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Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Client Adapters (CB21AG and PI21AG) Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows Vista
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Chapter 2 Configuring Wireless Profiles
Viewing and Changing the Settings of a Profile
Table 2-3 Profile Management General Settings
Setting What to Enter
Security type From Security type drop-down list, choose the method that is used to
authenticate a connection to the wireless network. The choices are the
following:
• No authentication (Open)
• Shared
• WPA2-Personal
• WPA-Personal
• WPA2-Enterprise
• WPA-Enterprise
• 802.1X
• CCKM
Encryption type Encryption choices are determined by the security type that you choose.
From the Encryption type drop-down list, choose an available method.
The choices are the following:
• If you choose No authentication (Open), your encryption choice is
None or WEP.
• If you choose Shared, your only encryption choice is WEP.
• If you choose WPA2-Personal you can choose AES or TKIP.
• If you choose WPA-Personal, you can choose AES or TKIP.
• If you choose, WPA2-Enterprise, you can choose AES, TKIP, AES
(MFP), TKIP (MFP).
• If you choose WPA-Enterprise, you can choose AES or TKIP.
• If you choose 802.1x, your only encryption choice is WEP.
• If you choose CCKM, you can choose AES, WEP, or TKIP.
Network security key Enter the network security key that you obtain from the network
administrator.
Note The Network security key field only appears when you choose
No authentication (Open) with WEP encryption, Shared,
WPA2-Personal, or WPA-Personal as the security type.