User manual
Monitor Tab 
In the monitor tab, you can adjust the operating mode, infrastructure or ad-hoc, 
which channel that can be used, which host/AP (SSID) you want to connect to, the 
transmission rate (Tx Rate) and power management mode. Each of the setting is 
described below: 
 Operating mode selection
 Channel selection
 SSID selection
 Setting the Transmission rate
 Selecting power management
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•  MAC address
 specifies the physical hardware address of your ATMEL USB 
Wireless LAN. 
•  Status
 specifies the current status. Status can be either Scanning, 
Associated, Association denied and Ready 
 Scanning – means you are not connected to any hosts/APs but your 
WLAN is searching for a host/AP to connect to. 
 Associated – means that you are connected to an Access Point. The 
ID of the AP that you are connected to is given by the BSSID. 
 Association denied – means that you are denied connection to the AP 
that you want to connect to. Reason might be you have your 
encryption enabled while the AP didn’t enable theirs, or vice versa. 
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