WL-380F 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adapter User's Manual 2001/10/09 1
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Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
R&TTE Compliance Statement This equipment complies with all the requirements of the DIRECTIVE 1999/5/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL of 9 March 1999 on radio equipment and telecommunication terminal Equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity (R&TTE). The R&TTE Directive repeals and replaces in the directive 98/13/EEC (Telecommunications Terminal Equipment and Satellite Earth Station Equipment) As of April 8, 2000 .
Contents 1. Contents …………………………………………………………………………………………..…...… ….5 2. Introduction……………………………………………………………………….…...………………… .….6 3. Wireless LAN Basics……………………………………………………………………….……...…………7 4. Installation forWindows…………….…..………………………………………………………..…….…….8 4.1 Installation Overview……………………………….……………………………………………..……9 4.2. Installation Procedure ……………………..……….……..……..………….….……………………10 4.3. Uninstallation Procedure…………………………………………..…………………………………17 5. Configuration.Utility …………………………………..………………….…………………………………18 6.
2. Introduction Thank you for purchasing our 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adapter. This manual will assist you with the installation procedure. The package you have received should contain the following items: • 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adapter.
3. Wireless LAN Basics Wireless LAN (Local Area Networks) systems offer a great number of advantages over a traditional, wired system. Wireless LANs (WLANs) are more flexible, easier to setup and manage and often more cost effective than their wired equivalence. Using radio frequency (RF) technology, WLANs transmit and receive data over the air, minimizing the need for wired connections. Thus, WLANs combine data connectivity with user mobility, and, through simplified configuration, enable movable LANs.
4. Installation for Windows platform The following section will assist you to in installing wireless LAN Adapter successfully. You will first install software (driver) and then insert the 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adapter, and finally set the network properties to accommodate resource sharing and select the type of wireless network that you wish to install.
4.1. Installation Overview Here are some steps you will perform in establishing your wireless network connection: Install the Access Point (AP) at first. AP is needed in case of Infrastructure network mode. Install the software using the Installation Diskette or CD. Install the 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adapter. Install the network protocol(s) required to communicate on your network. Most likely you will need the TCP/IP protocol.
4.2. Installation Procedure Note: Do not insert the WLAN USB adapter until you are asked to do so, failure of which may result in unsuccessful installation of your 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adapter Please follow the following steps one by one in order to install successfully. The PRISM WLAN Configuration Utility is installed simultaneously with the driver by executing the PRISM for Windows.exe file. Installation procedures differ depending on whether this is an initial installation or an upgrade.
4. Accept the license agreement.
5. It takes a few seconds for copying the utility files and driver. 6. After setup complete, restart the computer. 7. Connect the 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adapter to the computer, the system will detect new hardware and auto install the driver.
8. Once installation is complete, the utility will be pops up.
9. Click the right button of mouse on My Computer Properties Device Manager. 10. Right click on the Network Neighborhood using the mouse. 11. Select Properties from the pop up menu. The network box appears and you see three main tables: Configuration, Identification, and Access Control.
12. Click on the Configuration tab and then click on the Add button. Select Network Component Type box appears. Click on the Protocol the click the Add button. 13. Select Network Protocols box appears. From the list of manufactures, click on Microsoft. From the list of network protocols list, select NetBEUI, then click OK.
14. The NetBEUI protocol is now installed. After clicking on OK return back to Network Component Type box. 15. Repeat the step 16 and 17 to add IPX/SPX protocol. 16. Repeat the step 16 and 17 to add TCP/IP protocol. 17. Click on the TCP/IP option for setting the IP address for your computer. You can select either Static or DHCP setting. If you use the static IP setup then enter the IP value, Subnet masking , DNS, Domain/ Workgroup name, and Gateway Address values.
4.3. Uninstallation Procedure If you want to uninstall the WLAN card under Win 98, please follow the steps as below: 1. Start Setting Control Panel Add / remove remove Intersil PRISM Wireless LAN for Windows, click ‘ Add/Remove’ button. 2. Remove Inf. File : Click Start Program Windows Explorer Disk C Windows INF other remove Intersil PRISM NIC 3. Romove sys.File: Click Start Program Windows Explorer Disk C Windows System remove PRISMNDS.
5. Configuration Utility After the installation of the PRISM WLAN Configuration Utility, its icon appears in the System Tray in the bottom right corner of your desktop. The color behind the Intersil logo indicates the link status. Red indicates no or very poor link quality. Yellow indicates a usable but weak link. Green indicates a good or excellent link. You can also view the status of the link by placing the cursor over the Configuration Utility icon, as shown in the following illustration.
5.1 Configuration Tab The Configuration menu lets you specify the operating parameters for your PRISM WLAN Interface card. When you first start the Configuration Utility, this menu is displayed. If another menu is displayed, you can display the Configuration options by clicking on its tab in the Configuration Utility panel. Setting the Profile A profile is a named set of operating parameters for your PRISM WLAN Interface card.
Setting the Mode The PRISM WLAN Interface card can operate in one of two modes, which are specified in the Mode field of the Configuration menu. Clicking the down arrow at the right of the Mode field displays the available modes. 802.11 AdHoc Mode IEEE 802.11, the standard on which the WLAN protocol is based, defines two modes to handle two separate needs. The first, called AdHoc (or IBSS) mode, is used when two or more wirelesslyenabled PCs wish to exchange data directly, without an Access Point.
Setting the Transmit Rate The Transmit Rate field specifies the rate at which the radio in your PRISM WLAN Interface card transmits and receives data. You can view the available rates by clicking the down arrow at the right of the Transmit Rate field.
Selecting the Ad Hoc Channel When communicating in AdHoc or Pseudo AdHoc mode, you must specify a channel on which communications will take place. To specify a channel, click the up or down arrow at the right of the AdHoc Channel field until the channel you want to set appears, and then click the Apply button. This field is greyed in infrastructure mode because the channel is automatically selected by the Access Point. Encrption The Encryption menu lets you enable encryption and set the encryption keys.
Disabling Encryption To disable encryption, click the down arrow at the right of the Encryption field, select Disabled, and click the Apply button. Enabling Encryption To enable encryption, click the down arrow at the right of the Encryption field, select either 64 bit or 128 bit, and click the Apply button. After enabling an encryption method, you must then specify encryption keys, as described in the following sections.
Creating Encryption Keys Manually If you want, you can create encryption keys manually by clicking the radio button next to Create Key Manually, as shown in the following illustration. When you click this button, the cursor appears in the field for Key 1. For 64-bit encryption, you must type exactly 10 hexadecimal digits in each of the four key fields; for 128-bit encryption, you must type exactly 26 hexadecimal digits. You then click the Apply button to create your encryption keys.
Link Tab The Link menu provides information on the status of your communications with the wireless LAN. The fields in this menu provide the following information: • State: shows the association state of your computer with the wireless LAN. When operating in Infrastructure mode, this field shows the MAC address of the Access Point with which you are communicating. When operating in AdHoc mode, this field shows the virtual MAC address used by computers participating in the AdHoc network.
About Tab The About menu provides information on the version of the Network Driver, the Configuration Utility, and the firmware in the PRISM WLAN Interface card. In addition, this menu also provides the MAC address of the PRISM card.
6. Troubleshooting To make the installation of Wireless LAN 11Mbps Card more users friendly, we have suggested following the installation steps one by one as listed in the section 4 and section 5. Still you encounter some problems while installing the Wireless LAN 11Mbps 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.
For the Card under Windows 2000: Please check the followings if you encounter some problem while installing the Mini-PCI card or your Mini-PCI card is non-functional. 1. Check the Windows 2000 Diagnostics. You should find out whether there is any conflict in the resource allocation or the I/O address, IRQ allocations. If you find that the IRQ or I/O addresses are already assigned to some other devices, you must change that value. I/O address needs 40h byte length. 2. Click on the Control panel.
