STEP8: Click “Properties” and then click “OK” button. STEP9: After filling appropriate value, click “OK” button. And the status will prompt up as below. STEP10: Click the Ralink’s icon will bring up RaUI main window. User can find the surrounding APs in the list. The current connected AP will also shown with the green icon indicated as below screen. User may user the available tab to configure more advanced features provided by Ralink’s wireless NIC.
3.1.1 Start When starting RaUI, system will connect to the AP with best signal strength without setting profile or matching profile setting. It will issue a scan command to wireless NIC. After two seconds, the AP list will updated with the result of BSS list scan. The AP list include most used fields, such as SSID, network type, channel used, wireless mode, security status and signal percentage. The arrow icon indicates the connected BSS or IBSS network.
There are three sections in RaUI. These sections are briefly described as below. Button Section: include Profile page, Network page, Advanced page, Statistics page, WMM page, WPS page, About button, Radio On/Off button and Help button.
Function Section: Corresponding button Î Profile Page Î Network Page Î Advanced Page 25
Î Statistics Page Î WMM Page Î WPS Page 26
Î About Page Status Section: Include Link Status, Authentication Status, AP’s information, Configuration and retrying the connection when authentication is failed.
Î AP’s Information Î Retry the Connection Î Configuration At the mean time of starting RaUI, there is also a small Ralink icon appears within windows taskbar as below. You may double click it to bring up the main menu if you selected to close RaUI menu earlier. You may also use mouse;s right button to close RaUI utility.
ÎÎ Ralink icon in system tray. Besides, the small icon will change color to reflect current wireless network connection status. The status indicates as follow: Î -- indicate Connected and Signal Strength is Good. Î -- indicate Connected and Signal Strength is Normal Î -- indicate Wireless NIC is not connected yet Î -- indicate Wireless NIC is not detected Î -- indicate Connected and Signal Strength is Weak 3.1.
key in the value directly. [Icons and buttons] Î indicate connection is successful on currently activated profile Î indicate connection is failed on currently activate profile Î indicate network type is infrastructure mode Î indicate network type is Ad-Hoc Î indicate security-enabled wireless network Î Add a new profile Î Edit an existing profile Î Delete an existing profile Î Activate selected profile Î Show the information of Status Section Î Hide the information of Status Section 3.1.2.
Profile Name: User can chose name for this profile, or use default name defined by system. SSID: User can key in the intended SSID name or use pull down menu to select from available APs. Power Save Mode: Choose from CAM [Constantly Awake Mode] or Power Saving Mode. Network Type: There are two types, infrastructure and 802.11 Ad-Hoc mode. Under Ad-Hoc mode, user can also choose the preamble type, the available preamble type includes auto and long.
3.1.2.2 Example to Add Profile in Profile Step 1: Click Add in Profile function Step 2: Add Profile page will pop up.
Step 3: Change profile name to what you want to connect. Pull down the SSID and select one intended AP. The AP list is the result of last Network. Step 4: Then, you can see the profile which you set appear in the profile list. Click “Activate” to activate the profile setting.
3.1.3 Network Under the Network function, system will display the information of surrounding APs from last scan result. List information includes SSID, BSSID, Signal, Channel, Encryption algorithm, Authentication and Network type as below: [Definition of each field] SSID: Name of BSS or IBSS network Network Type: Network type in use, infrastructure for BBS, Ad-Hoc for IBSS network Channel: Channel in use. Wireless Mode: AP support wireless mode. IT may support 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g or 802.
Î Command to connect to the selected network. Î Issue a rescan command to wireless NIC to update information on surrounding wireless network. Î Add the selected AP to Profile setting. It will bring up profile page and save user’s setting to a new profile. [Connected Network] (1) When RaUI first ran, it will select the best AP to connect automatically. (2) If user wants to connect to other AP, He can click “Connect: button for the intended AP to make connection.
TX Rate: Manually force the Transmit using selected rate. Default is auto. (802.11n wireless card doesn’t support.) Enable Tx Burst: Ralink’s proprietary frame burst mode. Enable TCP Windows Size: Enhance throughout. Fast Roaming at: Fast to roaming, setup by transmit power. Select your Country Region Code: 8 countries to choose. Show Authentication Status Dialog: When you connect AP with authentication, choose whether show “Authentication Status Dialog” or not.
Frames Retransmitted Successfully: Successfully retransmitted frames numbers Reset Counter: Reset counters to zero [Receive Statistics] Frames Received Successfully: Frames received successfully. Frames Received With CRC Error: Frames receive with CRC error. Frames Dropped Due To Out-Of-Resource: Frames dropped due to resource issue. Duplicate Frames Received: Duplicate received frames.
[WMM Enable – Enable Wi-Fi Multi-Media] If you want to use “WMM-Power Save” or “Direct Link Setup” you must enable WMM. The setting methods of enabling WMM indicating as follow: Step 1: Click “WMM Enable” Step 2: Change to “Network” function. And add an AP that supports WMM features to a Profile. The result will look like the below figure in Profile page.
[WMM-Power Save Enable – Enable WMM Power Save] Step 1: Click “WMM-Power Save Enable” Step 2: Please select which ACs you want to enable. The setting of enabling WMM-Power Save is successfully.
Step 2: Change to “Network” function. And add an AP that supports DLS features to a Profile. The result will look like the below figure in Profile page. The Setting of DLS indicates as follow: (1) Fill in the blanks of Direct Link with MAC address of STA. The STA must conform to 2 conditions as follow: Î Connect with the same AP that support DLS features.
(2) Timeout Value represent that it disconnect automatically after some seconds. The value is integer. The integer must be between 0~65535. It represents that it always connects if the value is zero. Default value of Timeout Value is 60 seconds. (3) Click “Apply” button. The result will look like the below figure. Describe “DLS Status” as follow: (1) As the up figure, after configuring DLS successfully, show MAC address of the opposite side and Timeout Value of setting in “DLS Status”.
Step 1: In “DLS Status”, select a direct link STA what you want to show its values in “Direct Link Setup”. Step 2: Double-Click and the result will look like the below figure. (3) Disconnect Direct Link Setup as follow: Step 1: Select a direct link STA.
Step 2: Click “Tear Down” button. The result will look like the below figure. 3.1.7 WPS WPS Configuration: The primary goal of Wi-Fi Protected Setup (Wi-Fi Simple Configuration) is to simply the security setup and management of Wi-Fi networks.
