Beacon Computer Lan Adapter manual Driver Keywords and Settings

Installing the Software

Driver Keywords and Settings

The default PC Card configuration is set to:

•Constant Awake Mode

•Infrastructure Mode – This allows association with any Aironet 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

•Kill fragmented transmit packets if not delivered in 5 seconds

•Kill fragmented receive frames if not complete after 10 seconds

•Active scanning with 3 K∝sec energy detect time and 20 K∝sec probe response wait timeout

•Re-scan if eight beacons are consecutively missed

•Send an Access Point keep-alive message every 10 seconds

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