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802.11n Wireless PCI Adapter
WNL-9331
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Version: 1.0
Date: May 2010

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  • Page 1 802.11n Wireless PCI Adapter WNL-9331 User’s Manual Version: 1.0 Date: May 2010...
  • Page 2 Copyright © 2010 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this Copyright publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PLANET.
  • Page 3 Do not dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and have to collect such WEEE separately. Revision User’s Manual for PLANET 802.11n Wireless PCI Adapter Model: WNL-9331 Rev: 1.0 (May, 2010) Part No. EM-WNL9331...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ....................6 1-1 F .............................6 EATURES 1-2 S ........................7 AFETY NFORMATION 1-3 S ..........................8 PECIFICATION 1-4 P ........................9 ACKAGE ONTENTS 1-5 H .........................10 ARDWARE CHAPTER 2: INSTALLATION ....................11 CHAPTER 3: GENERAL CONFIGURATION ................. 16 3-1 P ......................17 ROFILE...
  • Page 5 5-2 G ..........................57 LOSSARY...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1: Introduction

    Complying with the most innovative 802.11n technology, PLANET delivers a reliable and cost effective solution - WNL-9331. WNL-9331 is a PCI 2.2 wireless adapter which integrates one transmit channel and two concurrent receive channels; thus, it supports upload and download up to 150Mbps data rate.

  • Page 7: Safety Information

    1-2 Safety Information In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the following safety instructions: 1. This PCI wireless network card is designed for indoor use only. DO NOT expose this network card to direct sun light, rain, or snow. 2.

  • Page 8: Specification

    1-3 Specification Interface Complaint with PCI 2.2 standard Standards Conformance Compliant with 802.11b / 802.11g / 802.11n 11b: 1/2/5.5/11Mbps 11g: 6/9/12/24/36/48/54Mbps Data Rate 11n (20MHz): MCS0-7 (up to 72Mbps) 11n (40MHz): MCS0-7 (up to 150Mbps) Antenna External 3dBi Dipole Antenna with RP-SMA Connector Operating Mode Infrastructure / Ad-Hoc Mode / Soft-AP Mode WEP 64/128bit, WPA, WPA2 , WPA-PSK , WPA2-PSK...

  • Page 9: Package Contents

    1-4 Package Contents Before you begin the installation, please check the items of your package. The package should include the following items: WNL-9331 x 1 Driver and User’s Manual CD x 1 Quick Installation Guide x 1 External Antenna x 1...

  • Page 10: Hardware Info

    1-5 Hardware Info For WNL-9331 System Requirements An empty PCI slot Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 operating system CD-ROM drive At least 100MB of available disk space SWITCH THE COMPUTER OFF, remove the cover and insert the wireless network card into an empty PCI slot of your computer.

  • Page 11: Chapter 2: Installation

    Chapter 2: Installation Note 1: If you had ever installed the other Wireless Cards before, please uninstall the existed drivers and utilities first. Note 2: The installation below is performed in Windows XP system. The installations in Windows 2000 / Vista / Win7 are similar. 1.
  • Page 12 4. Read the License Agreement carefully. Click “Yes” to accept it and continue. 5. It is suggested to use “Install driver and Planet WLAN Utility”, which provides full installation to manage the WNL-9331. Otherwise, choose”Install driver only” for only installing driver. Then click “Next” to continue.
  • Page 13 6. It is suggested to use “PLANET configuration Tool”, which the WNL-9331 Utility. Otherwise, choose”Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool” for only installing Microsoft wireless configuration. Then click “Next” to continue. 7. Click “Install” to begin the installation. If the screen appears during installation, please click “Continue Anyway” to continue.
  • Page 14 10. The WNL-9331 utility will appear on the screen. Please select the AP you would like to connect and press “Connect” button and full in the security information, and then click “OK” to connect the wireless network.

  • Page 16: Chapter 3: General Configuration

    Use Zero Configurations as Configuration Utility: use Windows XP built-in wireless configuration utility (Windows Zero Configuration) to configure the card. Switch to AP Mode: the WNL-9331 can act as an AP. Please refer to next chapter for details. Exit: close the Configuration Utility tool.

  • Page 17: Profile Management

    3-1 Profile Management If you need to connect to different wireless access points at different time, like to access point of your home, office, cybercafé, or public wireless service, you can store the connection parameters (encryption, passphrase, security etc.) as a profile for every access point, so you don’t have to input these parameters every time you want to connect to a specific wireless access point.

  • Page 18: System Configuration

    Or, you can add a connected wireless access point or wireless device to a profile by clicking ‘Network’ tab, then click ‘Add to Profile’ button: 3-1-1 System Configuration And you can set the parameter for this profile here:...
  • Page 19 Parameter Description Profile Name Define a recognizable profile name for you to identify the different networks. SSID The SSID (up to 32 printable ASCII characters) is the unique name identified in a WLAN. The ID prevents the unintentional merging of two co-located WLANs. You may specify a SSID for the card and then only the device with the same SSID can interconnect to the card.

  • Page 20: Authority/Encryption Setting

    3-1-2 Authority/Encryption setting Parameter Description Authentication This setting has to be consistent with the wireless networks that the card Type intends to connect. Open – No authentic ation is needed among the wireless network. hared – Only wireless devices using a shared key (WEP Key identified) are allowed to connecting each other.
  • Page 21 already deployed IEEE 802.1x authentication, WPA offers the advantage of leveraging existing authentication databases and infrastructure. WPA-PSK – It is a special mode designed for home and small business users ho do not have access to network authentication servers. In this mode, known as Pre-Shared Key, the user manually enters the starting password in their access point or gateway, as well as in each wireless station in the network.

  • Page 22: Using 802.11X

    (Key1 ~ Key4) There are two types of key length: 64-bit and 128-bit. Select the default encryption key from Key 1 to Key 4 by selected the radio button. Fill the text box by following the rules below: 4-bit – Input 10-digit Hex values (in the “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9” range) or 5-digit ASCII characters (including “a-z”...
  • Page 23 setting. ’EAP Fast’ authentication type also have a sub-menu to set EAP fast-specific parameters: If you need to use protected authentication credential, check ‘Use protected authentication credential’ box, and click ‘Import’ to load .pac credential file; to remove a loaded credential file, click ‘Remove’. Session You can enable or disable session resumption h ere.
  • Page 24 server name must the same with the value you set in ‘Server name’ field, select ‘Domain name must end in specified name’. After you finish all settings, click ‘OK’ to save settings and exit. The profile you just created will be displayed:...

  • Page 25: Network-Configuration Utility

    Wireless connection is established, weak signal reception. Wireless network doesn’t connection. Wireless network card is not detected. There are two ways you can configure WNL-9331 network card to connect to wireless access point: using the WNL-9331 configuration utility and using built-in windows zero configuration utility.
  • Page 26 From the “Network” screen, all the networks nearby will be listed. You can change the connection to another network or add one of the networks to your own AP list. Parameter Description AP List This list shows all available wireless networks within range of your card.

  • Page 27: Connect To An Access Point

    3-2-2 Connect to an Access Point There are two kinds of wireless connection mode: Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc. Infrastructure mode is used by wireless access points, which is able to establish wireless connection for you and other wireless / wired network clients. Ad-Hoc mode is also know as ‘point-to-point’...
  • Page 28 If a symbol appears in front of the name of wireless device, means you’ve established connected with that wireless device. The type of this wireless device and the channel number of this wireless device. Means this wireless device is an access point Means this wireless device is a computer (Ad-Hoc mode, point-to-point connection) The wireless standard supported by this access point is displayed here:...
  • Page 29 4. If the AP uses encryption, you have to input WEP passphrase or WPA preshared key. Please ask the administrator, and input the correct passphrase / preshared key here, then click ‘OK’. If the value you inputted here is wrong, you will not be able to connect to this wireless access point.
  • Page 30 5. If the wireless access point is successfully connected, you’ll see a symbol appears in front of the name of wireless device.

  • Page 31: Advanced Settings

    3-3 Advanced Settings Parameter 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 Window Check this box and the configuration utility will adjust TCP Size...
  • Page 32 Turn on CCKM: Check this box to enable CCKM (Cisco Centralized Key Management), which enables wireless clients to roam between CCKM-enabled access points in very short time. Enable Radio Measurements: When you’re connecting to CCX-compatible access point, check this box to enable radio measurement function to improve wireless connectivity.

  • Page 33: View Network Link Statistics

    3-4 View Network Link Statistics The configuration utility provides information about network statistics and link status. If you want to know how your wireless network card works, you can use these functions to get detailed information about the wireless connection you’re using. Click ‘Statistics’...

  • Page 34: Wmm Setting

    3-5 WMM Setting This wireless network card provides WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) function, which can improve the performance of certain network applications, like audio/video streaming, network telephony (VoIP), and others. When you enable the WMM function of this network card, you can define the priority of different kinds of data, to give higher priority to applications which require instant responding.

  • Page 35: Wps Configuration

    - just three simple steps! The WNL-9331 are compatible with WPS. To use this function, the wireless access point you wish to connect to must support WPS function too. Now, please follow the following...
  • Page 36 (This may require several seconds to one minute to complete). When you see ‘WPS status is connected successfully’ message, it means the connection between your WNL-9331 and access point is successfully connected by WPS, and the information about access point you connected to will be displayed.
  • Page 37 5. Sometime WPS may fail, and you can click ‘PBC’ button few more times to try again. When an access point is connected, you can click ‘Disconnect’ to disconnect your wireless network card from a connected access point, or select another WPS-enabled wireless access point, then click ‘Connect’...

  • Page 38: Wps Setup - Pin

    3-6-2 WPS Setup - PIN 1. The PIN number of your WNL-9331 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 39 There are also some options available for WPS configuration WPS associate IE: Check this box to send the association request with WPS IE during WPS setup. This is optional and you can use default value if you don’t know what will be affected. WPS probe IE: Check this box to send the WPS probe request with WPS IE during WPS setup.

  • Page 40: Radio On/Off

    3-7 Radio On/Off You can switch the wireless radio transceiver on and off by WNL-9331 utility, so if you want to disable wireless network function, you don’t have to remove the network card physically. 1. To switch wireless radio on/off, please click ‘Radio On/Off’ button.

  • Page 41: About

    By choosing this option, you can click the hyperlink to connect the PLANET website. You can also obtain basic information about the WNL-9331 such as the Driver, Utility, EEPROM and Firmware Version. The MAC Address of the card is displayed in the screen as well.

  • Page 42: Help

    3-9 Help If you need to know the directions of how to use specific function in the utility, please click ‘Help’ button. On-line help documents will be presented in Windows help format. Click this button to view on-line help documents.

  • Page 43: Chapter 4: Soft-Ap Function

    4-1 Switch to AP Mode and Basic Configuration The operating mode of the wireless card is ‘Station Mode’ (becoming a client of other wireless access points) by default. If you want to switch to AP mode, please right-click WNL-9331 utility icon, and select ‘Switch to AP Mode’.
  • Page 44 Parameter 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 45 0: FCC (US, Canada, and other countries uses FCC radio communication standards) 1: ETSI (Europe) 2: SPAIN 3: FRANCE 4: MKK 5: MKKI (TELEC) 6: ISERAL (Channel 3 to 9) 7: ISERAL (Channel 5 to 13) The operating frequency channel will be restricted to the country / region user located before importing Beacon (ms) You can define the time interval that a beacon signal should be...

  • Page 46: Security Settings

    It’s recommended to enable data encryption unless you wish to open your computer (and its internet connection) to the public. When you click ‘Security Setting’ in WNL-9331 configuration utility, the following window will appear:...
  • Page 47 WPA Pre-shared-key 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 Interval You can specify the time interval to re-issue the key to your wireless clients here.

  • Page 48: Access Control

    4-3 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 49 Parameter 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. Reject All: Reject wireless clients with MAC address listed here to be connected to this access point.

  • Page 50: Connection Table

    4-4 Connection table If you want to see the list of all wireless clients connected to this access point, please follow the following instructions: Click ‘Mac Table’ tab, and a list containing all connected wireless clients will appear: Parameter Description MAC address Displays the MAC address of this wireless client The serial number of this wireless connection.

  • Page 51: Event Log

    4-5 Event Log This software access point will log all wireless-related activities as a log. You can follow the following instructions to view the content of the event log: Click ‘Event Log’ tab, and the event log will be displayed: You can click ‘Clear’...

  • Page 52: Statistics

    4-6 Statistics If you want to know detailed information about how your software access point works, you can follow the following instructions to view the statistics of the access point: Click ‘Statistics’ tab, and the event log will be displayed: You can click ‘RESET COUNTERS’...
  • Page 53 4-7 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 54: Chapter 5: Appendix

    This chapter provides solutions to problems usually encountered during the installation and operation of the adapter. Q. The PLANET WNL-9331 do not work properly. 1. Right click on My Computer and select Properties. Select the device manager and click on the Network Adapter.
  • Page 55 might be necessary to set up one client to establish a BSS (Basic Service Set) and wait briefly before setting up other clients. This prevents several clients from trying to establish a BSS at the same time, which can result in multiple singular BSSs being established, rather than a single BSS with multiple clients associated to it.
  • Page 56 Q. I can not establish connection with a certain wireless access point 1. Click ‘Connect’ for few more times. 2. If the SSID of access point you wish to connect is hidden (nothing displayed in ‘SSID’ field in ‘Site Survey’ function), you have to input correct SSID of the access point you wish to connect.
  • Page 57 5-2 Glossary What is WMM? Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), a group of features for wireless networks that improve the user experience for audio, video and voice applications. WMM is based on a subset of the IEEE 802.11e WLAN QoS draft standard. WMM adds prioritized capabilities to Wi-Fi networks and optimizes their performance when multiple concurring applications, each with different latency and throughput requirements, compete for network resources.

  • Page 58: Ec Declaration Of Conformity

    *Model Number WNL-9331 * Produced by: Manufacturer‘s Name : Planet Technology Corp. Manufacturer‘s Address: 11F, No 96, Min Chuan Road Hsin Tien, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. is herewith confirmed to comply with the requirements set out in the Council Directive on the 1999/5/EC R&TTE.

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