NETGEAR MA 301 System Tray Applications, MA401 Parameter Modification, Icon color, Ad-hoc mode

System Tray Applications

Note: The SysTray (System Tray) resides on one end of the taskbar in the Microsoft Windows desktop. It displays interface icons for memory-resident applications that execute in the background continuously, such as the clock, speaker volume, and virus detection.

The wireless LAN configuration utility installation for the MA401 Wireless PC Card adds a status reporting and configuration utility icon in the SysTray. Once you have completed the installation, the Windows SysTray should show the following icon in different colors. This icon indicates different status condition depending on the operating mode of the MA401 Wireless PC Card.

Icon color

Ad-hoc mode Infrastructure mode

Red	The wireless adapter has not	The wireless adapter is not able to link to any
	initiated communication with	access point or the link between the wireless
	any other wireless node.	adapter and the access point is lost.
Yellow	Not applicable	The link condition between the wireless adapter
		and the associated access point is weak.
Green	The wireless adapter has	The wireless adapter has established good
	successfully communicated with	communication with an access point and the signal
	another wireless node.	quality is strong.

MA401 Parameter Modification

Double-clicking on the wireless SysTray icon activates the wireless LAN configuration utility for the MA401 Wireless PC Card. You can click on any of the folder tab in the Wireless LAN configuration utility window to modify the operational parameters.

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Status

Status	This field show the MAC address of the associated access point when the
	MA401 Wireless PC Card is configured in infrastructure mode,
Current Channel	The wireless channel in use, between 1 and 13. The number of wireless
	channels supported by the different countries may vary. Click on the
	Configuration folder tab if you want to fix the wireless node to use a
	particular wireless channel.
Current Tx Rate	The current transmit data rate of the wireless node. The possible
	configurations are 1Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps and 11Mbps. In ad hoc mode,
	this field shows what the wireless node is configured to use. When in
	infrastructure mode, it shows the result of the transfer rate negotiated
	between the access point and the wireless node.

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