Installation guide

Wireless Guide 3
1
Introducing Wireless
Functionality
Overview
Wireless analysis consists of the Sniffer Portable software and a supported
wireless adapter and driver. This section provides a brief overview of wireless
analysis functionality, including:
 Supported Wireless Adapters on page 3
 Overview of Installing the Wireless Adapters and Drivers on page 5
The following chapters in this section describe how to install each wireless
adapter supported by the software with its corresponding enhanced driver.
Please note, you must successfully install Sniffer Portable before installing
your specific wireless adapter.
 Installing the 802.11a/b/g Adapter / Driver on page 7
 Installing the ORiNOCO Gold Adapter / Driver on page 13
 Installing the Enterasys Adapter / Driver on page 25
 Installing the Spectrum 24 Adapter / Driver on page 37
 Installing the Cisco Aironet Adapter / Driver on page 53
 Installing the Proxim 802.11a Adapters / Drivers on page 67
Supported Wireless Adapters
Sniffer Portable has been tested with the wireless LAN adapters listed in Table
1-1.
NOTE: Although the Sniffer software may work with other versions of these
adapters, these are the only versions explicitly tested and supported. See
the Sniffer software readme file that accompanied your product shipment for
the latest information on supported adapters.