1PEGASUS SETTINGS FOR POCKET PCS ..............................................................................................................1
1.1PEGASUS CARD CONFIGURATION FOR POCKET PCS ................................................................................................1
1.1.1 Status Tab..........................................................................................................................................................1
1.1.4 Ab ut Tab.........................................................................................................................................................10
1.2NETWORK SETUP USING CONNECTION MANAGER IN PPC2003 ............................................................................10
1.2.1 Automa ic n twork det ction.........................................................................................................................10
1.2.2 A cessing the connection manage ...............................................................................................................11
1.2.6 Connecting to an AP .......................................................................................................................................13
1.2.7 Verifying n work connectivity......................................................................................................................14
1.2.8 P er-to-peer mod ...........................................................................................................................................15
You need to configure the Pegasus card before you can be connected to the network. The Pegasus Configuration
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Icon
will take you to the Status (or Configuration) window of the Pegasus wireless settings. Here you will see four
tabs: Status, Configuration, Advanced, and About tabs. The Configuration tab may not display in Pocket PC
2003 operating system because the system has its own radio scan capability (Connection Manager), and some
OEMs prefer to use the Connection Manager. The functionalities of the Status Icon will be introduced in greater
detail at the end of the chapter. The Pocket PC 2003 connection manager will be described in Chapter 1.2 .
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Note: “Click” in this d cument actually means “tap” with a stylus on the screen of the P cket PC. Howeve , we
Start->Settings->Connections
can lead you to the configuration window. Tap on the icon
oor
will keep the conventional usage of Click instead of Tap.
1.1.1 Status Tab
The status screen shows important parameters about the WLAN module as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Status window
1.1.1.1 Information Fields
•Current Channel
Shows the RF channel currently being used by the card.
•Current TX Rate
Shows the current transmit rate. This can be 1Mb/s, 2Mb/s, 5.5Mb/s, or 11 Mb/s.
•Link Quality
Gives signal to noise ratio in both percentage and graphical display.
•Strength
Gives signal strength of the receiver in both percentage and graphical display.
•Station IP Info
IP Address – IP address of the card or module
Not : Check with your ne work administrator for IP configuration information. et
•BSS ID/IBSS ID
Shows the Network Name and the MAC address of the access point the card is associated with in the AP mode.
Or it shows the Network Name and the MAC address of the creator of IBSS which the card is joined into in the
Peer-to-Peer (Ad-Hoc) mode.
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Help button: open a context sensitive help window.
1.1.1.2 Operation Buttons
•Disable/Enable Radio
Click this button in toggle to disable/enable the radio link from the card.
•Rescan
Click on this button to start a rescan process to search for an AP with stronger signal in the network.
•Renew IP
Click this button to reapply IP address from DHCP server when automatic DHCP is enabled.
•More Info
Click this button to show detailed TCP/IP info (see Figure 2):
Figure 2 More Info window
Click OK to close this window.
•Ping
Click this button to pop up the Ping window as shown in Figure 3.
IP Address: Enter an IP address to ping.
Size (Bytes): Choose from pull down menu from 32 to 8192 with 32 as the default.
Timeout (ms): Defaulted to 500, can be increased or decreased from the spin button.
Clear: Click this button to clear IP Address input and the ping statistics field.
Ping: Click on this button to ping the IP address entered in the input field.
Ping Statistics Field: Shows the pinging IP address and the pinging results.
1) Periodically updated scanning results in the Active SSIDs window that lists all the access points and peer
stations available around the host.
2) A configuration tool that enables you to create and edit SSID profiles for your station to associate or join
with.
1.1.2.1 Information Fields
•Preferred Profiles
On the top of the window is a list of preferred profiles one has created, or added from the Active SSIDs table
below. Whenever the radio is turned on, it will start searching for the APs to associate with in the order of the
listed profiles. This table is blank after the initial Pegasus software installation. It can be kept blank with no
automatic association preference. For each profile in the table, one can make changes by using icon tools on top
of the table: New, Edit, Delete, Up, and Down.
Five small icon buttons on the top of the table can be used to create or modify Preferred Profiles:
New: create a profile (for detailed info see Section 1.1.2.3).
Edit: modify a profile (for detailed info see Section 1.1.2.3).
Delete: delete a selected profile (for detailed info see Section 1.1.2.4).
Up: move the highlighted profile up to increase the automatic association priority.
Down: move the highlighted profile down to decrease the automatic association priority.
WZC button: Shortcut for Windows Zero Configuration (wireless automatic configuration), available on
Pocket PC 2003 and later versions.
Help button: open a context sensitive help window.