GN-WLMR101 IEEE 802.11b Cardbus Wireless LAN Card User’s Manual http://www.gigabyte.com.tw Rev. 1.
Contents CHAPTER 1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW ..........................................................................................1 1-1. INTRODUCTION TO THE WIRELESS LAN CARD ...............................................................1 1-2. FEATURES .................................................................................................................1 1-3. PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS/PACKAGING .............................................................................1 1-4. LED INDICATING LIGHT ......
Chapter 1. Product Overview 1-1. Introduction to The Wireless LAN Card This wireless Local Area Network (LAN) card is composed of the IEEE 802.11b MAC with CARDBUS interface, Baseband, radio components, and two built-in antennas. This product adopts the direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technology using the DBPSK, DQPSK, and CCK modulations to provide a very stable wireless communication quality and an excellent signal receiver capability.
1-4. LED Indicating Light Link: The Link LED lights up when the adapter has an active connection. If the LED isn’t on, the adapter isn’t interfacing with the network. Act: Blinking of the Act LED indicates that both transmit and receive activity is occurring. 1-5. System Requirements 1-5-1. Supported Platform IBM PC/AT compatible computer 1-5-2.
Chapter 2. Installing the Wireless LAN Card 2-1. Installing The Driver & Utility Step 1: Please make sure that you don’t plug your card yet. Step 2: Insert our setup CD into your CDROM drive, the following window will pop up. Step 3: Click “Install Wireless LAN Driver”. Step 4: Click “Next”.
Step 5: Insert your wireless LAN card, wait a moment, and then the following window will pop up. Step 6: Click “Yes”. Step 7: Click “OK”. Step 8: Click “OK”, and then your installation is ok.
Chapter 3. Using The Utility The Configuration & Monitor Utility is a powerful application that helps you to configure the card and monitor the statistics of the communication. Unlike the standard method of configuring the card via the operating system utilities (e.g. Control Panel), this application permits the dynamic modification of the configuration parameters while the card is operating. It also offers some more configuration options.
Figure 3-3. All available wireless networks You can choose any available network and click “Connect” to join it. If this network had built a security mechanism, you must to enter a correct security key (eg. WEP) before click “Connect”. If you don’t know which network to join, or you want to configure and monitor your network, you can click “Advanced” to go into the following window. Figure 3-4.
Signal Strength: It shows the received signal strength from the detected wireless device. Signal Quality: It shows the quality of communication between the wireless LAN card and the associated network (In Figure 3-4, it mean linksys-11g). 3-1. Configuration The “Config” Tab contains several fields where operating parameters of the driver can be viewed or changed. 3-1-1 Available Wireless Networks: In this field, you can see all available wireless networks.
3-1-2 Available Profiles: In this field, you can click “Add” to add a available network into your available profiles. You also can click “Remove” to delete this profile or click “Set Default” to set a default associated network. Every time this card is active, it will automatically try to connect to this default network. 3-2. Advance Configuration The “Advance Config” Tab contains several fields where operating parameters of the driver can be viewed or changed. See figure 3- 6. Figure 3-6.
switch to CAM mode. Once these packets are retrieved, it switches back to Power Saving status. 3-3. Status The “Status” tab shows you the information and status of the card. See figure 3-7. Figure 3-7. The information and status of the card 3-4. Statistics This tab shows you the available statistic information. See figure 3-8.
Figure 3-8 The statistic information of packets sent and received by the card 3-5. About This tab shows you the software driver’s version. See the following window.
Chapter 4. Specification SYSTEM Standards IEEE 802.11/802.11b MAC/BBP Chip RTL8180 Host Interface CARDBUS Modulation 1Mbps: DBPSK; 2Mbps: DQPSK; 5.5 and 11 Mbps: CCK Data Rates 1, 2, 5.5, 11 Mbps Operating Voltages 3.3V Typical power consumption Transmit 290mA; receive 170mA; Sleep 23mA Operating Range Open space: 100 - 300m; Indoor: 30 - 100m RF CHARACTERISTICS Frequency Band 2.400 ~ 2.
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.
