Benq Wireless LAN
AWL100 PCMCIA Adapter User Manual
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Network Type
You can select from a list of supported network types in this field. These network
types displayed will have two values as following: “Access Point,” and
“Peer-to-Peer”.
Access Point (Infrastructure)
This is an operation mode which requires the existence of an 802.11 Access Point.
Owing to the existence of the Access Point, all communication is done via the Access
Point which relays packets to other wireless Clients in the BSS as well as to nodes on
a wired network such as Ethernet.
Peer-to-Peer (Ad Hoc)
This is a non-compliant mode which will allow AWL100 cards to talk with one
another without an AP regardless any SSID.
3.3 Encryption
According to WEP function select, this page allows the entry of four keys for 64-bit
encryption and one set of 128-bit key. Each key must consist of hex digits to be
written to the driver and registry. This means that only digit number 0-9 and letters
