No Wires Needed Swallow 1100 PC Card/ Falcon 1100 ISA Card User Manual Version 2.1.
User manual Swallow 1100 PC Card/ Falcon 1100 ISA Card No Wires Needed Jan Steenlaan 3-5a 3723 BS Bilthoven The Netherlands www.nwn.com Version 2.1.
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No Wires Needed 1 Contents 1 2 3 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 5 5.1 5.2 6 7 7.1 7.2 7.3 8 Contents ..............................................................9 Introduction........................................................10 Wireless LAN basics ..........................................11 Series 1100 installation ......................................13 Falcon 1100 ISA Card installation ......................14 Swallow 1100 Windows 95 installation ...............
No Wires Needed 2 Introduction Thank you for purchasing your No Wires Needed Swallow 1100 PC Card / Falcon 1100 ISA Card. This manual will assist you with the installation procedure.
No Wires Needed 3 Wireless LAN basics Wireless LAN (Local Area Networks) systems offer a great number of advantages over a traditional, wired system. Wireless LANs 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.
No Wires Needed • Installation Flexibility - Wireless technology allows the network to go where wires cannot go. • Reduced Cost-of-Ownership - While the initial investment required for wireless LAN hardware might be higher than the cost of wired LAN hardware, overall installation expenses and lifecycle costs will be significantly lower. Long-term cost benefits are greatest in dynamic environments requiring frequent moves, adds, and changes.
No Wires Needed 4 Series 1100 installation This manual will assist you with the installation of the No Wires Needed Series 1100 products. For a quick installation, insert the PC Card, click trough all the Windows screens and use the drivers from the installation disk to finish the installation. Follow the paragraph of the operating system you are using for detailed installation guidelines. If you are using the Falcon 1100 ISA Card please also pay attention to Paragraph 4.
No Wires Needed 4.1 Falcon 1100 ISA Card installation Important: before inserting the Swallow 1100 PC Card in the PC Card Adapter, you should install the PC Card adapter. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Shut Down the computer Remove the metal casing of the computer Place the PC Card adapter in a free ISA slot. (without the Swallow 1100 PC Card) Replace the metal casing from the computer Switch on the computer For Windows 95/98 some extra steps are required to complete the installation. 6.
No Wires Needed 4.2 Swallow 1100 Windows 95 installation This chapter will give you assistance with the installation of the Swallow 1100 PC Card on a computer with the Windows 95 operating system. Insert the Swallow 1100 PC Card in a free PC Card slot. After a few seconds, a window will appear, indicating you that new hardware has been found, for which software must be installed. Windows starts looking for the drivers for the Swallow 1100 PC Card. Insert the diskette in the drive and click .
No Wires Needed A window will appear with the drivers that are found on the disk. Click to continue. Windows will prompt for the Windows95 Disk 1, looking for the file “connect2.cpl”. Enter the location of the driver files. Typically this is “A:\”.
No Wires Needed Windows starts copying the necessary files. You will be asked for the Windows 95 CD-ROM. On pre-installed laptops, the CD-ROM files can often be found in C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS. In most cases, you will have to reboot your computer now. Installation of the Swallow 1100 PC Card is completed. Proceed to chapter 5 for the explanation of the program Connect™.
No Wires Needed 4.3 Swallow 1100 Windows 98 installation This chapter will give you assistance with the installation of the Swallow 1100 PC Card on a computer with the Windows 98 operating system. Insert the Swallow 1100 PC Card in a free PC Card slot. After a few seconds, a window will appear, indicating that new hardware has been found, for which software must be installed. Let Windows look for the best suitable driver for this hardware and click .
No Wires Needed Windows starts looking for the drivers for the Swallow 1100 PC Card. Insert the floppy disk in the drive check the box “Floppy disk drives” and click . A window will appear with the drivers that are found on the disk. Click to continue. In most cases, you will have to reboot your computer now. Installation of the Swallow 1100 PC Card is completed. Proceed to chapter 5 for the explanation of the program Connect™.
No Wires Needed 4.4 Swallow 1100 Windows NT4 installation You need administrator privileges to be able to install the Swallow 1100 PC Card. 1. Make sure that the PC contains a PC Card drive. 2. Go to Control Panel -> Devices and look for Pcmcia 3. If the Status column indicates ‘Started’ and the Startup column indicates either ‘Boot’ or ‘Automatic’, proceed with step 5. 4. Click the Startup button and select the Boot radio button. 5. Go to Control Panel -> Network and go to the Adapters tab. 6.
No Wires Needed 7. A list of network adapters appears. Click the button. 8. Indicate the path of the Swallow 1100 Installation Disk (typically A:\) 9. Click , in the dialog box containing “Swallow 1100 Wireless LAN Adapter”.
No Wires Needed 10. Now you must select an IRQ Number and an I/O Base. Windows NT can not see if the default values are conflicting with other hardware. To make sure, look in Start -> Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Windows NT Diagnostics and select the Resources tab. Here you see which IRQs are already used. When clicking the button below, you also see which I/O ports are already used. Select an unused IRQ and unused I/O base for the Swallow 1100.
No Wires Needed 11. You see the Swallow 1100 listed as a network adapter. Click . 12. If you have other protocols installed, they will review their bindings and ask some questions. TCP/IP for example will ask you whether you want to use DHCP or give a static IP address. 13. You are asked to reboot. Insert the Swallow 1100 and reboot. 14. After rebooting, the lower-right corner of your screen should contain an icon for Connect™.
No Wires Needed 4.5 Installation of the external antenna Plug the extender into your PC Card and connect the other end to your screen.
No Wires Needed - Default internal antenna usage is switched on. Change the settings in the pull-down-menu and close the dialog box with OK. You do not have to restart your computer. The new settings will be accepted automatically. Installation of the external antenna is completed. Warning: if you remove the external antenna, you should adjust the settings to the use of the internal antenna. Sending over an empty antenna-port might effect the lifetime of the card.
No Wires Needed 5 Connect™ Now that you have successfully installed your Swallow 1100 PC Card you can establish a connection with a network. Connect™ is an application that shows the user the current situation of the network connection. Using Connect™ you can diagnose your connection and choose a wireless network to establish a connection with.
No Wires Needed 5.1 Appearances When you have successfully installed the drivers and the Connect™ software on your computer the taskbar will show a new icon. This icon can give you information about the status of your computer in relation to the wireless networks in your environment. The wireless network icon can have three different appearances; each appearance gives you the status of the connection of your computer with the wireless network.
No Wires Needed By clicking the icon once with your right mousebutton a pop-up menu appears with the next options: General info and Session info will open the dialog box of Connect™ with the respective tabsheet. The About Connect™ option will open a box with information about the version and the copyrights. The option will end the program that keeps the icon in the taskbar. The icon will therefore disappear from the taskbar if you select this option.
No Wires Needed 5.2 Establishing a connection By double clicking on the icon in the taskbar with the left mousebutton the following dialog window will appear: This window gives you information about the adapter you are using. It also displays the driver- and software versions. By clicking the checkbox you can show or hide the icon in the taskbar. Regulatory domain gives information about were this product can be used.
No Wires Needed If you have not established a network connection yet then the text “Currently not joined with a network” is shown. In the lower half of the screen you can establish a connection to a wireless network. First, you have to select the network you want to join. The selected network will be highlighted. If you don’t see the network you are looking for you can use the “Rescan” button. The Connect™ program will then again scan for the available networks.
No Wires Needed When you are connected to a network you can use the button to disconnect. By clicking the button the dialog window will disappear and you continue working on the network. Configuration information about the network you join will be saved in the registry. There is no configuration information stored in the Swallow 1100.
No Wires Needed 6 Network protocols Check with your System Administrator for additional network settings.
No Wires Needed 7 Troubleshooting The following paragraphs describe the troubleshooting tips for the various operating systems and the Connect™ utility. • • • Windows 95/98 Windows NT4 Connect™ If these tips are not sufficiently supporting you please contact your vender.
No Wires Needed 7.1 Windows 95/98 Q: I inserted the Swallow 1100 but windows did not recognize the PC Card. A: Proceed along the following steps 1. Check if PC Card support is installed: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> PC Card. If there is a PC Card icon in the Control Panel, double click this icon. When PC Card support is not activated, you will get the opportunity to activate this now. 2. If PC Card support is available, a window will appear with the status of the PC Card slots.
No Wires Needed 2. Something went wrong during the installation of the adapter. • Go to Control Panel -> System and select the ‘Device Manager’ tab. Check the status of the Swallow 1100 adapter under Network Adapters. Double click this item to see the status of the adapter. Check the resource tab to see if there is a resource conflict. • Also in Control Panel -> System, check if there is a reference to the Swallow 1100 under ‘Other Devices’. If so, remove this reference.
No Wires Needed 5. If Diagnose revealed that you do not have a connection with an Access Point, you must first join a network. Click one of the networks listed on the Sessions tab and press the Join button. If no networks are listed, check if there is an Access Point in your neighborhood and if it has been switched on. Also there should be no red lights blinking on the Access Point. Q: The label of the second tab of Connect contains nonsense. A: Use a newer version of the Microsoft Common Controls DLL.
No Wires Needed 7.2 Windows NT4 Q: I inserted the Swallow 1100 before it was installed and I rebooted the system. I also have another network card. Now my other network card does not work correctly. A: You should insert the Swallow only after you have installed it via the Network Control Panel. Q: I installed the Swallow 1100 but it does not work. What can I do? A: Proceed along the following steps: 1. First, check the lower-right corner of the screen and look for the Connect icon in the taskbar.
No Wires Needed − − If NT did not detect a resource conflict but you used I/O Base 0x278 for the Swallow 1100, there may be an undetected conflict with the Plug-and-Play features of the ISA bus. Try another I/O base. Make sure the Swallow 1100 is detected by the PCMCIA drive. Go to Control Panel -> Pcmcia and see if the Swallow 1100 is listed there. If it is not, check your PCMCIA socket connections, eject and insert the Swallow 1100 again and reboot. 3.
No Wires Needed Q: At first it seemed to work, but I ejected the Swallow 1100 and inserted it again and now it does not work any more. A: PCMCIA hot swapping capabilities as available in Windows 95 and Windows 98 are not available in NT 4.0. Reboot your system with the Swallow inserted.
No Wires Needed 7.3 Connect™ Q: No icon in the taskbar although the checkmark is “om”. A: Select “Run” from the start menu and type “connect2”. Press the button and in a few seconds the icon will appear on the taskbar.
No Wires Needed 8 Technical 1100 specifications Swallow Hardware compatibility − IBM-compatible computer with a PC Card Type II Driver support NDIS 3.1 − Windows 95 − Windows 98 − Windows NT 4 and higher − Linux Standards supported − Compliant with ETS 300 328 and ETS 300 826 (CE marked) − IEEE 802.
No Wires Needed Radio specifications Range: − per cell indoors approx. 50 meters (150 ft) or more − per cell outdoors up to 300 meters (1000 ft) Transmit power: − +11.5 dBm Frequency range: − 2.4-2.4835 GHz, direct sequence spread spectrum Number of Channels: − Europe: 13 (3 non-overlapping) − US: 11 (3 non-overlapping) − France: 4 (1 non-overlapping) Antenna system: − One integrated antenna. − One miniature coaxial connector for external antenna (optional).
No Wires Needed Key Management: − Automatic Dynamic Key Allocation (ADKA) through public key Physical Dimensions − Extended type-II PC Card 117.8 x 54.0 x 8.
