Wireless Mini PCI Adapter WL561MSI Manual
FCC Information This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 1. This device may not cause harmful interference. 2. This device must accept any interference received; including interference that may cause undesired operation. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 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.
Installation - Power down your computer. (for Mini PCI adapter, you don't need to do that) - Insert the wireless adapter into the Mini PCI slot for PCI adapter. - Power up your computer. - Select “Cancel” to ignore the “Found New Hardware Wizard” window after Windows been started up. - Insert the Product CD into the CD-ROM drive. - Execute “Setup.exe” in the root directory of the CD, it will guide you to install the Driver and Utility.
Management Load up utility After the installation, one utility will be run and minimized on Windows system tray bar. :Indicate wireless adapter detected, and connected to one site. :Indicated wireless adapter not detected, or not connected to one site. You may double click it to bring up the main menu. You may also use mouse right button to launch or to close it. For Windows XP, the utility provides one option to manage the wireless adapter with Windows Zero Configuration.
: This icon indicates the change is successful. - Connection box: Indicate connection status, the connected network SSID will show up here. - Rescan: Issue an rescan command to wireless NIC to update information on surrounding wireless network. - Connect: Command to connect to the selected network. - Add to Profile: Add the selected AP to profile setting. It will bring up profile page and save the setting to a new profile.
Authentication & Security When the Encryption feature is enabled, the other setups are same as the WEP setting. - Authentication Type: There are three type of authentication modes supported. They are open, Shared, WPA-PSK and WPA system. - 802.1x Setting: It will display to set when user use radius server to authenticate client certificate for WPA authentication mode. - Encryption Type: For open and shared authentication mode, the selection of encryption type are None and WEP.
802.1x Setting 802.1x is a authentication for ?WPA?and ?WPA2?certificate to server. - Authentication type: i PEAP: Protect Extensible Authentication Protocol. PEAP transport securely authentication data by using tunneling between PEAP clients and an authentication server. PEAP can authenticate wireless LAN clients using only server-side certificates, thus simplifying the implementation and administration of a secure wireless LAN. ii TLS/Smart Card: Transport Layer Security.
2. 3. Allow intimidate certificates: It must be in the server certificate chain between the server certificate and the server specified in the certificate issuer must be field. Server name: Enter an authentication sever root.
Profile Page Profile can book keeping your favorite wireless setting among your home, office, and other public hot spot. You may save multiple profiles, and activate the correct one at your preference. Definition of each field - Profile: Name of profile, preset to PROF* (* indicate 1, 2, 3,). - SSID: AP or Ad-hoc name. - Channel: Channel in use for Ad-Hoc mode. - Authentication: Authentication mode. - Encryption: Security algorithm in use. - Network Type: including infrastructure and Ad-Hoc.
Link Status Page The page displays the detailed information of the current connection. - Status: Current connection status. If no connection, if will show Disconnected. Otherwise, the SSID and BSSID will show here. - Extra Info: Display link status and current channel in use. - Link Speed: Show current transmit rate and receive rate. - Throughout: Display transmits and receive throughput in unit of K bits/sec. - Link Quality: Display connection quality based on signal strength and Tx/Rx packet error rate.
Statistics Page Statistics page displays the detail counter information based on 802.11 MIB counters. This page translates that MIB counters into a format easier for user to understand. Transmit Statistics - Frames Transmitted Successfully: Frames successfully sent. - Frames Transmitted Successfully Without Retry: Frames successfully sent without any retry. - Frames Transmitted Successfully After Retry: Frames successfully sent with one or more reties.
Advance Page - Wireless mode: Select wireless mode. 802.11b only, 802.11 b/g mixed and 802.11g only modes are supported. - 11b/g Protection: ERP protection mode of 802.11g definition. Auto: STA will dynamically change as AP announcement. On: Always send frame with protection. Off: Always send frame without protection. - Tx Rate: Manually force the Transmit using selected rate. Default is auto. - Tx Burst: Proprietary frame burst mode of this utility. - Enable TCP Window Size:.
About Page About page display the utility and driver version information of the wireless adapter.
