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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION......................................................................................... 1
FEATURES AND BENEFITS...........................................................................................................1
APPLICATIONS ...............................................................................................................................1
RELATED NETGEAR PRODUCTS .................................................................................................2
CHAPTER 2: INSTALLING THE DRIVERS AND UTILITY FOR WINDOWS 98, ME, 2000, AND
XP......................................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER 3: HARDWARE INSTALLATION.....................................................................7
PACKAGE CONTENTS ...................................................................................................................2
HARDWARE DESCRIPTION............................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
INSTALLING THE WIRELESS PCI ADAPTER ...............................................................................7
CHAPTER 4: VERIFYING DRIVER INSTALLATION........................................................ 8
Verifying Driver Installation under Windows 98............................................................................8
Verifying Driver Installation under Windows Me...........................................................................8
Verifying Driver Installation under Windows 2000........................................................................8
Verifying Driver Installation under Windows XP ...........................................................................8
CHAPTER 5: INSTALLING THE DRIVERS AND UTILITY FOR WINDOWS NT.............10
Installing Drivers Software for Windows NT ...............................................................................10
Verifying Driver Installation.........................................................................................................11
CHAPTER 6: WIRELESS LAN CONFIGURATION......................................................... 15
WLAN CONFIGURATION UTILITY ...............................................................................................15
System Tray Applications (for all Windows users) .....................................................................17
WLAN Utility Parameter Modification .........................................................................................18
Profile..........................................................................................................................................19
Security (WEP) ...........................................................................................................................21
ADAPTER PROPERTIES CONFIGURATION...............................................................................24
Device Properties Page..............................................................................................................24
Device Properties Modification ...................................................................................................25
CHAPTER 7: WIRELESS NETWORK FUNDAMENTALS.............................................. 27
WIRELESS NETWORK CONFIGURATION ..................................................................................27
Ad-hoc Mode (Peer-to-Peer Workgroup)....................................................................................27
Infrastructure Mode.....................................................................................................................27
SERVICE SET IDENTIFICATION (SSID) ......................................................................................28
AUTHENTICATION AND WEP ENCRYPTION .............................................................................28
WIRELESS CHANNEL SELECTION .............................................................................................29
APPENDIX A: HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS............................................................. 30