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- Page 1 Installation & Quick Start Guide WL500 Wireless Adaptor/Antenna QUICK START WL500-01- VR1...
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Page 2: Before You Start
3. Mounting the WL500 Antenna The WL500 should be mounted in line of sight with the wireless router that you wish to connect to. Unlike VHF antennas, height is not critical and popular antenna locations include; cockpit guard rail, radar arch or wheel house roof. The WL500 antenna has the popular 1”... - Page 3 3. Driver/Software Installation It is very important that you do not plug the WL500 in to a USB port of your computer unless you the WL500 Drivers CD- ROM close to hand. By plugging in the WL500 you will initiate the Windows “Found New Hardware Wizard” which will not be able to complete correctly without the Driver CD-ROM being present.
- Page 4 Figure 8 If your laptop has a built-in, normal wireless adaptor, then you should turn it off whenever the WL500 is plugged in. Consult your laptop instruction manual to find out how to do this. Following this procedure whenever the WL500 is plugged in, will ensure that you connect via the WL500 to get the best signal range possible.
- Page 5 Figure 13 Your WL500 is now ready to use. If your laptop has a built-in, normal wireless adaptor, then you should turn it off whenever the WL500 is plugged in. Consult your laptop instruction manual to find out how to do this. Following this procedure whenever the WL500 is plugged in, will ensure that you connect via the WL500 to get the best signal range possible.
- Page 6 Installation for LINUX Due to the large number of different LINUX distributions, it is not possible to guarantee that the WL500 will work on all distributions. It has been tested on Ubuntu V8.04.2 (a Debian based distro) with Kernel V2.6.24 and all drivers were included in this distro.
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