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MediaTek LinkIt™ Smart 7688 Get Started Guide

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2) Select the Station mode and click Refresh or downward arrow on the right to find the AP

to connect to. After you’ve selected the AP, enter password if required. Click Configure &

Restart to finish as shown below.

Note: If you entered the AP’s password incorrectly, you can reset the board to AP mode by clicking the

Wi-Fi button for at least 5 seconds and release, this allows you to redo Station mode in the network

settings again.

Figure 13 Changing to Station mode in Web UI

After you’ve switched to Station mode, the Wi-Fi LED should blink once a second, this

indicates LinkIt Smart 7688 is in Station mode.

Since the Wi-Fi mode has changed, your host computer is now disconnected from LinkIt

Smart 7688. If you try to reload the web UI, you’ll see that it is not available anymore. To

establish connection again, follow the next step.

Step2: Connect the host computer to the same AP

Open the Wi-Fi connection utility on your computer and connect to the same access point

as in Step 1. You computer is now under the same local area network formed the by the

Wi-Fi Access Point you connected to, as shown Figure 14.