Honeywell 7900 manual Wireless LAN Communications with 802.11b, Enabling the 802.11b Radio Driver

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Wireless LAN Communications with 802.11b

Overview

Dolphin 7900 terminals are available with an on-board 2.4 GHz 802.11b WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) radio that uses Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) technology to spread the signal continuously over a wide frequency band at a data rate of up to 11 Mbps. In addition, the open software architecture makes the Dolphin 7900 a complete solution for a variety of wireless mobile data collection applications.

The Dolphin 7900 is interoperable with other 802.11b Wi-Fi-compliant products including Access Points (APs), printers, PCs via PC card adapters and other wireless portable terminals.

Enabling the 802.11b Radio Driver

When the Dolphin terminal is first initialized, the radio driver for 802.11b is installed. Before using the radio, make sure that the 802.11b radio is enabled. The 802.11b radio must be enabled before you can configure it. For more information, see Radio Manager on page 4-6.

Configuration Utilities

There are two configuration utilities for the 802.11b radio: 802.11b Settings and 802.11b Wireless Security Supplement.

802.11b Settings	Use this configuration utility when you are not using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or standard
	WEP (64/128 bit) with no authentication. For more details, see 802.11b Settings on page 9-2.

802.11b Wireless Security Supplement

Use this configuration utility when you are using WEP (beyond the standard), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), and authentication. For details, see 802.11b Wireless Security Supplement on page 9-12.

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