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Fig. 1. Mounting the AP on a wall.
2.3 Preparing for Configuration For you to configure an AP, a managing computer with a Web browser is needed. For
first-time configuration of an AP, an Ethernet network interface card (NIC) should have
been installed in the managing computer. For maintenance-configuration of a deployed
AP, either a wireless computer or a wired computer can be employed as the managing
computer.
NOTE: If you are using the browser, Opera, to configure an AP, click the menu item
File, click Preferences…, click File types, and edit the MIME type, text/html, to add a
file extension “.sht” so that Opera can work properly with the Web management pages
of the AP.
Since the configuration/management protocol is HTTP-based, you have to make sure
that the IP address of the managing computer and the IP address of the managed
AP are in the same IP subnet (the default IP address of an AP is Error! Reference
source not found. and the default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.)