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Note also that IBSS operation is incompatible with the 802.11d standard. If your adapter

supports 802.11d operation, choosing Peer-to-Peer as the network type will

automatically disable 802.11d support.

Access Point

The second mode defined by the IEEE 802.11 standard is called infrastructure mode,

and is the primary application for WLAN operation. In this mode all data on the wireless

network is directed to an Access Point, which then routes the data to the appropriate

wireless station. The Access Point may also be configured to allow data to be bridged

from the wireless network to wired networks.

To participate in a wireless LAN in infrastructure mode, every station and Access Point

must specify the same Network Name. In infrastructure mode, all available channels are

scanned for traffic, so there is no need to specify a channel.

Peer-To-Peer Channel

For PRISM II, PRISM 2.5, and PRISM III adapters a field labeled Peer-to-Peer Channel

appears in this menu. When communicating in a peer-to-peer network, you use this

field to specify a channel on which you prefer communications to take place. To see the

available channels, click the up or down arrow or move the box in the scroll bar at the

right of the Channel Selection field. When the channel you want to set appears, click on

the channel to select it, and then click the

Apply button.

Note that this is not necessarily the channel on which peer-to-peer communications

will be established. If the IBSS network names (SSID) are the same for nodes in the

peer-to-peer network but they have different preferred channels, a network can still be

established. In this case, if it cannot find a network with the specified network name on

the preferred channel, a station will scan other channels until it finds a peer-to-peer

network with the specified network name on which to communicate.

If you specified

Access Point as the network type), choosing a channel in this field has no

effect until you change the network type to

Peer-to-Peer.

Clicking the Defaults button displays the default communications parameters for your

adapters.

To apply the information you entered in this menu or any other menu and save it in the

current profile, click the Apply button. Clicking this button leaves the utility open on

your desktop.

To discard any changes you made since you last clicked the Apply button, click the

Cancel button. Clicking the

OK button saves any changes you made to the current