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  • Page 1 WNC-0601 300Mbps Wireless PCI Card User Manual V3.0...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Chapter 1 Product Introduction...............1 1.1 P ................1 ACKAGE ONTENTS 1.2 LED I ..............1 NDICATOR ESCRIPTION 1.3 P ................2 RODUCT EATURES 1.4 P ................2 RODUCT SAGE 1.5 B ...............3 EFORE NSTALLATION 1.6 D ’ ....3 ISABLE OTHER MANUFACTURERS WIRELESS NETWORK ADAPTERS 1.7 P ..............4...
  • Page 3 4.2 AP ..................34 MODE 4.2.1 Config AP ................36 4.2.2 Advanced ................37 4.2.3 Access Control List ............... 38 4.2.4 Associate List ............... 39 4.2.5 AP Mode under Windows 7 ..........40 Appendix 1: Acronyms and Terms ............41 Appendix 2: How to Set WPS ..............

  • Page 4: Chapter 1 Product Introduction

    Chapter 1 Product Introduction Thank you for choosing this LevelOne wireless adapter! The LevelOne WNC-0601 is a 11N wireless PCI card with up to 300Mbps wireless transmission rate. It complies with the latest IEEE802.11n standard, and is compatible with 802.11b/g wireless devices. It is able to quickly process file transfer, video, multi-media and other applications that require higher bandwidth.

  • Page 5: Product Features

    Complies with Windows 7 /XP/ 2000/Vista. 1.4 Product Usage The WNC-0601 Wireless PCI card offers a fast, reliable and extendable solution for wireless access. It is mostly used in the following circumstances: 1. Enables staff members who require greater mobility in the office to have access to wireless networks anywhere inside their company.

  • Page 6: Before Installation

    1. Please peruse this user guide before you install and use the product. 2. Please close or uninstall the configuration programs of other manufacturers’ before you install the configuration programs of WNC-0601 to avoid possible UI conflict. 3.In order to avoid possible network conflict between this LevelOne network...

  • Page 7: Product Maintenance

    Please keep the product away from water and humid environment to guarantee its normal performance Protect it against hazardous substances (such as acids, alkalis etc). Please don’t directly expose the adapter to the sunlight or excessive heat. Please contact LevelOne tech support if any problems occur.

  • Page 8: Chapter 2 Installation Guide

    Chapter 2 Installation Guide This chapter will guide you through the process of installing the network adapter software package, with the included software CD. The package integrates driver and configuration software. Thus, when you are installing the driver, the configuration software will be installed automatically as well. The software installation steps and operating guide in this user guide are explained under Windows XP, Installation steps for other operating systems are similar.
  • Page 9 2.2. When The “Found New Hardware Wizard” system dialogue pops up, we recommend that you select “Cancel” and use the included Setup Wizard software CD for fast installation. 2.3 Insert the included CD into the CD drive of your computer to auto-run the program.
  • Page 10 2.4 Select “I accept the terms of the license agreement” and click “Next”. 2.5 Two set up types are provided: one is “Install driver and LevelOne WLAN Config Tool” ,the other is “Install driver only”. We recommend you to use the...
  • Page 11 2.6. Click “Install” to install the driver and configuration software. 2.7 Click “Finish” to complete the installation.

  • Page 12: Chapter 3 How To Use The Windows Built-In Wireless Configuration

    Chapter 3 How to use the Windows Built-in Wireless Configuration This chapter explains to users who don’t install LevelOne configuration program how to use Windows Built-in Wireless Configuration to connect to the wireless network . Use of the Windows Built-in Wireless Configuration requires enabling Windows Wireless Configuration service(the default is enabled).
  • Page 13 2. Open the network connection.Right click “Wireless Network Connection” and select “View Available Wireless Networks” as shown below. 3. On the right of the screen displayed are the currently scanned wireless networks. If the one you want to connect has not been scanned, click “Refresh Network List”...
  • Page 14 4.When it shows “Connected” as the picture below, then you can enjoy wireless access to Internet now. 5. You can modify wireless network key from “Change advanced settings”. -11-...
  • Page 15 6. Select “Wireless Networks”and choose the one you want to modify, and then click “Properties”. 7. Modify the key in the appearing dialogue box. -12-...

  • Page 16: Wireless Network Connection Under Vista

    3.2 Wireless Network Connection under VISTA 1. Click the Wireless Connection icon in the lower right corner of your desktop and select “Connect to a network” as shown below. 2 Select the wireless network you wish to connect and click “Connect” or double click the wireless network to connect.
  • Page 17 3. If the wireless network that you are connecting has enabled security mode, you’ll be prompted to enter the network key .Click “Connect” after you enter the correct key. The following screen will appear after successfully connected to the wireless network. -14-...
  • Page 18 If you want to change the wireless network key, just right click the wireless network’s SSID and then select “Properties”. You can modify the key from the appearing dialogue box. -15-...

  • Page 19: Wireless Network Connection Under Windows 7

    3.3 Wireless Network Connection under Windows 7 Click the wireless connection in the lower right corner of the computer’s desktop to view the available wireless networks. Select the wireless network you wish to connect and click “Connect” or double click the wireless network to connect.
  • Page 20 3. It shows “Connected” after successfully connected. You can disconnect it, view its status or modify the wireless network properties by right click the wireless network -17-...

  • Page 21: Chapter 4 Client Wireless Utility

    When you are installing the driver, select “Install driver and WLAN Config Tool” and the adapter driver and client utility will be installed. All functions of this adapter can be configured via LevelOne’s utility interface (in the following text it is abbreviated as UI).

  • Page 22: Site Survey

    Main interface for station mode The function buttons on the top (From L to R )are respectively Site Survey, Link Information, Profile, Advanced, About, and MiniSize. While the left column displays Turn On/Off RF, Security /No security, and Signal status. 4.1.1 Site Survey The “Site Survey”...
  • Page 23 Before you connect to a wireless network, please click the “Rescan” button to update the wireless network list and select the one you wish to connect, then click the “Connect” icon. For the networks that are not encrypted, you can directly click “Connect”. However, for the encrypted wireless networks,a “Profile”...
  • Page 24 The detailed explanations about the authentication and encryption are as follows: WEP Supports 10/26-bit Hex characters and 5/13-bit ASCII. WPA-PSK Supports 8-63-bit ASCII and 8-64-bit Hex characters. WPA2-PSK：Supports 8-63-bit ASCII and 8-64-bit Hex characters. WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK： ： ： ： Supports 8-63-bit ASCII and 8-64 -bit hex characters. NOTE: The Hex characters consist of numbers 0~9 and letters a-f.

  • Page 25: Link Information

    4.1.2 Link Information After successfully connected to one wireless network, you can view its detailed information by clicking the “Link Information” on the main interface. “Link Status” screen displays the detailed information of the connected AP including its SSID,MAC address, authentication type, encryption type, network type and channel.
  • Page 26 2. “Throughput” screen displays the signal strength of each of the wireless adapter’s antennas and the link quality. 3.”Statistics” screen is used to count the total Rx and Tx data packets, including transmitted,retransmitted and fail to receive ACK after all retries.You can click the “Reset Counter”...

  • Page 27: Profile

    4.1.3 Profile Except the above common connection type, you can also connect to the wireless network by adding a profile on the “Profile“screen.The Profile screen is used to save the wireless network parameters. When the adapter is successfully connected to a network, the profile name of this network will automatically be added here, which helps the adapter to quickly connect to the wireless network next time.
  • Page 28 There are two network types for your option when clicking the “Add” button to add wireless adapter connection: Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc. Infrastructure is an application mode that integrates the wired and wireless LAN architectures. It is different from Ad-Hoc in that in this mode the computer installed with the wireless network adapter has to fulfill the wireless communication via AP or wireless router.
  • Page 29 1. Infrastructure Profile Management When you are connecting the wireless adapter to an AP or a wireless router, please select the Infrastructure mode. Click the “Add”button and select the network type as” Infrastructure”,and enter the profile name and SSID or you can find the SSID you wish to connect from the drop-down list.
  • Page 30 After a profile is successfully added, the profile name can be seen on the profile list,you can edit , import or export the profile,click “Active” to finish the connection,now you can also view the detailed connection status on the “Link Information”screen. -27-...
  • Page 31 NOTE: If the SSID broadcast function of the wireless router or AP you wish to connect is disabled, then the wireless adapter can not scan the SSID, thus you need to connect by creating the corresponding profile. 2.Ad-Hoc Profile management Using the Ad-hoc mode to establish a wireless network requires that each computer should be equipped with a wireless network adapter.
  • Page 32 b.Right click “Wireless Network Connection”, and select “Properties” c.Select “Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)”and click “Properties”. -29-...
  • Page 33 d. Please enter the IP address and subnet mask, and make sure this IP address is not used by other devices in the network.For example: if your wireless adapter’s IP address is 192.168.0.1 ， then set other wireless adapters’ IP addresses within the range of 192.168.0.2—192.168.0.254.Click “Ok”...
  • Page 34 Click the “Next” button to select the authentication type and encryption type and then input the correct key and click “Next”. After a profile is successfully added,the profile can be seen on the profile list ,select it and click the “Active” icon on the lower right corner. -31-...
  • Page 35 And then search for the wireless network on other clients. Double click the wireless network you have configured and you’ll be prompted for the key .After entering the key, click “Connect”. When the highlighted part shows “Connected“ ,it indicates the connection is successful.

  • Page 36: Advanced

    4.1.4 Advanced This section is used to set the channel range. Please follow the laws and regulations in your country to setup the wireless channel range. -33-...

  • Page 37: About

    4.1.5 About This screen mainly displays the version information of the UI’s different programs as well as Level one’s copyright statement. 4.2 AP mode When you want to use the wireless adapter’s AP function, please right click the UI icon on the taskbar of your computer desktop and select “Switch to AP Mode”.
  • Page 38 Internet by using a wired network adapter, meanwhile, you install a LevelOne wireless adapter (take a PCI wireless adapter as an example) and its UI on this computer, and set the adapter to AP mode. By using the wireless adapters to scan the AP’S SSID to connect, the...

  • Page 39: Config Ap

    When it is switched to AP mode, the wireless adapter will automatically set its IP address as 192.168.123.1, and other clients that connected to this AP will automatically obtain the IP addresses of: 192.168.123.X (X is any integer from 2 to 254).The function buttons on the top (From L to R )are respectively Config AP, Advanced, Access Control List, Associate List, About, and MiniSize, while the left column displays Turn On/Off RF, Security /No security, and AP mode icon.

  • Page 40: Advanced

    4.2.2 Advanced This screen is used to set the advanced parameters of the wireless adapter when working in AP mode, such as No forwarding among wireless clients and TX power. -37-...

  • Page 41: Access Control List

    No forwarding among wireless clients: This feature isolates the communications among the wireless clients that are connected to the wireless adapter in AP mode. TX power: To adjust the transmit power for the wireless adapter 4.2.3 Access Control List Access Control is based on the wireless adapter’ MAC addresses to allow or reject a specified client’s access to this wireless network.

  • Page 42: Associate List

    the list from accessing the wireless network, other hosts whose wireless MAC addresses have not been added to the list will be permitted by default. MAC Address： ： ： ： To input the client’s wireless MAC address you want to filter in the physical address field.

  • Page 43: Ap Mode Under Windows 7

    4.2.5 AP Mode under Windows 7 1. Under Windows 7, wireless adapters are allowed to work in both STA and AP modes. Here, the wireless adapter acts not only as a client, but also an AP to send wireless signal, which equals to an amplifier. Right click the UI icon on the lower right corner of the computer desktop and select “Switch to STA+AP Mode”.

  • Page 44: Appendix 1: Acronyms And Terms

    Appendix 1: Acronyms and Terms WLAN Wireless Local Area Network 802.11 A family of specifications developed by the IEEE for WLAN technology. 802.11a An extension to 802.11 WLAN standards that provides up to 54 Mbps transmission in the 5 GHz UNI radio band. 802.11b An extension to 802.11 WLAN standard that provides up to 11 Mbps transmission in the 2.4 GHz ISM radio band.

  • Page 45: Appendix 2: How To Set Wps

    PBC mode in WPS settings screen(For detailed settings,please refer to your router’s user guide). 1.2 Perform PBC connection on the UI of the wireless adapter 1) On the main interface of LevelOne’s UI, click “Profile”—“Add WPS Profile”. -42-...
  • Page 46 2) On the Profile screen, select “Push-Button Configuration”(PBC) and then click the “Next” button, select “Start PBC” two minutes after the router enables the WPS function. The connection is established when the negotiating process finishes. -43-...
  • Page 47 Start PBC: Negotiating process: A profile forms automatically after the connection is successfully established. -44-...
  • Page 48 1.3 Using the wireless adapter’s WPS button to perform PBC connection. If your wireless adapter provides a WPS button,you may use the button to perform PBC connection. a).Run the adapter’s UI and switch to STATION mode b).Two minutes after the router’s WPS-PBC is enabled,press the adapter’s WPS button to connect in PBC mode.
  • Page 49 First enter its WPS configuration screen,enable WPS settings and select PIN for WPS mode and then input 18686791 in the PIN code field,and then click the “Save” button. When the WPS indicator of the Router starts flashing,it indicates that WPS feature is enabled. Click the next button on the Profile screen and click “Start PIN”...
  • Page 50 2.2 Registrar Mode On the “Add WPS Profile” screen, select the SSID of the AP that need to negotiate in WPS mode instead of selecting”Auto”.Then select”PIN” as the WPS method and click the next button to display the folowing screen: Select “Registrar”...
  • Page 51 Now you can view the SSID ,authenticaiton type,and encrytion type that need to be negotiated by the WPS in registrar mode.These values can be modified but we recommend using the default.Here we use the defaut setting and then click the next buton. You can view the negotiation key on the screen below ,but you are not recommended to modify it,just click the next buton.
  • Page 52 Then click “Start PIN” on the screen below to perform WPS connection. NOTE: 1.Under the WPS connection mode, when multiple routers simultaneously enable the WPS function, it may cause connection failure. 2.If the router connect to the adapter using the WPS, only one client can be connected at one time, and so if the router need to connect to multiple clients through WPS, you should repeat the WPS operation.

  • Page 53: Appendix 3: Faq

    Appendix 3: FAQ Q1: Microsoft ICS service is pending. A1: If ICS service cannot be enabled after a long time, please re-switch from Station Mode to AP Mode ,if not successful , please restart the computer. Q2: ICS is already bound by another network device. A2: Microsoft ICS service can only combine one group of WAN and LAN.
  • Page 54 2. This dialogue box appears because virtual wi-fi miniport adapter can only be used by one wireless network adapter at a time. Please disable any other non-LevelOne wireless network adapters and re-switch to AP mode. Q4: Under Windows 7,when I switch from station mode to AP mode ,the screen flashes“Disabling ICS，...
  • Page 55 Q10: Now that the LevelOne WNC-0601 wireless adapter’s driver can be installed without the Software CD, why it still provide the CD? A10: Some functions are missing for the drive integrated in the WNC-0601 adapter, and also the drive does not support the WPS button and AP mode, however, by installing the drive on the CD, the UI can be installed to fulfill these advanced features.
  • Page 56 Q11: Why I can not normally use the Drive integrated in WNC-0601 under MAC operating system? A11:WNC-0601 can only integrates the drive under Windows system, to use WNC-0601 under MAC system, please insert the WNC-0601 to the computer with MAC OS; the system will identify the adapter as a CD, pop this CD out, and then install the MAC drive included in the CD.

  • Page 57: Appendix 4: Safety

    Appendix 4: Safety 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 58 CE Marking Warning Digital Data Communications, declares that this product (Model-no. WNC-0601) is in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of Directive 1999/5/EC. The CE-Declaration of Conformity can be downloaded at: http://www.levelone.eu/support.php...

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