________________________________________________________________________________________ UANTA COMPUTER INC. _______________________________________________________________ WM1-Mini-PCI Wireless LAN Card USER MANUAL Dec 07, 2001 Revision: 1A Issued By: frank wang Checked By: ______________________________________________________________________________ The release of this document is under controlled by the company. Any extra copy of this document must be written permission by the product manager.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ Revision Date 1A 12/07/2001 Remark First draft ________________________________________________________________________ Page: 2 WM1 User Manual Rev.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: This device may not cause harmful interference. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ Table of Content Table Of Content………………………………………………………………….. 4 1 Introduction……………………………………………………………………….. 5 1-1 Overview…………………………………………………………………………… 5 1-2 Features………………………………………………………………………….… 5 2 Wireless LAN Application………………………………………………………... 6 2-1 Ad-Hoc Topology………………………………………………………………….. 6 2-2 Infrastructure Topology…...
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ 1 Introduction 1-1 Overview The user manual of the model named WM1 will be based on this documentation. The product complies with full IEEE 802.11b standard with bit rate up to 11Mbps and interface complies with Mini-PCI specifications.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ 2 Wireless LAN Application Wireless LAN (Local Area Network) systems offer a great number of advantages over a traditional, wired system. And these systems support the same network configuration options of the legacy Ethernet LANs as defined by IEEE 802 standard committee.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ 2-2 Infrastructure Topology This mode of operation requires the presence of an access point at least. In this mode, all wireless LAN client devices need to communicate with the access point and then access to a wired LAN such as Ethernet via the access point. Therefore, an integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an infrastructure configuration.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ 3 Installation Procedure 3-1 For Windows 2000 installation 1. Windows 2000 will automatically detect the new hardware and prompt you to install the driver needed. Click “ Next” button to begin the installation. 2. Select “ Search for a suitable driver for my device [recommended]”, and click “ Next” button.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ 1. Select the location where the corresponding driver is placed, “ CD-ROM drivers” is the default location we support, and click “ Next” button. ________________________________________________________________________ Page: 9 WM1 User Manual Rev.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ 2. Windows 2000 will show a windows information dialog. Click “ Yes” button. 3. Windows 2000 will install the driver. As the driver files are being copied to the appropriate location, windows 2000 will show a windows information dialog. Users click “ Finish” button to complete the software installation.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ 4 Wireless Client Manager Utility The WM1 Wireless Client Manager (WCM) screen is divided into four tabs : - Status : provides current information on your wireless connection setting. - Profile : easily allows users to configure those different setting for each profile. - Encryption : prevent unauthorized users from accessing your wireless network.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ Profile Name The name of the profile currently in use. Basic SSID The name of the SSID (Service Set Identification) associated with the profile State This field is used to display the current state of the driver. When the state “associated” means normal flow of operation in access point or peer-to-peer devices.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ WEP Indicated of WEP is disable, 64 bit or 128 bit. Throughput These two fields display the instantaneous wireless receive and transmit throughput displayed in bytes per second. These values are updated every two seconds. Profile Tab The Profile tab is used to configure the various profiles available to you for wireless connections.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ Name given to the profile. Any user can add 10 maximum different profiles if he wish. Defaults Pressing this button restores each field in the panel to its default value. The default value for each field as below. Basic SSID The name of the SSID (Service Set Identification) associated with the profile.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ Changing the Beacon Interval is only effective in peer-to-peer mode. You can set the value ranging from 20 to 1000. Encryption Tab The Encryption tab is used to desire an additional measure of security on your wireless network, which can be achieved by using WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ WEP security is used. WEP Key You can use “Create Key Manually” or “Create Keys with Pass-phrase” method to enter encryption keys. It allows the entry of four keys for 64-bit encryption and one set of 128-bit key according to WEP function select. To be written to the driver and registry, each key must consists of correct digits and letters.
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UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ 5. Technical Specification of Wireless LAN 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 Supply voltage range: 3.0V~3.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ Direct sequence spread spectrum•DSSS• 1M bps DBPSK 5.5M bps CCK 2M bps DQPSK 11M bps CCK Antenna Specification Two Antenna ports provided for Space Diversity Port Impedance 50 ohms Receive Sensitivity 1M bps 2M bps 5.5M bps 11M bps -87dBm Max -85dBm Max -84dBm Max -82dBm Max 8% PER or less 8% PER or less 8% PER or less 8% PER or less 85dB typical Max.
UANTA COMPUTER INC. WM1 Mini-PCI User Manual ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ 15dB Min. Preamble Length Short/Long Multipath Fading Equalization RAKE receiver incooperated•targeted for multipath delay spread• 125 ns rms at 11Mbps•200 ns rms at 5.5 Mbps and 500 ns rms at 1 or 2M bps ________________________________________________________________________ Page: 20 WM1 User Manual Rev.
