GPRS with WLAN PC Card W10 User’s Manual Version 1.
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Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction ................................................................. 1 1.1. Product Kit ......................................................................................... 2 1.2. System Requirements........................................................................ 2 1.3. Mechanical Description...................................................................... 2 Chapter 2. Installation ...................................................................
Chapter 1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing a BENQ W10 GPRS with WLAN PC Card. The W10 offers GSM/GPRS tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz and IEEE 802.11b WLAN 2.4GHz connectivity in a single PC Card, ensuring that you can connect quickly and easily to the Internet wherever you are in more than 160 countries on five continents. The W10 provides both data and voice communications, giving you the freedom to send and receive e-mail and make voice calls with same device, and even simultaneously.
1.1. Product Kit Before installation, make sure that you have the following items: W10 GPRS with Wireless LAN PC Card Hands-Free Software CD containing user manual and utility Quick Start Guide Warranty card 1.2. System Requirements Before using your W10, please check that you have the following required items: Notebook PC with PCMCIA Type II slot and CD-ROM drive Microsoft Windows 2000/XP operating system (recommend), Windows 98 SE/ ME. 1.3.
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Chapter 2. Installation 2.1. Installing your SIM card to W10 To successfully use your W10, you have to insert your SIM card supplied by your network operator. 1. Push the SIM card holder out and slide it in the direction shown. 2. Place your SIM card to the W10 SIM card holder in the direction shown. Note that the gold contact part of the SIM card faces outside.
3. Please make sure the SIM card is firmly fixed in the SIM card holder as below shows. 4. Insert the SIM card holder (with the SIM card inside) back to W10 in the direction shown. Then, you are ready to use full functions of W10.
2.2. Removing your SIM card from W10 Please follow the instructions below to remove your SIM card from W10 after using it. 1. Push the SIM card holder out and slide it in the direction shown. 2. Use your fingers to bend the middle part of the W10 SIM card holder as the follow picture shows in order to remove your SIM card from the holder.
2.3. Driver Installation Please insert the W10 auto-run installation CD into your CD-ROM Drive of your laptop. The CD have installation program and operation manual. Please select “” to start the installation. Then CD will start the installation process automatically. Select a setup language you wish to install and press OK button. The W10 driver is activated to prepare the InstallShield Wizard.
while copying files. Select a location to install W10 files. The default location is C:\Program 8 BENQ Corporation
Files\BENQ Corporation\w10. To install W10 files to this folder, click Next. If you want to install to another folder, click Browse and select another folder. Please wait while installing files. Press Yes and restart your computer.
After installing the W10 driver, please insert W10 PCMCIA Adapter into your notebook. The system will show “Found New Hardware” message and start the hardware configuration. (If your Operating System is Windows XP, the system will ask if you are willing to continue the installation. Please click “Start to install”.
The system will then show a warning message as follows. tested in stringent conditions. to continue the installation. W10 has been Please feel free and comfortable to click “Yes” W10 provides dual module functions and the system will continue to find a new hardware “GPRS+Wireless LAN Modem Primary”, please feel free to continue the installation. (If your Operating System is Windows XP, the system will ask again if you are willing to continue the installation.
The same message will appear again when finding the next new hardware “GPRS+Wireless LAN Modem Secondary (1201)”. Please repeat all the procedure illustrated above and click “Yes” to continue the installation. The W10 installation is now completed and after finishing all these steps, you are able to find the W10 Wireless Settings utility icon (as circled below) on the system tool bar. This means the installation is done successfully. Now you may start to enjoy your W10. 2.4.
Warning: 1. DO NOT remove W10 while it is still operating any tasks. Please only remove it, while it completes all the tasks. 2. DO NOT plug-in W10 before W10 utility installation. Please make sure you have successfully installed W10 utility before plugging W10 into your CD ROM Drive.
Chapter 3. W10 Wireless Settings 3.1.1. System Tray When the 56W10 PC Card is inserted into PCMCIA slot, a small icon is shown on the system tray to indicate the card insertion. After you click that icon with right-button of mouse, a menu will be shown. “Main” is for the function selection region. “Setting” is for settings of all cell phone supplemental functions. “RF Function” is the key to active WLAN or GSM. Please see the picture in the left.
3.1.1. System Tray When the 56W10 PC Card is inserted into PCMCIA slot, a small icon is shown on the system tray to indicate the card insertion. After you click that icon with right-button of mouse, a menu will be shown. “Main” is for the function selection region, “Setting” is for settings of all cell phone supplemental functions. “Exit” means that user quits using W10 user applications and he tries or remove the card from slot. “About” is for the software version of each functions.
3.1.2.1. Network Configuration When users choose network configuration, a dialog box will be shown. User can edit some profiles for their favorite operators. They only need to be set up once and users can use the profile record to quickly access network configuration next time. There are modem settings for GSM/GPRS modems and Wireless LAN configurations. The setting items are directly from Windows settings.
Profile The current profile name and status of the GSM configurations are displayed in this screen. Connect You may select one existing GSM setup, and press “Connect” to connect Internet. New Pushing this button, you can add a new GSM internet connection. A Windows dialup modem setup page will show up. Please follow the regular dialup modem setup process to setup the GSM internet connection. (The dialup setup information, such as phone number, username and password, are the same as 56K dialup modem setup.
in this screen. Profile New (Setup a new connection) When you setup a new GPRS profile, one new GPRS setup menu will pop up. Please kindly check with your operator about GPRS setup. Edit Edit an existing setting you select in the dialup profile list. Delete Delete an existing setting you select in the dialup profile list. Status In this page, the Internet connection status will be shown up in this page. 3.1.2.1.2.
First time User 1. If this is the first time you using 3. 4. 5. W10 connecting GPRS，you need to create one new connection profile. Please press “New” in the control panel of GPRS connection. 2. After selecting “New”, the sub-menu will pop-up. (Please inquire the operator of your SIM card provider about the GPRS configuration.) a. Name your GPRS connection at the Profile Name. b. Input the APN number provided by your GPRS operator, for example you may put “internet” at this box.
3.1.2.1.3. WLAN When users choose network configuration, the submenu will pop up. Left click the mouse on the WLAN item and the WLAN control panel will pop up. Status - Network Adapter You can select from a list of supporting network adapter in this field. (Please kindly select BenQ W10 GPRS with WLAN PC Card - State The current state of the driver is displayed in this screen. If the state reveals “Associated,“ it means that the normal flow of operation is in Infrastructure mode.
In “Scanning ” state, it means that the node cannot detect the SSID to an access point within range and is searching for an available access point. Also, if the driver failed to initiate for some unknown reasons, this field will display an error message. - Network Adapter You can see the current operation mode, Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc mode. - Channel This field shows the current radio channel, which is being used for an active connection.
very good indicator of receiving and transmitting errors over the radio. Configuration In this page, you can configure your WLAN settings. - New In the beginning, there is no default settings. A new WLAN setting profile can be set up by press “New” and one configuration menu will pop up. - Modify You could modify the existing WLAN setting profile by pressing the button. The configuration menu of the existing profile will pop up. - Remove You may remove your existing profile anytime.
Network Type You can select from a list of supporting network types in this field. The network types displayed will have two values as following: “Infrastructure” and “Ad-Hoc”. Channel This field shows the current radio channel, which is being used for an active connection. In “Ad-Hoc” mode, please select your channel responding to other WLAN adapters you would like to associate with. This is a non-compliant mode, which will allow W10 cards to talk to one another without an AP regardless any SSID.
Site Survey - Rescan This button will scan all available Access Points in your neighborhood and then list their SSID, channel, BSSID and signal respectively. - Join Select the SSID you want to be associated with, and then press this Join button to join this network. 3.1.2.2. Phone When user click phone service button in the W10 main menu bar, a phone-shaped dialog box will be popped up. Users can use the keypad on this dialog as they use a normal mobile phone.
Phone (Use it as using a normal mobile phone) Out calling: Users can either key-in the phone number on the keyboard and press “Enter” to make a call or use mouse to click the number keypads on the phone-shaped dialog box to dial and then click the “Send/Answer” key to make a call. Incoming call: Users can press “Enter” or use mouse to click the “Send/Answer” key on the phone-shaped dialog box to answer the incoming call. Phone book Users can press the left soft key to access the Phone book.
3.1.2.3. Short Message Service (SMS) When users choose “Short Message” service, a Microsoft Outlook-shaped dialog box will be popped. A full view for all received or sent short messages. If users click some message item, you can see the content in the below area. Users can edit, save, delete, reply, and create messages in this scenario. I. Inbox: Reading received messages. Click the “Inbox” button and all the messages in the inbox will be listed on the message dialogue box. II.
listed on the message dialogue box. IV. Delete: Reading deleted messages. All the deleted messages will be stored here. I. Create New Short Message: Click this button and the following frame appears, fill in the recipient’s phone number in the “Tel No” column and enter the message text you desire to send. Then, click the “Send Message” In addition, users can click the “Phone book” button to send the message. button to view phone book. II.
3.1.2.4. Phone Book When users choose “Phone Book”, a full view of all phone book records are shown in the dialog box. Users can create new records, edit or delete records. Users can search records for names too. It’s convenient for users to dial a number, send a short message from the phone book scenario. When users select one record on the list, and choose to send a short message, the “Short Message” service dialog will be popped up for sending messages. I.
II. View or Add PC Record: With this item users can view or add phone records to PC. II. View Call Logs: This menu contains lists of the calls you missed, sent and received. Phone Book Tool Bar: 1. Make a Call: Users can select a number from the phone book record list and press the “Make a Call” key to make a call. 2. Send SMS: Users can select a number from the phone book record list and press the “Send SMS” key to send a short message. 3.
5. Delete: Users can select a record from the phone book list and press the “Delete” key to delete the record. 6. Find: Press this key and a dialogue box will be popped up, users can search for the record from all range (SIM page, PC page, Record page) by entering names or numbers. 3.1.2.5. Setting The settings are phone related settings, which include audio setting, call related setting, network setting, and security related settings. Users can reach all dialog by click the tab.
Call Setting Users can query, activate, or cancel “Call Divert”, “Call Waiting”, “Call Barring” settings. - Call divert (Call Forward) Users can choose from the following Call Divert modes as needed. Forward Unconditional: Diverts incoming calls to a designated phone number at all time. When Busy: Incoming calls are sent to a designated number when user’s phone is busy. No Reply: When an incoming call is not replied, it will be send to a designated phone number.
Int’l except Home Country: Stops all outgoing international calls except local calls and those to your home country. All Incoming: Bars all incoming calls to your phone. Incoming when Roaming: Stops incoming calls to your phone when roaming (when you are traveling abroad). - Network password change In “Call Barring” setting, a network password is needed. So, network password is managed in the dialog box.
being made by unauthorized people, unless the correct handset lock code is entered when your phone is switched on. Your phone remains locked if a wrong code is entered, even if your SIM card is removed and replaced with another one. Only emergency calls can be made when your phone is locked. You must enter your phone lock code every time you power on your phone when the phone lock is on (there is no limitation on the number of wrong attempts when you enter the phone code).
Before you can use fixed dialling, you must set up a fixed dialing list in this option. Enter PIN2 and add numbers to your fixed dial list. Add names and numbers in the same way you would a phone book entry. You can then add, edit and delete entries of your fixed-dial numbers. When you have fixed dialling activated your phone can only be used to call numbers on the fixed dial list. Change PIN2 To increase your phone's security you can change the preset PIN2 to a number only you know.
Chapter 4. TroubleShooting Question 1 What should the users do when the signal icon Cable Disconnected appeared right after pressing the ReScan or Disable Radio button under Peer-to-Peer (Ad-hoc) mode? Answer 1 Please remove the BenQ W10 PC Card from the PCMCIA slot and re-insert the device again, and then it will connect the user back on line.
it should create new association for the device with the AP.
