SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g USB ADAPTER Quick Start Guide About this guide This Quick Start Guide describes how to install and operate your SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g USB ADAPTER. Please read this manual before you install the product. Introduction The SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g USB ADAPTER is a network adapter with a rate of 54 to 1 Mbps operating in the 2.4 GHz band implementing the IEEE 802.11g standard. Its USB port is USB 2.0 compliant It fully supports wireless networking under Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP or under Mac OS X.
Package Content These are the items included in the package: ♦ One SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g USB ADAPTER ♦ One USB Cable ♦ One Quick Start Guide ♦ One installation CD-ROM Minimum System Requirements ♦ PC or MAC Computer with an available USB port (the available USB ports on the MAC keyboard are not usable because they do not supply enough current). ♦ Compatible with USB 1.1 port ♦ Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (98SE), Windows Millennium (ME), Windows 2000 or Windows XP installed on the PC or Mac OS X.
1. Insert the Product CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive of your computer. 2. An Auto-run is automatically executed and the following screen comes up. If not, run the “Autorun.exe” on the CD-ROM Select in the list your adapter model. Please, read the model information directly on your equipment. The menu offers the following choices : ♦ Install the Wireless LAN Utility and driver ♦ Read the present manual To launch the installation, click “Wi-Fi adapter install” A first screen shows up.
Important remark under Windows 98SE ♦ If the “Please insert the disk labeled “Windows 98SE/ME CD-ROM”, and then click “OK” Window appears, insert your Windows CD-ROM and enter the path corresponding to the CDROM drive then click “OK”. Click “Finish” to complete the installation, which will restart Windows. I. Installation of your LAN USB adapter under MAC OS X.2 : I.
- The initial install screen shows up, click on select the location by double-clicking the appropriate Mac OS X system drive and follow the on-screen instructions to install the Wireless LAN Utility. Then start the installation by clicking on 6- During the installation a message shows up to prevent to quit all applications. Click on to continue. Follow the on-screen instructions. 7- The installation of your WLAN USB adapter is finished. Click on to finalize it. II.
Configuration of your Wireless LAN USB to access to Internet After the two previous steps completion, your Wireless USB LAN adapter is now installed. You now have to configure your connection to be able to access via an access as seen below.
Double-click this icon and the main screen of the Utility shows up as seen opposite. Configuration of your Wireless LAN adapter in Infrastructure Mode To access Internet your Wireless LAN adapter must be set in Infrastructure Mode as seen below. In the main screen of the Utility, click the down arrow at the right of the Network Type field and select “Infrastructure” Selection of the SSID The SSID is a string of characters identifying a wireless network (it is the name of this network).
Your network can only be operated in the 2 following conditions: ♦ No security activated, neither in the Access Point, neither in the client stations ♦ Security activated (recommended for securing your data) in the Access Point and on all client stations with the same characteristics of encryption. 1) Security disabled on Access Point. If your Access Point works without security, your wireless LAN adapter also has to be set without WEP.
Creation of the WEP keys It is possible to manually enter the WEP key you want to use. However, this entry being rather tedious, especially for 128 bit keys, it is possible to have them generated automatically. To do that, you will have to enter a string of characters called "Passphrase". Create Encryption Keys by Using a “Passphrase” 1- Select first the “64bit” or ”128bit” length of the key. 2- Select in “key format” : “Passphrase”.
♦ Hexadecimal: 10 hexadecimal digits in the range of “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9” (e.g. 11AA22BB33) For 128bit encryption you may choose: ♦ Alphanumeric: 13 characters (case sensitive) ranging from “a-z”, “A-Z” and “0-9” (e.g. MyKey12345678) ♦ Hexadecimal: 26 hexadecimal digits in the range of “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9” (e.g. 00112233445566778899AABBCC). 2.2) WPA-PSK / TKIP encryption: For Windows only 1 - Select authentication mode : WPA-PSK 2 – Select encryption mode : TKIP.
Open the WLAN utility To open the WLAN utility, you have two possible choices : ♦ Click on the icon ‘ ’ will appear in the top right corner of your menu bar and select the “Wireless preferences” menu ♦ Or double-click on the icon “Sagem USB adapter” will appear in the System Preferences menu, as seen opposite : Then the main window of the WLAN utility shows up. Click on Start Scan to see your available Wireless Networks.
Selection of the SSID (Network Name) and configuration in Infrastructure Mode The SSID is a string of characters identifying your wireless network (it is the name of this network). To belong to a same wireless network, the client stations and the access point connected to the Internet have to use the same SSID. The SSID can be set up to 32 characters. It is case sensitive (please take great attention to that).
Keys Selection You can create up to 4 encryption keys, but only one of them is active. To enter a key, first you must check the “Enabled Key Index” check box, select the WEP key index you want (index 0 for key 1…) then create the key. To select one of the key as active key, its index must be visible in the index screen before you click “Apply” button to make the setting take effect.
For 40 bit (64bit) encryption you may choose: ♦ Alphanumeric: 5 characters (case sensitive) ranging from “a-z”, “A-Z” and “0-9” (e.g. MyKey) ♦ Hexadecimal: 10 hexadecimal digits in the range of “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9” (e.g. 11AA22BB33) For 104 bit (128bit) encryption you may choose: ♦ Alphanumeric: 13 characters (case sensitive) ranging from “a-z”, “A-Z” and “0-9” (e.g. MyKey12345678) ♦ Hexadecimal: 26 hexadecimal digits in the range of “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9” (e.g. 00112233445566778899AABBCC).
identify your own network. Then click the “Apply” button on the Configuration tab to make the setting take effect. Configuration of the Channel To be part of a same network, wireless clients must use the same channel If you want to associate to an existing Ad Hoc network, select the channel of this network in the corresponding field AdHoc Channel in the main screen of the WLAN utility. Then click the “Apply” button on the Configuration tab to make the setting take effect.
The configuration of WEP encryption in Ad Hoc mode is similar to the one in Infrastructure Mode. Please refer to the above explanations. The configuration of your Wireless LAN adapter in Ad-Hoc mode under Mac OS X.2 is finished.
Current Tx Rate : Shows the highest transmit rate of the current 54 Mbps to 1 Mbps. Throughput : Shows the short term transmit and receive throughput in packets/second, and is continuously updated. Link Quality : Based on the quality of the received signal There are 4 states of link quality: Excellent Good Poor no connection. Signal Strength : Based on the received radio signal strength. There are 4 states of signal strength: Excellent Good Poor no signal strength. II.
Current Wireless Network field of the WLAN utility The Current Wireless Network field of the main screen gives the following information on the current connection : Network Name : This field shows the Access Point SSID (Infrastructure Mode) or the other station SSID (Ad-Hoc Mode). Network Type : Shows the connection mode : Access Point (Infrastructure Mode) or Peer-toPeer (Ad-Hoc Mode) Link State : Shows if the l802.11g station is connected or not to the network and if the USB adapter is present.
II. Uninstallation under MAC OS X.2 : 1. Reinsert the product CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive of your computer and double-click on the icon comes up on the desktop to see the CD-ROM composition. 2. run the uninstallation program. 3. An uninstallation script starts where you must enter your Administrator password then type on the Return (↵) touch of your computer. 4. You must disconnect your USB adapter and restart your computer adapter. 5.
