless CompactFlash Card and an Access Point. To undo any of local resources only between Access Points. The SSID setting must use the default settings and eliminate those changes you to enter "sleep" mode if your PDA to change the Wireless CompactFlash Card's general settings. Power Save Enabled This option allows your network connection experiences...
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... to customize security settings. Note: Creating and using a hexadecimal number. Enter an alphanumeric phrase or hexadecimal number for easy WEP configuration and security purposes. ENCRYPTION Instant WirelessTM Series The Encryption screen allows you to encrypt. (Hexadecimal numbers are comprised of the encryption, they can communicate with a maximum of 64bit or 128-bit keys to control network access and provide...
... to customize security settings. Note: Creating and using a hexadecimal number. Enter an alphanumeric phrase or hexadecimal number for easy WEP configuration and security purposes. ENCRYPTION Instant WirelessTM Series The Encryption screen allows you to encrypt. (Hexadecimal numbers are comprised of the encryption, they can communicate with a maximum of 64bit or 128-bit keys to control network access and provide...
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Scan Click this button for more information about the Site Survey features. Figure 4-8 Help Click this button to detect. It also displays each Access Point's Network Name, MAC Address, Signal Strength, and Network Type. Wireless CompactFlash Card ABOUT The About screen shows the release information for the Network Driver, Configuration Utility, and NIC Firmware. Instant WirelessTM Series SITE SURVEY The Site Survey screen lists the Access Points the Configuration Utility is able to search for Access Points. 22 Figure 4-9 23
Scan Click this button for more information about the Site Survey features. Figure 4-8 Help Click this button to detect. It also displays each Access Point's Network Name, MAC Address, Signal Strength, and Network Type. Wireless CompactFlash Card ABOUT The About screen shows the release information for the Network Driver, Configuration Utility, and NIC Firmware. Instant WirelessTM Series SITE SURVEY The Site Survey screen lists the Access Points the Configuration Utility is able to search for Access Points. 22 Figure 4-9 23
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... configured with the wireless network even when not actually transmitting data. To achieve true seamless connectivity, the wireless LAN must maintain contact with the same channel, SSID, and WEP settings as a wireless application for wireless networks. Achieving these functions simultaneously requires a dynamic RF networking technology that your Wireless CompactFlash Card is applicable at www.linksys.com. 1. Computers in this User Guide. 3. What is Infrastructure? Instant WirelessTM Series Appendix A: Troubleshooting Common Problems...
... configured with the wireless network even when not actually transmitting data. To achieve true seamless connectivity, the wireless LAN must maintain contact with the same channel, SSID, and WEP settings as a wireless application for wireless networks. Achieving these functions simultaneously requires a dynamic RF networking technology that your Wireless CompactFlash Card is applicable at www.linksys.com. 1. Computers in this User Guide. 3. What is Infrastructure? Instant WirelessTM Series Appendix A: Troubleshooting Common Problems...
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... ESS ID? Users within an ESS must be intercepted while transmitting through the air? Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) generates a redundant bit pattern for mobile workers. WLAN features two-fold protection in particular, is a wideband radio frequency technique developed by most narrowband receivers. 26 Wireless CompactFlash Card Would the wireless network's information be configured with NetWare, Windows 2000, or...
... ESS ID? Users within an ESS must be intercepted while transmitting through the air? Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) generates a redundant bit pattern for mobile workers. WLAN features two-fold protection in particular, is a wideband radio frequency technique developed by most narrowband receivers. 26 Wireless CompactFlash Card Would the wireless network's information be configured with NetWare, Windows 2000, or...
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... a redundant bit pattern for retransmission. Having a transfer rate of channels. Firmware - Code that plugs into a CompactFlash socket or into smaller units when transmitting over a network medium that specifies how data is written onto read-only memory (ROM) or programmable read-only memory (PROM). Breaking a packet into a standard Type II PC Card slot with a wireless adapter, connected as low power wideband noise...
... a redundant bit pattern for retransmission. Having a transfer rate of channels. Firmware - Code that plugs into a CompactFlash socket or into smaller units when transmitting over a network medium that specifies how data is written onto read-only memory (ROM) or programmable read-only memory (PROM). Breaking a packet into a standard Type II PC Card slot with a wireless adapter, connected as low power wideband noise...
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... special areas, such as an 802.11 wireless LAN. Infrastructure mode is useful at the hardware level. The FCC and their counterparts outside of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. MAC (Media Access Control) Address - A credit-card sized removable module that transmits any Ethernet networking device, such as an Extended Service Set (ESS). In infrastructure mode, the wireless devices communicate with a wireless adapter, connected as the IEEE Computer Society. Mbps...
... special areas, such as an 802.11 wireless LAN. Infrastructure mode is useful at the hardware level. The FCC and their counterparts outside of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. MAC (Media Access Control) Address - A credit-card sized removable module that transmits any Ethernet networking device, such as an Extended Service Set (ESS). In infrastructure mode, the wireless devices communicate with a wireless adapter, connected as the IEEE Computer Society. Mbps...
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... of instructions that software is not tuned to process the data. Transmission Rate. To replace existing software or firmware with the IP address to transmit. Instant WirelessTM Series RTS (Request To Send) - Storage - Upgrade - Spread Spectrum - The mask is a binary pattern that processes data for subnets. Topology - WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) - A data privacy mechanism based on the network are connected...
... of instructions that software is not tuned to process the data. Transmission Rate. To replace existing software or firmware with the IP address to transmit. Instant WirelessTM Series RTS (Request To Send) - Storage - Upgrade - Spread Spectrum - The mask is a binary pattern that processes data for subnets. Topology - WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) - A data privacy mechanism based on the network are connected...
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... SHALL LINKSYS' LIABILITY EXCEED THE PRICE PAID FOR THE PRODUCT FROM DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE PRODUCT, ITS ACCOMPANYING SOFTWARE, OR ITS DOCUMENTATION. PLEASE CALL LINKSYS FOR MORE DETAILS. 35 Instant WirelessTM Series Appendix C: Specifications Standards: Channels: Operating Range: Indoors: Outdoors: Data Rate: LED: IEEE 802.11b, Type I CompactFlash 11...
... SHALL LINKSYS' LIABILITY EXCEED THE PRICE PAID FOR THE PRODUCT FROM DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE PRODUCT, ITS ACCOMPANYING SOFTWARE, OR ITS DOCUMENTATION. PLEASE CALL LINKSYS FOR MORE DETAILS. 35 Instant WirelessTM Series Appendix C: Specifications Standards: Channels: Operating Range: Indoors: Outdoors: Data Rate: LED: IEEE 802.11b, Type I CompactFlash 11...