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Preliminary
Page 16 • AP User’s Guide Atheros Confidential and Proprietary
October 2001 Subject to change without notice.
2.4 Configuring the AP
When the VxWorks system software is loaded, the AP has to be configured to set some
options such as the channel frequency and Service Set Identifier (SSID). This can be
done in two ways, either through a web browser with access to the built-in AP web
server, or by issuing commands through the serial port command line interface (CLI).
2.4.1 Web Browser
The following procedures show the steps to configure the channel frequency and SSID
using a web browser:
1. Launch a web browser (Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer are examples of
commonly used web browsers) from the Host PC or other PC on the same IP
subnet as the AP, and enter the IP address that is assigned to the AP as the URL.
This is the “inet on ethernet (e)” value specified during the configuration step in
Section 3.1.1 or Section 3.1.2. The Access Point Web Server page appears.