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  • Page 1 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Ver.2.0...
  • Page 2 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 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.

  • Page 3: About This Manual

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual About this manual This User’s Manual describes how to install and operate your CardBus Wireless LAN Card. Please read this manual before you install the product. This manual includes the following topics: Product description and features. Hardware installation procedure.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual ... 3 About this manual Chapter 1 - Introduction ... 5 Features ... 5 What is Wireless LAN? Wireless LAN Modes Notes on Wireless LAN Configuration... 7 Chapter 2 - Hardware Installation... 8 Package Contents System Requirements for the Adapter Hardware description...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 - Introduction

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Chapter 1 - Introduction Thank you for purchasing the CardBus Wireless LAN Card. This high-speed CardBus Wireless LAN Card provides you with an innovative wireless networking solution. The Adapter is easy to set up and use. With this innovative wireless technology, you can share files and printers on the network—without inconvenient wires! The Adapter is a network Adapter with a rate of 1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 24, 36, 48...

  • Page 6: What Is Wireless Lan

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual What is Wireless LAN? Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) systems offer a great number of advantages over traditional wired systems. WLAN is flexible and easy to setup and manage. They are also more economical than wired LAN systems. Using radio frequency (RF) technology, WLAN transmit and receive data through the air.

  • Page 7: Notes On Wireless Lan Configuration

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual wireless LAN to access an existing wired network, allowing wireless users to take advantage of the wired networks resources, such as Internet, email, file transfer, and printer sharing. Infrastructure networking has the following advantages over ad-hoc networking: •...

  • Page 8: Chapter 2 - Hardware Installation

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Chapter 2 - Hardware Installation This chapter covers connecting your CardBus Wireless LAN Card to CardBus slot of notebook. Package Contents Please make sure that items below are included on package. One CardBus Wireless LAN Card One CD containing drivers and documentation One Quick Installation Guide System Requirements for the Adapter...

  • Page 9: Inserting The Wireless Lan Card

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Inserting the Wireless LAN Card These instructions apply to most notebook computers. For detailed Note! information on inserting PC cards into your notebook, consult the notebook manual. Follow the procedure below to install the Wireless LAN card. 1.

  • Page 10: Ejecting The Wireless Lan Card

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Ejecting the Wireless LAN card After disconnecting from the LAN, you can eject the Wireless LAN card from the PC Card slot of notebook. In Windows XP/2000/ME/98 operating systems, you do not have to power down the notebook to remove the card.

  • Page 11: Chapter 3 - Driver Installation For Windows

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Chapter 3 – Driver Installation for Windows The following sections cover CardBus Wireless LAN Card driver installation in the Windows Operating Systems. You have to install your hardware first before you begin to install Note! the drivers.
  • Page 12 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 3. A screen appears prompting you to select an installation method. Select Search for the best driver for your device. (Recommended) and click Next to continue. 4. Ensure that the CD-ROM drive is selected. Inserts the driver CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and clicks Next to continue.
  • Page 13 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 5. The following screen appears showing the driver search result. Click Next to continue the installation. 6. Windows 98 copies files to your hard disk. The following screen will appear to inform you when the software installation has finished. Click Finish to finish the installation.

  • Page 14: Driver Installation For Windows 2000

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 7. The following screen will ask you to restart your computer to finish the installation. Click Yes to reboot the system. After system reboot, the Wireless LAN Utility will be installed automatically. Please go to Chapter 4 to install the utility. In most cases, Windows will automatically copy all of the files needed for networking.
  • Page 15 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 3. A screen appears prompting you to select an installation method. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended) and click Next to continue. 4. Ensure that the CD-ROM driver is selected and insert the driver CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and click Next to continue.
  • Page 16 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 5. The following screen appears showing the driver search result. Click Next to continue the installation. 6. The following screen appears. Click Yes to continue...

  • Page 17: Driver Installation For Windows Me

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 7. The Windows has finished installing software for the device. Click Finish to finish the installation. Then system will start to install Wireless LAN Utility. Please refer to procedures at Chapter 4. Driver installation for Windows ME Follow the steps below to install the CardBus Wireless LAN Card drivers for Windows 1.
  • Page 18 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 3. The system will find the setup files and follow the instruction to copy files to your hard disk. The following screen will appear when the software installation has finished. Click Finish to finish the installation. 4.

  • Page 19: Driver Installation For Windows Xp

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual In most cases, Windows will automatically copy all of the files needed for networking. If Windows asks you for the files and prompts you to Note! input the path to the files. Follow the instructions on your screen, and then click OK to continue.
  • Page 20 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Click Continue Anyway to continue the installation. The Windows has finished installing software for the device. Click Finish to finish the installation Then system will start to install Wireless utility automatically. Please refer to procedures at Chapter 4.

  • Page 21: Chapter 4 - Installing And Using The Wireless Utility

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Chapter 4 – Installing and Using the Wireless Utility The following sections cover the CardBus Wireless LAN Card utility installation and configuration. Installation in Windows After you have installed driver, system will start to install Wireless LAN Utility. Please follow the steps below to install the utility.
  • Page 22 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 2. The screen will show you the default destination chosen by the utility. Click Next to continue or click the Browse button to select an alternate destination. 3. The following screen will add program icons to the Program Folder. You may type a new folder name or select one from the existing folders list.
  • Page 23 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 4. The following screen shows the current settings, click Next to continue or click Back to change the Destination Folder in step 3. 5. The Windows has finished installing Wireless LAN Utility. The following screen will ask you to restart your computer to finish the installation.

  • Page 24: Using Wireless Utility In Windows Xp

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Using Wireless Utility In Windows XP Wireless LAN Utility There are two ways to configure CardBus Wireless LAN Card. One is Wireless LAN Utility; the other one is Windows Wireless Network Configuration. Use Windows Wireless Network Configuration 1.
  • Page 25 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Make sure “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings” is checked and click OK. 5. Click the Windows Wireless Network Configuration icon again to open the Windows Wireless Network Configuration. Windows Wireless Network Configuration...
  • Page 26 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 6. Select an available network and click Connect button. 7. The Windows Wireless Network Configuration will be enabled. Click the Windows Wireless Configure icon. Windows Wireless Network Configuration is enabled Click Properties to start Windows Wireless Network Configuration.

  • Page 27: Use Wireless Lan Utility

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Use Wireless LAN Utility 1. Exit the Wireless LAN Utility. 2. Click Windows Wireless Network Configuration icon. Windows Wireless Network Configuration 3. Click Advanced… button.
  • Page 28 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 4. Make sure “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings” is unchecked and click OK button. 5. Click Start -> All Programs -> IEEE802.11g WLAN CardBus Card then click IEEE802.11g WLAN CardBus Card Utility to restart IEEE802.11g WLAN Card.
  • Page 29 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 6. The Wireless LAN Utility will appear, Double-click the icon to open the configuration utility. Wireless LAN Utility 7. Click Re-Scan button to start Wireless LAN Utility. (Refer to Configuring the CardBus Wireless LAN Card.)

  • Page 30: Use Wireless Lan Utility In Windows 98, 2000 And Me

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Use Wireless LAN Utility In Windows 98, 2000 and ME Wireless LAN Utility icon Icon Meaning Green: indicates a connection is linked to a wireless network. Red: indicates that the wireless LAN card is looking for an available access point.
  • Page 31 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 2. Select the “Configuration” tab. The profile setting allows you to save configurations in different profiles for different working environments. The default profile will contain the initial configuration setting when you install the Card. Under the Operating Mode drop-box, you may choose either Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc.
  • Page 32 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 3. Select the “Site Survey” tab. The list on the adjacent screen shows you available Access Points and their features. Click on the desired Access Point, and then click Connect to connect or Search to search for more Access Points. Click OK when you are finished.
  • Page 33 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 4. Click on the “Encryption” tab. Under the drop-box, you can choose to have WEP encryption Disabled, 64-Bit, or 128-Bit. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is an encryption scheme used to protect wireless data communication. The Disabled setting prevents the sharing of data with other computers on the WEP network.
  • Page 34 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 5. Select the “Advanced” tab. You can choose the fragmentation threshold to define the maximum data frame size your adapter will transmit. When the packet error rate is high, you may set the threshold value to transmit shorter frames. You may select RTS/CTS threshold to define when will your adapter send out RTS/CTS frames to reserve bandwidth for transmission.
  • Page 35 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 6. The “About” tab shows you copyright and version information about the driver, the configuration utility, and the firmware. Click OK to complete the configuration.

  • Page 36: Chapter 5 - Installing Network Protocols

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Chapter 5 – Installing Network Protocols Protocols are necessary for computers to be recognized on your network. Windows 2000 users need to check their Windows User Guides for protocol installation. Installing the Network Protocols for Windows 98 and Millennium 1.
  • Page 37 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 2. Select IEEE802.11g WLAN CardBus Card v3.0 from the list and click the Add button. 3. Highlight Protocol and click the Add button.
  • Page 38 54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual 4. Select Microsoft from the list of “Manufacturers” and TCP/IP from the list of “Network” Protocols” and click the OK button to finish the installation.

  • Page 39: Appendix A - Faq

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Appendix A – FAQ What is IEEE 802.11 standard? The IEEE 802.11 is a wireless LAN industry standard, and the objective of IEEE 802.11 is to make sure that different manufactures’ wireless LAN devices can communicate to each other. What is WEP? As described in the IEEE 802.11 standard, WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is a data privacy mechanism based on a 40 bit shared key...

  • Page 40: Appendix B - Specifications

    54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Appendix B – Specifications Standards: Channels: Antenna: Frequency: Speed : Data Rate: Operating Ranges: Temperature: Humidity: IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g 11 Channels (US, Canada) 13 Channels (Europe) 14 Channels (Japan) Built-in Chip Antenna 2.4 to 2.497GHz (Industrial Scientific Medical Band) 18dBm@11b, 12dBm@11g up to 54Mbps...

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