User's Manual

Wireless LAN
User manual WL-211 PC Card Page 17
5. WEP Security:
To provide the secure communication over the wireless medium, we have provided the WEP (Wired
Equivalent Privacy) key. There are two ways of generating this key. This key is an important in
protecting the illegal access to the wireless networks.
You have to set the key at the Access Point also. And all the users who want to contact/share the
resources must type the same key. The WEP key works in the infrastructure mode only. There are
two options in case of the WEP. You can select either of Disabled, and mandatory. If you select
Disabled, the communications between clients and clients and AP is not secure. If you select
mandatory, you need to setup the AP also and enter the same Key for communicating other clients
associated with the AP or with AP itself.
WEP Key Generation:
There are two ways of generating the WEP key. The first is by entering any text in the Passphrase.
And click on Generate. It will generate four WEP keys as Key 1, Key 2, Key 3, and Key 4. You can
select any key for the security. If you do not select any key, Key 1 is selected, as it is default key.
Then click on Write and it will update the registry and driver.
Another WEP key generation method is by inserting the Key values directly from the keyboard. And
click on the Write to update driver and registry. Select the Key number and use that Key for accessing
the Access Point. If the Key is not entered correctly, a client cannot access the resources. This Key
value protects the illegal access to the wireless network resources. As the wireless channel is more
prone to the illegal access, WEP provides the users safe access.