1Mbps Wireless Network PCI Adapter User Manual version 1.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: FCC Radiation Exposure Statement: This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment. This equipment should be installed and operated with minimum distance 20cm between the radiator & your body. This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.
Table of Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS: ................................................................................................................ 3 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................ 4 PRODUCT FEATURES ....................................................................................................................... 4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS .............................................................
INTRODUCTION The 11Mbps Wireless Network Adapter delivers reliable and high-speed wireless performance of 11Mbps Product Features - Full 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11b standard and Wi-Fi compliant High-Speed data transfer rate of up to 11Mbps with automatic fallback under noisy environment or longer distance. Excellent distance coverage with reliable performance. Plug-and-Play setup and operation. Supports strong security of 802.1x, which is available in Windows XP, and WEP 128 bit security.
GETTING STARTED Getting To Know The 11Mbps Wireless Network PCI WIRELESS NETWORK PCI’S LEDs Ø Ø Power LED ON when the unit is powered up WLAN LED ON indicates WLAN connection; blink indicates wireless activity Setting Up The Wireless Network There two wireless network topologies that you can setup your wireless card with. One is called “Ad-Hoc”, and the other is “Infrastructure”.
Setting Up Infrastructure Network In order to setup an Infrastructure of a wireless network such as the example shown above, you will need the following: 1. A broadband Internet connection. 2. ADSL or Cable modem provided by your ISP as part of the broadband connection installation. 3. A Router that connects to the ADSL/Cable modem for internet connection sharing. 4. An Access Point to connect with the Router to form a wireless infrastructure network. 5.
Installing Your 11Mbps Wireless Network PCI 1 Installing Utility Program Make sure that the 11Mbps Wireless Network PCI is NOT inserted into the Cardbus slot. Turn on the computer. Insert the software CD into the CD-ROM Drive. Please note that the installation screens in this quick guide are captured from WindowsXP. The other Windows systems will have similar screen for the installation procedure. Click on “Install” button to start Utility installation.
InstallShield Wizard starts. Click “Next” to continue. Click “Next” to install the program files in the default folder. Installation of driver files, click “Continue Anyway” to continue.
Select the second option, and click “Finish” to complete the installation. The Utility Icon appears in your desktop. - Turn off your computer - Insert the 11Mbps Wireless Network PCI into the CardBus slot in your notebook - Turn on your computer - Continue with Driver Installation. 2 Starts Up PCI for the First Time Select the second option and click “Next” to continue. click “Continue Anyway” to proceed.
Click “Finish” to complete new hardware installation. Simply, double-click the icon to launch the utility.
Click off the “Use Windows to …” option to use the 11Mbps PCI utility. Double-click on the utility icon in the system tray again to launch the 11Mbps PCI Utility.
CONFIGURING YOUR WIRELESS NETWORK PCI Link Info. Page This is the default page when the utility starts up. Status: Shows the BSSID associated, which can be used to identify the wireless network. SSID: Shows current SSID, which must be the same for the wireless client and AP in order for communication to be established. TxRate: Shows the current data rate used for transmitting. Channel: Shows the current channel for communication.
Configuration Page This is the page where you can change the basic settings of the Access Point with the minimum amount of effort to adjust a secure wireless network. SSID: Service Set Identifier, which is a unique name shared among all clients and nodes in a wireless network. The SSID must be identical for each clients and nodes in the wireless network.
receiver, the Preamble and header are processed to aid in demodulation and delivery of the PSDU. The Short Preamble and header may be used to minimize overhead and, thus, maximize the network data throughput. However, the Short Preamble is supported only from the IEEE 802.11b (High-Rate) standard and not from the original IEEE 802.11. That means that stations using Short-Preamble cannot communicate with stations implementing the original version of the protocol.
Security Page This is the page where you configure Security settings of your 11Mbps wireless PCI. Data Encryption: Click the box to enable Data Encryption feature. Aut. Mode: There are three modes available to choose from. l Open Authentication – the sender and receiver do not share secret Key for communication. Instead, each party generates its own key-pairs and ask the other party to accept it. The key is regenerated when the connection is established every time.
SiteSurvey Page This page allows to utilize the SiteSurvey function to scan for the available wireless network (wireless clients and Access Points) and select one to establish wireless communication. 1 2 1 Available Network – displays the wireless networks (wireless clients and Access Points) that are in your signal range. Select any one of them and establish communication by simply mouse double-click or a single click on the “Connect” button.
All the detail information about each settings and configuration item are described in previous Configuration and Security Page sessions. Please refer to those two sessions for more information. When you finish enter the setting for this profile, click “OK” to add a new profile.
About Page This page displays some information about the 11mpbs PCI utility, which includes the version numbers for Driver, Firmware and Utility. When there is new version of software available for upgrade, you will be able to identify by version numbers.
APPENDIX A: TROUBLESHOOTING This chapter provides solutions to frequently encountered problems that can occur during the installation and operation of the 11Mbps Wireless Network PCI. Please read through the following to solve your problems. 1. The wireless clients cannot access the network in the infrastructure mode. Ø Check that the wireless network device is being installed and working properly.
Go to “Hardware” Go to “Device Manager” 20
Right mouse click on the wireless network adapter.
2. What is the difference between 11Mbps and 11Mbps wireless products? What’s the benefit of 11Mbps Wireless Access Point? The 11Mbps is made possible by the new modulation method called PBCC developed by TI, which is different from the current CCK modulation method for 11Mbps. The 11Mbps Wireless Access Point offers double data rate than that of 11Mbps with 20% more distance coverage. The 11Mbps wireless products also operate in the 2.
The FCC and their counterparts outside of the U.S. have set aside bandwidth for unlicensed use in the ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band. The 2.4GHz unlicensed ISM band is available worldwide, which presents the opportunity for the global market of 802.11b high speed wireless products. 8. What is 4X mode? This is a proprietary wireless data transmission mode provided by TI, which enhances TI’s 11Mbps PBCC speed to reach data throughput to over 12Mbps. Since it is not IEEE 802.
APPENDIX B: NETWORKING BASIS This chapter will help you learn the basics of home networking.
Select the option that best describes how you connect your computer to the Internet. In the case of using router in the network, choose the second option. Click “Next” to continue. 1. Enter a short description for your computer. 2. Enter a name for your computer to be recognized among the network. 3. Click “Next” to continue.
Enter “Workgroup name” for your home network. Click “Next” to continue” Click “Next” and wait for the wizard to apply the settings.
You may create a network setup disk which saves you the trouble of having to configure every PCs in your network. Select the first choice, and insert a floppy disk into your disk drive Click “Next” to continue.
Click “Format Disk” if you wish to format the disk. Click “Next” to copy the necessary files to the disk.
!Note: Now you may use the Network Setup Disk you just created in any PCs in your network that you wish to setup. Simply insert the Network Setup Disk into the disk drive of a PC, and open to browse the content of the disk with “My Computer” or “Windows File Manager”. Double-click and run the file “netsetup” for the program to handle the rest. Click “Finish” to complete the Network Setup Wizard. System will now have to restart in order for the new settings to be effective.
Checking IP Address of Your Computer in Windows XP Sometimes you will need to know the IP address of the computer that you are using. For example, when you want to make sure that your computer is in the same network domain as that of your Access Point for you can configure and access the AP. Go to Start menu > Run > type “command” Click “OK” When the command prompt window appears, type command “ipconfig /all” and press Enter.
Go to Start menu > Run > type “command” Click “OK” Type command, “ipconfig /renew” in the command prompt window and press Enter. This command releases the current IP address and acquire it from the network, i.e. DHCP server, once more. In this case, the IP address that we acquired is 192.168.1.3. However, it’s often that the acquired IP address of the network adapter might would not be the same.
Dynamic IP Address V.S. Static IP Address By definition Dynamic IP addresses are the IP addresses that are being automatically assigned to a network device on the network. These Dynamically assigned IP addresses will expire and may be changed over time. Static IP addresses are the IP addresses that users manually enter for each of the network adapters.
The Local Area Connection Properties would appear. Select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” and Click “Properties” to continue. IEEE 802.
Dynamically Assigned IP Address The TCP/IP Properties window appears. Select “Obtain an IP address automatically” if you are on a DHCP enabled network. Click “OK” to close the window with the changes made Static IP Address Select “Use the following IP address” Enter the IP address and subnet mask fields. Enter the IP address of the Router in the Default gateway field.
!Note: Point. The IP address must be within the same range as the wireless route or Access Wireless Network in Windows 2000 Go to Start menu > Settings > Network and Dial-up Connections > Double-click on the Local Area Connection IEEE 802.11b 11Mbps WLAN Network Adapter Select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” and click “Properties” The TCP/IP Properties window appears. Select “Obtain an IP address automatically” if you are on a DHCP enabled network.
Select “Use the following IP address” Enter the IP address and subnet mask fields. Enter the IP address of the Router in the Default gateway field. Enter the IP address of the Router in the DNS server field Click “Ok” to close the window Wireless Network In Windows 98 and Windows ME Go to Start menu > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Network Select TCP/IP of the network device IEEE 802.
The TCP/IP Properties window appears. Select “Obtain an IP address automatically” if you are on a DHCP enabled network. Click “OK” to close the window with the changes made Select “Specify an IP address” Enter the IP address and subnet mask fields. In the DNS Configuration Tab Page, (1) enter the IP address of the Router in the Default gateway field.
APPENDIX C: 802.1x Authentication Setup There are three essential components to the 802.1x infrastructure: (1) Supplicant, (2) Authenticator and (3) Server. The 802.1x security supports both MD5 and TLS Extensive Authentication Protocol (EAP). The 802.1x Authentication is a complement to the current WEP encryption used in wireless network. The current security weakness of WEP encryption is that there is no key management and no limitation for the duration of key lifetime. 802.
communication port to be used for the granted client. There are 2 Extensive Authentication Protocol (EAP) methods supported: (1) MD5 and (2) TLS. MD5 authentication is simply a validation of existing user account and password that is stored in the server with what are keyed in by the user. Therefore, wireless client user will be prompted for account/password validation every time when he/she is trying to get connected.
1. 2. 3. 4. Go to Start > Control Panel double-click on “Network Connections” right-click on the Wireless Network Connection that you use with our 11Mbps wireless PCI. Click “Properties” to open up the Properties setting window.
5. Click on the “Wireless Network” tab.
6. Click “Properties” of the available wireless network, which you wish to connect or configure. Please note that if you are going to change to a different 802.1x authentication EAP method, i.e. switch from using MD5 to TLS, , you must remove the current existing wireless network from your Preferred networks first, and add it in again. To configure for using TLS authentication method, please follow steps 7 ~ 25. Please follow steps 26 ~ for using MD5 authentication method.
TLS Authentication 7. Select “The key is provided for me automatically” option 8. Click “OK” to close the Wireless Network Properties window.
9. Click “Authentication” tab 10. Select “Enable network access control using IEEE 802.1x” option to enable 802.1x authentication. 11. Select “Smart Card or other Certificate” from the drop-down list box for EAP type. 12. Click “OK” to close the Wireless Network Connection Properties window, thus make the changes effective. The wireless client configuration in the zero-configuration utility provided in Windows XP is now completed for TLS configuration. Before you can enable IEEE 802.
TLS Authentication – Download Digital Certificate from Server In most corporations, it requires internal IT or MIS staff’s help to have the certificated downloaded to your local computer. One of the main reasons is that each corporation uses its own server systems, and you will need the assistance from your IT or MIS for account/password, CA server location and etc.
16. Now we are connected to the Certificate Service. Select “Request a certificate”, and click “Next” to continue.
17. Select “User Certificate request”, and click “Next” to continue.
18. Click “Submit >” to continue.
19. The Certificate Service is now processing the certificate request.
