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  • Page 1 WN-300PCI 802.11b/g/n 2T2R 300Mbps PCI Card User’s Manual...
  • Page 2 Copyright & Disclaimer No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, whether electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or recording without the written consent of OvisLink Corp. OvisLink Corp. has made the best effort to ensure the accuracy of the information in this user’s guide.

  • Page 3: Fcc Statement

    FCC Statement Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement 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 interference in a residential installation.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table Contents 1. Introduction ....................1 1.1 Introduction and safety information..................1 1.2 Safety Information .........................1 1.3 System Requirements......................2 1.4 Package Contents ........................2 1.5 Familiar with your new wireless network card..............4 2. Installation and Configuration..............5 2.1 Network Card Installation......................5 2.2 Connect to Wireless Access Point..................10 2.3 Profile Management......................31 2.4 Advanced Settings........................36 2.5 View Network Statistics.......................38...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Introduction 1.1 Introduction and safety information Thank you for purchasing this high-speed wireless network card! Excepting common wireless standards 802.11b/g/n, this wireless network card is also able to access 802.11n wireless networks - data transfer rate is 150Mbps, and that’s three times faster than 802.11g wireless network! With easy-to-install PCI interface - a very common expansion port of computers - plug this wireless network card into any empty PCI slot of your computer, just that simple!

  • Page 6: System Requirements

    2. DO NOT put this network card at or near hot or humid places, like kitchen or bathroom. Also, do not left this wireless network card in the car in summer. 3. This network card will become hot when being used for long time (This is normal and is not a malfunction).

  • Page 8: Familiar With Your New Wireless Network Card

    1.5 Familiar with your new wireless network card 1. Antennas Two 3dBi dipole antennas are enclosed with the PCI card. Please secure the antennas to Reverse SMA connectors of the card. 2. WPS Button Press this button and hold for 3 seconds to start WPS function. When WPS is enabled, the Link and Tx/Rx LEDs will be steadily on.

  • Page 9: Installation And Configuration

    Installation and Configuration 2.1 Network Card Installation Please follow the following instructions to install your new wireless network card: 1. SWITCH THE COMPUTER OFF, remove the cover and insert the wireless network card into an empty PCI slot of your computer.
  • Page 10 2. Install the antenna on the wireless network card, and make sure the antenna is securely installed. To improve radio reception, please adjust antenna to the position shown in the picture. The following message will appear on your computer, click ‘cancel’.
  • Page 11 Insert device driver CDROM into the CD/DVD ROM drive of your computer, and execute ‘Setup.exe’ program. Please read the end user license agreement and click ‘I accept the terms of the license agreement’ then click ‘Next’ button, to accept license agreement. 5.
  • Page 12 You can choose the configuration tool used to configure the wireless network card here. It’s recommended to select ‘Airlive Configuration Tool’, which provides fully access to all functions of this wireless network card. If you prefer to use the wireless configuration tool provided by Windows XP or Vista, please select ‘Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool’...
  • Page 13 Please wait while the install procedure is running. When you see this message, please click ‘Finish’ to complete the driver installation process. After installation is complete, wireless configuration utility will be shown in the desktop of your computer automatically. You will also see an icon at the lower-right corner of your windows system.

  • Page 14: Connect To Wireless Access Point

    Please note that if you stopped config utility by ‘Exit’ function, you’ll not be able to maintain the wireless link to the access point you wish to use. In this case, you can start config utility again by clicking ‘Airlive Wireless Utility’ icon from ‘Start’ -> ‘All Programs’ -> ‘Airlive Wireless’, as shown below.
  • Page 15 Please follow the following instructions to use Airlive configuration utility to connect to wireless access point. 1. Right-click the Airlive configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then clicks ‘Launch Config Utility’. Airlive setup utility (RaUI) will launch, and begin to scan for all wireless access points automatically.
  • Page 16 Menu Setup Area 3. RaUI consists two parts: Menu and setup area. You can select a setup function (Profile, Network, etc.) from menu, and corresponding setup items will be displayed at setup area. Some function includes more information, and can not be fitted in setup area. In this case, you can click ‘More / less’...
  • Page 17 You can click ‘More / Less’ button again, and setup utility window will resume to its original size. Tip: If a setup item requires more information to complete the setup procedure, the setup utility window will expand automatically.
  • Page 18 SSID before you can establish connection with it. b. If the wireless device you wish to connect uses encryption, you must know its encryption key. Please launch Airlive setup utility and it will scan for wireless access points near by:...
  • Page 19 Scan results will be displayed here, please check if the wireless device (access point or another computer) with the SSID you wish to connect is shown here. Scan result includes 6 types of information, they are: A: The SSID (Service Set Identifier) of wireless device. If nothing is displayed here, it means the SSID of this wireless device is hidden.
  • Page 20 If you can not see the access point you wish to connect here, please click ‘Rescan’ button to scan for access point again, until the one you preferred is displayed. You may have to click ‘Rescan’ for more than two times before you can see the access point you wish to use here.
  • Page 21 There are 4 types of technical information: General: Displays basic information about this access point, such as SSID, MAC Address, authentication / encryption type, channel etc. WPS: If this access point supports WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup), related information will be displayed here. CCX: If this access point supports CCX (Cisco Compatible eXtension), related information will be displayed here.
  • Page 22 2-2-1-2 Connect to an Access Point If the wireless access point you wish to connect is found, you can establish connection with it by clicking ‘Connect’ button. Instructions will be given as follow: Click the wireless access point or network device you wish to connect, it will be highlighted, then click ‘Connect’.
  • Page 23 If the wireless access point uses encryption, you will be prompted to input its WEP key or WPA preshared key.
  • Page 24 You can put the mouse cursor over the Airlive configuration utility icon, and the brief information about link status and signal strength of current wireless connection will be shown as a popup balloon.
  • Page 25 You can also click More / Less button ( ) to see detailed information of connected access point: 2-2-1-3 Add an Access Point to Profile If you will connect to some specific wireless access point frequently, you can add their information to the profile.
  • Page 26 The setup utility will expand: Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description Profile Name You can give this profile a name. Every profile needs a unique name. SSID Please input the SSID of this access point. If you selected an access point from the list, and its SSID is not hidden, the SSID will be filled automatically;...
  • Page 27 connecting to another computer using Ad Hoc mode), please select Ad hoc here. If you selected an access point from the list above, please keep this field unchanged. Tx Power You can select the wireless output power here. If you’re not too far from access point (good signal reception), you can select a lower output power to save energy;...
  • Page 28 To set authentication / encryption information for the access point. Please click ‘Auth. \ Encry.’ tab: Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description Authentication Select the authentication type of the wireless access point or wireless device you wish to connect. When you’re adding a profile from an existing access point or wireless device, authentication type will be selected automatically, and please do not change it.
  • Page 29 device you wish to connect. When you’re adding a profile from an existing access point or wireless device, the encryption type will be selected automatically, and please do not modify it. Input WPA preshared key here. If encryption is not enabled, or Preshared Key you select ‘WEP’...
  • Page 30 Item Name Description EAP Method Select 802.1x EAP method from dropdown menu. Please ask the administrator of the access point you wish to connect to select a correct EAP method. Tunnel Select 802.1x tunnel authentication type from dropdown menu. Authentication Please ask the administrator of the access point you wish to connect to select a correct tunnel authentication method.
  • Page 31 Windows XP and Vista has a built-in wireless network configuration utility, called as ‘Windows Zero Configuration’ (WZC). You can also use WZC to configure your wireless network parameter: Right-click Airlive configuration utility icon and select ‘Use Zero Configuration as Configuration utility’.
  • Page 32 2. Right click Windows Zero Configuration icon and select ‘View Available Wireless Networks’. If you can not find the icon, please follow the procedures from step 3 to step Click ‘Start’ button (should be located at the bottom-left corner of windows desktop), click ‘Control Panel’, then click ‘Network and Internet Connections’...
  • Page 33 Click ‘Network Connections’. Right-click ‘Wireless Network Connection’ (it may have a number as suffix if you have more than one wireless network card, please make sure you right-click the ‘Airlive 802.11n Wireless LAN Card), then select ‘View Available Wireless Networks’.
  • Page 34 If the access point is protected by encryption, you have to input its security key or passphrase here. It must match the encryption setting on the access point. If the access point you selected does not use encryption, you’ll not be prompted for security key or passphrase.

  • Page 35: Profile Management

    To manage profiles, right-click the Airlive configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop, then click...
  • Page 36 Click the ‘Profile’ menu. All profiles will be listed in ‘Profile List’, and you can select a profile from the list, all information about selected profile will be listed. 2-3-1 Add a profile If you want to click new profile, click ‘Profile’ menu, then click ‘Add’ button. You’ll be prompted to input detailed information of access point, as described in Section 2-2-1-3.
  • Page 37 2-3-2 Edit an existing profile If you have added a profile before, and you wish to change the content of the profile, you can use this function. Please select a profile from the list first, then click ‘Edit’ button. You’ll be provided with the contents of selected profile, and you can edit them.
  • Page 38 2-3-3 Delete an existing profile If you no longer need a profile, you can delete it. Select the profile you wish to delete from the list, and click ‘Delete’ button to delete it.
  • Page 39 2-3-4 Activate a profile When you want to connect to a specific wireless device in the profile list, you can select it and click ‘Activate’ button, to establish connection with it. When you selected a profile and click ‘Activate’ button to activate the profile, a icon will be displayed in front of the profile to show that the connection is failed;...

  • Page 40: Advanced Settings

    Please follow the following instructions to set advanced wireless settings: Right-click the Airlive configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’. Click ‘Advanced’ menu, and the following settings will appear:...
  • Page 41 Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description Wireless mode Display the wireless operation mode of the network card. Enable Tx Burst Check this box to accelerate the data transmit rate. It may not work with all wireless access point and wireless devices. Enable TCP Check this box and the configuration utility will adjust TCP window size automatically to get better performance.

  • Page 42: View Network Statistics

    Please follow the following instructions to check network statistics: 1. Right-click the Airlive configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’. Click ‘Statistics’ menu and the statistics of wireless connection will be displayed: All connection-related statistics is displayed here.

  • Page 43: Wmm Setting

    Please follow the following instructions to set advanced wireless settings: Right-click the Airlive configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’. 2. Click ‘WMM’ menu, and the following settings will appear:...
  • Page 44 In ‘WMM Setup Status’ block, current WMM settings will be displayed. And here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description WMM Enable Check this box to enable WMM function. Please click ‘Apply’ button on the right of this check box after you check or uncheck this box, so corresponding settings in this window will be activated or deactivated respectively.

  • Page 45: Wps Configuration

    2-7-1 WPS Setup - PBC (Push-Button Configuration) 1. Right-click the Airlive configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’. 2. Click ‘WPS’ menu, and the following settings will appear.
  • Page 46 3. Set ‘Config Mode’ to ‘Enrollee’, and then push the ‘WPS’ button on your wireless access point (the button used to activate WPS standby mode may have another name), or use other way to start WPS PBC standby mode as the instruction given by your wireless access point’s user manual.
  • Page 47 All access points with WPS function enabled will be displayed here. Please make sure the access point you wish to connect is displayed. If not, please click ‘Rescan’ few more times. You can also click ‘Information’ button to see the detailed information about selected access point.
  • Page 48 If the wireless access point you wish to connect supports PIN, please follow the following instructions to establish connection to it: 1. Right-click the Airlive configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’.
  • Page 49 3. The PIN code of your wireless network card is an eight-digit number located at the upper-right position of configuration utility. Remember it, and input the number to your wireless access point as the WPS PIN code (Please refer to the user manual of your wireless access point for instructions about how to do this).

  • Page 50: Radio On/Off

    You can switch the wireless radio transceiver on and off by the utility, so if you want to disable wireless network function, you don’t have to remove the network card physically. 1. Right-click the Airlive configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’.

  • Page 51: About

    Please follow the following instructions to see these information: Right-click the Airlive configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’. 2. Click ‘About’ tab, and the following information will appear.

  • Page 52: Soft-Ap Function

    Airlive utility icon, and select ‘Switch to AP Mode’. After you select ‘Switch to AP Mode’, the Airlive utility icon will be changed to: Which indicated the wireless card is operating in AP mode now. If you want to switch the wireless card back to station mode (become a client of other wireless access points), click ‘Switch to Station Mode’.
  • Page 53 A configuration window will appear after you switch the operation mode to ‘AP’, which asks you to assign an existing network card with internet connection. If your computer has another network card which is connected to Internet, please select it from ‘Name’...
  • Page 54 Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description SSID Please input the SSID (the name used to identify this wireless access point) here. Up to 32 numerical characters can be accepted here, excepting space. Channel Please select the wireless channel you wish to use. The number of channels available here will vary depends on the setting of ‘Country Region Code’.
  • Page 55 Wireless Mode Select the operation mode of the access point here. Use Mac Click this button to use the MAC address of the wireless card as Address SSID. A prefix ‘AP’ will be added automatically. Security Setting Set the security options (wireless data encryption). Please refer to chapter 3-2 ‘Security Settings’...

  • Page 56: Security Setting

    Beacon(ms) You can define the time interval that a beacon signal should be send. Default value is 100. Do not modify this value unless you know what will be affected. TX Power You can select the wireless output power here. Please select a proper output power setting according to your actual needs.
  • Page 57 Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description Authentication Please select a wireless authentication type you wish to use. Type Available options are ‘Open’, ‘Shared’, WPA-PSK’, ‘WPA2-PSK’, and ‘WPA-PSK / WPA2-PSK’. If you want to disable wireless data encryption, you must select ‘Open’. Encryption Type Please select an encryption mode.
  • Page 58 WPA Pre-shared Please input the WPA pre-shared key here. Only clients with the same pre-shared key you inputted here will be able to connect to your computer. This setting is only available when you select one of WPA encryptions. Group Rekey You can specify the time interval to re-issue the key to your Interval...

  • Page 59: Access Control

    3.3 Access Control If you’re not going to open your computer and wireless resources to the public, you can use MAC address filtering function to enforce your access control policy, so only wireless clients with MAC address you defined by this function can be connected to your software access point.
  • Page 60 Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description Access Policy Select the policy type of your access rule. Disable: Allow any wireless client with proper authentication settings to connect to this access point. Allow All: Only allow wireless clients with MAC address listed here to connect to this access point.

  • Page 61: Connection Table

    3.4 Connection Table If you want to see the list of all wireless clients connected to this access point, please select ‘Mac Table’ tab from the utility.

  • Page 62: Event Log

    Here are descriptions of every field: Item Name Description MAC Address Displays the MAC address of this wireless client. The serial number of this wireless connection. Power Saving Displays the capability of power-saving function of this Mode wireless client. Status Displays additional information of this wireless Connection, like current wireless operating mode and data transfer rate.

  • Page 63: Statistics

    3.6 Statistics If you want to know detailed information about how your software access point works, click ‘Statistics’ tab, and the event log will be displayed. You can click ‘RESET COUNTERS’ button to reset all counters to zero.

  • Page 64: About

    3.7 About The ‘About’ tab provides you the information about version number of the configuration utility, driver, and other important information about your wireless access point.

  • Page 65: Appendix

    Appendix 4.1 Specification Standards: IEEE 802.11b/g/n (2T2R) Interface: 32Bit PCI Frequency Band: 2.4000 ~ 2.4835GHz (Industrial Scientific Medical Band) Data Rate: 11b: 1/2/5.5/11Mbps 11g: 6/9/12/24/36/48/54Mbps 11n (20MHz): MCS0-7 (up to 150Mbps) 11n (40MHz): MCS0-7 (up to 300Mbps) Securities: WEP 64/128-bit, WPA, WPA2 Cisco CCX Support IEEE 802.1x Antenna: External One Dipole Antenna (2T2R)
  • Page 66 Nothing happens 1. Please make sure the wireless network card is firmly when I click ‘Launch inserted into your computer’s PCI slot. If the Airlive config utilities’ configuration utility’s icon is black, the network card is not detected by your computer. Switch the computer off and insert the card again.

  • Page 67: Glossary

    1. Move closer to the place where access point is located. The network is slow / 2. Enable ‘Wireless Protection’ in ‘Advanced’ tab. having problem when 3. Disable ‘Tx Burst’ in ‘Advanced’ tab. transferring large files 4. Enable ‘WMM’ in ‘QoS’ tab if you need to use multimedia / telephony related applications.
  • Page 68 3. What does IEEE 802.11 feature support? The product supports the following IEEE 802.11 functions: CSMA/CA plus Acknowledge Protocol Multi-Channel Roaming Automatic Rate Selection RTS/CTS Feature Fragmentation Power Management 4. What is Ad-hoc? An Ad-hoc integrated wireless LAN is a group of computers, each has a Wireless LAN card, Connected as an independent wireless LAN.
  • Page 69 10. Can Wireless products support printer sharing? Wireless products perform the same function as LAN products. Therefore, Wireless products can work with Netware, Windows 2000, or other LAN operating systems to support printer or file sharing. Would the information be intercepted while transmitting on air? WLAN features two-fold protection in security.
  • Page 70 applications, each with different latency and throughput requirements, compete for network resources. By using WMM, end-user satisfaction is maintained in a wider variety of environments and traffic conditions. WMM makes it possible for home network users and enterprise network managers to decide which data streams are most important and assign them a higher traffic priority.

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