User's Guide

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Alereon HS6618AA USB Dongle Users Guide
OVERVIEW
This document describes the usage of the HS6618A. The HS6618A is used as a Wireless USB
Host Adapter. The HS6618A allows the user to connect various Wireless USB devices to a PC or
other device with USB capabilities.
INSTALLATION
The HS6618A can be configured to operate in two modes. First, it can operate in driverless mode
which requires no drivers be installed. The installation process for this mode of operation is to
insert the HS6618A into an available USB port. The second option is Host Wire Adapter
(HWA) mode. This mode requires installation of the Wireless USB Manager.
1.1 Installing Wireless USB Manager for HWA mode
Alereon provides MSI based installers. Each installer is designated by the platform it supports in
the filename. For example,
• Setup_wusb_X86_XXXX.msi - indicates that this MSI is for 32 bit systems
• Setup_wusb_X64_XXXX.mdi - indicates that this MSI is for 64 bit systems
You can launch the installation process by double clicking the MSI package. Please follow the
following steps in order to install Alereon's Wireless USB Manager.
Note: Wireless USB Manager has a dependency on Microsoft .NET 2.0. you will have to install this software
manually before going through the setup or connect the PC to the internet and the setup will automatically
download this dependency from the internet.
•Use the installation program to install the Wireless USB Manager
Figure 2. Wireless USB Installer