D-Link DWL-1000AP [12/24] Quick start to wireless networking

Access Point with hardware address 00:90:4b:08:04:dd that is assigned to the WLAN

named "home". The icons indicate the status of the WLANs and their associated Access

Points.

You can use clicking, double clicking, dragging etc. to view Access Point properties or

move an Access Point to another WLAN etc. See Managing WLANs.

The name (or ESSID) of the WLAN is used for identifying the WLAN. Client stations

can roam freely over Access Points that have the same ESSID. Therefore the security

options for all Access Points with the same ESSID are identical. Security options can be

managed through the WLAN Security property sheet. See the section on Managing

Security.

The Access Point property sheet will mainly be used to select a radio channel for each

Access Point. See Managing Access Points below.

Quick Start to Wireless Networking

Configuring a Wireless Network for the very first time, involves the following seven

steps:

1. Physically connect the Access Points to the Ethernet LAN. Make sure they are

switched on. The D-Link wireless network will be up and running immediately. If you

are content with the default settings of the Access Points, you can stop right here. It is

more likely however, that you want to assign different radio frequencies to each Access

Point, or impose some restrictions on the use of your wireless network.

2. To be able to manage the Access Points via SNMP, every Access Point needs a unique

IP address. If you provide a DHCP or BOOTP service on your LAN (and have sufficient

free IP addresses available) this will be taken care of automatically. If not, please read the

section, “Manually Programming IP addresses”.

3. Fire up APManager and configure the Network Settings to reflect your situation (Use

the Edit/Network Settings... menu item). See the section Network Settings Dialog for

details.

4. Create at least one WLAN (Edit/Insert Wireless LAN) and select the desired security

configuration options.

5. Apply the built-in scanning function under Edit/Search Access Points to collect

information about the Access Points. See the section Searching for Access Points for

more information about the scanning function. Drag the new Access Points to the WLAN