## LED Indicators

The LED indicators on the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2011B Access Point indicate unit status, transmission, and other activity.

| Wireless LAN Activity | Flickering indicates beacons and data transfers with wireless devices.
| Wired LAN Activity | Flashing indicates data transfers on wired connection.
| Power | Flashing indicates access point initialization. Steady green indicates operation.

The unused LED indicators are reserved for future use.

### WLAP Mode LED Display

In WLAP mode, an access point forwards data to another access point using the wireless connection rather than Ethernet cabling. This chart describes the LED indicator status when the access point is in WLAP mode. This applies to the IEEE 802.11 protocol and access points using firmware version 4.00-20 or above only.

When system initialization begins, after power up:

LED | State
Status | Blinks
Wired LAN Activity | Blinks
Wireless LAN Activity | Off

When a WLAP begins a full scan:

LED | State
Status | On
Wired LAN Activity | Off
Wireless LAN Activity | Blinks slowly

When one or more WLAPa are found, but are still in full scan state:

LED | State
Status | On
Wired LAN Activity | Off
Wireless LAN Activity | Blinks slowly

When the access point is in Functional state, but one or more WLAP connections are not in Forward state:

LED | State
Status | Blinks
Wired LAN Activity | Blinks
Wireless LAN Activity | Blinks slowly

When all WLAP connections are in Forward state:

LED | State
Status | Blinks
Wired LAN Activity | Blinks
Wireless LAN Activity | Blinks

#### Special cases:

When the access point manual BSSID is NOT set and no other WLAP is found, the WLAP goes to the Functional state.

When the manual BSSID is set and the specified WLAP is not found, the WLAP remains in FULL Scan state permanently. The LEDs show the following permanently:

LED | State
Status | On
Wired LAN Activity | Off
Wireless LAN Activity | Blinks slowly

When the WLAP manual BSSID is set with the broadcast bit ON and the specified WLAP is not found, the WLAP tries to associate with another WLAP. If it cannot find another WLAP, it goes to Functional state.

When the Ethernet Timeout in the System Configuration menu is set to 3, the WLAP keeps track of the WLAP Alive BPDU. If the BPDU is missing for WLAP Hello Time seconds, the WLAP state changes to WLAP Lost on Ethernet and the LEDs show the following:

LED | State
Status | On
Wired LAN Activity | Blinks slowly
Wireless LAN Activity | Off

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