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Summary of Contents for Dynalink Wireless LAN Client PCMCIA WLC030
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Page 1: Quick Setup Guide
Wireless LAN Client Quick Setup Guide PCMCIA WLC030 WLL013 This Quick Set-Up Guide provides you with the basic instructions for setting up these wireless adaptors on your computer. The complete user manual that includes an illustrated step-by-step guide can be found on this CD. - Page 2 A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) serves the same purpose as a conventional wired Ethernet network (LAN) but without the wires. Computers are linked together by radio waves. The wireless adaptor is your “wireless network card”. It turns your computer into a wireless station, allowing it to connect to other wireless stations or wireless access points to share network resources including Internet access.
- Page 3 WLAN PCMCIA Card/USB Adaptor Quick Set-up Guide INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE Exit from all currently running programs. Insert the provided manufacturer’s CD into your drive. A menu will launch. If it fails to load automatically, click Start - Run and enter d:\run.exe (substitute d: with your CD drive letter) then OK.
- Page 4 Configuring Wireless Adaptor Properties Before you start you need to know: The type of network you are connecting to, infrastructure or ad-hoc. The SSID of the network you are connecting to. The SSID is already determined on an existing network by the network administrator. You will have to set up your adaptor in order to comply with the network.
- Page 5 WLAN PCMCIA Card/USB Adaptor Quick Set-up Guide In SSID, enter the SSID. All wireless clients must use the same SSID in order to communicate with each other. Click Submit. The wireless link quality indicators are not available for this mode. WINDOWS XP ONLY Pages 34-42 of the User’s Manual on CD describe every individual function of the utility.
- Page 6 Setting Up Wireless Privacy WEP is for protection against eavesdropping and prevention of access from unauthorised wireless stations. Both 64 and 128 bit encryption are supported. The 128 bit option is more secure but it impacts more on the effective throughput of the network than the 64 bit option.
- Page 7 WLAN PCMCIA Card/USB Adaptor Quick Set-up Guide supply the MAC address of your adaptor to the network administrator for inclusion into the access point’s list of authorised users. The MAC address of your adaptor is printed on a barcode label affixed to the product. The label reads MAC:009096- xxxxxx.
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Page 8: Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting 1. Cannot connect to access point (infrastructure mode) or other wireless stations (ad-hoc mode) Check that the POWER light on the adaptor is on. Make sure the adaptor and access points/wireless stations are using the same SSID. If MAC address filtering (see section 4.2) is enabled at the access point, contact the network administrator to include your adpator’s MAC address into the list of authorised clients. - Page 9 WLAN PCMCIA Card/USB Adaptor Quick Set-up Guide If the radio interference source is known, increase the separation between the wireless computers and the device causing the interference. Do not share the same AC power socket between the computer and the device generating the interference.
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Page 10: Warranty
Return delivery after repair will be paid for by Dynalink. We reserve the right not to repair or replace goods that: have been mishandled, abused or not installed according to the guidelines as outlined in the instructions.
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