Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product WL-8000 Series Air Health
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User’s Manual WL-8000 Series Wir eless LAN Card Adapter.
REGULATORY STATEMENTS FCC Certification The United States F ederal Communication Comm ission (FCC) and the Canadian Department of Communicati ons have established certain rules governing the use of electron ic equipment. Part15, Class B This device complies with Part 15 of FCC rules.
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 1 W IRELESS N ETWORK O PTIONS ............................................................................... 1 The Peer-to-Peer Network .
P ROFILE M ANAGER T AB ....................................................................................... 25 I NFORMATION T AB ............................................................................................... 26 A BOUT T AB ........
- 1 - INTRODUCTION The is a device that allows y o u connect your computer to a wireles s local area netw ork (LAN). A wirele ss LAN allows your system to use wireless Radio Frequency (RF) technology to transmit and receive data without physically a ttaching to the network.
- 2 - You can also use one computer as an Internet Se rver to connect to a wired global network and share files and inform ation w ith other computers via a wireless LAN. The Access Point Network The network installation allows you to shar e fil es, printers, an d Internet access much more conveniently.
- 3 - INSTALLATION Caution: Do not insert the Wireless LAN Card into your computer until the procedures in “ Install the Driver & Utility ” has been performed. Install Driver & Utility 3. Exit all Windows programs. Insert the CD-ROM into the CD - R O M drive of y our computer.
- 4 - 7. Follow the instruction to select the pro gram folder. Click Next to continue. 9. Select Yes, I want to restart my computer now and click Finish to complete the software installation.
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- 6 - Install the device 1 Note : Make su re the procedures in “ Install Driver & Utility ” has been performed. 1. If you are using t he WL-8000PCI Card, before installi ng the device, make sure the com puter is turned off. Remove the expansion slot cover from t he computer.
- 7 - Note for Windows XP users: 1. Select Install the software automatically (Recommended) and click Next. 4. Click Finish to complete the installation .
- 8 - Verify Device Installation To verify that the device has been properly ins talled in your computer and is enabled, go to Star t Se ttings Control Panel Sy ste m ( Hardware) Device Manager .
- 9 - NETWORK CONNECTION Once the driver has b een installed, you wi ll need to make adjustments to your network settings. In Windows 98/ME 1. Go to Start Settings Control Panel Network . 2. Make sure t hat you have all the following compone nts installed.
- 10 - If any components are missing, click on the Add button to install th em. All of the protocols and clients required (liste d above) are pr ovided by Microsoft. 3. Next, highli ght the specific ne twork component yo u need, click Add . 4. Highli ght Micros oft , and then d oub le click on the item you want to add.
- 11 - 6. Click the Access Control tab. Make sure t hat “ Share-level access control ” is selected. If connecting to a Netware server, share level can be set to “ User-level acc ess control .
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- 13 - 2. Make sure t hat you have all the following compone nts installed. Client for Microsoft Networks NWLink NetBIOS NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compat ible Transport Protocol In ternet Protocol (TCP/IP) If any components are missing, click on the Install… button to select the Client/Service/Protocol req uired.
- 14 - 4. Select the netw ork protocol you wish to add and cl ick OK . This will return you to the Local Area Connections Properties window. 5. To allow you r computer to be visi ble on the networ k, make sure you have checke d off the File and Printer Sh aring for Microsoft Networks .
- 15 - CONFIGURATION After successful installation of the WL-8000PCM/PCI ’s driver , the utility icon will display in the task bar. You will be able to access the Configuration Utility through the Network Status icon.
- 16 - Main Tab The main tab enables you to scan for av ailable networks, se lect a network to which to connect, modify th e settings for the current c onnection, or set up your station for Ad Hoc connection.
- 17 - Note ： Only one configur ation utility can be active a t a time. When the ZCU is set to be the active utility, opening the TI utility － by double-clicking on the utility icon in the system tray or right-c licking the icon and selecting Open － laun ches the ZCU inserted of the TI utility.
- 18 - broadcasting its SSID. The SSID for such networks are listed as <Hidden Netw ork> . In order to connect to such a network, you must know the network’s SSID. BBS ID The MAC address for the Access Point or station . Current Tx Rate It displays the currently connected rate.
- 19 - Band ： The band on which to make a connection . Super Profile ： Determines the securi ty settings available to you, and can be one of the following : Personal: Enables only th e basic security settings that you are likely to need at home.
- 20 - A key of 26 hexadecimal characters (0-9, A-F) is required if a 128 -bit Key Size is selected. A key of 58 hexadecimal characters (0-9 , A-F) is required if a 256 -bit Key Size is selected. WPA2 & Any WPA ： （ WiFi P rotected Access ） is more secure than WEP, and should be used if possible.
- 21 - LEAP (only with CCX mode enabled) The Personal Certificate window enables you to supply a personal certificat e fo r use with TLS and PEAP – MS-CHAP-V2 authentication. This window is only applicable with Enterprise security. Personal Certificate ： To supply a personal certificate: 1.
- 22 - the middle of the Personal Certificate window. 4. To view th e certificate, click View . Th e certificate is displayed: The Password window enables you to supply a login name and password for use when selecting LEAP or PEAP – GTC authentication.
- 23 - for all Securit y settings. Enable CCX mode ： Enables connections in CCX mode. When checked, add itional authentication modes are available. This checkbox is only enabled when Super Profile is set to Enterpris e . Configure ： Click Configure to open the configuration window.
- 24 - RTS Threshold: The mini mum packet length for sending an RTS frame, in bytes. The value must be greater than 0 (default is 4096) . Preamble: Either short or long Retry limits: The number of retries to attempt, if necessary, when sending a fram e.
- 25 - Profile Manager Tab The Profile Manager enabl es you to create, modify and d elete the profiles that the station uses to connect to WLAN networ ks, to activate and de-ac tivate profiles, and to raise and lower a profiles’s priority.
- 26 - priority. If the station cannot connect using th e first profile, the station tries to connect using the next-highest profile, and so forth. To move a profile up one spot in the Active Profiles.
- 27 - tab also displa y s information about the current co nnection, as well as network information about th e station. The statistics are for the per iod starting when you last connected to a network. Th e statistics are refreshed at least twice a second.
- 28 - About Tab Click on the About tab to view basic version information about the OS Version, Utility Version, Driver Version, Firmware Version and EEPROM Version .
- 29 - UNINSTALLATION In case you need to uninstall the Utility and driver, please refer to below steps. (As you uninstall the utilit y , the driver will be uninstalled as well. ) 1. Go to Start Programs Wireless LAN Utility Uni nstall Wireless LAN Utility .
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