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Summary of Contents for BenQ AWL-200
- Page 1 Wireless LAN Mini PCI AWL-200 User Manual Version 1.1 Oct. 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 This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. BENQ Corporation...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction ................1 Chapter 2. Installation ................2 Chapter 3. AWL200 Wireless Settings............ 3 3.1 Status ..........................5 3.2 Configuration ......................7 3.3 Encryption ........................9 3.4 Site Survey .......................10 3.5 About ..........................11 Chapter 4. Trouble Shooting ..............12 BENQ Corporation... -
Page 5: Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing a BENQ AWL200 Wireless LAN PC Card. The AWL200 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: Chapter 2. Installation
2. Select Search for the best driver for your device. (Recommended). and press Next button. 3. Select Specify a location and browse the BenQ Wireless LAN CD to find AWL200. For example, if your CD-ROM has a drive D and you want to install the English version of driver, the location is D:\AWL200\English. -
Page 7: Chapter 3. Awl200 Wireless Settings
Chapter 3. AWL200 Wireless Settings You can launch AWL200 Wireless Settings utility by clicking the icon or from Control Panel. BENQ Corporation... - Page 8 BENQ Corporation...
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Page 9: Status
Rescan 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. BENQ Corporation... - Page 10 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 BENQ Corporation...
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Page 11: Configuration
Only when one of the fields has been modified does this button become active. 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. BENQ Corporation... - Page 12 Access 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 AWL200 cards to talk to one another without an AP. BENQ Corporation...
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Page 13: 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 14: 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 15: 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 16: Chapter 4. Trouble Shooting
If both SSID and IP address are checked and the same, but the PC is still in disconnection mode, then please remove the BenQ AWL200 from the MINI-PCI slot and re-insert the device again to connect back online.
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