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Wireless LAN PCMCIA Adapter
TELETRONICS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
1803 Research Blvd., Suite 404,
Rockville, Maryland, USA, 20850-3155
Email:
Web Site:
sales@teletronics.com
www.teletronics.com
Tel: (301)-309-8500
Fax: (301)-309-8851

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  • Page 1 Wireless LAN PCMCIA Adapter TELETRONICS INTERNATIONAL, INC. 1803 Research Blvd., Suite 404, Rockville, Maryland, USA, 20850-3155 Email: Web Site: sales@teletronics.com www.teletronics.com Tel: (301)-309-8500 Fax: (301)-309-8851...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    4-1 Setup WL2400 for Windows 95 / 98 ............11 4-2 Setup WL2400 for Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0 ..........22 4-3 Setup WL2400 for NetWare Client –Using ODI Driver (DOS / Windows 3.x) ......................30 4-4 Setup WL2400 for DOS TCP/IP Applications .......... 32 Chapter 5 Network Configuration ..............

  • Page 3: Chapter 1 About Wl2400 Pcmcia Card

    Chapter 1 About WL2400 PCMCIA Card The WL2400 IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA Card is a standard PC card that fits into any standard PCMCIA Type II slot in a notebook computer. As a Plug-and-Play device, Windows 95/98 will automatically recognize the card and begin the installation process. When installed, WL2400 can communicate with other WL2400 products to create a wireless network in your office or home.

  • Page 4: Product Kit

    The wireless building-to-building network installs quickly, requires no monthly lease fees, and provides the flexibility to reconfigure easily. 1-3 Product Kit WL2400 includes the following items. Please go through each listed item below. If any listed item is not included, please contact your local dealer. A. WL2400 / PCMCIA Adapter l WL2400 PCMCIA Type II Adapter……………………………………...

  • Page 5: Chapter 2 Network Configuration And Planning

    Ad-Hoc Fig: An Example of Ad-Hoc Wireless LAN An Ad-Hoc wireless LAN is a group of computers, each equipped with one WL2400 adapter, connected as an independent wireless LAN. Computers in a specific Ad-Hoc wireless LAN must be configured at the same radio channel.
  • Page 6 LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration. A group of WL2400 PC users and an Access Point construct a Basic Service Set (BSS). Each WL2400 PC in this BSS can talk to any computer in the wired LAN infrastructure via the Access Point.

  • Page 7: Roaming

    Infrastructure Fig: The effective Transmission Range BSS ID is, in essential, the ID of each independent WL2400. All WL2400 PCs configured without roaming options in this independent BSS must be configured with BSS ID of that WL2400SA. Check your WL2400SA for its BSS ID or use the Access Point Browser Utility program.
  • Page 8 WPCMCIA Driver and Utility Diskette. Before utilizing Site Survey and Access Point Browser, a PC with WL2400 adapter and Utility program installed is necessary. For details of WLU.EXE, check the chapter of “WL2400 Utility-WLU.EXE” in the WL2400...

  • Page 9: Site Survey

    Choose the radio channel with the best quality as your operating radio channel. If you are setting up an ESS for roaming, configure all the WL2400 PCs and WL2400SA within this ESS with that channel. u Access Point Browser File Server...
  • Page 10 Radio Signal Strength Indicator), then the mobile station connects to the Access Point with the highest (i.e., best) signal value. Signal level is the indicator of the radio signal coverage of an Access Point. Access Point Browser displays all the beacons received and its signal level in the current physical location.

  • Page 11: Chapter 3 Hardware Installation

    Chapter 3: Hardware Installation 3-1 System Requirements In order to use a WL2400 PCMCIA card, your computer must have the following: 1. A computer with a PCMCIA Type II slot, and a PCMCIA card and socket services compliant with revision 2.10 of the PCMCIA specification.
  • Page 12 For Windows 95/98, a PCMCIA card and socket services compliant with revision 2.10 of the PCMCIA specification are required. Please check the documents of your PCMCIA driver to install WL2400. Then, continue the installation steps in next chapter - “Software Installation”.

  • Page 13: Chapter 4 Software Installation

    Chapter 4: Software Installation 4-1 Setup WL2400 for Windows 95 / 98 1. Insert the WPCMCIA adapter into a standard type II PCMCIA slot in your notebook. 2. Windows 95/98 will automatically detect the new hardware and will prompt you to install the driver needed.
  • Page 14 4. Click “OK”. 5. “Channel”: the same as the “AP Channel”. -12-...
  • Page 15 6. “ESSID”: the same as “AP ESSID”. 7. “LLC Type”: WaveLAN compatible. -13-...
  • Page 16 8. “Network Type”: Infrastructure. Then click “OK”. If system request wpcmcia.sys, please key-in “A:\WPCMCIA” as driver path and click “OK”. 10. After driver installation the system will restart computer. Please click ”NO” button to continue installation for your network protocol and options. -14-...
  • Page 17 11. Go to “Control Panel” and double-click “Network”. 12. Click “Add…” to install protocol. -15-...
  • Page 18 13. Double-click “Protocol”. 14. Double-click “IPX/SPX-compatible” to install this protocol. 15. Repeat step 12 and step 13,then double-click “NetBEUI” to install this protocol. -16-...
  • Page 19 Double-click “TCP/IP”. 17. Click “Gateway “. Then write your gateway and click “Add”. (See P.S.) (Optional: Depend on system setup) -17-...
  • Page 20 18. Click “DNS Configuration”, then click “Enable DNS” and set up the value. After setting up the value, click “OK”. (Optional: Depend on system setup) 19. Click “File and Print Sharing… ”to share files and prints. -18-...
  • Page 21 20. Click “Add”. 21. Double-click “Client”. -19-...
  • Page 22 22.Click “Microsoft” and double-click “Client for NetWare Networks”. 23. Click “Identification”. -20-...
  • Page 23 21. “Workgroup”: the same as the workgroup of the server(main PC). 22. Restart the computer. 23. If the computer doesn’t enter Microsoft Network, restart the computer. -21-...

  • Page 24: Setup Wl2400 For Windows Nt 3.51 Or 4.0

    4-2 Setup WL2400 for Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0 Login as Administrator. From the desktop, select “Control Panel”, double-click “Network”, click “Adapters” ,and then click “Add” button. -22-...
  • Page 25 Windows NT will present a list of all its supported adapters. Select OTHERS, or click “Have Disk” to continue. 4. Windows NT will ask for the drive/path containing the WL2400 Windows NT drivers. Insert the WL2400 Driver diskette into the floppy drive, and then type “A:\WPCMCIA”.Click “OK”.
  • Page 26 Windows NT will attempt to locate an INF file in the specified path. If you have entered the path name correctly, Windows NT should copy the appropriate drivers to the Windows NT system. You need to recognize the selection. Fig. Choose device model. A “WLAN/WPCMCIA Network Adapter Setup”...
  • Page 27 At this point, the drivers would have been properly copied and the installation would proceed to the next step --- “Network Setup”. First, click “Bindings” to set up. Then click “Protocol” and double-click “TCP/IP Protocol”. -25-...
  • Page 28 If you have DHCP server, select “Obtain an IP address from DHCP server” to get IP address. If you don’t have DHCP server, you must select “Specify an IP address” to define your IP address. Your IP address can’t be the same with another. The IP address depends on your system.
  • Page 29 Click “DNS ” , then set up the value .After setting up the value, click “OK”. (Optional : Depend on system setup ) -27-...
  • Page 30 10. Click “Identification” and change the “workgroup” to be the same with the workgroup of the server (main computer) .If don’t change the right workgroup, you will not see the neighborhood PC. Then click “Close”. 11. Restart the system. -28-...
  • Page 31 12. To ensure whether the WPCMCIA Adapter works fine or not, go to Control Panel and Double-click Devices. -29-...

  • Page 32: Setup Wl2400 For Netware Client -Using Odi Driver (Dos / Windows 3.X)

    Install program to install all necessary files. Please follow its prompted screens to accomplish the installation procedure and select the WL2400 ODI driver as the network driver. To select the ODI driver of the WL2400 wireless LAN adapter, copy the files to nwclient directory. WPCMCIA.COM WPCMCIA.INS 4.
  • Page 33 Link Driver WL2400 FRAME Ethernet_802.3 FRAME Ethernet_802.2 Fig. Configure NET.CFG 5. A typical STARTNET.BAT for the ODI workstation performs the following commands: SET NWLANGUAGE=ENGLISH ; Set NetWare 4.X to English ; Language ; Link Support Layer Module (provided by ; Novell) ;...

  • Page 34: Setup Wl2400 For Dos Tcp/Ip Applications

    <packet_int_no> The software interrupt vector number used by the packet driver program, which can be from 96 (0x60) to 128 (0x80). Example: To load packet driver for the WL2400 card, which will be found first by the driver, on packet interrupt vector 0x60: A:\WPCMCIA\PACKET\WLACFG.COM -h 0x60...

  • Page 35: Chapter 5 Network Configuration

    Chapter 5 Network Configuration 5-1 Installation of “WLU” utility Insert WPCMCIA Driver & Utility Diskette into floppy drive, and then execute :\WPCMCIA\WLU\setup.exe Fig. Step1 of Wireless LAN Utility setup. Fig. Step2 of Wireless LAN Utility setup. -33-...
  • Page 36 Fig. Step3 of Wireless LAN Utility setup. Fig. Step4 of Wireless LAN Utility setup. -34-...

  • Page 37: Navigating The Wpcmcia Utility

    Main Menu A WL2400 wireless LAN adapter hardware information window will show on the top of the screen (Fig 5.2) while Main Menu screen is displayed. In this window, you will see current adapter configuration information, that is, the MAC address, firmware version, frequency domain, BSS joined, current channel and ESS ID of the adapter that you installed in your desktop or notebook computers.
  • Page 38 1. Click Start, point to Programs and run Wireless LAN Utility. 2. Main menu appears. -36-...
  • Page 39 Network Configuration Screen The Network Configuration screen allows you to check and modify current configuration of the WL2400 wireless LAN adapter. The user-configurable parameters are divided into three groups: ESS ID, Network Type and RTS Threshold. Fig. Network Configuration C-1. ESS ID PARAMETERS ESS ID: Input a digit ESS ID while the roaming feature is enabled (“ANY”...
  • Page 40 Diagnostics Tools Screen The Diagnostics Tools screen shows all diagnostics tools in the WPCMCIA Utility. There are buttons for executing the following diagnostics tools: Fig. Diagnostic Tools ¨ [Site Survey] - Inspect channel quality for your site. ¨ [Link Quality Test] - Test point-to-point communication quality. ¨...
  • Page 41 Fig. Site Survey l Link Quality Test Link Quality Test is a useful diagnostics tool for you to understand the point-to-point data transmission quality between two wireless LAN stations. Or, if you use the Infrastructure wireless LAN configuration, you can test the transmission quality between your wireless LAN station and the WL2400SA Access Point.
  • Page 42 1. Act as Master test station: You should input the destination slave test station address before press [Start] button. The slave address can be found from the slave test station’s screen. The “Master Test Station” window will be displayed after pressing [Start] button. Fig.
  • Page 43 2. Act as Slave test station: You can press [Start] button to start the slave test station. The ”Slave Test Station” window will be displayed after pressing [Start] button. The “Slave Test Station” window contains following status/statistical information during the Link Quality Test session: Fig.
  • Page 44 If you use the infrastructure wireless LAN configuration, you can select the Access Point oop- back test. The loop-back test is between this wireless station and the associated Access Point. Fig. Loop-back through Access Point ¨ Total test packets have been sent. Packet Sent: ¨...

  • Page 45: Firmware Upgrade

    Fig. Access Point Browser. Each row of the Access Point information contains the following columns: ¨ BSS_ID: The BSS ID (MAC address) of the Access Point. ¨ ESS_ID: The ESS ID of the Access Point. ¨ Channel: The operating channel number of the respective access point. ¨...
  • Page 46 It helps you to set up your network environment, configure your WL2400 wireless LAN adapter, and diagnose the operation of your wireless LAN. The WPCMCIA Utility is a Graphic User Interface (GUI) program. For Microsoft...
  • Page 47 Windows 95/98, you start WLU after setup the utility program. NOTE: An error message will be displayed if the WL2400 wireless LAN adapter is not installed correctly into your PC. Make sure the installation of your WL2400 wireless LAN adapter is OK and start WLU again.

  • Page 48: Appendix A Troubleshooting

    WL2400, either turn off or turn on with the same security key. Make sure the BSS ID is the same as the WL2400 for a roaming disabled station, or the ESS ID is the same as the WL2400 for a roaming enabled station.

  • Page 49: Appendix B Glossary

    Appendix B Glossary Access Point - An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and wireless networks together. Ad-Hoc - An Ad-Hoc wireless LAN is a group of computers each with wireless adapters, connected as an independent wireless LAN. Backbone - The core infrastructure of a network. The portion of the network that transports information from one central location to another central location where it is off-loaded onto a local system.

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