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IEEE 802.11n
Wireless PCI Express Adapter
WPE71RL
User's Manual
February 2010

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  • Page 1 IEEE 802.11n Wireless PCI Express Adapter WPE71RL User’s Manual February 2010...
  • Page 2 FCC Warning 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.
  • Page 3 Revision History Revision History 1st release All brand and product names mentioned in this manual are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
  • Page 4 0984 E=9.67977 V/m is the maximum E-Field strength when safety distance between the EUT and human body is maintained at least 20cm, which is below 61V/m as required in Annex III table 2 of EC Council Recommendation (1999/519/EC). This proves that the unit complies with the EN 62311 for RF exposure requirement.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Contents ................4 1. Introduction 1.1 Features..................4 1.2 LED Indicator ..................4 1.3 Package Contents ................5 1.4 Before you start................5 1.5 Hardware Installation ..............5 ............... 7 2. Installation Procedure ........12 3. Wireless Network Configuration Utility 3.2 Use WZC to configure wireless adapter .........13 3.3 Wireless Utility RaUI ..............18 3.3.1 Profile................24 3.3.2 Network ................28...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    1. Introduction This is a wireless PCI Express adapter that delivers unrivaled wireless performance for your Desktop PC. It complies with IEEE 802.11n draft standard and backward compatible with IEEE 802.11b/g. With this adapter, you can easily upgrade your Desktop PC wireless connectivity.

  • Page 7: Package Contents

    1.3 Package Contents One Wireless PCI Express Adapter Three External Antennas One CD ROM (Drivers / Utility, User’s Manual) If any of the above items is missing, contact your dealer immediately. 1.4 Before you start You must have the requirements as follow, A computer with an available PCI Express slot At least a 300MHz processor and 32MB memory Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 support...
  • Page 8 [Guidelines for the Hardware Installation] Please observe the following guidelines when you are installing the wireless PCI Express adapter to the Desktop PC: Avoid placing the PC close to obstacles Obstructions such as concrete and thick walls limit radio signal penetration and reduce the throughput and the coverage range of the wireless PCI Express adapter.

  • Page 9: Installation Procedure

    2. Installation Procedure Note: If you have installed the Wireless Adapter driver & utility before, please uninstall the old version first. STEP1: Found New Hardware Wizard is displayed after the adapter is installed and the computer is restarted. Please click Cancel to continue. STEP2: Insert Installation CD into CD ROM drive then windows below will appear.
  • Page 10 STEP3: Please read the following license agreement. Use the scroll bar to view the rest of this agreement. Select I accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next to continue. STEP4: Select the setup type that best suits your needs. Click Next to continue.
  • Page 11 Windows XP, there is a Windows Zero Configuration Tool for you to setup wireless adapter. You can choose to configure the adapter through the Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool or the Ralink Configuration Tool. It is recommended to choose the Ralink Configuration Tool for the adapter.
  • Page 12 STEP5: Click Install to begin the installation. STEP6: Please wait for a while during the adapter is configuring your new software installation.
  • Page 13 STEP7: After the setup wizard has successfully installed wireless LAN, click Finish to exit the wizard. To check if the adapter is properly installed, you can right click Computer choose Properties click Device Manager. The Configuration Utility appears as an icon on the system tray of Windows while the adapter is running.

  • Page 14: Wireless Network Configuration Utility

    Right click the icon, there are some items for you to operate the configuration utility, Launch Config Utilities Select this option to open the Configuration Utility tool. Use Zero Configuration as Configuration utility Select this option to use Windows XP built in wireless configuration utility (Windows Zero Configuration) to configure to card.

  • Page 15: Use Wzc To Configure Wireless Adapter

    When activating WZC, there are couple different on RaUI status compare to the without WZC running: (1) Profile button will be gray, profile function is removed since the NIC is controlled by WZC. (2) The connect and add profile function will be gray. The reason is same as the first difference.
  • Page 16 STEP3: Select “View Available Wireless Networks” will pop up the dialog shown as below. STEP4: Select intended AP and click “Connect” shown as below, then click “Connect Anyway”.
  • Page 17 STEP5: AP1 is successful connected.
  • Page 18 STEP6: If you want to modify information about AP, click “Change advanced settings” STEP7: Choose “Wireless Networks” tab.
  • Page 19 STEP8: Click “Properties” and then click “OK” button. STEP9: After filling appropriate value, click “OK” button. And the status will prompt up as below. STEP10: Click the Ralink’s icon will bring up RaUI main window. User can find the surrounding APs in the list. The current connected AP will also shown with the green icon indicated as below screen.

  • Page 20: Wireless Utility Raui

    3.3 Wireless Utility RaUI When starting RaUI, system will connect to the AP with best signal strength without setting profile or matching profile setting. It will issue a scan command to wireless NIC. After two seconds, the AP list will updated with the result of BSS list scan. The AP list include most used fields, such as SSID, network type, channel used, wireless mode, security status and signal percentage.
  • Page 21 There are three sections in RaUI. These sections are briefly described as below. Button Section: include Profile page, Network page, Advanced page, Statistics page, WMM page, WPS page, About button, Radio On/Off button and Help button. Button Section Move to the Left Move to the Right...
  • Page 22 Function Section: Corresponding button Profile Page Network Page Advanced Page Statistics Page...
  • Page 23 WMM Page WPS Page CCX Page About Page...
  • Page 24 Status Section: Include Link Status, Authentication Status, AP’s information, Configuration and retrying the connection when authentication is failed. Link Status Authentication Status AP’s Information Retry the Connection...
  • Page 25 Configuration At the mean time of starting RaUI, there is also a small Ralink icon appears within windows taskbar as below. You may double click it to bring up the main menu if you selected to close RaUI menu earlier. You may also use mouse;s right button to close RaUI utility.

  • Page 26: Profile

    3.3.1 Profile Profile can book keeping your favorite wireless setting among your home, office, and other public hot spot. You may save multiple profiles, and activate the correct one at your preference. [Definition of each field] Profile Name: Name of profile, preset to PROF ( indicate 1,2,3,…) SSID: AP or Ad Hoc name Network Type: Network’s type, including infrastructure and Ad Hoc.
  • Page 27 Add a new profile Edit an existing profile Delete an existing profile Import an existing profile Export the profile Activate selected profile 3.3.1.1 Add/Edit Profile There are 3 methods to open Profile Editor form: You can open it from “Add to Profile” button in Site Survey function You can open it form “Add”...
  • Page 28 available APs. Power Save Mode: Choose from CAM [Constantly Awake Mode] or Power Saving Mode. Network Type: There are two types, infrastructure and 802.11 Ad Hoc mode. Under Ad Hoc mode, user can also choose the preamble type, the available preamble type includes auto and long.
  • Page 29 Step 2: Add Profile page will pop up. Step 3: Change profile name to what you want to connect. Pull down the SSID and select one intended AP. The AP list is the result of last Network.

  • Page 30: Network

    Step 4: Then, you can see the profile which you set appear in the profile list. Click “Activate” to activate the profile setting. 3.3.2 Network Under the Network function, system will display the information of surrounding APs from last scan result. List information includes SSID, BSSID, Signal, Channel, Encryption algorithm, Authentication and Network type as below: [Definition of each field] SSID: Name of BSS or IBSS network...
  • Page 31 Channel: Channel in use. Wireless Mode: AP support wireless mode. IT may support 802.11b, 802.11g or 802.11n wireless mode. Security Enable: Whether AP provides security enabled wireless network Signal: Receive signal strength of specified network [Icons & Buttons] Indicate connection is successful. Indicate network type is infrastructure mode.

  • Page 32: Advanced

    3.3.3 Advanced Wireless Mode: Here support 2.4G wireless mode Enable Tx Burst: Check to enable this function. This function enables the adapter to deliver better throughput during a period of time, it only takes effect when connecting with the AP that supports this function..

  • Page 33: Statistics

    Figure 2: Country Channel list 3.3.4 Statistics Statistics page displays the detail counter information based on 802.11 MIB counters. This page translates the MIB counters into a format easier for user to understand. [Transmit Statistics]...

  • Page 34: Wmm

    Frames Transmitted Successfully: Frames successfully sent. Frames Retransmitted Successfully: Successfully retransmitted frames numbers Frames Fail To Receive ACK After All Retries: Frames failed transmit after hitting retry limit. Reset Counter: Reset counters to zero [Receive Statistics] Frames Received Successfully: Frames received successfully. Frames Received With CRC Error: Frames receive with CRC error.
  • Page 35 [WMM Enable – Enable Wi Fi Multi Media] If you want to use “WMM Power Save” or “Direct Link Setup” you must enable WMM. The setting methods of enabling WMM indicating as follow: Step 1: Click “WMM Enable” Step 2: Change to “Network”...
  • Page 36 [WMM Power Save Enable – Enable WMM Power Save] Step 1: Click “WMM Power Save Enable” Step 2: Please select which ACs you want to enable. The setting of enabling WMM Power Save is successfully. [Direct Link Setup Enable – Enable DLS (Direct Link Setup)] Step 1: Click “Direct Link Setup Enable”...
  • Page 37 Step 2: Change to “Network” function. And add an AP that supports DLS features to a Profile. The result will look like the below figure in Profile page. The Setting of DLS indicates as follow: (1) Fill in the blanks of Direct Link with MAC address of STA. The STA must conform to 2 conditions as follow: Connect with the same AP that support DLS features.
  • Page 38 is integer. The integer must be between 0~65535. It represents that it always connects if the value is zero. Default value of Timeout Value is 60 seconds. (3) Click “Apply” button. The result will look like the below figure. Describe “DLS Status” as follow: (1) As the up figure, after configuring DLS successfully, show MAC address of the opposite side and Timeout Value of setting in “DLS Status”.
  • Page 39 Step 2: Double Click and the result will look like the below figure. (3) Disconnect Direct Link Setup as follow: Step 1: Select a direct link STA. Step 2: Click “Tear Down” button. The result will look like the below figure.

  • Page 40: Wps

    3.3.6 WPS WPS Configuration: The primary goal of Wi Fi Protected Setup (Wi Fi Simple Configuration) is to simply the security setup and management of Wi Fi networks. Ralink STA as an Enrollee or external Registrar supports the configuration setup using PIN configuration method or PBC configuration setup using PIN configuration method or PBC configuration method through an internal or external Registrar.
  • Page 41 WPS Profile List: Display all of credentials got from the Registrar. List information includes SSID, MAC address, Authentication and Encryption Type. If STA Enrollee, credentials are created as soon as each WPS success. If STA Registrar, RaUI creates a new credential with WPA2 PSK/AES/64Hex Key and doesn’t change until next switching to STA Registrar.
  • Page 42 Config Methods: Correspond to the methods the AP supports as an Enrollee for adding external Registrars. (A bitwise OR of values) Device Password ID: Indicate the method or identifies the specific password that the selected Registrar intends to use. AP in PBC mode must indicate 0x0004 within two minute Walk time.

  • Page 43: Sso

    Selected Registrar: Indicate if the user has recently activated a Registrar to add an Enrollee. The values are “TRUE” and “FALSE” State: The current configuration state on AP. The value are “Unconfigured” and “Configured”. Version: WPS specified version. AP Setup Locked: Indicate if AP has entered a setup locked state. UUID E: The universally unique identifier (UUID) element generated by the Enrollee.

  • Page 44: Ccx

    3.3.8 CCX The CCX (Cisco Compatible eXtensions) configuration page as shown in blow diagram: (CCX function doesn’t support Windows 7 OS) [Field Definitions] Enable CCX (Cisco Compatible eXtensions): Click here to enable CCX function. Enable Radio Measurements: Check to enable the Radio measurement function. Non Serving Channel Measurements Limit: User can set channel measurement every 0~1023 milliseconds.

  • Page 45: Link Status

    (1) Connect to Ralink’s Website: WWW.RALINKTECH.COM (2) Display Configuration Utility, Driver, and EEPROM version information (3) Display Wireless NIC MAC Address. 3.3.10 Link Status Link Status displays the detail information current connection Status: Current connection status. If no connection, it will show Disconnected. Otherwise, the SSID and BSSID will show here.

  • Page 46: Enable Ap Mode Feature In Windows 2000 Os

    3.3.11 Enable AP Mode Feature in Windows 2000 OS In Windows 2000 Operation System, the local network won’t be automatically established while using Wireless PCI adapter’s AP mode. Please follow the below steps to enable Internet Connection Sharing feature first before you switch Wireless PCI adapter’s AP mode. Step 1: After the Wireless PCI Adapter is installed properly in Windows 2000 Operation System, go to Start...
  • Page 47 Step 3: Back to Network and Dial up Connection screen, right click “Local Area Connection 2” (for 802.11n Wireless LAN card) and choose “Properties”. Step 4: Select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” and click “Properties”. You will see 802.11n Wireless PCI adapter will be automatically assigned an IP address as Access Point. Step 5: In the System tray, now you can switch 802.11n Wireless PCI Adapter to AP Mode.
  • Page 48 Step 6: After switch to AP mode, Ralink Wireless Utility will automatically pup up. The Wireless Default SSID is assigned as “SoftAP 56”. Step 7: To make sure your Soft AP is working properly, you need to use another computer which with Wireless LAN feature to access SoftAP 56 AP.
  • Page 49 Step 8: Select the network “SoftAP 56” and click “Connect” to establish the connection. Step 9: After the computer is successful connected to SoftAP 56, Network and Sharing Center screen will be shown as below. Click “View Status” to see the detail.

  • Page 50: Softap (Only Windows 7 Support)

    Step 10: In General tab, click “Detail…”, and then you can see the current Network connection details. If this computer is successful connect to SoftAP 56 Access Point, the DHCP server will be assigned to same IP address. 3.3.12 SoftAP (Only Windows 7 Support) Windows 7 allows wireless device to be in both Station (STA) and AP Mode.
  • Page 51 Step 3: Select WAN adapter...
  • Page 52 Step 4: Select SoftAP page to set SoftAP parameter Step 5: Set SoftAP parameter in SoftAP page...
  • Page 53 Step 6: Click “Switch to STA mode” to close SoftAP function Step 7: SoftAP function is closed...
  • Page 54 If you have any troubles to configure or setup this WLAN adapter, please feel free to contact Before contacting us, make sure collect following information. Submit complete detailed information of your problem will help us to provide you accurate answers. Model Name: Serial Number: PC Settings:...

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