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Using the Broadcom Wireless Utility: Broadcom AirForce™ 54g™ and Intensi-fi™ Wireless Network Adapter User Guide
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Using the Broadcom Wireless Utility: Broadcom
AirForce™ 54g™ and Intensi-fi™ Wireless Network
Adapter User Guide
Overview
Utility Components
Overview
The Broadcom Wireless Utility enables you to do the following network tasks:
● Manage your wireless networks and create network connection profiles (Wireless Networks tab)
● Connect to available networks (utility icon in notification area)
● Get information about the network status and signal and noise of your network connection (Link
Status tab)
● View current and accumulated statistics (Statistics tab)
● Find out which broadcasting networks are in range and search for nonbroadcasting networks (Site
Monitor tab)
● Run tests on the wireless network adapter (Diagnostics tab)
● Get date and version information about the utility, and software, hardware, and location details
about your wireless network adapter (
Information tab)
● Manually add or delete trusted servers and enable the manual acceptance or rejection of auto-
provisioning and A-ID group changes (
Wireless Networks tab)
● Manually import EAP-FAST PACs (Wireless Networks tab)
In the utility, you can open Wireless Network Wizard to connect to a basic network or create an ad hoc
network, or you can open the Wireless Network Connection Settings tool to connect to an advanced
network. To do any of the other tasks, click the tab that is associated with the described task.
To start using the utility, right-click the utility icon
in the notification area, and then click Open Utility.
If the icon is not available, open Broadcom Wireless Utility in Control Panel.
NOTE: The utility icon may not appear exactly as shown here. See "
Table 1. Signal
Strength Indicated by the Broadcom Wireless Utility Icon."
Utility Components
Utility components include the utility icon in the notification area, the six utility tabs, and Wireless Network
Connection Settings.
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