3.6 Installation Procedure of Windows XP Please follow the following steps one by one in order to install the USB Adapter successfully. < Method 1 - Inserting card first > 1. Insert the USB Adapter into USB slot of your computer. 2. “Found New Hardware Wizard” appeared and the system looks for “USB Device”. Insert the MagicLAN Installation CD into the CD-ROM Drive. 3. You can find the “SAMSUNG WLAN USB Adapter(SWL-2300)” and system will copy driver files.
5. Check for the SAMSUNG WLAN USB Adapter(SWL-2300) on Computer Management in the Administrative Tools of the Control Panel. If you find the Yellow sign on the adapter, it shows the installation is not successful. In this case, select the adapter and click on Remove. Restart your computer after uninstalling the driver to make the changes effective. (See the Adapter Removal in section 3.7) 6. Of the icons displayed on the right bottom of desktop, click on icon Wireless Network Connection. stated 7.
9. Next, move to the General Tab. After the double click the “Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)”, set the IP value, Gateway value and DNS value and click on OK. All will be done by clicking on OK once more.
< Method 2 – Installing software first > 1. If you insert the MagicLAN Installation CD into the CD-ROM drive, software will launch automatically. Then, click on the ‘Install MagicLAN Driver’. 2. You can see the pictures of Wireless LAN Cards by model name.(SWL-2300U USB Adapter). Click on the model name to install it’s driver.
3. Click on Operating System in the right screen in which you want to install driver. 4.After installing driver, insert Wireless LAN card. You can click Continue Anyway in the “‘Hardware Installation’ Message box. 5.The system recognize the Wireless LAN Card. If Found New Hardware Wizard appears, just click Next to install the driver files. 6.The other procedures are same to 5~9 of < Method 1 - Inserting card first > . Cf.) The third method : You can combine ‘Method 1’ with ‘Method 2’.
[ Use of Our company’s Utility in Windows XP ] You can also set up the Wireless LAN by the our company’s utility program instead of Windows XP’ utility program. After booting the computer, you have to draw out and re-insert the MagicLAN Installation CD to be automatically installed. You can click “Install Configuration Utility” to install our utility. Choose the appropriate language when a context box appeared to choose utility’s language.
3.6 Update of MagicLAN Wireless LAN Card Driver 1. After inserting the MagicLAN Installation CD, click the Install MagicLAN Driver and select the Card and Operationg System that you want to update in. 2. If selection box appears, select ‘Reinstall MagicLAN Software’ between ‘Remove’ and ‘Reinstall’. 3.7 Removal of MagicLAN Wireless LAN Card Driver (Adapter Removal) Click like followings : -> All Programs -> MagicLAN -> MagicLAN Driver -> Remove USB adapter.
(Utility Removal) Click like followings : -> All Programs -> MagicLAN -> MagicLAN Utility -> Remove Utility Uninstall. Select ‘Remove Configuration Utility Software’ and click Next . (cf) If you want to just remove the WLAN Card from the PC, click and Stop SAMSUNG WLAN USB Adapter(SWL-2300) icon the right bottom of your computer screen.
4. The Program For Setting MagicLAN 4.1 The concept of Profile - - TCP/IP settings for the fixed networks/Wired LAN have no problems, as they do not deal with the mobility. But in case of mobile equipments such as WLAN card, when WLAN client has moved from home to Office or vice-versa, the difficulty for using the old TCP/IP settings arises. The concept of profile makes it easy to use the same TCP/IP settings for WLAN cards regardless of the movement.
2. Input a profile name in Profile Name and description for your profile name in Description and click the NEXT button, the following window will appear. 3. Select the Operating Mode to use and click the NEXT button. Default operating mode is Infrastructure.
- Infrastructure Network is the structure that the communication between Wired LAN and Wireless LAN is feasible. Wireless client is possible to access to the other Network (include Internet) via Access Point. - Ad-hoc/802.11Ad-hoc Network support the communication among Wireless clients. Due to the support of communication among Wireless equipment, Ad-hoc Network doesn’t need Access Point. (cf. 802.11 ad-hoc is satisfied with the 802.11 specification) 4.
5. Select the WEP Mode and Click the Next button. - WEP Mode z This is security tool to protect your DATA from unauthorized users. z To use the function of WEP, The WEP key settings for client must be same to that of AP in the Infrastructure Mode, and the WEP key settings must be same for all clients in the Ad-hoc/802.11Ad-hoc Mode.
6. Enter a valid IP address. IP address can be allocated automatically. (cf. it is limited to users who use the DHCP server or ADSL connection). As only checked in “Manage TCP/IP together with Profile”, IP address can be controlled in the Profile. This menu does not appear under MS Windows NT. Click NEXT to see the following window.
7. Showing you the settings selected so far. Click the Finish button. Check on this box. It will work on the system after clicking the Finish button. 8. Click the Profile name shown in the above window click the Apply button. The settings will be over. If the IP address entered in the system settings is different than the IP address selected under profile name, system IP settings will be changed without rebooting your system.
5. The main configuration of Program During the installation of your SAMSUNG WLAN Card, configuration utility is also installed. You can see the icon at the right bottom of your screen. Double clicking that icon will show you the screen as shown below. The following describes the meanings of variables shown in the WLAN configuration. z Profile: The arbitrary designation by user. It is the profile name to distinguish each Profile.
z WEP: Security tool to be used for encryption/decryption of data to be exchanged between clients or between clients and AP. It denies the authorized access to network if WEP is enabled. z Power Saving: The Power Saving Mode that prolongs the life of battery. z Physical Address: It is the Physical address of WLAN card being used by user. This is also the MAC address of the WLAN card. z IP Address: Address used to send data from one computer to another to create the network of several computers.
5.1.1 The ‘New’ button Clicking the New button, you can add or make a new Profile. (Refer to ‘The Program For Setting MagicLAN’ in the Chapter 4) 5.1.2 The ‘Apply’ button Select and click a Profile to be used, then the saved or modified profile settings will be used for configuring your WLAN card. 5.1.3 The ‘Edit’ button Clicking the Edit button or the Profile name that was created previously, you can modify that Profile. - Click the WEP button to set the security.
. 1. First of all, select the ‘40 bit’. 2. Check a “Generate WEP Key using Passphrase” box and input a certain value (ex. test1 etc) in the ‘Passphrase’ and click the Generate button. Then it will make four values of keys automatically.
3. Then you set the same value to the WEP of AP. (cf. If you use the WLAN made from other company, you must set the same values in the four keys) - You can set the ‘Power Saving’ and ‘Threshold’ with clicking the Advanced button. 1. Power Saving Mode saves the Battery. (cf.. it can give a lowing of efficiency according to 802.11Specification) 2. RTS/CTS Threshold Mode is better used in the place surrounded with much RF interference. - Click the TCP/IP to input the IP directly or receive IP automatically.
5.1.4 The ‘Delete’ button Select a profile and click on Delete button to remove that profile. 5.
5.2.1 The ‘Current Status’ button It shows the current state of the WLAN card. (Refer to the ‘ The main configuration of Program’) 5.2.2 The ‘AP Status’ button It shows the current state of AP.
z z z z z z z Model: It shows the name of model. Version: It shows the version of AP. Description: It is the name of AP designated by AP manager during AP setup. NAT: It shows whether the private IP address (NAT server) is enabled or not. DHCP: It shows whether the DHCP sever is enabled or not. Clients number: It shows the number of users currently connected with the AP. Internet connection: It is the connection type with outer network (LAN, ADSL, ISDN etc.).
the Random Generation value in the 802.11 Ad-hoc Mode. z Channel: It shows the currently used channel number. 5.2.4 Statistics It shows the state of the data transmission. (You can regulate the graph to be see clearly with the settings of the MAX bps on the right side of bottom) 5.3 General Settings 5.3.1 The ‘DHCP’ button - It works when it is enabled. - The Get Status button shows the updated information obtained from the DHCP server.
server. - The Renew DHCP button is for receiving the IP Address from the DHCP server. 5.3.2 The ‘Options’ button - If you disable the check from the ‘Sound Enable’, you cannot hear the sound whenever you click. - If you disable check from the ‘Manage TCP/IP together with profiles’, you cannot control TCP/IP in the utility. You can just modify TCP/IP in the Network Neighborhood.
- You can see the Driver and Firmware version for your WLAN card currently in use. Click the Website to get more information about WLAN.
6. Troubleshooting To make the installation of SAMSUNG WLAN Card more users friendly, we have suggested following the installation steps one by one as listed in the section 3 and section 4. Still you encounter some problems while installing the WLAN Card or you want to confirm whether your card is installed properly or not, we have listed the procedure for checking the various components after you have installed the card. Q. Wireless connection icon shows unavailable message appeared.
Q. I want to use Samsung client utility in the Windows XP. But, we can’t set up correctly. A. Windows XP provides each configuration utility of LAN and Wireless LAN by OS in itself. In case of this, you must select the “Manage the Wireless Control by this utility under WinXP” in the Option menu of General Settings in the Samsung client utility. Q. I can’t see the TCP/IP informations in the MagicLAN Utility. A. It’s related to a file, IPHLPAI.dll. Please reboot the system.
