The following information supplements the information in the Dell Wireless WLAN Card User Guide.

May 2008

Manual Addenda

Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Half Mini Card Power Characteristics

Current draw, Power Save mode: 24 mA (average) Current draw, Receive mode: 153 mA (average) Current draw, Transmit mode: 230 mA (average) Power Supply: 3.3 v

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Dell Wireless 1510 WLAN Half Mini Card Power Characteristics

Current draw, Power Save mode: 21.6 mA (average) Current draw, Receive mode: 480 mA (average) Current draw, Transmit mode: 522 mA (average) Power Supply: 3.3 v

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Draft IEEE 802.11n Interoperability

Dell Wireless 1500, 1505 and 1510 cards are 802.11n Draft 2.0 certified. At the time of product release, these cards were validated through testing to work with the following 802.11n wireless routers/APs: NOTE: Regardless of the make of wireless router/AP, wireless clients should always be able to connect to the wireless router/AP at legacy Netgear WNR834B FW 1.0.1.4 and later Netgear WNR350N FW1.0 and later Linksys WRT300N FW 0.93.3 and later Buffalo WZR-G300N FW 1.43 and later BelkinF5D8231-4

link speeds. You should check with the wireless router/AP vendor for AP firmware and client software updates. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Tray Icon Display

"By default, the tray icon is disabled and hidden. The user can show the tray icon in the notification area by opening the utility, clicking on the View menu, and then clicking the Show Utility Icon. A check mark next to the Show Utility Icon command indicates that the command is active. Clicking the command again removes the check mark and removes the utility icon from the notification area." -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Troubleshooting
Problem or symptom: With my Windows Vista based computer, I cannot connect to a wireless router/AP that requires TTLS authentication. Possible solution: Your network connection profile may be configured to prompt you for your user name and password, which could be a configuration issue for the Funk Server. The RADIUS server might expect something other than blank or anonymous for the outer identity. You can set User_name@Domain_name for the TTLS client identity to resolve this problem. Problem or symptom: With my Windows Vista based computer, I log on as a local user. I cannot connect to a wireless router/AP that requires EAPFAST TLS authentication and the use of a certificate. Possible Solution: There is a known issue with the EAP-FAST plug-in that prevents it from matching a certificate for the local user. You must log on as a domain user for the certificate to match. Problem or symptom: With my Windows Vista based computer, my network connection profile is set up to prompt me for my user name and password when I connect to a wireless router/AP. When the computer resumes from standby or hibernation, however, I am not prompted for my user name/password. Possible solution: This behavior is appropriate. The Windows Vista driver attempts to maintain the association to the wireless router/AP over power state transitions (such as hibernate). If the computer resumes its normal state from standby or hibernation before the wireless router/AP times out and disconnects, you are still connected to the network and there is no need to provide your user name/password. Problem or symptom: With my Windows Vista based computer, I cannot connect to a wireless router/AP that requires LEAP authentication. Possible solution: This is a known defect with the Cisco CCXv4 supplicant pertaining to LEAP. The solution to this problem is being investigated; please check support.dell.com for latest Dell Wireless releases.

Problem or symptom: With my Windows Vista based computer, a message indicating Dell WLAN Controller stopped working intermittently appears. Possible solution: This is a known defect with the Dell Wireless WLAN software in Vista and is being investigated for resolution. The issue has been found to be cosmetic only with no impact to WLAN functionality. Please close out the window should it appear, and disregard the message. Please continue to check support.dell.com for latest Dell Wireless WLAN releases. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Setting Advanced Properties

Wake-Up Mode The Wake-Up Mode property enables or disables the capability of the Dell wireless WLAN card to wake up the computer from a low-power state when the wireless WLAN card receives a network wake-up packet. All. Loss of Link, Magic Pattern, and Net Pattern are considered in wake pattern matching. LossOfLink. Wakes up the machine if the wireless STA loses its association with the AP in Wake mode. Loss of link is detected by three events: * The wireless STA receives a deauth/disassoc frame from the AP. * The wireless STA stops receiving a beacon from the AP for a pre-specified interval (8 seconds). * The wireless STA receives a retrograde timing synchronization function (TSF) in the AP beacon. Magic & WakeUp Frame (default). Both Magic Pattern and Net Pattern are considered in wake pattern matching. Magic Frame & LossOfLink. Both Magic Pattern and Loss of Link are considered in wake pattern matching. Magic Packet. Only Magic Pattern is considered in wake pattern matching. None. Pattern Matching is disabled. Wake Up Frame. Only Net Pattern is considered in wake pattern matching. Wake Up Frame & LossOfLink. Both Net Pattern and Loss of Link are considered in wake pattern matching.

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InstallShield Documentation

InstallShield has a number of command line options. None of the options listed below is case sensitive, and each may be used with a hyphen (-) or a forward slash (/). Separate multiple command-line switches with a space, but do not put a space inside a command-line switch (for example, /r /f1Install.iss is valid, but /r/f1 Install.iss is not). When you use long path and file name expressions with switches, enclose the expressions in double quotation marks. The double quotation marks indicate to the operating system that spaces within the quotation marks are not to be treated as command-line delimiters. Command line switches not listed will be ignored by the installer. /wlconfig:[file to import] Imports preferred network profiles at the end of installation. This option does not support the hyphen (-) prefix. -l[language ID] Specifies the language in which the setup runs. [language ID] is a numeric language ID of the form 0xnnnn or simply nnnn. Note: Refer to http://helpnet.installshield.com/robo/projects/HelpLibDevStudio9/IHelpG lobLangIdentifiers.htm for supported language IDs. See the Identifier (InstallScript) column in the following table. InstallShield supported languages are listed in the following table. Identifier (InstallScript) Arabic (Saudi Arabia) 0001 Basque 002d Bulgarian 0002 Catalan 0003 Chinese (Simplified) 0804 Chinese (Traditional) 0404 Croatian Czech 001a Danish 0006 Dutch (Standard) 0413 English 0009 Finnish 000b French (Canadian) 0c0c French (Standard) 040c German 0007 Greek 0008 Hebrew 000d Hungarian 000e Indonesian 0021 Italian (Standard) 0410 Japanese 0011 Korean 0012 Norwegian (Bokmal) 0414 Polish 0015 Portuguese (Brazilian) 0416 Portuguese (Standard) 0816 Romanian 0018 Russian 0019 Slovak 001b Language

Slovene Spanish (Traditional Sort) Swedish Thai Turkish

0024 040a 001d 001e 001f

The setup runs in this language regardless of the default setup language specified in the IDE or the default language of the target system. This switch has no effect when the setup is running silently and a Lang key is set in the [Application] section of Setup.iss. Recording a response file (by running Setup.exe with the -r switch) sets the Lang key automatically; for the -l switch to affect a silent setup, this key must be deleted from the Setup.iss file.

-r Causes Setup.exe automatically to generate a silent setup file (.iss file), which is a record of the setup input, in the Windows folder. -s Runs InstallShield Silent to execute a silent setup. -f1[path\ResponseFile] Specifies an alternate location and name of the response file (.iss file). If this option is used when running InstallShield silent(-s option), the response file is read from the folder/file specified by [path\ResponseFile]. If this option is used along with the -r option, the response file is written to the folder/file specified by[path\ResponseFile]. -f2[path\LogFile] Specifies an alternate location and name of the log file created by InstallShield Silent. By default, the Setup.log file is created and stored in the same directory as that of the Setup.inx file. -verbose Provides more detailed information when a Setup.exe error occurs. -trayicon: Make trayicon appear after installing the application in the system tray