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  • Page 1 WireFree WL-2400 Wireless LAN ISA Adapter...

  • Page 2: Fcc Information

    FCC Information This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital devices pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.

  • Page 3: Limited Warranty

    Limited Warranty In no event will Planet be liable for any damage, including loss of data or profits, cost of cover, or other incidental, consequential or indirect damages arising from the installation, maintenance, use, performance, failure or interruption of Planet’s products, whatever...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Contents CHAPTER 1 ABOUT WL-2400 ISA CARD .......................5 1-1 F ..........................5 EATURES AND ENEFITS 1-2 A ..............................5 PPLICATIONS 1-3 P ...............................6 RODUCT CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ....................7 2-1 S ..........................7 YSTEM EQUIREMENTS 2-2 H WL-2400......................7 ARDWARE NSTALLATION FOR CHAPTER 3 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ....................10 3-1 S 95 / 98.....................10 ETUP...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 About Wl-2400 Isa Card

    Chapter 1 About WL-2400 ISA Card The WL-2400 IEEE 802.11 ISA Card is a standard PC card that fits into any standard ISA slot in a desktop computer. As a Plug-and-Play device, Windows 95/98 will automatically recognize the card and begin the installation process. When installed, WL-2400 can communicate with other WireFree products to create a wireless network in your office or home.

  • Page 6: Product Kit

    1-3 Product Kit WireFree WL-2400 includes the following items. Please go through each listed item below. If any listed item is not included, please contact your local dealer. A. WireFree WL-2400 / ISA Adapter l WL-2400 / ISA Interface Adapter……………………………………...

  • Page 7: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    1. If the power of your computer is on, please turn it off. 2. Open the chassis of your computer. 3. Insert your WL-2400 adapter carefully and firmly into any empty ISA slot and then close the computer chassis. Red LED: Power Green LED: Tx/Rx Fig2.1 WireFree WL-2400 ISA Adapter...
  • Page 8 Fig2.3. Attach the Antenna to the WL-2400 Step3: Power on Your Computer Turn on the power of your PC then continue the installation steps in the next chapter - “Software Installation”. NOTE: The WireFree WL-2400 wireless LAN adapter is a jumperless plug-and-...
  • Page 9 Configuration Manager, CM) to configure the WL-2400 wireless LAN adapter automatically. Otherwise, you should use the WLJMP.EXE program (also included in the WireFree WL-2400 Driver & Utility diskette) to setup the adapter manually before the network driver or utility is running.

  • Page 10: Chapter 3 Software Installation

    Chapter 3 Software Installation 3-1 Setup WireFree for Windows 95 / 98 1. Turn off your computer, insert the WL-2400 ISA adapter into ISA slot. WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter 2. Windows 95/98 will automatically detect the new hardware and will prompt you to install the driver needed.
  • Page 11 “WireFree Driver & Utility” into CD-ROM drive in your computer, have the path “E:\WL2400\” and then click Next. (assume the CD-ROM driver letter is E) 5.Windows 95/98 found “WireFree WL-2400 PnP ISA Adapter”, and then click Next. WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter A:\WISA.INF...
  • Page 12 A:\WISA.SYS \WISA.sys 7. Set parameters for WL-2400. WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter Properties 8. Click Finish to complete the hardware installation.
  • Page 13 WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter 9. Restart the computer. 10. Open the Control Panel folder, double-click System and Adapters to see if there is any error message appears. If no, that means your WL-2400 works well. WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter...

  • Page 14: Setup Wire Free For Windows Nt 3.51 Or 4.0

    From the desktop, select Control Panel, double-click Network, go to the Interface Card tab, and then click the Add button. Windows NT will present a list of all its supported adapters. Select OTHERS, or click Have Disk to continue. Windows NT will ask for the drive/path containing the WireFree WL-2400 Windows...
  • Page 15 NT drivers. Insert the WL-2400 Driver and Utility diskette into the CD-ROM drive, and then type E:\WL2400\ (Assume the CD-ROM drive letter is E) E:\WL2400\ Windows NT will attempt to locate an INF file in the specified path. If you have entered the path name correctly, Windows NT should copy the appropriate drivers to the Windows NT system.
  • Page 16 WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter Setup WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter At this point, the drivers would have been properly copied and the installation would proceed to the next step --- “Network Setup”. Restart the system.
  • Page 17 To ensure whether the WL-2400 adapter works fine or not, go to Control Panel and Double-click Devices. WISA Adapter Driver...

  • Page 18: Setup Wirefree For Netware Client -Using Odi Driver

    3-3 Setup WireFree for NetWare Client –Using ODI Driver (DOS / Windows 3.x) For DOS and Windows 3.x NetWare Clients, WireFree provides the ODI driver. The ODI driver program allows you to run Novell NetWare’s IPX protocol stack in your workstation. The WireFree ODI driver supports the Port, Node Address, Protocol and Frame options for creating your own NET.CFG file.
  • Page 19 WISA Fig3.1 Configure NET.CFG Link Driver WISA ; or WPCMCIA for PCMCIA FRAME Ethernet_802.3 FRAME Ethernet_802.2 5. A typical STARTNET.BAT for the ODI workstation performs the following commands: SET NWLANGUAGE=ENGLISH ; Set NetWare 4.X to English ; Language ; Link Support Layer Module (provided by ;...
  • Page 20 \WISA.COM Fig3.2 Configure STARTNET.BAT Fig3.3 Login NetWare Server.

  • Page 21: Setup Wirefree For Dos Tcp/Ip Applications

    3-4 Setup WireFree for DOS TCP/IP Applications For the entire legacy TCP/IP applications in DOS environment, please install WireFree Packet Driver. First, setup the configurations of WL2400. Type “A:\PACKET\PKTCFG.COM” Fig3.4 Configure WL2400 Please select the ”Wireless LAN LLC protocol type” , ”Wireless LAN Net work type” , “ESSID”...
  • Page 22 Syntax: WLAPKT.COM [-h] <packet_int_no> Options: [-u] Uninstall packet driver. <packet_int_no> The software interrupt vector number used by the packet driver program, which can be from 96 (0x60) to 128 (0x80). Example: To load packet driver for the WL2400 card, which will be found first by the driver, on packet interrupt vector 0x60: A:\PACKET\WLAPKT.COM -h 60 Fig3.6 Packet driver works properly.

  • Page 23: Chapter 4 Network Configuration

    Chapter 4 Network Configuration 4-1 Installation of “WLU” utility Insert WireFree WL 2400 Driver & Utility Diskette into floppy drive, and then execute :\WLU\setup.exe Fig4.1 Step1 of Wireless LAN Utility setup. Fig4.2 Step2 of Wireless LAN Utility setup.
  • Page 24 Fig4.3 Step3 of Wireless LAN Utility setup. Fig4.4 Step4 of Wireless LAN Utility setup.

  • Page 25: Navigating The Wirefree Utility

    Fig4.5 Step5 of Wireless LAN Utility setup. 4-2 Navigating The WireFree Utility To set up your wireless network environment, please follow these steps: Step 1: Configure the adapter - Select “Network Configuration” in the main menu screen and follow the instructions. Step 2: Diagnose the operation - Using “Diagnostics Tools”...
  • Page 26 1. Click Start, point to Programs and run WLA Utility. 2. Main menu appears. WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter...
  • Page 27 B. Network Configuration Screen The Network Configuration screen allows you to check and modify current configuration of the WireFree wireless LAN adapter. The user-configurable parameters are divided into three groups: ESS ID and Network Type. Fig4.6 Network Configuration B-1. ESS ID PARAMETERS ESS ID: Input a digit ESS ID while the roaming feature is enabled (“ANY”...

  • Page 28: Site Survey

    NOTE: All parameters you modified on the wireless LAN adapter is kept in the flash ROM (non-volatile memory) on the adapter. The new parameters will take effect thereafter even though you boot your PC into any other operating systems or insert the adapter into another PC. C.
  • Page 29 Wireless LAN Utility- Site Survey Fig4.8 Site Survey l Link Quality Test Link Quality Test is a useful diagnostics tool for you to understand the point-to-point data transmission quality between two wireless LAN stations. Or, if you use the Infrastructure wireless LAN configuration, you can test the transmission quality between your wireless LAN station and the WAP-1000 Access Point.
  • Page 30 Fig4.9 Act as Master test station The “Master Test Station” window contains the following status/ statistical information during the Link Quality Test session: ¨ The physical address of the destination slave test station. (Self Slave / Test Address: physical address will be displayed while performing Access Point loopback test.) ¨...
  • Page 31 Fig4.10 Act as Slave test station ¨ The slave test station’s physical address. My Address: ¨ Total test packets received. Packet Received: ¨ Total testing time. Elapsed Time: ¨ The signal level when receiving last test packet. The signal level is Signal Level: calculated as the percentage of its signal level measurement relative to the full signal level.
  • Page 32 Fig4.11 Loopback through Access Point ¨ Total test packets have been sent. Packet Sent: ¨ Total responding packets have been received. Packet Received: ¨ Total testing time. Elapsed Time: ¨ The signal level when receiving last responding packet. The signal level is Signal level: calculated as the percentage of its signal level measurement relative to the full signal level.
  • Page 33 Single-Channel browser screen. D. Firmware Upgrade WireFree WL-2400 Utility provides the function of upgrading the firmware in the wireless adapter to newer version. Choose the [Firmware Upgrade] button in Main Menu, and follow the directions on the screen.
  • Page 34 system is preferred. Make sure the new firmware file is for your type of wireless LAN adapter (i.e., WL2400/ISA, WL3501/PCMCIA). Otherwise, the firmware upgrade tool will show up an “Invalid Firmware” message and refuse to do anything. Memorize the path and filename to access the new firmware file. The firmware upgrade tool will ask you for that.
  • Page 35 NOTE: An error message will be displayed if the WireFree wireless LAN adapter is not installed correctly into your PC. ERROR: Planet Wireless LAN adapter does not exist. Make sure the installation of your WireFree wireless LAN adapter is OK and start WLU again.

  • Page 36: Appendix A Troubleshooting

    ESS ID is the same as the WAP-1000 for a roaming enabled station. 2. How to obtain further support Use the “maintenance” function in the WAP-1000 Web Management to e-mail your question to Planet. b. Direct your questions to support@planet.com.tw...
  • Page 37 Planet’s technical support hot-line is: Tel: +886-2-22199518 Fax: +886-2-22199528 Direct any of your questions to sales support department. d. Check Planet’s Web site at www.planet.com.tw for FAQ and most updated information.

  • Page 38: Appendix B Specifications

    Appendix B Specifications Product WireFree WL2400 2.412-2.462 GHz (FCC, Canada); Operating Frequency 2.422-2.462 GHz (ETSI); 2.484 GHz (Japan) RF Technology Spread Spectrum Direct Sequence Transceiver RF Output Power 50 mW Data Rate 2 Mbps Media Access Protocol CSMA/CA, 802.11 Ready No.

  • Page 39: Appendix C Glossary

    Appendix C Glossary Access Point - An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and wireless networks together. Ad-Hoc - An Ad-Hoc wireless LAN is a group of computers each with wireless adapters, connected as an independent wireless LAN. Backbone - The core infrastructure of a network. The portion of the network that transports information from one central location to another central location where it is off-loaded onto a local system.

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