Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Wireless LAN CardBus Card 54M Boca Systems
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54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User’s Manual Ver.2.0.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the lim its for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual About this manual This User’s Manual describes how to in stall and operate your CardBus Wireless LAN Card. Please read this manual before you install the product. This manual includes the following topics: Product description and features.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Table of Contents About this manual ............................................................... 3 Chapter 1 - In troduction ................................................... 5 Features ............
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Chapter 1 - Introduction Thank you for purchasing the CardBus Wireless LAN Card . This high-speed CardBus Wireless LAN Card provides yo u with an innovative wireless networking solution. The Adapter is easy to set up and use.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual What is Wireless LAN? Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) systems offer a great number of advantages over traditional wired systems. WLAN is fl exible and easy to setup and manage. They are also more economical than wired LAN systems.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual wireless LAN to access an existing wired network, allowing wireless users to take advantage of the wired networks resources, such as Internet, email, file transfer, and printer sharing.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Chapter 2 - Hardware Installation This chapter covers connecting your Card Bus Wireless LAN Card to CardBus slot of notebook.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Inserting the Wireless LAN Card Note! These instructions apply to most notebook computers. For detailed information on inserting PC cards into your notebook, consult the notebook manual. Follow the procedure below to install the Wireless LAN card.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Ejecting the Wireless LAN card Af te r disconnecting from the LAN, you can ej ect the Wireless LAN card from the PC Card slot of notebook. Note! In Windows XP/2000/ME/98 operating systems, you do not have to power down the notebook to remove the card.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Chapter 3 – Driver Installation for Windows The following section s cover Car dB us W i re le ss L AN C ar d driver installation in the Windows Operating Systems. Note! You have to install your hardware first before you begin to install the drivers.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 3. A screen appears prompting you to sele ct an installation method. Se le ct Search for the best driver for your device. (Recommended) and click Next to continue. 4. Ensure that the CD-ROM drive is selected.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 5. The follo wing screen appears showing the driver search result. Click Next to continue the installation. 6. Windows 98 copies files to your har d disk. The follo wing screen will appear to inform you when the software installation has finished.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 7. The following screen will ask yo u to restart your computer to finish the installation. Click Ye s to reboot the system. After system r eboot, the Wireless LAN Utility will be installed automatically .
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 3. A screen appears prompting you to sele ct an installat ion method. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended) and click Next to continue. 4. Ensure that the CD-ROM driver is selected and insert the driver CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and click Next to continue.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 5. The follo wing screen appears showing the driver search result. Click Next to continue the installation.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 7. The Windows has finished installing software for the device. Clic k Finish to finish the installation. Then system will start to install Wireless LAN Utility . Please ref er to procedures at Chapter 4.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 3. The system will find the setup files and follow the instruction to copy files to your hard disk. The following screen will appear when the software installation has finished. Click Finish to finish the installation.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Note! In most cases, Windows will automatic ally copy all of the files needed for networking. If Windows asks you for the files and prompts you to input the path to the files. Follow the instructions on your screen, and then click OK to continue.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 3. Click Continue Anyway to continue the installation. 4. The Windows has finished installing software for the device. Click Finish to finish the installation Then system will start to install Wireless utility automatically .
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Chapter 4 – Installing and Using the Wireless Utility The following sections cover the CardBus Wireless LAN Card utility installation and configuration. Installation in Windows After you have installed driver , system will st art to install Wireless LAN Utility .
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 2. The screen will show you the default destination chosen by the utility . Click Next to continue or click the Browse button to select an alternate destination. 3. The following screen will add program icons to the Program Folder .
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 4. The following screen shows the current settings, click Next to continue or click Back to change the Destination Folder in step 3. 5. The Windows has finished installing Wire les s LAN Utility . The following screen will ask you to restart your computer to finish the installation.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Using Wireless Utility In W indows XP Wireless LAN Utility There are two ways to configure CardBus Wireless LAN Card. One is Wireless LAN Utility; the other one is Windows Wi reless Network Configuration.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 4. Make sure “Use Windows to configur e my wireless network settings” is checked and click OK. 5. Click the Windows Wireless Network Configuration icon again to open the Windows Wireless Network Configuration.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 6. Select an available network and click Connect button. 7. The Windows Wireless Network Confi guration will be enabled . Click the Windows Wireless Configure icon. Windows Wireless Network Configuration is enabled 8.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Use Wireless LAN Utility 1. Exit the Wireless LAN Utility . 2. Click Windows Wireless Network Configuration icon.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 4. Make sure “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings” is unchecked and click OK button. 5. Click Start -> All Programs -> IEEE 802.1 1g WLAN CardBus Card then click IEEE802.1 1g WLAN CardBus Card Utility to restart IEEE802.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 6. The Wireless LAN Utility will appear , Double-click the icon to open the configuration utility . Wireless LAN Utility 7. Click Re-Scan button to start Wireless LAN Utility . (Refer to Configuring the CardBus Wireless LAN Card.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Use Wireless LAN Utility In W indows 98, 2000 and ME Wireless LAN Utility icon Icon Meaning Green: indicates a connection is linked to a wireless network. Red: indicates that the wireless LAN card is looking for an available access point.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 2. Select the “ Configuration” tab. The profile setting allows you to save configurations in different profiles for different work ing environments. The default profile will contain the init ial configuration setting when you install the Card.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 3. Select the “ Site Survey” tab. The list on the adjacent screen shows you available Access Points and their features. Click on the desired Access Point, and then click Connect to connect or Search to search for more Access Points.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 4. Click on the “ Encryption” tab. Under the drop-box, you can choose to have WEP encryption Disabled, 64-Bit, or 128-Bit. Wired Equiv alent Privacy (WEP) is an encryption scheme used to protect wir eless data communication.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 5. Select the “ Advanced ” tab. You can choose the fragmentation threshold to define the maximum data frame size y our adapter will trans mit. When the packet error rate is high, you may set the thres hold value to transmit shorter frames.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 6. The “About” tab shows you copyright and version information about the driver , the configuration utility , and the firmware.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Chapter 5 – Installing Network Protocols Protocols are necessary for computers to be recognized on your network. Windows 2000 users need to check their Windows User Guides for protocol installation. Installing the Network Protocols for Windows 98 and Millennium 1.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 2. Select IEEE802.1 1g WLAN CardBus Card v3.0 from the list and click the Add button. 3. Highlight Protocol and click the Add button.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 4. Select Microsoft from the list of “Manufacturers” and TCP/IP from the list of “Network” Protocols” and click the OK button to finish the installation.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual Appendix A – FAQ 1. What is IEEE 802.11 standard? The IEEE 802.11 is a wireless LAN i ndustry standard, and the objective of IEEE 802.11 is to make sure that different manufactures’ wireless LAN devices can communicate to each other.
54M Wireless LAN CardBus Card User ’ s Manual 40 Appendix B – Specifications Standards: IEEE 802.1 1b, IEEE 802.1 1g Channels: 1 1 Channels (US, Canada) 13 Channels (Europe) 14 Channels (Japan) Antenna: Built-in Chip Antenna Frequency: 2.
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