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LevelOne WPC-0300 User Manual

LevelOne WPC-0300 User Manual

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  • Page 1 LevelOne WPC-0300 11g Wireless PCMCIA Adapter User Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents OVERVIEW ......................3 1.1 P RODUCT EATURE ................3 1.2 S YSTEM EQUIREMENT ..............3 GETTING START WITH WPC-0300 ..............4 2.1 LED I NDICATORS ..................4 2.2 I WNC-0300 W PC C NSTALL IRELESS ETWORK ..4 2.2.1 Utility Installation..................4 2.2.2 Driver Installation ..................7 3.

  • Page 3: Overview

    Overview 1.1 Product Feature ● Compliance with IEEE 802.11g and 802.11b standards ● Highly efficient design mechanism to provide unbeatable performance ● Achieving data rate up to 54Mbps for 802.11g and 11Mps for 802.11b with wide range coverage; high performance to deliver up to 108Mbps raw data rate for 802.11g ●...

  • Page 4: Getting Start With Wpc-0300

    2. Getting Start with WPC-0300 2.1 LED Indicators The Power LED will be ON when the unit is powered up. The Link LED will be Blinking indicates a WLAN connection. 2.2 Install the WNC-0300 Wireless Network PC Card 2.2.1 Utility Installation Before insert PC card into the PC cardbus of computer, please install the Utility Program first.
  • Page 5 InstallShield Wizard will automatically start. Please click “Next” to continue. If user wants to change the installation folder, press “Brower” to change the directory or press “Next” to continue.
  • Page 6 Users can also rename the installation folder, type the name in the column, or press “Next” to continue.

  • Page 7: Driver Installation

    Click “Finish” to finish the installation. Restart computer to make the settings effective. 2.2.2 Driver Installation 1. Insert the PC card into cardbus, and after restarting the computer, there will be a window popup as the following picture. Please click “Next” for the following steps.
  • Page 8 2. Click “Continue Anyway” to keep installation going. 3. Click “Finish” to finish the driver installation.
  • Page 9 4. To make sure if the installation is successful, user could check it through the device management as below. 5. Once the installation is successful, a utility program icon will show on the desktop. To lunch the utility, just double click the icon.

  • Page 10: Configuration

    3. Configuration 3.1 Link Information The default page is as below after launching the Utility program. Status: Shows the BSSID associated, which can be used to identify the wireless network. SSID: Shows current SSID, which must be the same for the wireless client and AP in order for communication to be established.

  • Page 11: Configuration

    3.2 Configuration This is the page where changes the basic settings of the WPC-0300 with the minimum amount of effort to implement a secure wireless network environment. SSID: Service Set Identifier, which is a unique name shared among all clients and nodes in a wireless network.
  • Page 12 full power and it consumes the most power. ●Maximum Power Save – the PC card consumes the least power and only operates when there is wireless network activity. ●Power Save – the PC card consumes the moderate level of power. Preamble: Select Long or Short Preamble type.

  • Page 13: Advanced

    3.3 Advanced This is the page to configure Security settings of 108Mbps wireless LAN PC card. Encryption: 4 options are available: Disable, Enable, WPA and WPA-PSK. Select Enable or Disable for WEP data encryption feature. If one of the two options is selected, it is required to select the Auth.
  • Page 14 If WPA-PSK is selected, click the configuration button. The popping window is as the below. Please enter the key. The key length must be more than 8 characters. Auth. Mode: There are three modes available to choose. Open Authentication – the sender and receiver do not share secret Key for ...

  • Page 15: Site Survey

    3.4 Site Survey This page allows user to enable the Site Survey function to scan for the available wireless network (wireless clients and Access Points) and establish wireless communications with one. Available Network – displays the wireless networks (wireless clients and Access Points) that are in signal range.
  • Page 16 Add: To add a profile. Then, the following screen would appear. User can enter the necessary information required for accessing Access Points or Wireless Router.

  • Page 17: About Us

    3.5 About US This page displays some information about the 108Mpbs wireless LAN PC card utility, which includes the version numbers for Driver, Firmware and Utility. When there is new version of software available for upgrade, users will be able to identify by version numbers.

  • Page 18: Glossary

    4. Glossary Access Point: An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and wireless networks. Ad-Hoc: An independent wireless LAN network formed by a group of computers, each with a network adapter. AP Client: One of the additional AP operating modes offered by 54Mbps Access Point, which allows the Access Point to act as an Ethernet-to-Wireless Bridge, thus a LAN or a single computer station can join a wireless ESS network through ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII, is one of...
  • Page 19 BSS: BSS stands for “Basic Service Set”. It is an Access Point and all the LAN PCs that associated with it. Channel: The bandwidth which wireless Radio operates is divided into several segments, which we call them “Channels”. AP and the client stations that it associated work in one of the channels.
  • Page 20 to become Extended Service Set. LAN mobile users can roam between different BSSs in an ESS. ESSID: The unique identifier that identifies the ESS. In infrastructure association, the stations use the same ESSID as AP’s to get connected. Ethernet: A popular local area data communications network, originally developed by Xerox Corp., that accepts transmission from computers and terminals.
  • Page 21 Multiple Bridge – One of the additional AP operating modes offered by 54Mbps Access Point, which allows a group of APs that consists of two or more APs to connect two or more Ethernet networks or Ethernet enabled clients together. The way that multiple bridge setups is based on the topology of Ad-Hoc mode.
  • Page 22 users set up with direct access to the Internet, computer is provided with a copy of the TCP/IP program just as every other computer that user may send messages to or get information from also has a copy of TCP/IP. Throughput: The amount of data transferred successfully from one point to another in a given period of time.
  • Page 23 (05) Regulatory Section of User Manual The following wording will appear in the user manual provided with all products placed on the market in the European Community: Declaration of Conformity Marking by the above symbol indicates compliance with the Essential Requirements of the R&TTE Directive of the European Union (1999/5/EC).
  • Page 24 This device may be operated indoors or outdoors in all countries of the European Community using the 2.4GHz band: Channels 1 – 13, except where noted below: België/ For private usage outside buildings across public grounds over less than 300m no Belgique: special registration with IBPT/BIPT is required.

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