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Gigabyte GN-WIAG User Manual

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IEEE 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Card
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Rev. 1.0 First Edition

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  • Page 1 GN-WIAG IEEE 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Card User’s Manual http://www.gigabyte.com.tw Rev. 1.0 First Edition...
  • Page 2 Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents CHAPTER 1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW 1-1. I ......................1 NTRODUCTION 1-2. F .........................1 EATURES 1-3. P ................1 HYSICAL IMENSIONS ACKAGING 1-4. LED I ....................1 NDICATING IGHT ............錯誤! 尚未定義書籤。 1-5. S YSTEM EQUIREMENTS CHAPTER 2. INSTALLING THE WLAN CARD 2-1. I & U OS)......2 NSTALLING RIVER...

  • Page 4: Chapter 1. Product Overview

    1-3. Physical Dimensions/Packaging Dimensions: 59mm* 44mm* 4mm Before the installation procedures, please ensure the components are not damaged during the shipping. The shipment of the GN-WIAG includes: One GN-WIAG Wireless LAN Card One Installation CD (including User’s Guide and Driver)

  • Page 5: Chapter 2. Installing The Wlan Card

    Chapter 2. Installing the WLAN Card 2-1. Installing The Driver & Utility (Applicable to any supported OS) Step 1: Please make sure that you don’t plug your card yet. Step 2: Insert our setup CD into your CDROM drive, the following window will pop up. Step 3: Click “Install Wireless LAN Driver”.
  • Page 6 Step 5: Click “Finish”. Step 6: Please plug-in your “Gigabyte” WLAN card device ! and will install the device driver Click “OK”. Step 7: Click “Yes” , and then your installation is ok..

  • Page 7: Chapter 3. Using The Utility

    Chapter 3. Using The Utility The Configuration & Monitor Utility is a powerful application that helps you to configure the card and monitor the statistics of the communication link. Unlike the standard method of configuring the card via the operating system utilities (e.g. Control Panel), this application permits the dynamic modification of the configuration parameters while the card is operating.
  • Page 8 Figure 3-3. Current link status of the wireless LAN card If you want to turn off the card’s radio, click the radio icon at the bottom of the screen, Fig 3-4 shows the result Click “Yes” (see Figure 3-5). Just click it again to turn on the radio. Click “Yes”...

  • Page 9: Site Survey

    Figure 3-5 Disabled WLAN Card. Figure 3-6 Enabled WLAN Card. Other items reports the following information: Association State: The field shows you if WLAN card is communicating with an access point or peer-to peer group. MAC Address: This card’s physical address. Channel [Freq]: The current channel and center frequency used by the WLAN card.

  • Page 10: Configuration

    Figure 3-7. Reachable access points and/or peer-to-peer stations Other items reports the following information: SSID: Wireless network name. BSSID: Basic service set identification. (Security): (Encrypt data) or not Signal Strength: It shows the received signal strength from the detected wireless device. Channel: The current channel number used by the WLAN card.
  • Page 11 mode. The modes displayed have two values: “Ad Hoc” and “Access Point”. Figure 3-8. Configuration Ad Hoc channel: When the card’s network mode is set to Ad Hoc, you can select a channel from the AD Hoc channel drop-down menu for your Ad Hoc group to use. SSID: This is the wireless network name expressed as text string that all members within the same network share.
  • Page 12 Figure 3-10. Advance configuration screen Power Saving: The card supports advanced power management to extend battery life. a. When set to “off ”: the card does not use the power saving mechanism. b. When set to “Normal ”: the card enters into sleep status when it is inactive and only wakes up periodically to receive some messages from the access point.
  • Page 13 Figure 3-11 This card provides four security options: No security, WEP encryption, LEAP security and802.1x security architecture. 3-3-3-1. No security(Disabled): Allows the communication between the WLAN card and access point without data encryption. 3-3-3-2. Use WEP for authentication and encryption(Pro-Shared Keys): To prevent unauthorized user to access the data on wireless stations, the WLAN Card offers a secure data encryption, known as WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy).
  • Page 14 For 64-bit encryption, enter 10 digitals by Hex or 5 characters by ASCII. For 128-bit encryption, enter 26 digitals by Hex or 13 characters by ASCII. For 152-bit encryption, enter 32 digitals by Hex or 16 characters by ASCII. 4. Select only a key to encrypt your transmission data. 5.
  • Page 15 Figure 3-15. Authentication Screen 6. Click “Wireless Networks” tab (see Figure 3-16). Figure 3-16. Wireless Networks Screen 7. Click “Configure” button, then the following window will pop up (see Figure 3-17).

  • Page 16: Statistics

    Figure 3-17. Wireless Networks Properties 8. Click “Data encryption (WEP enabled)” and “The key is provided for me automatically”. 9. Click “OK” twice to save these setting and exits the windows. 3-4. Statistics The “Statistics” tab shows you the number of packets sent and received by the card(see Figure 3-18).

  • Page 17: Driver Info

    3-5. Driver Info The “Driver Info” tab shows you the information of the card’s driver(see Figure 3-19). Figure 3-19. Driver’s information...

  • Page 18: Chapter 4. Specification

    WPA; AES; 802.1X client for Windows XP; 64/128/152 bit WEP Roaming Seamless roaming among 802.11b/g access points. Management Utility Monitors the network situation. 4-5. Mechanical Dimensions 59mm*44mm*4mm Weight 13± 1 g Packaging Packaging specially used by Gigabyte. Subject to Change without Notices...
  • Page 19 FCC STATEMEMT: This device is intended only for OEM integrators under the following conditions 1) The antenna must be installed such that 20 cm is maintained between the antenna and users, and 2) The transmitter module may not be co-located with any other transmitter or antenna.

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