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# Wireless Event Viewer

The Wireless Event Viewer program is used to track and display wireless events. This list of events will include normal events, and if a problem exists, error events. Records of events are stored in log files, which you can send to customer support.

## How to Access

To launch the Wireless Event Viewer, at the Start menu, click Intel® PROSet/Wireless > WiFi Event Viewer.

## File Menu Commands

NOTE: Your ability as a client user to access and change Wireless Event Viewer Settings, may be disabled by your Administrator. If so, some settings will be grayed out.

### Settings Command

The Settings command lets you access various settings that govern wireless event logging. This command invokes a window with three tabs:

- General Tab
- Log File Deletion Tab
- Driver Log Tab

#### General Tab

The General tab lets you access the following settings:

Setting | Description
--- | ---
Enable Wireless Event Logging. | Click (turn on) to enable wireless event logging. This must be checked for wireless event logging to occur. If this is turned off, then all other Wireless Event Settings in this window will be inactive.
Specify the folder to write the wireless log file to: | Specify an absolute location on your system to write the log file to. This path may only be up to 150 characters in length.
Log file name prefix: | This is the name of the log file. The default name is: <ComputerName_UserDomain>. You can set this.
Maximum log file size: | To prevent log files from growing too large, new log files are created when the current log file exceeds the specified size in MB. The default file size in 1 megabyte. You can select a file size of up to ten megabytes, in one-megabyte increments.
Defaults | Click Defaults to set all settings on this tab to their defaults values. This sets defaults only for the open tab.
OK | Save your changes and close this window.

#### Log File Deletion Tab

The Log File Deletion tab lets you access the following settings:

Setting | Description
--- | ---
Select from the following when to delete log files. | Never delete old log files. Delete old log when any of the selected conditions are met: Delete old log files every specified number of days: This number can range from 1 to 30. Delete old log files when the total size of the log files exceeds: This number can range from 1 to 10 megabytes (MB) in one-megabyte increments.
Defaults | Click Defaults to set all settings on this tab to their defaults values. This sets defaults only for the open tab.
OK | Save your changes and close this window.

#### Driver Log Tab

Driver event logging records driver-specific events. Here you can access the following settings:

Setting | Description
--- | ---
Enable Driver Event Logging | Driver event logging captures and logs events that are specific to the driver. These events can be viewed on the Wireless Event Viewer. Here you can select to enable standard logging or troubleshooting logging. Standard Logging: These are normal driver events. Troubleshooting Logging: These are events that are detected as errors. They can be useful in resolving driver issues.
Defaults | Click Defaults to set all settings on this tab to their defaults values. This sets defaults only for the open tab.
OK | Save your changes and close this window.

### Exit Command

Under the File menu, this command exits the Wireless Event Viewer.

## Mode Menu Commands

### Real Time Event Viewing

This command displays events as they occur in real time.

- On this window, you can click Clear to clear this list of events and let them begin to collect and display again.
- You can also click Save As... to save this list into a log file. In the Save As... form, you should select to save this as a binary file (.bin) so that you can view this file in Wireless Event Viewer again. You can also save this as a comma separated values file (.csv) if you wish to view it outside of Wireless Event Viewer.

### Log File Viewing

This command clears the Wireless Event Viewer and allows you to open a previously saved log file.

- Click Open to open an existing log file. The log file needs to be in binary format (.bin) to be viewed by the Wireless Event Viewer.
- Click Save As... to save the file under a different name. In the Save As... form, you should select to save this as a binary file (.bin) so that you can view this file in Wireless Event Viewer again. You can also save this as a comma separated values file (.csv) if you wish to view it outside of Wireless Event Viewer.
- Clicking Clear, clears this list of events.

## Help Menu Commands

This menu provides the following commands:

- Wireless Event Viewer Help: Provides access to this Help information
- About...: Provides information about the version of the software release, software plug-ins, copyright, and support.

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