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  • Page 1 802.11 b/g/n Micro Mini Wireless LAN USB2.0 Adapter User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement

    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 Supplement C. This equipment should be installed and operated with minimum distance 2.5cm between the radiator & your body. CE Statement: Hereby, AboCom, declares that this device is in compliance with the essential requirement and other relevant provisions of the R&TTE Driective 1999/5/EC.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ...1 ...1 EATURES Windows 2000/XP Installation ...2 ...2 NSTALL THE OFTWARE ...5 NSTALL THE ARDWARE Windows Vista Installation...6 ...6 NSTALL THE OFTWARE ...8 NSTALL THE ARDWARE ...8 ERIFICATION NETWORK CONNECTION ...9 IP A ...9 DDRESS UTILITY CONFIGURATION FOR WINDOWS 2000/XP...10 ...11 TATION Profile ...11...
  • Page 5 WPS...30 Radio On/Off ...33 About ...34 ...35 TILITY ...36 MODE Config...36 Access Control...39 MAC Table...40 Event Log ...41 Statistics...42 About ...43 UTILITY CONFIGURATION FOR WINDOWS VISTA...44 ...45 TATION Profile ...45 Network ...53 Link Status...57 Advanced...59 Statistics...60 WMM / QoS ...62 WPS...63 Radio On/Off ...66 About ...67...
  • Page 6 ...68 MODE Config...68 Access Control...71 MAC Table...72 Event Log ...73 Statistics...74 About ...75 UNINSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 2000/XP...76 UNINSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS VISTA ...78...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    The WU5205 is an IEEE802.11b/g/n USB adapter that connects your notebook to a wireless local area. The WU5205 fully complies with IEEE 802.11n draft 3.0 and IEEE 802.11 b/g standards, delivers reliable, cost-effective, feature rich wireless connectivity at high throughput from an extended distance.

  • Page 8: Windows 2000/Xp Installation

    Install the Software Caution Do not insert the wireless card into your computer until the InstallShield Wizard finish installing. 1. Exit all Windows programs. Insert the included CD-ROM into your computer. The CD-ROM will run automatically. 2. When the License Agreement screen appears, please read the contents and select “I accept the terms of the license agreement “...
  • Page 9 3. Select the check box to choose a Configuration Tool from the listed two choices. Configuration Tool: Choose to use our configuration utility. Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool: Choose to use Windows XP’s built-in Zero Configuration Utility (ZCU). Click Next to continue. 5.
  • Page 10 6. When the following screen appears, click Finish to complete the software installation.

  • Page 11: Install The Hardware

    Install the Hardware Note: Insert the Wireless USB card when you finished your software installation. Insert the USB Adapter into the USB Port of your computer. The system will automatically detect the new hardware.

  • Page 12: Windows Vista Installation

    Install the Software Do not insert the wireless LAN adapter into your computer until the procedures in “Driver& Utility Installation” have been performed. Insert the included CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive of your computer. When the Main Menu screen appears, click “Driver & Utility Installation”...
  • Page 13 When you are prompted the following message, please click Install to begin the installation. When the following screen appears, click Finish to complete the software installation.

  • Page 14: Install The Hardware

    Install the Hardware Note: Insert the Wireless USB card when you finished your software installation. Insert the USB Adapter into the USB Port of your computer. The system will automatically detect the new hardware. Verification To verify if the device exists in your computer and is enabled, go to Start > Control Panel >...

  • Page 15: Network Connection

    IP Address Note: When assigning IP Addresses to the computers on the network, remember to have the IP address for each computer set on the same subnet mask. If your Broadband Router use DHCP technology, however, it won’t be necessary for you to assign Static IP Address for your computer.

  • Page 16: Utility Configuration For Windows 2000/Xp

    UTILITY CONFIGURATION FOR WINDOWS 2000/XP After the Wireless adapter has been successfully installed, users can use the included Configuration Utility to set their preference. Go to Start (All) Program Intelligent Wireless Intelligent Wireless Utility. You can also open the Configuration Utility by double clicking the icon or right clicking to select Launch Config Utility.

  • Page 17: Station Mode

    Station Mode Notice: Under screen resolution 800 x 600 pixels, click the triangle button at the right down corner of the utility to expand the information of the station, the information will not be displayed completely. Profile Profile can book keeping your favorite wireless setting among your home, office, and other public hot-spot.
  • Page 18 Network Type Shows the network type of the device, including Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc. Authentication Shows the authentication mode. Encryption Shows the encryption type. Use 802.1x Whether or not use 802.1x feature. Tx Power Transmit power, the amount of power used by a radio transceiver to send the signal out.
  • Page 19 SSID: The SSID is the unique name shared among all points in your wireless network. The name must be identical for all devices and points attempting to connect to the same network. User can use pull-down menu to select from available APs. Power Save Mode: •...
  • Page 20 Preamble type into Auto or Long. RTS Threshold: User can adjust the RTS threshold number by sliding the bar or key in the value directly. The default value is 2347. RTS/CTS Threshold is a mechanism implemented to prevent the “Hidden Node” problem. If the “Hidden Node”...
  • Page 21 need to be set to the same authentication type. • Shared: Shared key is when both the sender and the recipient share a secret key. • LEAP: Light Extensible Authentication Protocol. It is an EAP authentication type used primarily in Cisco Aironet WLANs.
  • Page 22 802.1x Setting: When user use radius server to authenticate client certificate for WPA authentication mode (WPA authentication do not support EAP Method- MD5-Challenge). 802.1x tab: EAP Method: • PEAP: Protect Extensible Authentication Protocol. PEAP transport securely authentication data by using tunnelling between PEAP clients and an authentication server.
  • Page 23 authentication and can be used to dynamically generate user-based and session-based WEP keys to secure subsequent communications between the WLAN client and the access point. • TTLS: Tunnelled Transport Layer Security. This security method provides for certificate-based, mutual authentication of the client and network through an encrypted channel.
  • Page 24 • Tunnel Password: Password for tunnel. Session Resumption: Reconnect the signal while broken up, to reduce the packet and improve the transmitting speed. User can click the box to enable or disable this function. ID\PASSWORD tab: ID/ PASSWORD: Identity and password for server. •...
  • Page 25 authentication. OK: Click to save settings and exit this page. Cancel: Click to call off the settings and exit. Server Certification tab: Use certificate chain: Choose use server that issuer of certificates. Allow intimidate certificates: It must be in the server certificate chain between the server certificate and the server specified in the certificate issuer must be field.

  • Page 26: Network

    The Network page displays the information of surrounding APs from last scan result. The tab lists the information including SSID, Network type, Channel, Wireless mode, Security-Enabled and Signal. Network Tab Sorted by Indicate that AP list are sorted by SSID, Channel or Signal. Show dBm Check the box to show the dBm of the AP list.
  • Page 27 Connect Select an item on the list and then click to make a connection. AP Information When you double click on the intended AP, you can see AP's detail information that divides into four parts. They are General, WPS, CCX and 802.11n information.
  • Page 28 Authentication Type: There are four types of authentication modes supported by RaConfig. They are Open, Shared, WPA-PSK and WPA system. Encryption Type: For Open and Shared authentication mode, the selection of encryption type are None and WEP. For WPA, WPA2, WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK authentication mode, the encryption type supports both TKIP and AES.

  • Page 29: Link Status

    CCX information contains CCKM, Cmic and Ckip information. Close: Click this button to exit the information screen. 802.11n This tab will show up if you select the AP that support 11n mode. Here shows the connected AP 802.11n related information. Link Status Click the triangle button at the right down corner of the windows to expand the link status.
  • Page 30 Link Status Tab Shows the current connected AP SSID and MAC Status address. If there is no connection existing, it will show Disconnected. Extra Info Shows the link status and Tx power percentage. Channel Shows the current channel in use. Authentication mode used within the network, Authentication including Unknown, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, WPA...

  • Page 31: Advanced

    Network Type Network type in use, Infrastructure for BSS, Ad-Hoc for IBSS network. IP Address Shows the IP address information. Shows the Subnet Mask information. Sub Mask Default Gateway Shows the default gateway information. Link Quality Shows the connection quality based on signal strength and TX/RX packet error rate.
  • Page 32 Advanced Tab Here supports 2.4G (included 802.11b/g/n) wireless mode. 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

    Apply Click to apply above settings. Statistics The Statistics screen displays the statistics on your current network settings. Transmit Frames Transmitted Successfully Shows information of frames successfully sent. Shows information of frames successfully Frames Retransmitted sent with one or more reties. Successfully Frames Fail To Receive ACK Shows information of frames failed...

  • Page 34: Wmm / Qos

    Receive Statistics Frames Received Successfully Shows information of frames Received Successfully. Frames Received With CRC Shows information of frames received with Error CRC error. Shows information of frames dropped due Frames Dropped Due To to resource issue. Out-of-Resource Duplicate Frames Received Shows information of frames received more than twice.
  • Page 35 WMM Enable Check the box to enable Wi-Fi Multi-Media function that is meant to improve audio, video and voice applications transmitted over Wi-Fi. WMM- Power Save Enable Select which ACs you want to enable the power saving mode. AC_BK (Access Category Background) AC_BE (Access Category Best Effort) AC_VI (Access Category Video) AC_VO (Access Category Voice)

  • Page 36: Wps

    Apply Click this button to apply the settings. Tear Down Select a direct link STA, then click "Tear Down" button to disconnect the STA. The primary goal of Wi-Fi Protected Setup (Wi-Fi Simple Configuration) is to simplify the security setup and management of Wi-Fi networks. The STA as an Enrollee or external Registrar supports the configuration setup using PIN (Personal Identification Number) configuration method or PBC (Push Button Configuration) method through an internal or external Registrar.
  • Page 37 network. List information included Authentication Type, Encryption Type, Config Methods, Device Password ID, Selected Registrar, State, Version, AP Setup Locked, UUID-E and RF Bands. PIN Code 8-digit numbers. It is required to enter PIN Code into Registrar when using PIN method. When STA is Enrollee, you can use "Renew"...
  • Page 38 BSSID: The MAC address of the connected AP. Fixed and cannot be changed. Authentication Type: The authentication type support Open, WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK. Encryption Type: For Open authentication mode, the selection of encryption type are NONE and WEP. For WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK authentication mode, the encryption type supports both TKIP and AES.

  • Page 39: Radio On/Off

    Delete an existing credential. And then select the next Delete credential if exist. If there is an empty credential, the driver will select any non-security AP. Start to add to Registrar using PIN (Personal Identification Number) configuration method. If STA Registrar, remember that enter PIN Code read from your Enrollee before starting PIN.

  • Page 40: About

    About This page displays the information of the wireless card including, Config Version/ Date, Driver Version/ Date, EEPROM Version, Firmware Version and Phy_Address. 34 -...

  • Page 41: Utility Menu List

    Utility Menu List To access the utility menu list, please right click the utility icon on the task bar. Launch Config Utility: Select to open the utility screen. Use Zero Configuration as Configuration Utility: Select to use the Window XP built-in utility (Zero configuration utility). Switch to AP Mode: Select to make your wireless USB adapter act as a wireless AP.

  • Page 42: Soft Sap Mode

    Soft AP mode Config Config AP name of user type. User also can click Use Mac SSID Address button to display it. Manually force the AP using the channel. The Channel system default is CH 1. Here supports 2.4G (included 802.11b/g/n) wireless Wireless mode mode.
  • Page 43 Authentication Type: There are several types of authentication modes including Open, Shared, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, and WPA-PSK/ WPA2-PSK. Encryption Type: For Open and Shared authentication mode, the selections of encryption type are Not Use and WEP. For WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, and WPA-PSK/ WPA2-PSK authentication mode, the encryption type supports both TKIP and AES.
  • Page 44 WEP Key: Only valid when using WEP encryption algorithm. The key must match with the AP’s key. There are two formats to enter the keys. • Hexadecimal (128bits): 26 Hex characters. • ASCII (128bits): 13 ASCII characters. Show Password: Check this box to show the password you entered.

  • Page 45: Access Control

    Access Control Access Policy User chooses whether AP start the function or not. System default is Disable. Disable: Do not use this access control function. Allow All: Only the MAC address listed in the Access List can connect with this soft AP. Reject All: Only the MAC address listed in the Access List can NOT connect with this soft AP.

  • Page 46: Mac Table

    Add the MAC address that you would like to set. Delete Delete the Mac address that you have set. Remove All Remove all Mac address in the Access List. Apply Apply the above changes. MAC Table MAC Table MAC Address The station MAC address of current connection.

  • Page 47: Event Log

    Event Log Event Time Records the event time. (yy/mm/dd-hh:mm:ss) Message Records all the event messages. 41 -...

  • Page 48: Statistics

    Transmit Statistics Frames Transmitted Frames successfully sent. Successfully Frames Fail To Receive ACK Frames failed transmit after hitting retry limit. After All Retries RTS Frames Successfully Successfully receive CTS after sending RTS frame Receive CTS RTS Frames Fail To Receive Failed to receive CTS after sending RTS.

  • Page 49: About

    Receive Statistics Frames Received Successfully Frames Received Successfully Frames Received With CRC Frames received with CRC error. Error Frames Dropped Due To Frames dropped due to resource issue Out-of-Resource Duplicate Frames Received Duplicate received frames. Reset Counter Reset counters to zero. About This page displays the wireless card and driver version information.

  • Page 50: Utility Configuration For Windows Vista

    UTILITY CONFIGURATION FOR WINDOWS VISTA After the Wireless adapter has been successfully installed, users can use the included Configuration Utility to set their preference. Go to Start (All) Program Intelligent Wireless Intelligent Wireless Utility. You can also open the Configuration Utility by double clicking the icon or right clicking to select Launch Config Utility.

  • Page 51: Station Mode

    Station Mode 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. The Profile manager enables you to Add, Edit, Delete and Activate profiles.
  • Page 52 Authentication Shows the authentication mode. Encryption Shows the encryption type. Whether use 802.1x feature or not. Use 802.1x Transmit power, the amount of power used by a radio Tx Power transceiver to send the signal out. Channel Shows the selected channel that is currently in use. Power Save Choose from CAM (Constantly Awake Mode) or PSM Mode...
  • Page 53 Profile Name: User can enter profile name, or use default name defined by system. The default is PROF# (# 1, #2, #3...). SSID: The SSID is the unique name shared among all points in your wireless network. The name must be identical for all devices and points attempting to connect to the same network.
  • Page 54 Tx Power: Transmit power, the amount of power used by a radio transceiver to send the signal out. Select the Tx power percentage from the pull-down list including Auto, 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, 10% and Lowest. Preamble: This function will show up when Ad-hoc network type be selected.
  • Page 55 Authentication Type: There are six type of authentication modes including Open, Shared, WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2 and WPA2-PSK. • Open: If your access point/ wireless router is using "Open” authentication, then the wireless adapter will need to be set to the same authentication type. •...
  • Page 56 WPA Pre-shared Key: This blank is the shared secret between AP and STA. For WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK authentication mode, this field must be filled with character longer than 8 and less than 64 lengths. WEP Key: Only valid when using WEP encryption algorithm.
  • Page 57 • PEAP: Protect Extensible Authentication Protocol. PEAP transport securely authentication data by using tunnelling between PEAP clients and an authentication server. PEAP can authenticate wireless LAN clients using only server-side certificates, thus simplifying the implementation and administration of a secure wireless LAN.
  • Page 58 ID/ PASSWORD: Identity and password for server. • Authentication ID / Password: Identity, password and domain name for server. Only "EAP-FAST" and "LEAP" authentication can key in domain name. Domain name can be keyed in blank space. • Tunnel ID / Password: Identity and Password for server.

  • Page 59: Network

    Certification function. OK: Click to save settings and exit this page. Cancel: Click to call off the settings and exit. Server Certification tab: Use certificate chain: Choose use server that issuer of certificates. Server name: Enter an authentication sever name. OK: Click to save settings and exit this page.
  • Page 60 Network Tab Indicate that AP list are sorted by SSID, Channel or Signal. Sorted by Check the box to show the dBm of the AP list. Show dBm SSID Shows the name of BSS network. Network type in use, Infrastructure for BSS, Ad-Hoc for Network Type IBSS network.
  • Page 61 General General information contain AP's SSID, MAC address, Authentication Type, Encryption Type, Channel, Network Type, Beacon Interval, Signal Strength and Supported Rates. Close: Click this button to exit the information screen. WPS information contains Authentication Type, Encryption Type, Config Methods, Device Password ID, Selected Registrar, State, Version, AP Setup Locked, UUID-E and RF Bands.
  • Page 62 Device Password ID: Indicate the method or identifies the specific password that the selected Registrar intends to use. 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 values are "Unconfigured"...

  • Page 63: Link Status

    This tab will show up if you select the AP that support 11n mode. Here shows the connected AP 802.11n related information. Link Status Click the triangle button at the right down corner of the windows to expand the link status. The link status page displays the detail information of current connection.
  • Page 64 Link Status Tab Status Shows the current connected AP SSID and MAC address. If there is no connection existing, it will show Disconnected. Extra Info Shows the link status and Tx power percentage. Channel Shows the current channel in use. Authentication Authentication mode used within the network, including Unknown, Open, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK,...

  • Page 65: Advanced

    Transmit Shows the current Link Speed and Throughput of the transmit rate. Receive Shows the current Link Speed and Throughput of receive rate. Link Speed Shows the current transmitting rate and receiving rate. Throughput Shows the transmitting and receiving speed of data. Advanced This Advanced page provides advanced and detailed settings for your wireless network.

  • Page 66: Statistics

    time, it only takes effect when connecting with the AP that supports this function. Enable TCP Check to increase the transmission quality. The large TCP Window Size window size the better performance. Fast Roaming at Check to set the roaming interval, fast to roaming, setup by transmits power.
  • Page 67 transmit after hitting retry limit. RTS Frames Successfully Receive Shows information of successfully receive CTS after sending RTS frame RTS Frames Fail To Receive Shows information of failed to receive CTS after sending RTS. Reset Counter Click this button to reset counters to zero. Receive Statistics Tab Frames Received Successfully Shows information of frames Received...

  • Page 68: Wmm / Qos

    The WMM page shows the Wi-Fi Multi-Media power save function and Direct Link Setup that ensure your wireless network quality. WMM/QoS Tab WMM Enable Check the box to enable Wi-Fi Multi-Media function that is meant to improve audio, video and voice applications transmitted over Wi-Fi. WMM- Power Save Enable Select which ACs you want to enable the power saving mode.

  • Page 69: Wps

    • DLS enabled. Timeout Value Timeout Value represents that it disconnect automatically after few seconds. The value is integer that must be between 0~65535. It represents that it always connects if the value is zero. Default value of Timeout Value is 60 seconds.
  • Page 70 BSSID, Channel, ID (Device Password ID), Security-Enabled. Rescan Issue a rescan command to wireless NIC to update information on surrounding wireless network. Information Display the information about WPS IE on the selected network. List information included Authentication Type, Encryption Type, Config Methods, Device Password ID, Selected Registrar, State, Version, AP Setup Locked, UUID-E and RF Bands.
  • Page 71 If you select the AP that listed in the WPS Profile List field, you can click the Detail button to see more AP information. SSID: Shows the connected AP network name. BSSID: The MAC address of the connected AP. Fixed and cannot be changed.

  • Page 72: Radio On/Off

    then select the last profile at the Profile Page. If there is an empty profile page, the driver will select any non-security AP. Export Profile Export all credentials to Profile. Delete Delete an existing credential. And then select the next credential if exist.

  • Page 73: About

    This page displays the information of the wireless card including, RaConfig Version/ Date, Driver Version/ Date, EEPROM Version and Phy_Address. Utility Menu List To access Windows Vista utility menu list, please right click the utility icon on the task bar. Launch Config Utility: Select to open the utility screen.

  • Page 74: Soft Ap Mode

    Soft AP mode Config Config AP name of user type. User also can click Use Mac SSID Address button to display it. Manually force the AP using the channel. The system Channel default is CH 1. Here supports 2.4G (included 802.11b/g/n) wireless Wireless mode mode.
  • Page 75 Authentication Type: There are several types of authentication modes including Open, Shared, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK. Encryption Type: For Open and Shared authentication mode, the selections of encryption type are Not Use and WEP. For WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, and WPA-PSK/ WPA2-PSK authentication mode, the encryption type supports both TKIP and AES.
  • Page 76 WEP Key: Only valid when using WEP encryption algorithm. The key must match with the AP’s key. There are several formats to enter the keys. • Hexadecimal (64bits): 10 Hex characters. • Hexadecimal (128bits): 26 Hex characters. • ASCII (64bits): 5 ASCII characters. •...

  • Page 77: Access Control

    Access Control Access Policy User chooses whether AP start the function or not. System default is Disable. Disable: Do not use this access control function. Allow All: Only the MAC address listed in the Access List can connect with this soft AP. Reject All: Only the MAC address listed in the Access List can NOT connect with this soft AP.

  • Page 78: Mac Table

    Add the MAC address that you would like to set. Delete Delete the MAC address that you have set. Remove All Remove all MAC address in the Access List. Apply Apply the above changes. MAC Table MAC Table MAC Address The station MAC address of current connection.

  • Page 79: Event Log

    Event Log Records the event time. Event Time (yy/mm/dd-hh:mm:ss) Message Records all the event messages. 73 -...

  • Page 80: Statistics

    Transmit Statistics Frames Transmitted Frames successfully sent. Successfully Frames Fail To Receive ACK Frames failed transmit after hitting retry After All Retries limit. RTS Frames Successfully Successfully receive CTS after sending RTS Receive CTS frame RTS Frames Fail To Receive Failed to receive CTS after sending RTS.

  • Page 81: About

    Receive Statistics Frames Received Successfully Frames Received Successfully Frames Received With CRC Frames received with CRC error. Error Frames Dropped Due To Frames dropped due to resource issue Out-of-Resource Duplicate Frames Received Duplicate received frames. Reset Counter Reset counters to zero. About This page displays the wireless card and driver version information.

  • Page 82: Uninstallation For Windows 2000/Xp

    2000/XP In case you need to uninstall the Utility and driver, please refer to below steps. (As you uninstall the utility, the driver will be uninstalled as well.) Go to Start All Programs Uninstall –Intelligent. Intelligent Wireless 76 -...
  • Page 83 Click Yes to complete remove the selected application and all of its features. Then click Finish to complete the uninstallation. 77 -...

  • Page 84: Uninstallation For Windows Vista

    UNINSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS VISTA In case you need to uninstall the utility and driver, please refer to below steps. (As you uninstall the utility, the driver will be uninstalled as well.) 1. Go to Start Programs Intelligent Wireless Uninstall –Intelligent. 78 -...
  • Page 85 2. Click Yes to complete remove the selected application and all of its features. 3. Then click Finish to complete the uninstallation. 79 -...

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