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  • Page 1 User’s Guide 11Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card Version 1.45...

  • Page 2: Information To User

    INFORMATION TO USER Federal Communications Commission 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: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction...3 The 11Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card...3 Features...3 Package Contents...4 System Requirements...4 Chapter 2: Network Configuration and Planning...5 Wireless LAN Basic...5 Network Topology...5 Roaming...7 Chapter 3: Installing the Drivers and Configuration Utility for Windows 9X/ME/ 2000...8 Running the Auto Driver &...

  • Page 4: Chapter 1: Introduction

    Chapter 1: Introduction The 11Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card The 11Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card now has a new , higher-powered antenna that provides a greater range than ever. The increased sensitivity helps filter out interference and notice to keep your signal clear.

  • Page 5: Package Contents

    Package Contents One 11Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card. One setup Utility CD-ROM (User Guide on CD). Quick Installation Guide. System Requirements One PCMCIA Type II or Type III slot. PCMCIA revision 2.10 compliant card and socket services. Operating System: Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP. 2M bytes free disk space for utility and driver installation.

  • Page 6: Chapter 2: Network Configuration And Planning

    Chapter 2: Network Configuration and Planning Wireless LAN Basic The WLANs supports legacy Ethernet LAN network configuration options as defined by the IEEE 802.11b standards committee. The WLAN Card can be configured as: Ad-Hoc for departmental or SOHO LANs. Infrastructure for enterprise LANs. LAN-Interconnection for point-to-point link as campus backbone.
  • Page 7 Notebook with PCMCIA WLAN Card The adapter provides access to a wired LAN for wireless workstations. An integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an infrastructure configuration. A group of WLAN PC users and an Access Point compose a Basic Service Set (BSS). Each WLAN PC in a BSS can talk to any computer in the wired LAN infrastructure via the Access Point.(Fig 2-2) An infrastructure configuration extends the accessibility of a WLAN equipped PC to a wired LAN, and doubles the effective wireless transmission range for 2 WLANs PCs.

  • Page 8: Roaming

    Roaming Server USB WLAN Adapter Notebook I BSS1 Infrastructure mode also supports roaming capabilities for mobile users. More than one BSS can be configured as an Extended Service Set (ESS). The continuous network allows users to roam freely within an ESS. All WLAN PCs and Access Point within one ESS must be configured with the same ESS ID.

  • Page 9: Chapter 3: Installing The Drivers And Configuration Utility For Windows 9X/Me/ 2000

    Chapter 3: Installing the Drivers and Con- figuration Utility for Windows 9X, ME, 2000 Running the Auto Driver & Utility Installation Before installing your card, insert the Auto-Install CD into your CD-ROM driver. Unless you have deactivated the auto-run feature of Windows, the screen shown in Fig 3-1 should appear automatically.
  • Page 10 Fig 3-3 Components Version Fig 3-2 Install WLAN Driver / Utility 3. The installation provides you to install package Custom or Typical. (Fig 3-4) 4. If “Custom” be chosen, you can select package individually. If you choose “Typical”, The 3 packages will be installed in your system. (Fig 3-5) The 3 packages mean Application, PCMCIA card driver, and USB adapter driver.

  • Page 11: Inserting The Adapter

    WLAN PCMCIA adapter from the slot anytime, even when the power of your computer is on. NOTE: Windows 98 requires that the Network card and socket services must be compliant with the PCMCIA revision 2.10 specification. Please check the documentation of the PCMCIA driver before installing the WLAN PCMCIA adapter.
  • Page 12 After installing PCMCIA WLAN Card driver and utility. Please insert the WLAN Card. You will see Found New Hardware. Please select “Install the software automatically” then click “Next>” (Fig 3-10). The screen in Windows XP (Fig 3-11) will appear click “Continue Anyway”. The Win- dows has finished installing software for the device.

  • Page 13: Chapter 4: Configuration Utility

    Chapter 4: Configuration Utility The Configuration Utility is provided to allow you further customization of the WLAN PC Card and your wireless network. Using the Configuration Utility After the Configuration Utility has been installed, an icon will placed in the system tray (next to click button of your screen) when the WLAN PC Card is inserted, as shown in Fig 4-1.
  • Page 14 Quality indicators will not be available. The Signal Strength field will display a bar indicating the percentage, between 0 and 100 percent, of the strength of the signal. The higher the percentage, the stronger the signal. The Link Quality field will display a bar indicating the percentage, between 0 and 100 percent, of the quality of the link.

  • Page 15: Site Survey

    An acronym for Service Set Identifier, SSID is the unique name shared among all points in a wireless network. The SSID must be identical for all points in the network. It is case sensitive and must not exceed 32 characters. The Tx Rate field shows the current transfer rate for the Network PC Card.
  • Page 16 Encryption On the Encryption screen, show in Fig 4-5, you can set the level of security with which you will be using the WLAN PC Card. Under the drop-down box, you can choose to have WEP encryption Disabled, 64-Bit, or 128- Bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is an encryption scheme use to protect wireless data communi- cation.
  • Page 17 For Authentication Type, you may choose between Open System or Shared Key. Shared Key is when both the sender and recipient share a secret key. Both units this key for an extended length of time, sometimes indefinitely. Any eavesdropper that discovers the key may decipher all packets unit the key is changed.
  • Page 18 The RTS Threshold Value should remain at its default setting of 2,347. A preamble is a signal used to synchronize the transmission timing between two or more systems. A series of transmission pulses is sent before the data to indicate that “someone is about transmit data.” this ensures that systems receive the information correctly when the data transmission starts.
  • Page 19 How to Uninstall the Configuration & Monitor Utility In order to uninstall the Configuration & Monitor Utility from Windows 9X/ME/2000/XP, you can RUN Setup utility again then you will see Fig 4-9 then step by step remove all installed components. It is recommended to stop the WLAN adapter and “Exit”...

  • Page 20: Chapter 5: Installation Procedure Under Windows Nt 4.0

    Chapter 5: Installation Procedure Under Windows NT 4.0 Use the procedures described in this section to install and configure the WLAN adapter under MS Windows NT 4.0. About Windows NT 4.0 Although Windows NT 4.0 are similar in appearance wit Windows 95/98/ME, and Windows 2000, they have different philosophy when installing a new hardware.
  • Page 21 3. In the “Network” settings window you will be prompted to install Windows NT Networking in case no network has been installed yet. Click “Yes” and follow the instruction on the screen. If networking had been already installed, you will see a dialog with several tabs. In the “Adapters” tab click the “Add”...
  • Page 22 6. During the installation, a dialog box appears asking for the I/O base and IRQ resource information. In order to find out which values to use, go to Start Windows NT Diagnostics select the “Resources” tab IRQ from the list. Next, press the button “I/O Port” and choose an 0x20 free I/O space. Add these values into the dialog box.

  • Page 23: Configuration / Uninstall

    Configuration / Uninstall In order to configure the card, please use the Configuration and Monitor Utility described in a different section of this document. This application lies on the system tray of your machine, as long as the card is inserted into your system, and permits you to change the parameters of the card “on the fly”.

  • Page 24: Chapter 6: Installation Procedure Under Windowsxp

    Chapter 6: Installation Procedure Under Windows XP Use the procedures described in this section to install and configure the WLAN adapter under MS Windows XP About Windows XP Throughout this section it is assumed that you have a basic working knowledge of WinXP. However, in this paragraph, some specific feature of WinXP are briefly explained.

  • Page 25: Uninstall Procedure Under Winxp

    Fig 6-2 In order to configure the card, please use the WinXP build-in Application. Uninstall Procedure Under WinXP In order to uninstall the WLAN adapter from WinXP, you must right click on the “Properties” option under “My computer” icon. Then, under the “Hardware” tab, select the “Device Manager” and expand the “Network Adapters”.

  • Page 26: Appendix A: Troubleshooting

    Appendix A: Troubleshooting Adapter Installation Problems If your computer can not find the WLAN PC card or the network driver doesn’t install correctly, check the following: Make sure the adapter is securely seated in the PCMCIA slot. When you insert the wire- less adapter into the notebook’s slot, a beep should be heard if the adapter is properly inserted.

  • Page 27: Appendix B: Glossary

    Appendix B: Glossary Access Point- An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and wireless networks together. Ad-Hoc- An Ad-Hoc wireless LAN is a group of computers each with wireless adapters, connected as an independent wireless LAN. Backbone- The part of a network that connects most of the systems and networks together and handles the most data.
  • Page 28 Fragmentation- Breaking a packet into smaller units when transmitting over a network medium that cannot support the original size of the packet. Infrastructure- An integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an infrastructure configuration. IRQ- Interrupt ReQuest, A hardware interrupt on a PC. There are 16 IRQ lines used to signal the CPU that peripheral event has started or terminated.

  • Page 29: Appendix C: Specifications

    Appendix C: Specifications Radio: Frequency Band: Modulation TYPE: Operating Channels: Radio Technology: Data Rate: Output Power: Receive sensitivity: Antenna Type: Current Consumption: Package : Certification: Driver : Complies with IEEE 802.11b 2400 ~ 2483.5MHz ( for US, Canada, and ETSI) 2400 ~ 2497MHz (for Japan) CCK,BPSK,QPSK IEEE 802.11b compliant...
  • Page 30 PCMCIA-03-05-010...

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