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 1. Introduction.......................................................................................................................3 2. Installation.........................................................................................................................3 2.1 OVERVIEW...................................................................................................................3 2.1.1 INSTALL THE WLAN UTILITY/DRIVER...................................................
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) • PCMCIA / USB / Mini-PCI Bus Interface 2. Installation 2.1 Overview To establish your wireless network connection, the following steps should be executed. 1. Install the software using the installation CD. 2. Insert the Wireless LAN card. This product is designed for Windows 98SE, Millennium, 2000, and XP.
2.1.1 WLAN Driver/Utility 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. During installation, Driver and Utility files will be copied to your system directory. 5. Select “No” and then click “Finish” to complete the installation (It is recommended to select “Yes” for Windows 98).
6. The shortcut will appear on your desktop. By click this icon, you can run the Utility program. You will also find a shortcut “WLAN Manager” at Start\Programs\Startup Menu as shown below: 8
7. After click the shortcut, an inverse red pyramid-like icon will appear on the bottom right of the screen. Right click that icon and select open, the WLAN Utility will pop-up on the screen.
2.1.2 Install the WLAN card The WLAN driver and utilities are included on the accompanying installation CD. Please follow the installation procedures in Section 2.2. (Your WLAN card will not work properly if the driver and utilities are not installed correctly). Make sure that there is an empty WLAN slot (for example PCMCIA, USB, mini-PCI) for WLAN card. Insert the WLAN Card and the installation will start automatically. When the WLAN card setup task is completed, you can run the WLAN Utility.
2.2 Utility Startup Configuration Details WLAN Card has its own management software. Users can control all functions provided by the application named WLAN Utility. The Utility icon will appear on the working bar by double clicking the WLAN Utility shortcut on your desktop. Three colors are used to describe the status of connection and it is shown on the right of working bar. Green indicates excellent connection. Yellow indicates the connection has poor quality (Yellow) and Red means no connection.
parameter will not be active. Infrastructure Client nodes will always go to the same channel as their AP. Wired Equivalent Privacy • If you would like to enable WEP, click the encryption button. • You may desire additional measure of security in your wireless network, which can be achieved by using the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). Follow the steps below to set your WEP: Select the data privacy algorithm you want (64 or 128 bit WEP type).
Figure 1 Status Tab ˙ Profile Name The name of profile currently in use ˙ Connection Status SSID The name of the SSID (Service Set Identification) associated with the profile. State This field is used to display the current state of the driver. The states field can be the following: z Associated - Normal flow of operation between stations in Ad-Hoc mode z MAC address of the access point - normal flow of network operation between the access point and stations in the infrastructure mode.
access point within the range. z z Scanning - Searching for available access point or active node. Driver Not Loaded – means the driver of wireless adapter is not currently loaded on the system. Mode The mode can be either “access point” or “peer-to-peer”: z Access Point – This mode of operation requires the presence of an access point. All communication is done via the access point, which relays packets to other wireless clients in the BSS as well as to nodes on a wired network such as Ethernet.
out the status. The detailed description with the matched figure will be shown as below. Access Point / WEP disable The receiver can receive excellent signals. Encryption is enabled and matched each other. The receiver can not receive any AP’s signal. Encryption is enabled and matched each other. Peer-to-Peer / WEP disable The receiver can receive excellent signals. There is no encryption in use. The receiver can not receive any AP’s signal. There is no encryption in use.
2. Profile Tab The Profile tab is used to configure the various profiles available to you for wireless connections. The Profile tab contains some of the same fields as the Status tab, but unlike the Status tab, all of the fields in the Profile tab are alterable. Figure 2 shows the screen layout of the profile tab. Figure 2 Profile Tab Profile Name Allow to give a name to the profile. Any user can add 9 different profiles at most if he wishes.
Defaults Pressing this button restores each field in the panel to its default value. The default value for each field is as below. SSID The identification of BSS (Basic Service Set) is associated with the current profile. The default value is “ANY”. This allows your wireless client to automatically associate to any access point in the vicinity of your wireless client. Mode This field allows you to select from a list of supported network mode.
Figure 3 Profile Advance Setting RTS Threshold The field allows you to set enable or disable. When the field is set to Enabled, you can adjust the value between 0 to 3000. RTS threshold is a mechanism implemented to prevent the “Hidden Node” problem. “Hidden Node” is a situation in which two stations are within range of the same access point, but are not within range of each other. Thus, it provides a solution to prevent data collisions.
below. Figure 4 Encryption Tab Encryption [WEP security] The field allows you to select Disabling, 64-bit and 128-bit. When setting 64bit, or 128 bits, it means WEP security is used. WEP Key You can choose “Create Keys Manually” or “Create Keys with Pass-phrase” method to enter encryption keys. It allows the entry of four keys for 64-bit and 128-bit key according to WEP function select. To be written to the driver and registry, each key must consists of correct digits and letters allowed.
WEPencryption). - 26 digit hexadecimal values in the range of “A-F” and “0-9”. (e.g. 11AA22BB33123456789ABCDEFF) Create Keys with Pass-phrase A Pass-phrase can be entered which is used as a “seed” to randomly generate the four keys. This saves considerable time since the same keys must be entered into each node on the wireless network. Key1, Key2, Key3, Key4 These four fields can be used to manually enter the keys.
Figure 5 Survey Tab Number of Discoveries The total number of wireless LAN devices discovered by this Site-Survey. ST refers to the discovered device by which the client device is correctly connecting to. SSID The ESS ID stands for Extended Service Set Identification, and it presents the SSID of the access point. In the peer-to-peer device discovered, all clients should share the same SSID for communication.
BSSID The BSS ID stands for Basic Service Set Identification. During infrastructure mode, it represents the MAC address of the access point. Mode The discovered device is an access point (AP) or a peer-to-peer (P2P) device. WEP The discoverable device is encryption enable or disable in this column. Signal Level The signal measurement for each discovered device within the radio range. A higher percentage means that this discovered device has stronger signal strength.
Figure 6 Statistics Tab TX Count Bytes The total bytes number of any kind of wireless packets. Fragments The total number of successfully delivered/received MPDUs of type Data or Management Unicast Packets The number of wireless unicast (point to point) TX packets.
The number of MSDUs successfully transmitted after one (and only one) retransmission. Multiple Retries The number of MSDUs successfully transmitted after more than one retransmission. Retry Limit Exceeded The number of times a MSDU was not transmitted successfully because the retry limit (7 for short frame and 4 for long frame) was reached, due to no acknowledgment or CTS received. Deferred Transmissions The number of MSDUs for which one or more transmission attempt(s) was deferred to avoid a collision.
5. About Tab The About tab is used to show Frequency Domain, Wireless Client Management Utility version, Serial Number and MAC Address of this Network Interface Card, Network Interface Card Driver version and Network Interface Card firmware version. Users need to use these version numbers when reporting their problems to technique support.
Driver Version Device Driver version and date Primary Firmware Version Primary Firmware version and file name. Secondary Firmware Version Secondary Firmware version and file name.
2.3 Uninstall the WLAN Utility / Driver 1. To exit the WLAN Utility, you should click the right bottom on the Utility icon in the working bar and select “Close”. 2. To uninstall the WLAN Utility and Driver, you can move to Start – Programs –WLAN Management Utility, and click “Un-installation”. 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.
4. Performing “uninstall” option. 6. Now the un-installation is completed. Please click “Finish”.
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.
2. Search the 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).
