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11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card
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11 Mbps Wireless LAN ISA Card
User Manual
Version 3.0.x - March 2000
Important Notice:
This device is a 2.4 GHz low power RF device intended for
normal use in all EU member states except in France where
restrictive use applies.
Please refer to page 9 in this manual for further details

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  • Page 1 NoWiresNeeded 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card 11 Mbps Wireless LAN ISA Card User Manual Version 3.0.x - March 2000 Important Notice: This device is a 2.4 GHz low power RF device intended for normal use in all EU member states except in France where restrictive use applies.
  • Page 3 User Manual 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card 11 Mbps Wireless LAN ISA Card www.nwn.com Version 3.0.x - March 2000...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    NoWiresNeeded Table of contents Trade Marks .......7 Copyright statement ......7 FCC Radiation Exposure Statement .
  • Page 6 NoWiresNeeded Connect.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.= 24 Appearances ......Establishing a connection....LED indicator .

  • Page 7: Trade Marks

    NoWiresNeeded Trade Marks Copyright © NoWiresNeeded The publisher reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes to any or all parts of this manual at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. AirLock, APCenter, ASBF and Connect are trademarks of NoWiresNeeded.

  • Page 8: R&Tte Compliance Statement

    NoWiresNeeded R&TTE Compliance Statement This equipment complies with all the requirements of the DIRECTIVE 1999/5/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL March 1999 Radio Equipment Telecommunication Terminal Equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity (R&TTE). The R&TTE Directive repeals and replaces in full the Directive 98/13/EEC (Telecommunications Terminal Equipment and Satellite Earth Station Equipment) as of April 8, 2000.

  • Page 9: Intended Use

    NoWiresNeeded Intended use This product is a low power 2.4 GHz WLAN PC Card transceiver intended for home and office use. EU countries intended for use This device is intended for home and office use in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France (with frequency channel restrictions), Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

  • Page 10: Declaration Of Conformity

    NoWiresNeeded Declaration Of Conformity Page 10 of 41 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card User manual...

  • Page 11: Introduction

    NoWiresNeeded Introduction Thank you for purchasing your NoWiresNeeded 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card/11 Mbps Wireless LAN ISA Card. This manual will assist you in the installation procedure. If you have purchased the 11Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card only, the package you received contains the following items: •...

  • Page 12: Wireless Lan Basics

    NoWiresNeeded Wireless LAN basics Wireless Local Area Network systems (WLANs) offer a great number of advantages over a traditional, wired system. WLANs are more flexible, easier to setup and manage and more cost effective than their wired equivalence. Using radio frequency (RF) technology, WLANs transmit and receive data through the air, minimizing the need for wired connections.
  • Page 13 NoWiresNeeded • Scalability - WLANs can be configured in a variety of topologies to meet the needs of specific applications and installations. Configurations are easily changed and range from peer-to-peer networks suitable for a small number of users to full infrastructure networks of thousands of users roaming over a broad area.

  • Page 14: Series 1100 Installation

    NoWiresNeeded Series 1100 installation Hardware installation For detailed information on how to add new hardware to your specific computer configuration, please follow the guidelines of your computer manufacturer. 11 Mbps Wireless LAN ISA Card installation The 11 Mbps Wireless LAN ISA Card is used as an adapter for the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card in systems without a free PCMCIA slot, but with a free ISA slot.
  • Page 15 NoWiresNeeded Some extra steps are required to complete the installation under Windows 95/98: When starting Windows 95/98, a window will appear, indicating that new hardware has been found. The SCM Plug & Play Swap Box will be installed automatically. The SCM Swap Box is disabled by default. To enable it, you should do the following: Go to the Windows Control Panel and double-click on PC Card (PCMCIA).

  • Page 16: Mbps Wireless Lan Pc Card Windows 95 Installation

    NoWiresNeeded 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card Windows 95 installation This chapter will assist you in installing the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card under the Windows 95 operating system. Insert the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card in a free PC Card slot.
  • Page 17 NoWiresNeeded A window will appear, indicating that the drivers are found on the CD. Click <Finish> to continue. Windows will now prompt for the Windows 95 CD-ROM, which contains some driver files, like "connect2.cpl". Enter the location of your Windows 95 cab files and click <OK>. Windows will start copying the necessary files.

  • Page 18: Mbps Wireless Lan Pc Card Windows 98 Installation

    NoWiresNeeded 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card Windows 98 installation This chapter will assist you in installing the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card under the Windows 98 operating system. Insert the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card in a free PC Card slot.
  • Page 19 NoWiresNeeded A window will appear which indicates the locations in which Windows will search for the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card driver files. Insert the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card CD and make sure the "CD-ROM drive" box is checked. Click <Next>...

  • Page 20: Mbps Wireless Lan Pc Card Windows Nt4 Installation

    NoWiresNeeded 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card Windows NT4 installation Go to the Windows Control Panel and double-click on ’Devices’. Look for ’PCMCIA’ in the list that appears. If the Status column indicates ’Started’ and the Startup column indicates either ’Boot’ or ’Automatic’, proceed to step 4. If this is not the case, you should continue with step 3 first.
  • Page 21 NoWiresNeeded A list of network adapters appears. Insert the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card CD and click on the <Have Disk> button. Indicate the path of the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card installation CD (typically D:\) and click on <OK>. A dialog box appears, containing "1100 Wireless LAN Adapter".
  • Page 22 NoWiresNeeded Now you must select an IRQ number and an I/O Base. Select an unused IRQ and an unused I/O base for the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card and click <OK>. Note: Windows NT cannot see whether the default values are conflicting with other hardware.
  • Page 23 NoWiresNeeded 10. The 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card is now listed as a network adapter. Click on <Close>. 11. If you have other network protocols installed, these will review their bindings and ask some questions to complete the process. TCP/IP, for example, will ask you whether you would like to use DHCP or give a static IP address.

  • Page 24: Connect

    NoWiresNeeded Connect  Now that you have successfully installed your 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card you can establish a connection with a network.  Connect is an application that shows the user the current status of  the network connection. Using Connect , you can diagnose your connection and choose a wireless network to establish a connection with.

  • Page 25: Appearances

    NoWiresNeeded Appearances  When you have successfully installed the drivers and the Connect software on your computer, the taskbar will show a new icon: This icon will give you information on the status of your computer in relation to the wireless networks in your environment. The wireless network icon can have three different appearances.
  • Page 26 NoWiresNeeded By clicking on the icon once with the right mouse button, a pop-up menu appears, providing the following options: • General Info and Session Info: these options will open the dialog box of Connect with the respective tab sheet. •...

  • Page 27: Establishing A Connection

    NoWiresNeeded Establishing a connection By double-clicking on the icon in the taskbar with the left mouse button, the following dialog window will appear: This window provides information on the adapter you are using. It also displays the driver and software versions. •...
  • Page 28 NoWiresNeeded If you have not yet established a network connection, the text: "Currently not joined with a network" will be displayed in the Current Session Status box. In the lower part of the screen a connection to a wireless network can be established.

  • Page 29: Led Indicator

    NoWiresNeeded Click on the <OK> button to have the window disappear and to continue working on the network. Configuration information on the network you are joining will be saved in the registry. No configuration information is stored in the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card.

  • Page 30: Network Protocols

    NoWiresNeeded Network protocols Please contact your system administrator for additional network settings. Page 30 of 41 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card User manual...

  • Page 31: Troubleshooting

    NoWiresNeeded Troubleshooting The following paragraphs describe the troubleshooting tips for the  various operating systems and the Connect utility: • Windows 95/98 • Windows NT4  • Connect If these tips do not provide sufficient support, please contact your vendor. User manual 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card Page 31 of 41...

  • Page 32: Windows 95/98

    NoWiresNeeded Windows 95/98 Q : I inserted the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card but Windows didn’t recognize it. A : Please follow the steps below: Go to the Windows Control Panel to check if PC Card support is installed. If there is a PC Card icon in the Control Panel, double-click this icon.
  • Page 33 NoWiresNeeded PC Card under "Other Devices". If so, remove this reference. • Make sure the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card is detected by the PCMCIA socket. Double-click on "PCMCIA" in the Windows Control Panel and check if the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card is listed there.

  • Page 34: Windows Nt4

    NoWiresNeeded Windows NT4 Q : I inserted the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card before it was installed and I rebooted the system. I also have another network card. Now my other network card does not function properly. A : You should insert the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card only after you have installed it via the Network Control Panel.
  • Page 35 NoWiresNeeded • Make sure the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card is detected by the PCMCIA drive. Double-click on "PCMCIA" in the Windows Control Panel and see if the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card is listed there. If it is not listed, check your PCMCIA socket connections, re-insert the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card and reboot.

  • Page 36: Connect

    NoWiresNeeded Connect Q : No icon in the taskbar although the Show icon in taskbar box is checked. A : Select "Run" from the start menu and type "connect2". Press the <OK> button and in a few seconds the icon will appear on the taskbar.

  • Page 37: Technical Specifications

    NoWiresNeeded Technical Specifications 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card Hardware compatibility IBM-compatible computer with a PC Card Type II-slot, 16 bit, both 3.3 and 5 V. Driver support NDIS 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows NT 4 or higher Windows 2000* Linux* * not as standard supplied on enclosed cd.
  • Page 38 NoWiresNeeded Environmental Operating temperature (ambient) 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F) Relative humidity 10 to 85% non-condensing Power specifications Operating voltage +3.3V or +5 V DC ±5% Active transmitting 450 mA Active receiving 300 mA Idle status 3 mA Average office use •...
  • Page 39 NoWiresNeeded Radio specifications Range • per cell indoors approx. 50 meters (150 ft) or more • per cell outdoors up to 300 meters (1000 ft) Transmitting power + 18 dBm Frequency range 2.4-2.4835 GHz, direct (US, Canada, ETSI) sequence spread spectrum Number of Channels •...
  • Page 40 NoWiresNeeded Specific Features Supported bit rates • 11 Mbps • 5.5 Mbps • 2 Mbps (IEEE 802.11 DSS compliant devices, using ASBF) • 1 Mbps (IEEE 802.11 DSS compliant devices, using ASBF) ASBF== Automatic Scale Back Functionality Data encryption • AirLock security,128-bit key length, RC-4 •...

  • Page 41: Software Installation

    NoWiresNeeded Software Installation Choose your operating system in the list below to install the 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card Software: • Windows 95 Software Installation • Windows 98 Software Installation • Windows NT Software Installation If you plan to use this card in an environment with previously installed NoWiresNeeded IEEE802.11 WLAN products, we recommend you to update all WLAN products with the WLAN Software Update Kit that can be downloaded from the NWN website at www.nwn.com.

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