AMD WLAN Card User Manual Version: 0.
FCC Class B Radio Frequency Interference Statement Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction............................................................................................................4 Chapter 2. Installation..............................................................................................................4 2.1 Installation/Uninstallation............................................. ....................................................4 2.1.1 Installation...........................................................................
Chapter 1. Introduction WLAN Management Utility supports the following: • 802.11b WLAN Configuration • Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 (In Windows XP, we use its default WLAN Utility) • Chapter 2. Card Bus / Mini-PCI Bus Interface Installation 2.1 Installation / Uninstallation 2.1.1 Installation 1. Insert the installation CD into your CD-ROM drive. The setup program will start automatically.
2. Click “ Next” to go to next screen. 3. Select the destination folder. To install to the default folder as shown below, click “ Next” to go to the next screen.
4. Select “ No” and then click “ Finish” to complete the installation (It is recommended to select “ Yes” for Windows 98).
5. The shortcut will appear on your desktop. By click this icon, you can run the Utility program. 6. You will also find a shortcut “ WLAN Manager” at Start\Programs\Startup Menu as shown below: 7
7. Please Install the WLAN card into you PC or notebook. After the installation, a little black icon will appear on the bottom right of the screen. Right click that icon and select open, the Wireless Network Configuration will pop-up on the screen. 2.1.2 Uninstall Wireless Network Configuration 1. To exit the WLAN Utility, you should click the right bottom on the Utility icon in the working bar and select “ Close” . 2.
3. You will be asked if you want to uninstall the WLAN Utility and all of its components. 4. Click “ Remove” option and “ Next” button.
5. Click “ OK” to remove or click “ Cancel” to exit. 6. Performing “ uninstall” option.
7. 2.2 Now the un-installation is completed. Please click “ Finish” .
Step 1. Wireless Network Card Driver/Utility Installation (page 4) Step 2. Please Install the WLAN card into you PC or notebook Step 3. Wireless Networks setting to connect AP ( 5 clicks ) Please Click 5 buttons as follows: Click 1 : Click 2 : Click 3 : Click 4 : Click 5 : 3. This mean that you get connection with WLAN network.
Please open your IE browser now. It is your time to surf on your internet. 4. Click this icon , the Wireless Network Configuration page will close. It only leave on system tray area. 2.
2.3.1 Network Status Page You would know how is your network situation. 2.3.
This tool provide you the information of network around your area. 2.3.
receive. 2.3.4 About Page The most important information that you might use is driver version.
2.3.
˙ Default Channel It shows the channel being used, if any, for this wireless connection. The communication channel ranges from 1 to 11(US/FCC, Canada/RSS), 1 to 13(Europe/ETSI) or 1 to 14(Japan/TELEC) ˙ Supported Rates The supported rate is the rate at which the data packets are transmitted by the client. You can set this to 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps. ˙ RTS Threshold RTS threshold is a mechanism implemented to prevent the “ Hidden Node” problem.
˙ Fragment Threshold The field allows you to set enable or disable. When the field is set to Enabled, you can adjust the value between 256 to 2346. Fragmentation mechanism is used for improving the efficiency when high traffic flows along in the wireless network. If your wireless devices often transmit large files in wireless network, you can enable the Fragmentation Threshold and the mechanism will split the packet to send. 2.3.
Now you can set the WEP key you want. ˙ Encryption The Encryption tab is used to equip an additional measure of security on your wireless network, which can be achieved by using WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption. To prevent unauthorized wireless stations from accessing data transmitted over the network, WEP can support high secure data encryption. WEP encrypts each frame transmitted through the radio by using one of the Keys entered from this panel.
according to WEP function select. To be written to the driver and registry, each key must consists of correct digits and letters allowed. The detailed descriptions will be shown as below for these two kinds of methods: Create Key Manually For 64-bits encryption: - Five alphanumeric characters in the range of “ a-z” , “ A-Z” and “ 0-9” . (e.g. MyKey) - 10 digit hexadecimal values in the range of “ A-F” and “ 0-9” . (e.g. 11AA22BB33).
Chapter 3. Troubleshooting If you encounter some problems installing the WLAN PC card, refer to below the procedure after you have installed the card. a. Check the Various Properties of the Card Click the “ Control Panel” and check whether there is a WLAN card in one of the sockets or not. If there are yellow signs on network card, please check the followings: 1) Check if your notebook supports 3.3V Card. 2) Check that you have inserted the right card and have installed the proper driver.
3. Select CD-ROM drives and click Next. 4.
5. Driver installation is completed.
6. If you want to install the Utility, double click the in CD-ROM. c. If your notebook or PC has default WLAN card, it cannot configure WiFi WLAN card Change the setting of TCP/IP protocol component inside the content of Local Area Connection (in Network Neighborhood).
