® Wireless Local Area Network Card WL-100W (For SuperSpeed N Wireless Network) ® LINK ACT Quick Start Guide QE2655/ June 2006
Quick Start Guide English Installation Procedures Important: Install the WLAN card utilities before inserting the WLAN Card into your computer. Installing the WLAN utilities and driver Follow these instructions to install the WLAN card utilities and driver. Insert the support CD into your optical drive. If autorun is enabled in your computer, the CD auto������������������������������� matically displays the utility menu. Click Install ASUS WLAN Card Utilities/Driver.
Quick Start Guide English One Touch Wizard Use One Touch Wizard to setup your wireless connection with an existing wireless LAN. 1. Launch One Touch Wizard from Start menu and click Next to set up your wireless network. 2. Select an AP from the Available Networks then click Next. 3. Connection is complete. Click Next to setup the IP address for the WLAN card. 4. Choose to obtain an IP address or to assign static address manually for your WLAN card.
Quick Start Guide English Configuring with the WLAN utility (Infrastructure) Use ASUS WLAN utility to get connected with an existing wireless network. 1. Right-click the wireless connection icon and select Wireless Settings. 2. Check the Config page to set the SSID (network name) to that of your wireless AP. 3. Use Site Survey if you don’t know the SSID of your access point(s). 4. Encryption settings must match those at the access point. Ask your network administrator about settings if necessary.
Quick Start Guide English Configuring with the WLAN utility (Ad Hoc) The WLAN card supports Ad Hoc mode which allows communication between wireless stations without an AP. 1. Right-click the wireless connection icon and select Wireless Settings. 2. Click the Config button and set the WLAN Card to Ad Hoc connection mode. 3. Click the Survey button to scan for Ad Hoc nodes. Select the node you want to communicate with and press Connect. 4.
Quick Start Guide English ASUS WLAN Control Center ASUS WLAN Control Center is an application which makes it easier to launch WLAN applications and activate network location settings. The WLAN Control Center starts automatically when system boots. When WLAN Control Center is running, you can see a Control Center icon on the Windows taskbar. Starting the Control Center • • Select ASUS WLAN Control Center in Windows Start menu, or Double-click the ASUS WLAN Control Center icon on the desktop.
Quick Start Guide Taskbar icon - Right-click menu • • • • • • • English Right-click the taskbar icon to show the following menu items: Wireless Settings – Launches Wireless Settings application. Activate Configuration – Allows you to choose a preset profile. Mobile Manager – Launches Mobile Manager application. Site Monitor – Launches the Site Monitor application. Preferences – Customizes the Control Center program.
Quick Start Guide English ASUS Wireless Settings Utility Wireless Settings is an application for managing the WLAN Card. Use Wireless Settings to view or modify the configuration settings, or to monitor the operational status of your WLAN Card. When Wireless Settings is launched, you can see the tabbed property sheets which categorize the configuration options into groups. Starting Wireless Settings • Open the Windows Control Panel, then double-click the ASUS WLAN Card Settings icon.
Quick Start Guide English Scanning... : The station is trying to authenticate and associate with an access point or Ad Hoc node. Disconnected - The WLAN Card is installed to the system, but not yet connected to a wireless device. SSID: Displays the Service Set Identifier (SSID) of the device that the card is either associated or intending to join. MAC address: Shows the hardware address of the WLAN Card.
Quick Start Guide Save Configuration English When you make settings for a certain working environment, you may need to save your settings to a profile so that you can easily switch to the settings without repeating the configurations. For example, you can set profiles for work, home and other situations. When you travel form home to work, choose the "office" profile that contains all your settings for office use. When you travel back home, choose the “home” profile.
Quick Start Guide English Status - IP Config IP Config tab shows all the current host and WLAN Card information including host name, DNS servers, IP address, subnet mask and default gateway. Button IP Release - If you want to remove the current IP address, click this button to release the IP address from DHCP server. IP Renew - If you want to obtain a new IP address from DHCP server, click this button to renew the IP address.
Quick Start Guide English Config - Basic This page enables you to change the WLAN Card configurations. Network Type Infrastructure – Infrastructure means to establish a connection with an access point. Once connected, the access point allows you to access wireless LAN and wired LAN (Ethernet). The Channel field turns to Auto if the connection is based on Infrastructure. Ad Hoc – Ad Hoc means to communicate directly with other wireless clients without using an access point.
Quick Start Guide English Others Encryption – Click this link to show the "Encryption" tab. Advanced – Click this link to show the "Advanced" tab. In most cases, the default values do not have to be changed. Troubleshooting – Click on this to show the Troubleshooting utility. Config - Advanced Click Advanced link on Config-Basic page to show this tab. This tab allows you to set up additional parameters for the wireless card. We recommend using the default values for all items in this window.
Quick Start Guide English Config - Encryption This page enables you to configure the Wireless LAN Card encryption settings. For data confidentiality in a wireless environment, IEEE 802.11 specifies a Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) algorithm to offer transmission privacy. The WEP uses keys to encrypt and decrypt data packets. The encryption process can scramble frame bits to avoid disclosure to others. The WPA/WPA2 is improved security system for 802.
Quick Start Guide Data encryption English For Open and Shared authentication mode, the configuration options of encryption type are Disabled and WEP. For WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2 and WPA2-PSK authentication mode, Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) encryption and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption are supported. Disabled - Disable the encryption function. WEP - WEP Key is used to encrypt your data before it is transmitted over air.
Quick Start Guide English 2. Automatic Generation - Type a combination of up to 64 letters, numbers, or symbols in the Passphrase box, the Wireless Settings Utility automatically uses an algorithm to generate four WEP Keys. Select one as your Default Key The Default Key field allows you specify which of the four encryption keys is to use for transmitting data over wireless LAN.
Quick Start Guide English Config - Authentication This tab allows you to set the security settings to match those of your AP. It is configurable only if you have set Network Authentication to WPA or WPA2 in Config-Encryption tab. Authentication Type The authentication type methods include: PEAP: PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol) authentication is a version of Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).
Quick Start Guide • English • • RSSI: The Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) transmitted by each network. This information is helpful in determining which network to associate to. The value is then normalized to a dBm value. Encryption: Wireless network encryption information. All devices in the network should use the same encryption method to ensure the communication. BSSID: The media access control (MAC) address of the access point or the Basic Service Set ID of the Ad Hoc node.
Quick Start Guide English Link State WLAN Card “Link State” icon appears on the left side of the WLAN Card Settings. Use the icon to view the current signal status. Excellent Link Quality (Infrastructure) Good Link Quality (Infrastructure) Fair Link Quality (Infrastructure) Poor Link Quality (Infrastructure) Not linked (Infrastructure) Exit Wireless Settings To exit Wireless Settings, you can click OK or Cancel.
Quick Start Guide English Windows® XP Wireless Options The wireless options window shown below is only available for Windows® XP. It appears when you run the Control Center utility at the first time. Select the utility you want to use for configuring your WLAN Card. Only use Windows wireless function – Only use Windows ® XP Wireless Zero Configuration service to configure the WLAN Card. Only use our WLAN utilities and disable XP wireless function – Only use ASUS WLAN utilities to configure the WLAN Card.
Quick Start Guide 1. The General page shows status, duration, speed, and signal strength. Signal strength is represented by green bars with 5 bars indicating excellent signal and 1 bar meaning poor signal. 2. Select “Wireless Networks” tab to show Preferred networks. Use the Add button to add the “SSID” of available networks and set the connection preference order with the Move up and Move down buttons. The radio tower with a signal icon identifies the currently connected access point.
