Wireless Products
IntelŽ My WiFi Technology (IntelŽ MWT)
How to connect legacy Wi-Fi devices to IntelŽ My WiFi Technology based notebooks

Each device vendor may differ in the procedure used to initially connect their device to a PC. Begin by reading device documentation to identify how to connect a device to a PC via Wi-Fi.

When adding devices using Intel® My WiFi Technology (Intel® MWT) Utility menu, Intel recommends adding one device at a time.

Steps:

  1. Open the Intel My WiFi Technology Utility menu.

  2. Select Profiles to setup your PC wireless security settings. Profiles allows you to customize your PC wireless settings and connected devices. For example you could have a home profile setting to connect to your home devices and a business profile to connect to business devices in the workplace.

  3. Select New to create a profile, and provide a name for the profile.

  4. Select the Security Tab setting to select one of the following security types (No authentication (open), WEP, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK.

  5. Use the Security Password, Passphrase or Key generated for you (dependent on the security type selected), or create your unique Password, Passphrase or Keypassphrase (note: must match character length specified).

  6. Select OK, and close window. Return to main Intel My WiFi Technology Utility menu.

  7. Add a device using the + sign. You will provided with the network name (SSID) and Security settings to enter into your devices for your personal wireless network.

  8. Once you have the SSID and Security settings of your notebook, go to device that you wish to add.

On the device, in the vendors menus (see vendor documentation), enter the notebook generated network name (SSID) (example “MyPCname”), and the Security key (WPA hex key). The device will attempt to connect to the notebook personal area network.

Return to the notebook, open Intel MWT software utility and confirm device is added.

Note Intel My WiFi Technology is supported only on the Windows 7* operating system with driver versions 13.1.1 and newer.

Operating System:
Windows Vista 64*, Windows Vista 32*, Windows 7 (32-bit)*, Windows 7 (64-bit)*

This applies to:
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Advanced-N 6200
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Advanced-N 6205
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Advanced-N 6230
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Ultimate-N 6300
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Ultimate-N 6300 and IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Advanced-N 6200 products
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Wireless-N 100
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Wireless-N 1000
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Wireless-N 1030
IntelŽ CentrinoŽ Wireless-N 130
IntelŽ My WiFi Technology (IntelŽ MWT)
IntelŽ WiFi Link 1000
IntelŽ WiFi Link 5300 and IntelŽ WiFi Link 5100 products

Solution ID: CS-029335
Date Created: 01-Jun-2008
Last Modified: 27-Jul-2011
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