SMC Networks SMC2582W-B manual Preparing for Configuration

Fig. 3. Mounting the SMC2582W-B on a wall.

2.3. Preparing for Configuration

For you to configure an SMC2582W-B, a managing computer with a Web browser is needed. For first-time configuration of an SMC2582W-B, an Ethernet network interface card (NIC) should have been installed in the managing computer. For maintenance-configuration of a deployed SMC2582W-B, 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 SMC2582W-B, 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 theWeb management pages of the SMC2582W-B.

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 SMC2582W-B are in the same IP subnet (the default IP address of an AP is 192.168.2.50 and the default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.)

2.3.1. Connecting the Managing Computer and the SMC2582W-B

To connect the Ethernet managing computer and the managed SMC2582W-B for first-time configu- ration, you have two choices as illustrated in Fig. 4.

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