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Page 1: User Manual
Wireless LAN PC Card AWL-100 User Manual Version 1.1 June 2002 BENQ Corporation... - Page 2 BenQ Corporation. BenQ Corporation reserves the right to change this manual and the specifications to improve products without prior notice. So you can get the most recent software and user documentation for all BenQ Wireless LAN products on our web site.
- Page 3 Note: The AWL-100 has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device and a low power transmitter, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a residential environment.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
2.1 Driver Installation ... 3 Chapter 3. AWL100 Wireless Settings ... 6 3.1 Status ... 8 3.2 Configuration... 10 3.3 Encryption ... 12 3.4 Site Survey ... 13 3.5 About ... 14 Chapter 4. Trouble Shooting... 15 Table of Contents BENQ Corporation... -
Page 5: Wireless Lan Pc Card
Chapter 1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing a BENQ AWL100 Wireless LAN PC Card. The AWL100 Wireless LAN PC Card lets you connect to your network and the Internet without needing to be tethered to a fixed location by a physical cable, while still getting the same data transfer rates as with traditional Ethernet. -
Page 6: Product Kit
Mechanical Description Top panel of the PCMCIA The following table provides an overview of each LED activity: Blink Twice LED Definition Blinking Solid Green Activity When insert to notebook Re-scan with other stations or AP Link and activity Description BENQ Corporation... -
Page 7: Chapter 2. Installation
Chapter 2. Installation 2.1 Driver Installation Insert AWL100 PCMCIA Adapter into your PC, and then Windows will show the dialog – Add New Hardware Wizard. Select Search for the best driver for your device. (Recommended). and press Next button. BENQ Corporation... - Page 8 Select Specify a location and browse the BenQ Wireless LAN CD to find AWL100. For example, if your CD-ROM has a drive D and you want to install the English version of driver, the location is D:\AWL100\English. Windows has found AWL100 PCMCIA Adapter. Press Next button.
- Page 9 Please wait while coping files. Press Finish. Press Yes and restart your computer. BENQ Corporation...
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Page 10: Chapter 3. Awl100 Wireless Settings
Chapter 3. AWL100 Wireless Settings You can launch AWL100 Wireless Settings utility by clicking the icon or from Control Panel. BENQ Corporation... - Page 11 BENQ Corporation...
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Page 12: Status
The driver will restart and beginning its Connection Procedure if the Rescan button is pressed. In general, the connection procedure will be different according to the Mode of the driver. Enable / Disable Radio This button is used to enable or disable the radio of AWL100. BENQ Corporation... - Page 13 Infrastructure Mode. This bar graph shows normalized signal strength as reported by the radio, averaged over all frames over 100 bytes long, which are received from the Access Point. Status information about the radio link is displayed in this tab. Detailed description should be placed in this field. BENQ Corporation...
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Page 14: Configuration
Press this button to apply the changed values to the driver and saves them to the registry for the next time when the PC boots up. Profile Name These settings will be stored by the given name. NOTE BENQ Corporation... - Page 15 Point, which relays packets to other wireless Clients in the BSS as well as to nodes on a wired network such as Ethernet. Peer-to-Peer (Ad Hoc) This is a non-compliant mode, which will allow AWL100 cards to talk to one another without an AP. BENQ Corporation...
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Page 16: Encryption
You may also update the driver with the four keys displayed in Key field by pressing this button. The keys are also written to the registry for permanent storage. This button clears all the bytes in the four keys. It’s very useful when you wish to start over or enter manually. BENQ Corporation... -
Page 17: Site Survey
This button will scan all available Access Points in your neighborhood and then list their SSID, channel, BSSID, signal, WEP state and network type, respectively. Join Select the SSID you want to be associated with, and then press this Join button to join this network. BENQ Corporation... -
Page 18: About
You may learn the product version including the detail of Network Driver, Configuration Utility, and NIC firmware version from this “About” tab. When users wish to report their problems to our technical support, they must have this version number. BENQ Corporation... -
Page 19: Chapter 4. Trouble Shooting
ReScan or Disable Radio button under Peer-to-Peer (Ad-hoc) mode? Answer 1 Please remove the BenQ AWL100 PC Card from the PCMCIA slot and re-insert the device again, and then it will connect the user back on line. Question 2 What if the user’s PC is unable to connect to the other PC right after switching the...
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