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TRENDnet TEW-PC16 User Manual

TRENDnet TEW-PC16 User Manual

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TEW-PC16
11Mbps Wireless
PCMCIA Network Card
User's Guide
Rev 1.1

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  • Page 1 TEW-PC16 11Mbps Wireless PCMCIA Network Card User’s Guide Rev 1.1...
  • Page 3 Regulatory Compliance 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 interfer- ence in a residential installation.

  • Page 4: About This Guide

    Wireless LAN card user’s guide CE Mark Warning This is a Class B product. In a domestic environment, this product may cause radio interference, in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures. About this Guide This User’s Gu ide describes how to install and operate your Wireless LAN card.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Preface Table of contents CHAPTER 1........................1 Introduction Features......................1 What is Wireless LAN?.................. 2 LAN Modes...................... 3 Notes on wireless LAN configuration............4 CHAPTER 2........................5 Hardware installation What’s in the package .................. 5 Hardware description................... 5 Inserting the Wireless LAN card ..............6 Status LEDs.....................

  • Page 7: Chapter 1

    Chapter 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing the Wireless LAN card. This high-speed Wireless LAN card provides you with an innovative wireless net- working solution. The Card is easy to set up and use. With this innovative wireless technology, you can share files and printers on the network—without inconvenient wires! Now you can carry the LAN in your pocket! Features...

  • Page 8: What Is Wireless Lan

    Wireless LAN card user’s guide What is Wireless LAN? Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) systems offer a great number of advantages over traditional wired systems. WLANs are flexible and easy to setup and manage. They are also more eco- nomical than wired LAN systems. Using radio frequency (RF) technology, WLANs transmit and re- ceive data through the air.

  • Page 9: Lan Modes

    —Introduction LAN Modes Wireless LANs can be configured in one of two ways: Ad-hoc Also known as a peer-to-peer network, an ad-hoc Networking network is one that allows all workstations and com- puters in the network to act as servers to all other users on the network.

  • Page 10: Notes On Wireless Lan Configuration

    Wireless LAN card user’s guide and their wired counterparts. Notes on wireless LAN configuration When configuring a wireless LAN (WLAN), be sure to note the following points: Optimize the performance of the WLAN by ensuring that the distance to Access Points is within the transmission range.

  • Page 11: Chapter 2

    Chapter 2 Hardware Installation This chapter covers inserting your Wireless LAN card in the PCMCIA slot on Notebook and connecting the card to a network. What’s in the package Please ensure that the following items are included in your package. If any items are missing, contact your dealer.

  • Page 12: Inserting The Wireless Lan Card

    Wireless LAN card user’s guide Inserting the Wireless LAN card Note! These instructions apply to most notebook computers. For detailed information on inserting PC cards into your notebook, consult the notebook manual. Follow the procedure below to install the Wireless LAN card. 1.

  • Page 13: Status Leds

    —Hardware Installation Status LEDs The following table describes the meaning of the LEDs: Power LED Link LED MEANING Indicates that the Card is powered on. LINK Indicates link status. When blinking, indicates that the card is scanning the channels, and the link is not active. When lit (solid red), indicates that the card is locked to a channel, and the link is active.
  • Page 14 Wireless LAN card user’s guide Refer to your Windows 2000/ME/98/95 online help for information on stopping the Wireless LAN card. Most notebooks have ejecting levers or buttons for ejecting PC cards from the PCMCIA slots. Consult your notebook manual for details.

  • Page 15: Chapter 3

    Chapter 3 Driver installation for Windows and Linux The following sections cover Wireless LAN card driver installation in the Windows 2000/ME/98/95/NT and Linux operating systems. Driver installation for Windows 95 There are two popular versions of Windows 95, one is for retail version (ver 4.00.950), and the o ther is OEM Service Release 2 (ver 4.00.950B).
  • Page 16 Wireless LAN card user’s guide From the General tab, the system information shows you the ver- sion number of your windows. Install Drivers on the Windows 95 OSR2 1. Insert the Wireless LAN card into an available PCMCIA slot in your Notebook (refer to page 6 - Inserting the wire- less LAN card).
  • Page 17 —Driver installation for Windows and Linux 4. Click Other Locations to bring up the following window: 5. Type in H:\PCCard\W95 (please replace H with the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive). Then click OK. The follow- ing screen appears:...
  • Page 18 Wireless LAN card user’s guide 6. Click Finish to continue. Windows may prompt you the fol- lowing window to ask you insert the disc. 7. Click OK to continue.
  • Page 19 —Driver installation for Windows and Linux 8. Again type H:\PCCard\W95 where H is your CD-ROM drive letter and click OK. After copying the driver files. Windows 95 prompts you to restart the system. Click Yes to continue the installation. Note! If you did not install the Windows 95 OSR2 from your hard drive, Windows will prompt you to input the path to the...
  • Page 20 Wireless LAN card user’s guide 3. Click OK. The Windows prompt you to give the path of driver files. 4. Type H:\PCCard\W95 where H is your CD-ROM drive letter. Insert the driver disc into CD-ROM drive. Then click 5. The windows will start copying files from disc and install the drivers.
  • Page 21 —Driver installation for Windows and Linux After you rebooted the computer, system will start to install Wireless utility automatically. Please refer to procedures at Chapter 4.

  • Page 22: Driver Installation For Windows 98

    Wireless LAN card user’s guide Driver installation for Windows 98 Follow the steps below to install the Wireless LAN card drivers for Windows 98. 1. Insert the Wireless LAN card into an available PCMCIA slot on your Notebook (refer to page 6 - Inserting the Wire- less LAN card).
  • Page 23 —Driver installation for Windows and Linux 4. Select Search for the best driver for your device. (Recommended) and click Next. The following screen appears: 5. Ensure that the CD-ROM drive box is checked.
  • Page 24 Wireless LAN card user’s guide 6. Insert the driver CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and click Next. The following screen appears: 7. Click Next. Windows 98 copies files to your hard disk drive, and you see the following screen:...

  • Page 25: Driver Installation For Windows 2000

    —Driver installation for Windows and Linux 8. Click Finish. You should reboot your system to finish the installation. Note! Windows 98 may need to copy required system files and will prompt you to input the path to the files. Follow the instruc- tions on your screen, and then click OK to continue.
  • Page 26 Wireless LAN card user’s guide 3. Click Next to continue the installation. A screen appears prompting you to select an installation method: 4. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (re c- ommended) and click Next. The following screen appears:...
  • Page 27 —Driver installation for Windows and Linux 5. Click on CD-ROM drivers box and insert the driver disc into CD-ROM drive. Click Next to continue. The following screen appears: 6. Click Next to continue. The following screen appears:...
  • Page 28 Wireless LAN card user’s guide 7. Click Yes to continue. The following screen appears: 8. Click Finish to complete the installation. 9. Then system will start to install Wireless utility automati- cally. Please refer to procedures at Chapter 4.
  • Page 29 —Driver installation for Windows and Linux...

  • Page 30: Driver Installation For Windows Nt 4.0

    Wireless LAN card user’s guide Driver installation for Windows NT 4.0 This installation procedure assumes that you have installed the net- work components (i.e. Network Clients and Protocols) in your NT4.0. To check whether the network components have been installed, double click the Network icon in the Control Panel.
  • Page 31 —Driver installation for Windows and Linux 4. Click Add to add a new adapter. The following screen ap- pears: 5. Click Have Disk. The following screen appears:...
  • Page 32 Wireless LAN card user’s guide 6. Type H:\PCCard\WinNT40 where H is your CD-ROM drive letter. Insert the driver disk, and click OK. After finding the installation file, the Select OEM Option window is displayed. 7. Click OK. A screen appears prompting you to input the IRQ, I/O port address, SSID, mode, transfer rate, and channel, as well as any advanced settings:...
  • Page 33 —Driver installation for Windows and Linux Note! You must select resources (I/O and IRQ) that are not being used by another device on the computer. Otherwise, you will have a system conflict error. In case of a system conflict error, try another setting and continue.
  • Page 34 Wireless LAN card user’s guide 9. Click Close to exit the Network window. Windows NT 4.0 will bind the adapter with the network component and you will be prompted to restart the system. 10. Click Yes to finish the installation and restart the computer. 11.

  • Page 35: Driver Installation For Windows Me

    —Driver installation for Windows and Linux Driver Installation for Windows ME Follow the steps below to install the Wireless LAN card drivers for Windows ME. 1. Insert the Wireless LAN card into an available PCMCIA slot on your Notebook (refer to page 6 - Inserting the Wireless LAN card).
  • Page 36 Wireless LAN card user’s guide 5. Click Finish. You should reboot your system to finish the installation. Note! Windows ME may need to copy required system files and will prompt you to input the path to the files. Follow the instruc- tions on your screen, and then click OK to continue.

  • Page 37: Driver Installation For Linux

    —Driver installation for Windows and Linux Driver installation for Linux Follow the steps below to install the Wireless LAN card drivers (wlan-ng v0.1.6) for Linux. Before Installing the Linux Drivers Before you install the Linux wlan-ng v0.1.6 drivers, you need the PCMCIA module source code.

  • Page 38: Installation Procedure

    Wireless LAN card user’s guide Installation Procedure 1. Unpack the tgz file by typing the following line at the shell prompt, (assuming the shell prompt is >). >gzip -cd wlan-ng-0.1.6.tgz | tar xvf - 2. Configure and install wlan v0.1.6. Be sure to configure the build as Station (STA)—do not choose Access Point (AP) because there is no firmware available that supports the AP function.
  • Page 39 —Driver installation for Windows and Linux When Linux is booting up, you will hear two high pitch beeps. This means that the driver has been loaded successfully. If you want to know if the card has connected to an access point, see if the red ACT LED on the card is illuminated.

  • Page 40: Chapter 4

    Chapter 4 Using the Wireless Utility The following sections cover the Wireless LAN card utility installa- tion and usage. Installation in Windows After you have installed the wireless LAN card driver and have rebooted the computer, system will start to install wireless utility automatically.
  • Page 41 —Using the Wireless Utility 3. Read the End User License Agreement and click Yes. The following screen appears: 4. Type in a System ID name for your wireless LAN. This system ID identifies all computers in the wireless LAN. Then click Next. The following screen appears:...
  • Page 42 Wireless LAN card user’s guide 5. Choose the Network Mode for your wireless node. Note! For information on which mode you should select, refer to page 3, LAN Modes. Select Ad-Hoc for peer-to-peer and Infrastructure when using Access Point. 6. Click Next. The following screen appears: 7.
  • Page 43 —Using the Wireless Utility 8. Type in a Program Folder name or select the default name and click Next. Setup installs the software and the follow- ing screen appears: 9. Click Finish to finish the utility installation.
  • Page 44 Wireless LAN card user’s guide After you have installed the utility, you will see the wireless utility icon in the Windows taskbar: FreePort utility icon Icon Meaning Green: indicates a connection is active. Red: indicates no connection. Yellow: indicates that the wireless LAN card is looking for an available access point or poor signal strength.
  • Page 45 —Using the Wireless Utility The following table describes the configuration utility: State: displays the connection status. Current Channel: displays the chan- nel. Current Tx Rate: displays the wire- less bandwidth in megabits per second. Throughput: displays the transfer and receive rates in bytes per sec- ond.
  • Page 46 Wireless LAN card user’s guide Mode: displays the current LAN mode, either Ad-Hoc or Infrastructure. SSID: displays a lis t of Service Set Identifications. Ethernet Conversion: displays a list of Ethernet conversion protocols. Tx Rate: displays a list of transfer rates (fully automatic is suggested).
  • Page 47 —Using the Wireless Utility This screen displays the version number of the Wireless LAN card and the Configuration Utility.

  • Page 48: Using The Wireless Utility

    Wireless LAN card user’s guide Using the Wireless Utility The following example will help you set up a peer-to-peer connec- tion with the Wireless LAN card. Note! For information on connecting your wireless LAN card to the LAN, contact your system administrator. 1.
  • Page 49 —Using the Wireless Utility 5. Click the Configuration tab: 6. Select AdHoc from the Mode dropdown list. The SSID should be the same as the one that you entered when in- stalling the software. Leave the other settings at their default values.
  • Page 50 Wireless LAN card user’s guide cards, the tray icon turns green and the Link Info tab of the configuration utility shows an active connection: 8. After the connection has been established, double -click the Network Neighborhood icon on your desktop to view the two computers connected to the peer-to-peer network:...
  • Page 51 —Using the Wireless Utility...

  • Page 52: Appendix A

    Appendix A Troubleshooting Q&A These guidelines give you tips to deal with some problems you may encounter while using the Wireless LAN card. If the problems remain unsolved, contact your dealer for assistance. Problem: Windows can not recognize the card. Solution: Please check if PC Card support is installed.
  • Page 53 Appendix B Error Messages of Enabler Program Question: What is the Microsoft digital signature? Answer: Drivers that pass Microsoft Windows 2000 certification receive a digital signature file from Microsoft. The Wireless LAN card does not have such a d igital signature, however it is fully compatible and tested with Windows 2000.

  • Page 54: Appendix B

    Appendix B Specifications Standards Compliance: IEEE802.11b WLAN Standard, PCMCIA 2.1 and JEIDA 4.2 Standard Socket Interface: 68-pin 16-bit PCMCIA socket connector Card Size: PCMCIA extended Type II Frequency: 2.4 to 2.4835GHz ( Industrial Scientific Medical Band ) Antenna: Di-electric Antenna (internal) Roaming: 802.11 compliant Data Rate:...

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