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G101 Series WLAN Card Contents PACKAGE CONTENTS………………………........................................................2 INTRODUCTION.................……………………......................................................3 G101 WIRELESS NETWORK SCENARIOS………………………...…………4 HARDWARE INSTALLATION…………………………………….……...................7 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS (XP/2000/98SE)…..................10 CONFIGURATION UTILITY.....…………....................................…………….40 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR LINUX....………….…......….….
G101 Series WLAN Card PACKAGE CONTENTS Unpack your G101 WLAN adapter kit and verify that all items are present.
G101 Series WLAN Card INTRODUCTION The G101 WLAN adapter is a wireless network client that complies with the IEEE 802.11b/g standard on wireless LANs. The IEEE 802.11b/g standards compliance means this adapter gives you the flexibility to connect it to any 802.11b/g network. The IEEE 802.
G101 Series WLAN Card G101 WIRELESS NETWORK SCENARIOS The G101 WLAN adapter offers to: zConnect an Ad-Hoc workgroup of wireless computing devices (see Figure 1-1 on page 6). zConnect to a Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network that includes a Residential Gateway (RG) access point (see Figure 1-2 on page 7). zConnect to a Local Area Network (LAN) Infrastructure that includes Access Points, or other IEEE 802.11 compliant LAN systems (see Figure 1-3 and Figure 1-4).
G101 Series WLAN Card Home Networking With the G101 WLAN adapter, wireless access to the Internet or other computing devices is fingertips.
G101 Series WLAN Card Figure 1-4 LAN Infrastructure It’s Easy The G101 functions like any standard wired Ethernet card, but G101 does not need any wires! Where an Ethernet card requires a cable connection to a hub and/or patch panel, the cable physically ties user down to the location of the wired connection. G101 offers connection to a Local Area Network (LAN) system from anywhere within the wireless coverage area.
G101 Series WLAN Card HARDWARE INSTALLATION Product View Antenna connectors, J1 (Main) and J2 (Aux) J1 J2 Golden Finger Page 7
G101 Series WLAN Card Installing the G101 The following diagrams provide the basic installation for the G101, including how to install into and remove from the MiniPCI slot the MiniPCI card. 1. Locate the Mini PCI slot. 2. Place the G101 over the MiniPCI slot (at an angle of 30 degrees). Then, gently insert it into the slot until the golden finger of the card gets fully inserted. 3. Press down the card, and the retaining clips (on two sides of the slot) will lock onto the notches of the card.
G101 Series WLAN Card Removing the G101 1. Locate the MiniPCI slot with G101 installed. 2. Press the retaining clips outwards, and the card should bound upwards slightly after being released from the slot. 3. Remove the card from the MiniPCI slot carefully.
G101 Series WLAN Card SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS (XP/2000/98SE) The following section assists to install G101 WLAN adapter successfully. The driver will firstly be installed, the G101 WLAN adapter will then be installed, and the network properties are finally set to accommodate resource sharing and select the type of wireless network. In order to establish a wireless network connection, make sure that some steps below is performed.
G101 Series WLAN Card For Windows XP Install the Driver and Utility 1. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM device and execute the "setup.exe " program. 2. The InstallShield Wizard box will appear, click "Next" to continue.
G101 Series WLAN Card 3. Licence Agreement appears. Please choice “I accept the terms in the license agreement ” and click "Next" to continue. 4. Click "Install" button to continue.
G101 Series WLAN Card z The driver and utility are Installing. z Don’t care about the message below and click "Continue Anyway" button to continue.
G101 Series WLAN Card z Click finish button to complete install procedure.
G101 Series WLAN Card 1. Insert the G101 WLAN adapter into the MiniPCI slot. The system will automatically find the device and search for its software. Note: Please turn-off the power before you insert G101. z Please wait while the wizard installs the software.
G101 Series WLAN Card z Don’t care about the message below and click "Continue Anyway" button to continue. z Please wait while the wizard installs the software.
G101 Series WLAN Card z Complete device install.
G101 Series WLAN Card Using the Windows XP’ s Utility To connect to a wireless network, please do the following: 1.Double-click the icon marked in red in the taskbar and start using the Windows XP’ s wireless utility z Get into Windows XP’ s utility, click "Advanced" button.
G101 Series WLAN Card 2.The “Connect to Wireless Network” window will contain a list of all the available Wireless Networks. Select the proper network as appropriate. In this example, “AP(G-AP-10)” network was selected as shown.
G101 Series WLAN Card Using the Utility of G101 adapter 1. If the XP’ s Utility is no disabled, the adapter’ s utility will not be applicable. z Clicking on the utility icon. z Click “Yes”,then Radio ON z You can not use function of the adapter’ s utility as below.
G101 Series WLAN Card 2. To Disable the XP’ s Utility for Using “Wireless LAN Configuration Utility” z Double-click the icon marked in red in the taskbar and start using the Windows XP’ s wireless utility z Get into Windows XP’ s utility, click "Advanced" button.
G101 Series WLAN Card z In “Wireless Network Connection Properties“ screen, uncheck the setting “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings“. Note that if it is requested to change back to the Windows XP built- in utility, check the item again.
G101 Series WLAN Card z Clicking on the utility icon will start the Configuration Utility.
G101 Series WLAN Card 3. Please click “All programs-> Inprocomm->IPN2220 WLAN Configuration Utility”. Or to double-click on the icon shown below. The “WLAN Configuration” screen will appear. z Or to double click the icon z The “WLAN Configuration Utility” screen will appear.
G101 Series WLAN Card Using WPA of the Windows XP’ s Utility Note1: Before using the WPA feature, please install Windows XP Service Pack 1 with Windows XP Support Patch for Wi-Fi Protected Access program Note2: Configure the card by Wireless built-in utility (Wireless Zero Configuration). Note3: All devices in the network should use the same encryption method to ensure the communication.
G101 Series WLAN Card 1: Right click the icon to select “View Available Wireless Networks”. 2: Click “Advanced” button from “Wireless Network Connection”.
G101 Series WLAN Card 3: Click“Configure” button to configure the WPA function for the current network. z Network Authentication •Open –No authentication is needed among the wireless network. •Shared – Only wireless stations using a shared key (WEP Key identified) are allowed to connecting each other. •WPA – This mode is for enterprise with an authentication server (Radius Server), WPA-enabled access point, and a WPA-enabled client.
G101 Series WLAN Card z Data Encryption •WEP – In WPA or WPA-PSK mode, WEP is also able to be the encryption method for the transmission data. •TKIP – TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) changes the temporal key every 10,000 packets (a packet is a kind of message transmitted over a network.) This insures much greater security than the standard WEP security.
G101 Series WLAN Card For Windows 2000 Install the Driver and Utility 1.Insert the CD into the CD-ROM device and execute the "setup.exe " program for G101 series to select. 2. The InstallShield Wizard box will appear, click "Next" to continue.
