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Cisco 3200 Series Wireless MIC Software Configuration Guide
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Preface
Audience
This guide is for the networking professional who installs and manages Cisco 3200 Series Mobile
Access Routers. To use this guide, you should have experience working with the Cisco IOS and be
familiar with the concepts and terminology of wireless local area networks.
Purpose
This guide provides the information you need to install and configure your bridge. This guide provides
procedures for using the IOS commands that have been created or changed for use with the WMIC. It
does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed information about these
commands, refer to the IOS documentation set available from the Cisco.com home page at Service and
Support > Technical Documents. On the Cisco Product Documentation home page, select Release 12.3
from the Cisco IOS Software drop-down list.
This guide includes an overview of the web-based interface, which contains all the funtionality of the
command-line interface (CLI). This guide does not provide field-level descriptions of the web-based
windows nor does it provide the procedures for configuring the WMIC from the web-based interface.
For all window descriptions and procedures, refer to the online help, which is available from the Help
buttons on the web-based interface pages.
Organization
This guide is organized into these chapters:
Chapter 1, “Overview,” lists the software and hardware features of the WMIC and describes the WMIC’s
role in your network.
Chapter 2, “Configuring the WMIC for the First Time,” describes how to configure basic settings on a
Wireless Mobile Interface Card (WMIC) for the first time.
Chapter 3, “Administering the WMIC,” describes how to perform one-time operations to administer your
WMIC, such as preventing unauthorized access to the device, setting the system date and time, and
setting the system name and prompt.
Chapter 4, “Configuring Radio Settings,” describes how to configure settings for the WMIC radio such
as the role in the radio network, data rates, transmit power, channel settings, and others.