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BenQ W11 User Manual

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GPRS with WLAN PC Card
W11
User's Manual
Version 1.0
April 2003
BENQ Corporation
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  • Page 1 GPRS with WLAN PC Card User’s Manual Version 1.0 April 2003 BENQ Corporation...
  • Page 2 BenQ Corporation. BenQ Corporation reserves the right to change this manual and the specifications to improve products without prior notice. So you can get the most recent software and user documentation for all BenQ Wireless LAN products on our web site.
  • Page 3 Note: The W11 has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device and a low power transmitter, 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 residential environment.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    2.1. Installing your SIM card to W11.............. 4 2.2. Removing your SIM card from W11 ............6 2.3. Driver Installation ................. 7 2.4. Using and Removing your W11 from your laptop ........12 Chapter 3. W11 Wireless Settings ............13 3.1. UI Functions ..................13 3.1.1.

  • Page 5: Chapter 1. Introduction

    Chapter 1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing a BENQ W11 GPRS with WLAN PC Card. The W11 offers GSM/GPRS tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz and IEEE 802.11b WLAN 2.4GHz connectivity in a single PC Card, ensuring that you can connect quickly and easily to the Internet wherever you are in more than 160 countries on five continents.

  • Page 6: Product Kit

    Quick Start Guide Warranty card 1.2. System Requirements Before using your W11, please check that you have the following required items: Notebook PC with PCMCIA Type II slot and CD-ROM drive Microsoft Windows 2000/XP operating system (recommend), Windows 98 SE/ 1.3.
  • Page 7 Ring Tone On/switching flash BENQ Corporation...

  • Page 8: Chapter 2. Installation

    1. Push the SIM card holder out and slide it in the direction shown. 2. Place your SIM card to the W11 SIM card holder in the direction shown. Note that the gold contact part of the SIM card faces outside.
  • Page 9 3. Please make sure the SIM card is firmly fixed in the SIM card holder as below shows. 4. Insert the SIM card holder (with the SIM card inside) back to W11 in the direction shown. Then, you are ready to use full functions of W11.

  • Page 10: Removing Your Sim Card From W11

    1. Push the SIM card holder out and slide it in the direction shown. 2. Use your fingers to bend the middle part of the W11 SIM card holder as the follow picture shows in order to remove your SIM card from the holder.

  • Page 11: Driver Installation

    2.3. Driver Installation Please insert the W11 auto-run installation CD into your CD-ROM Drive of your laptop. The CD have installation program and operation manual. Please select “” to start the installation. Then CD will start the installation process automatically.
  • Page 12 Select a location to install W11 files. The default location is C:\Program Files\BENQ Corporation\W11. To install W11 files to this folder, click Next. If you want to install to another folder, click Browse and select another folder. BENQ Corporation...
  • Page 13 Please wait while installing files. Press Yes and restart your computer. BENQ Corporation...
  • Page 14 Please click “Start to install”.) The system will then show a warning message as follows.　 W11 has been tested in stringent conditions. Please feel free and comfortable to click “Yes” to continue the installation.
  • Page 15 W11 provides dual module functions and the system will continue to find a new hardware “GPRS+Wireless LAN Modem Primary”, please feel free to continue the installation. (If your Operating System is Windows XP, the system will ask again if you are willing to continue the installation.

  • Page 16: Using And Removing Your W11 From Your Laptop

    The W11 installation is now completed and after finishing all these steps, you are able to find the W11 Wireless Settings utility icon (as circled below) on the system tool bar. This means the installation is done successfully. Now you may start to enjoy your W11.

  • Page 17: Chapter 3. W11 Wireless Settings

    Setting functions still function. # “About” is for the software version of each function. # “Exit” means that user quits using W11 user applications and he/she tries or removes the card from slot. # When there is an either one network (WLAN or GSM) available, an icon will come up with triangle in the system tray.

  • Page 18: Main Function Bar

    Wireless LAN configurations. The setting items are directly from Windows settings. Users can get information of signal strength, ISP dial-up telephone number, and IP address allocated for GSM/GPRS data service. Wireless LAN control panel includes connection state, configuration, and site survey function. BENQ Corporation...

  • Page 19: Gsm Connection

    Please follow the regular dialup modem setup process to setup the GSM internet connection. (The dialup setup information, such as phone number, username and password, are the same as 56K dialup modem setup. Please check your ISP provider for detail setup information.) BENQ Corporation...

  • Page 20: Gprs Connection

    Edit an existing setting you select in the dialup profile list. Delete Delete an existing setting you select in the dialup profile list. Status In this page, the Internet connection status will be shown up in this page. BENQ Corporation...

  • Page 21: Gprs Connection Setting

    3.1.2.1.2.1 GPRS Connection setting Please select networking-> GPRS to bring up the GPRS Connection panel. First time User 1. If this is the first time you using W11 connecting GPRS，you need to create one new connection profile. Please press “New” in the control panel of GPRS connection.

  • Page 22: Wlan

    WLAN item and the WLAN control panel will pop up. Status Network Adapter You can select from a list of supporting network adapter in this field. (Please kindly select BenQ W11 GPRS with WLAN PC Card State The current state of the driver is displayed in this screen. If the state reveals “Associated,“ it means that the normal flow of operation is in Infrastructure mode.
  • Page 23 IP Renew Once you select the button, your IP address will be renewed. While this function is working, the Internet connection will be temporary stopped. The Internet connection will be back after successfully getting connection with ISP provider. BENQ Corporation...
  • Page 24 WLAN_home, WLAN_office, and etc. SSID (Network Name) This field shows the network name or called SSID, which your W11 will be associated with. If “ANY” is the name showed, it means any network name could be associated with.
  • Page 25 This field shows the current radio channel, which is being used for an active connection. In “Ad-Hoc” mode, please select your channel responding to other WLAN adapters you would like to associate with. This is a non-compliant mode, which will allow W11 cards to talk to one another without an AP regardless any SSID.
  • Page 26 This button will scan all available Access Points in your neighborhood and then list their SSID, channel, BSSID and signal respectively. Join Select the SSID you want to be associated with, and then press this Join button to join this network. BENQ Corporation...

  • Page 27: Phone

    3.1.2.2. Phone When user click phone service button in the W11 main menu bar, a phone-shaped dialog box will be popped up. Users can use the keypad on this dialog as they use a normal mobile phone. Or they can use keyboards on their notebook or PC to enter numbers or do other operations.
  • Page 28 Adjusting the Ringing Volume Users can press the “volume adjust” key to adjust the ringing volume. BENQ Corporation...

  • Page 29: Short Message Service (Sms)

    : Back up messages draft. Click the “Backup” button and all the messages draft stored in the draft will be listed on the message dialogue box. IV. Delete: Reading deleted messages. All the deleted messages will be stored here. BENQ Corporation...
  • Page 30 Please select the message you would like to be copied. Press the button; the selected message stored in SIM will be copy to Draft box in the Laptop. And vice versa. VII. Delete Short Message: Click this button to delete short messages. BENQ Corporation...

  • Page 31: Phone Book

    With this item users can view or add phone records to SIM card. II. View or Add PC Record: With this item users can view or add phone records to Laptop. III. View Call Logs: This menu contains lists of the calls you missed, sent and received. BENQ Corporation...
  • Page 32 Users can select a record from the phone book list and press the “Delete” key to delete the record. 6. Find: Press this key and a dialogue box will be popped up, users can search for the record from all range (SIM page, PC page, Record page) by entering names or numbers. BENQ Corporation...
  • Page 33 7. Outlook Synchronize: Press this key and a dialogue box will be popped up. Users could synchronize the telephone book information in the outlook to the telephone book in W11 utility stored in PC . This button will be active only at PC button...
  • Page 34 Press this button, the phone book will be synchronized automatically the phone books from Outlook to W11. it means that the information is not listed at the other side, Outlook or W11. it means the information is listed or synchronized at both side, Outlook and W11.

  • Page 35: Setting

    Users can query, activate, or cancel “Call Divert”, “Call Waiting”, “Call Barring” settings. Call divert (Call Forward) Users can choose from the following Call Divert modes as needed. Forward Unconditional: Diverts incoming calls to a designated phone number at all time. BENQ Corporation...
  • Page 36 In “Call Barring” setting, a network password is needed. So, network password is managed in the dialog box. Any status changed due to operation will be shown on the “Status” area near the bottom of this dialog box. BENQ Corporation...
  • Page 37 When you have the SIM lock activated your phone will only work with the SIM card used to enable the lock. If a new SIM card has been inserted into your phone, "Insert Correct SIM" will pop up after BENQ Corporation...
  • Page 38 When you have fixed dialing activated your phone can only be used to call numbers on the fixed dial list. Change PIN2 To increase your phone's security you can change the preset PIN2 to a number only you know. BENQ Corporation...

  • Page 39: Chapter 4. Troubleshooting

    ReScan or Disable Radio button under Peer-to-Peer (Ad-hoc) mode? Answer 1 Please remove the BenQ W11 PC Card from the PCMCIA slot and re-insert the device again, and then it will connect the user back on line. Question 2 What if the user’s PC is unable to connect to the other PC right after switching the...

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