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Chapter9 Routine Procedures Enabling or Disabling Your Client Adapter’s Radio
Table 9 -1 interprets each element of the Adapter Information window.
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 Chapter 8 for instructions on using ASTU.
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:
•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.
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 speci fication.
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.
Table9-1 Adapter Information
Status Description
Card Name A description of your client adapter.
MAC Address The MAC address assigned to your client adapter at the factory.
Driver The filename and location of your client adapter’s driver.
Driver Version The version of the NDIS device driver that is currently installed on your
computer.
Driver Date The date that your client adapter’s driver was created.
Client Name The name your client adapter uses when it associates to an access point.
Note Refer to the Client Name parameter in Table 5 -2 for
information on setting the client name.
Serial Number The serial number of your client adapter.