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- Page 1 Wireless PCI Card WL-8303 User’s Manual...
- Page 2 Copyright Copyright © 2003 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PLANET.
- Page 3 The ETSI version of this device is also authorized for use in EFTA member states Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Potential restrictive use France: Only channels 10,11,12 and 13 Revision User’s Manual for PLANET Wireless PCI Adapter Model: WL-8303 Rev: 1.0 (March, 2003) Part No. EM-WL8303V1...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ....................1 1.1 F ............................1 EATURES 1.2 A ..........................2 PPLICATIONS 1.3 S ..........................4 PECIFICATION 1.4 P ........................4 ACKAGE ONTENTS 1.5 M ....................5 INIMUM YSTEM EQUIREMENTS 1.6 I .......................5 NSTALLATION ONSIDERATIONS CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE ................6 2.1 W 98/M /2000 D... -
Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction
Infrastructure mode (Point to Point/Point to Multipoint with Access Point). It operates in 2.4GHz unlicensed ISM band in the home or office environment. The WL-8303 is compatible with Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP and Linux. It supports 64/128-bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), 64/128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and 64/128bit TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) Encryption, AES and TKIP are advanced WLAN security technology included in the fore coming IEEE 802.11i standard for securing wireless network connection. -
Page 6: Applications
LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration. A group of WL-8303 PC users and an Access Point compose a Basic Service Set (BSS). Each WL-8303 PC in a BSS can talk to any computer in the wired LAN infrastructure via the Access Point. - Page 7 1.2.3 General Application WL-8303 offers a fast, reliable, cost-effective solution for wireless client access to the network in applications like these: 1. Remote access to corporate network information E-mail, file transfer and terminal emulation. 2. Difficult-to-wire environments Historical or old buildings, asbestos installations, and open area where wiring is difficult to employ.
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Page 8: Specification
1.3 Specification Wire Free – 11Mbps Wireless PCMCIA Adapter Product Model Name WL-8303 Attach Interface PCI V2.2/2.1 LED Indicators LNK, TX/RX Operating Frequency / Channel 2.412~2.462GHz (FCC, Canada) / 11 Channels 2.412~2.4835GHz (TELEC, Japan) / 14 Channels 2.412~2.472GHz (ETSI, Europe) / 13 Channels... -
Page 9: Minimum System Requirements
1.5 Minimum System Requirements Before installation, please check the following requirements with your equipment. • Operating System: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP or Linux • PC with CD-ROM drive • One vacant PCI slot 1.6 Installation Considerations Please keep the number of walls and ceilings between the Access Point and clients as less as possible. -
Page 10: Chapter 2 Installation Procedure
Note: The following installation operates under Window 2000. Procedures will be similar to Window 98/Me. About Windows XP driver installation, please refer to next section. Plug WL-8303 into your PC’s PCI slot. Power on the PC and insert Drivers and User’s manual CD into CD-ROM drive. - Page 11 You can click “Browse” to find the driver location. (Assume "E" is your CD-ROM drive, the driver can be found in E:\Drivers\WL-8303\Win2000). Please click “OK” to continue. Windows will show this screen to prompt you that it found a driver for the device you are...
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Page 12: Windows Xp Driver Installation
Plug WL-8303 into your PC’s PCI slot. Power on the PC and insert Drivers and User’s manual CD into CD-ROM drive. Windows XP will detect WL-8303 and ask you to install driver. Please select the second option and click “Next”. - Page 13 Please select “Include this location in the search” and then click “Browse” to find out WL-8303 driver location to install driver. (Assume "E" is your CD-ROM drive, you can find out WL-8303 driver in E:\Drivers\WL-8303\WinXP). Please click “Next” to continue.
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Page 14: Configuration Utility Installation
Please click “Finish” to complete the driver installation. 2.3 Configuration Utility Installation Run “setup.exe” under “E:\Utility\WL-8303\” directory, or click the “Start” button and choose “Run”. When the dialog box appears, enter “E:\Utility\WL-8303\setup.exe” (Assume “E” is your CD-ROM drive). You will see the dialog box as the picture. Please click “Next” to continue. - Page 15 When installation completed, please click “Finish” and restart your PC. Note: If the card is not working properly after the restart procedure, you should make sure that your system has free resources since it may show them as being available, although this may not be true.
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Page 16: Chapter 3 Configuration Utility
Chapter 3 Configuration Utility The Configuration Utility is a powerful application that helps you configure the Wireless LAN Adapter and monitor the link status and the statistics during the communication process. This utility can be used to change the following configuration parameters when the device is active. Following details the configuration options. -
Page 17: Config
3.1 Config In this option, you can configure the settings of WL-8303 for the wireless device it will connect to. Available Wireless Network: You can find all the available wireless stations for WL-8303. Please select the device you want to connect and click “Configure” for the detail settings. After click “Configure”, you will see the dialog box as below. -
Page 18: Advanced Config
10 or 26 Hexadecimal code as your network key and confirm the network key in next field. If you are use WinXP, you can use the build-in utility to set this WL-8303 with Hexadecimal or ASCII code as your Network Key. -
Page 19: Status
Ad Hoc default channel: This setting defines which channel the WL-8303 will use when it is working in Ad-Hoc mode. Power Save: Shows Power Management modes. There are two optional selections for this mode. Ø CAM: Continuous Access Mode, adapter will always set in active mode. -
Page 20: Statistics
3.4 Statistics In this option, you can get the real time information about the packet transmission and receiving status. 3.5 About You can see the configuration utility version in this option. -
Page 21: Exit
3.6 Exit When you finished the settings, please select this option to exit. -
Page 22: Chapter 4 Troubleshooting
ü Why WAP-3000 and WL-8303 cannot work properly? If you want the WAP-3000 to works with WL-8303, please set the data rate of WAP-3000 fixed to 11Mbps. Because the WAP-3000 chipset and WL-8303 are not fully compatible, you need to make this setting for them to connect each other. -
Page 23: Appendix
Appendix This section provides some technology document of IEEE802.11b. Read the description below to know the standards about IEEE802.11b. ü What is the IEEE 802.11b standard? The IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN standards subcommittee, which is formulating a standard for the industry. The objective is to enable wireless LAN hardware from different manufactures to communicate. - Page 24 machine's MAC address and then adds a relatively large 16-octet initialization vector to produce the key that will encrypt the data. This procedure ensures that each station uses different key streams to encrypt the data. ü Can Wireless products support printer sharing? Wireless products perform the same function as LAN products.