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Wireless LAN
A Place the cursor over the Wireless Switch Utility icon ( or ) on the notification area.
A tooltip appears.
NOTE
z The Wireless Switch Utility icons ( and ) indicate the on/off status of wireless communication, not the
IEEE802.11a setting.
z If the IEEE802.11a setting is changed in [Device Manager], the display will be changed accordingly.
z Perform either of the following procedures to check the status in Intel
®
PROSet/Wireless Software.
• Double-click ,
or on the notification area.
• Click [start] - [All Programs] - [Intel PROSet Wireless] - [Intel PROSet Wireless].
To communicate between two computers using the wireless LAN and without using an access point, make the following
settings on each computer.
z Set the network to be accessed as [Device to device (Ad hoc)].
z Set the network names to the same name.
z Set the network authentication to the same authentication.
z When using encryption, set the same encryption and the same network key on both computers.
To check the wireless LAN network status
Exchanging Data between Computers Using the Wireless LAN