Book: Networking Systems Design and Development-Lee Chao

1. What is Wi-Fi? 2. What are the transmission rates and maximum ranges for the IEEE 802.11 standards? 3. What is the difference between Wi-Fi and WiMAX? 4. Describe the usage of the 802.16 protocols. 5. What is a wireless router and what are the components included in a wireless router? 6. What is the advantage of using a dual-band wireless router? 7. What types of network interface cards can be used by a computer to communicate with an access point? 8. What technology is used by a Wi-Fi phone that communicates with others and how does this technology work? 9. What are the advantages of using the ExpressCard? 10. What are the infrastructure mode and ad-hoc mode? 11. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the ad-hoc mode? 12. Describe five popular Linux-compatible chipsets. 13. What tools can be used to obtain information about wireless devices? 14. Describe five popular Linux-compatible drivers for wireless device chipsets. 15. What is NDISwrapper and why is it important to Linux? 16. Which NDISwrapper command option allows you to install a specified device driver? 17. What can you do with the command hwinfo? 18. What tasks should be performed after a wireless network device is detected? 19. What can you do with the command iwconfig? 20. To set up a wireless network to access the Internet, what tasks need to be performed?

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1 WiFi short for wireless fidelity is a technology that allows electronic devices to connect to a wireless local area network LAN using radio waves 2 ... View the full answer