WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual August 8, 2002 Revision 0.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: This device ma y not cause harmful interference. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 1. INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................................................................4 1.1 OVERVIEW .........................................................................................................................................................................4 1.2 FEATURES..
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 1. Introduction 1.1 Overview This user manual describes the detail functions of the CompactFlash Type II wireless LAN card (model name: WF-100) driver and utility, as well as the installation and un-installation deliberately. WF-100 complies with full IEEE 802.11b standards with bit rate up to 11Mbps and the interface complies with CompactFlash specifications.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 2. Wireless LAN Application Wireless LAN (Local Area Network) systems offer a great number of advantages over the traditional wired system. And these systems support the same network configuration options of the legacy Ethernet LANs as defined by IEEE 802.3 standard committee.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 2.2 Infrastructure Topology Infrastructure mode of network operation requires the presence of an access point at least. In this mode, all wireless LAN client devices need to build the communication with the access point first and then access to a wired LAN such as Ethernet. Therefore, an integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an infrastructure configuration.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 3. Installation Procedure for Windows 3.1 Installation for Windows XP 1. Insert the WF-100 CompactFlash card into a CompactFlash slot of a computer. Then the system will automatically detect the new hardware and prompt you to start the installation of the driver. Please put the device driver CD into the CD-ROM drive, and then click Next button to continue. 2.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 4. If there is no Acrobat Reader on the system, you may install it right away. With Acrobat Reader you can read the user manual of the utility in PDF format. 5. A wizard begins to guide you through all the following installation steps. Click Next to continue. 6. You may specify the destination location of the utility. Click Next to continue.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 7. You may specify the program folder name. Click Next to continue. 8. Then the wizard starts to perform setup operations including copying files, and this will take a few seconds. When finished, click Finish to complete the software installation. Sometimes the system will request you, if necessary, to restart your computer right away to make the installation take .
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WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 3.2 Installation for Windows 2000 1. Insert the WF-100 CompactFlash card into a CompactFlash slot of a computer. Then the system will automatically detect the new hardware and prompt you to start the installation of the driver. Click Next to continue. 2. Select the option “Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)”, and click Next button. 3.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 4. Then the driver file “wlannic.inf” of the device will be found by the system. Click Next button to continue. 5. Now, it’s time to install the software of this card. Please choose the language for the following installation instructions. 6. If there is no Acrobat Reader on the system, you may install it right away.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 7. A wizard begins to guide you through all the following installation steps. Click Next to continue. 8. You may specify the destination location of the utility. Click Next to continue. 9. You may specify the program folder name. Click Next to continue.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 10. Then the wizard starts to perform setup operations including copying files, and it takes a few seconds. When finished, click Finish to complete the software installation. Sometimes the system will request you, if necessary, to restart your computer right away to make the installation take effect. Just follow the on-screen instructions to finalize the installation.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 3.3 Installation for Windows Me 1. Insert the WF-100 CompactFlash card into a CompactFlash slot of a computer. And the system will automatically detect the new hardware and prompt you to start the installation of the driver. Then put the device driver CD into the CD-ROM drive.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 4. After restarting the system, you may choose the language for the following installation instructions. 5. If there is no Acrobat Reader on the system, you may install it right away. With Acrobat Reader you can read the user manual of the utility in PDF format. 6. A wizard begins to guide you through all the following installation steps. Click Next to continue. 7.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 8. You may specify the program folder name. Click Next to continue. 9. Then the wizard starts to perform setup operations including copying files, and it takes a few seconds. When finished, click Finish to complete the software installation. Sometimes the system will request you, if necessary, to restart your computer right away to make the installation take effect.
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WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 3.4 Installation for Windows 98 1. Insert the WF-100 CompactFlash card into a CompactFlash slot of a computer. Then the system will automatically detect the new hardware and prompt you to start the installation of the driver. Click Next to continue. 2. Select the option “Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)”, and click Next button. 3.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 4. Then the driver file “wlannic.inf” of the device will be found by the system. Click Next button to continue. 5. The first phase of driver installation is finished. Please click Finish to continue.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 6. Please restart your computer right away to get into the second phase of installation. 7. After restarting the system, you may choose the language for the following installation instructions. 8. If there is no Acrobat Reader on the system, you may install it right away. With Acrobat Reader you can read the user manual of the utility in PDF format. 9.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 10. You may specify the destination location of the utility. Click Next to continue. 11. You may specify the program folder name. Click Next to continue. 12. Then the wizard starts to perform setup operations including copying files, and it takes a few seconds. When finished, click Finish to complete the software installation.
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WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 3.4 Uninstallation WF-100 utility utilizes InstallShield uninstallation mechanism to provide users an uninstallation program. The uninstallation program conforms the standard Windows uninstallation look-and-feel. Users can choose to run Remove Wireless LAN Driver from the Windows Start menu to uninstall the software of WF-100 Wireless LAN PC Card.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 4. Installation Procedure for Pocket PC 4.1 Installation for Pocket PC 1. Insert the WF-100 CompactFlash card into the CompactFlash slot of your Pocket PC. 2. Connect the Pocket PC to your host computer and check that the state of ActiveSync has become Connected. 3.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 5. Click Yes to install to the default directory. 6. Then the wizard starts to perform software setup operations including copying files, and it takes a few seconds. When finished, the system will advise you of checking screen message on Pocket PC. Just follow the message to reset your Pocket PC to make the driver installation take effect. 7.
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WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 4.2 Uninstallation Users may use Remove Programs in your Pocket PC to uninstall the driver. To run the Remove Programs , you may select the Settings item from Start menu, change to System tab of Settings , then click the Remove Programs icon. To uninstall the driver, just choose the item 802.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 5. Wireless Client Management Utility For Windows Wireless Client Management Utility (WCM ) provides the following window interfaces for users to easily manage the wireless card. l l l l Status Icon Status Tab Profile Tab Encryption Tab l Survey Tab l l Statistics Tab About Tab A taskbar icon immediately shows the current connection status.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Radio Off The wireless LAN card has no RF radio signal. Please enable RF radio using Wireless Client A red “X” Management Utility. Users may click Status Icon to pop up a selection menu, where users can turn on/off the wireless radio , launch the utility window for the wireless settings, or remove this status icon from the taskbar.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 5.2 Status Tab The Status tab of the utility window provides information of the wireless connection on the current profile. Figure 1 shows the screen layout of the Status tab. Profile Name Show the engaged profile name. Users may change the profile for different connection.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Mode l Access point – This mode of operation requires the presence of an access point. All communication is done via the access point, which relays packets to other wireless clients in the BSS as well as to nodes on a wired network such as Ethernet. l Peer-to-Peer – This is the peer-to-peer mode of operation.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ The station receives good signals. The WEP is disabled. The station receives fair signals. The WEP is disabled.. The station receives a little bit weak signals. The WEP is disabled. The station only receives a little feeble signal. The WEP is disabled. The station cannot receive any AP’s signal. The WEP is disabled.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Access Point / WEP enabled / WEP mismatched The station receives excellent signals. The WEP is enabled but the decryption key doesn’t match the key of the AP. Or the WEP is disabled but what in the AP is enabled. The station receives good signals. The WEP is enabled but the decryption key doesn’t match the key of the AP.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ The station only receives a little feeble signal. The WEP is disabled. The station cannot receive any signal. The WEP is disabled. Peer-to-Peer / WEP enabled / WEP matched The station receives excellent signals. The WEP is enabled and the decryption key matches the key of the sender. The station receives good signals.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ The station receives fair signals. The WEP is enabled but the decryption key doesn’t match the key of the sender. Or the WEP is disabled but what in the sender is enabled. The station receives a little bit weak signals. The WEP is enabled but the decryption key doesn’t match the key of the sender. Or the WEP is disabled but what in the sender is enabled.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 5.3 Profile Tab The Profile tab provides users to configure a profile of wireless connection in preference. Totally up to 9 different profiles can be added in the system. All settings in the Profile tab are alterable. After filling the profile name and other settings, users may click Apply or OK button to save the profile.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Channel Select the transmission channel in Peer-to-Peer mode. Power Saving Mode Choice of the power saving. The power saving mode can reduce power usage by temporarily disconnecting wireless connections when the connection is idle. The default setting is disabled. RTS Threshold Give the threshold of RTS. The RTS mechanism provides a solution to prevent data collisions.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 5.4 Encryption Tab The Encryption tab equips an additional measure of security on your wireless network by using WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption. To prevent unauthorized wireless stations from accessing data transmitted over the network, WEP can support high secure data encryption.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ - 10 digit hexadecimal values in the range of “A-F” and “0-9”. (e.g. 11AA22BB33). For 128-bits encryption: - 13 alphanumeric characters in the range of “a-z”, “A-Z” and “0-9”. (e.g. WEPencryption). - 26 digit hexadecimal values in the range of “A-F” and “0-9”. (e.g.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 5.5 Survey Tab The Survey tab supports a Site-Survey tool to discover all active wireless devices within the radio range of the station. For any discovered device, users may press Connect button or double click it to make the station immediately connect to.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ BSSID Short for Basic Service Set Identifier, during the infrastructure mode, it represents the MAC address of the access point. Mode Show the discovered device is an access point (AP) or a peer-to-peer (p2p) station. WEP Show whether the discovered device is WEP enabled. Signal Level Display the signal strength level of the discovered device.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 5.6 Statistics Tab The Statistics tab monitors the successful and failed transmission traffic of the wireless network. Users can press Reset button to restart the counter, or just want to temporarily freeze the current showed counters, they can press Pause button to do that easily. The detailed Statistics information contains some columns as below.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ The number shows the times of failed transmitted MSDU that caused by reaching the retry limitation (7 for short frame and 4 for long frame) due to no acknowledgement or CTS received. Deferred Transmissions The number of MSDUs that one or more transmission attempt(s) was deferred to avoid a collision.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 5.7 About Tab This tab shows the Frequency Domain, Wireless Client Management Utility versions, and serial number and MAC address of the network interface card. Users need to use these version numbers when reporting their problems to technique support.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 6. Wireless Client Management Utility for Pocket PC Wireless Client Management Utility (WCM ) provides the following window interfaces for users to easily manage the wireless card. l l l l Status Icon Status Tab Profile Tab Encryption Tab l Survey Tab l l Statistics Tab About Tab A taskbar icon immediately shows the current connection status.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Radio Off The wireless LAN card has no RF radio signal. Please enable RF radio using Wireless Client A red “X” Management Utility. Users may click Status Icon to pop up a selection menu, where users can turn on/off the wireless radio , launch the utility window for the wireless settings, or remove this status icon from the taskbar.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 6.2 Status Tab The Status tab of the utility window provides information of the wireless connection on the current profile. Figure 1 shows the screen layout of the Status tab. Profile Name Show the engaged profile name. Users may change the profile for different connection.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ l Not Associated – the station cannot detect any available station with the specified SSID in the Peer-to-Peer Mode . Current Tx Rate Display the transmission rate of the current communication. Current Channel Display the channel of the current wireless connection.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ The station receives fair signals. The WEP is enabled and the decryption key matches the key of the sender. The station receives a little bit weak signals. The WEP is enabled and the decryption key matches the key of the sender. The station only receives a little feeble signal. The WEP is enabled and the decryption key matches the key of the sender.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 6.3 Profile Tab The Profile tab provides users to configure a profile of wireless connection in preference. Totally up to 9 different profiles can be added in the system. All settings in the Profile tab are alterable. After filling the profile name and other settings, users may click Apply or OK button to save the profile.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Choice of the power saving. The power saving mode can reduce power usage by temporarily disconnecting wireless connections when the connection is idle. The default setting is disabled. Restore Defaults Press this button to restore all settings by default into the current profile.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 6.4 Encryption Tab The Encryption tab equips an additional measure of security on your wireless network by using WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption. To prevent unauthorized wireless stations from accessing data transmitted over the network, WEP can support high secure data encryption.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ - WEPencryption). 26 digit hexadecimal values in the range of “A-F” and “0-9”. (e.g. 11AA22BB33123456789ABCDEFF) Create Keys with Passphrase A passphrase is a string of ASCII characters, which will be automatically converted into four different hexadecimal strings for four keys.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 6.5 Survey Tab The Survey tab supports a Site-Survey tool to discover all active wireless devices within the radio range of the station. For any discovered device, users may press Connect button or double click it to make the station immediately connect to.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Mode Show the discovered device is an access point (AP) or a peer-to-peer (p2p) station. WEP Show whether the discovered device is WEP enabled. Signal Level Display the signal strength level of the discovered device. Channel Display the current communication channel used by the discovered device.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 6.6 Statistics Tab The Statistics tab monitors the successful and failed transmission traffic of the wireless network. Users can press Reset button to restart the counter, or just want to temporarily freeze the current showed counters, they can press Pause button to do that easily. The detailed Statistics information contains some columns as below.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Fragments (Rx Counters) The number of successfully received MPDUs of type Data or Management. Unicast Packets (Rx Counters) The number of received unicast packets of wireless transmission.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 6.7 About Tab This tab shows the Frequency Domain, Wireless Client Management Utility versions, and serial number and MAC address of the network interface card. Users need to use these version numbers when reporting their problems to technique support.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ 7. Hardware Technical Specification Standard Compliance IEEE 802.11b standard and WECA interoperability certified FCC part 15 sec.15. 247/USA CE/ETSI 300.328 300.826/Eurpoe TELEC/Japan Electrical Specification Parameter name Value Remark Supply voltage range 3.0V~3.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Environmental Specification Parameter name Value Remark Temperature Range 0~55ºC Operatio n Temperature Range -20~65ºC Storage Relative Humidity 95% max Vibration 15G EMI FCC class B ESD 1500V 10 to 2000Hz, non-operating Non-operating Frequency Allocation Regulatory Domain Operating frequency range No.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Data Rate Modulation 11M bps CCK ________________________________________________________________________ Page: 62
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Antenna Specification Antenna Type: 2 PCB Antenna for Space Diversity Receive Sensitivity Modulation/Rate Sensitivity Spec(dBm, Typ.) Allowed PER DBPSK (1M bps) -87dBm 8% PER or less DQPSK (2M bps) -85dBm 8% PER or less CCK (5.
WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual _____________________________________________________________________ ________________ Adjacent Channel Rejection Receive Adjacent Channel Rejection shall be tested with a 25MHz Separation and the desired channel input power is –80dBm. General Specification Value Remark Adjacent channel rejection 35dB.
