GIGA BYTE TECHNOLOGY GN-WLM01 WLAN PCMCIA Card User Manual Manual

GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. WLAN PCMCIA Card Manual

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1 GN-WLM01IEEE 802.11b PCMCIA Wireless AdapterUser’s Manual
2 ContentsChapter1. Product Overview1-1. Introduction to The Client Adapter ……………………31-2. Features ……………………31-3. Physical Dimension/Packaging ……………………31-4. LED Display Indicator ……………………41-5. System Requirements ……………………4Chapter2. Installing the Client Adapter 2-1. Installing The Windows 2000 Driver & Utility ……………………5Chapter3. Using The Utility 3-1. Info ……………………6 3-2. Status ……………………8 3-3. Configuration …………………….9 3-4. Encryption …………………….10 3-5. About …………………….12Chapter4. Specifications4-1 . System Specifications ……………………..134-2. RF Specifications …………………….134-3. Regulatory and Environmental Compliance ……………………..134-4. Software Specifications …………………….134-5. Mechanical Specifications …………………….13
3Chapter1. Product Overview1-1. Introduction to The Client Adapter:This module is made up of the IEEE 802.11b MAC, Baseband, and radio components,PCMCIA interface, two internal antenna.It uses direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technology and implements DBPSK,DQPSK, and CCK modulation. This provides a very robust radio channel and excellentreceiver sensitivity.With its PCMCIA Type-II extended form factor, low power consumption, powermanagement and high-speed wireless data communication, it is ideally suited forintegration into mobile and handheld platform.Furthermore, it provides a set of received signal strength indicator LED. This functionprovides a user-friendly intuitional view. From these indicators, users can know theinformation of the present received signal strength conveniently and also the use maytake a advantage to adjust the receiving position or direction for getting a betterreceiving status.1-2. Features Conforms to IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.11b specification Delivers data rate up to 11Mbps. Dynamic data rate scaling at 11, 5.5, 2, and 1Mbps Automatic power management to reduce battery use. Internal antenna diversity. Supports wireless data encryption with 64-bit /128-bit WEP standard for security. Driver support Windows 98/98SE/Me, Windows2000/XP. Received Signal strength indicator LED for a user-friendly intuitional view.1-3. Physical Dimensions/PackagingDimension: 118.4 mm x 54 mm x 6 mmThis module is developed to conform the PCMCIA standard, for Type II extended PCcard. There are five LED: one indicating power on and the others indicating the received RFsignal strength.
41-4. LED Display Indicator1-4-1. PurposeThe LED display indicator is the function that provides the users to review the receivedRF signal strength of NIC. It is convenient for users to adjust the location of NIC and thengain better receive signal strength refer to LED sight.1-4-2. Description The LED display window is based on the index of the received RF signal strength. itspecifies the condition of “POOR”, “FAIR”, “GOOD”, and “EXCELLENT”, respectively.TABLE 1. shows the relation of LED sight and the condition of receiver.LED sight 　　　　Condition ofreceiver POOR FAIR GOOD EXCELLENT Table 1. The relation of LED Sight and condition of receiver. Note: The LED indictor status shown depended on the data transmission between AP andStation1-5. System Requirements1-5-1. Supported Platform IBM PC/AT compatible computer1-5-2. Supported Operation System Windows 98/98SE/Me Windows 2000/XP
5Chapter2. Installing The Client Adapter2-1 Installing The Driver & Utility (Apply to any supported OS)Step 1: Insert our setup CD into your CDROMStep 2: Execute the setup.exe on our CDStep 3: If you haven’t ever install any wireless LAN card’s driver, the following window willpop up, else the setup program will uninstall your previous driver for a afreshinstallation.Step 4: Press “Next”.
6Step 5: Press “Finish”, and then your installation is ok.Chapter3. Using The UtilityThe Wireless LAN Monitor Utility enables you to make configuration changes on your11Mbps Wireless LAN Card. The Wireless LAN Utility consists of window with 5 items foryou to monitor and configure the 11Mbps Wireless LAN Card: Info, Status, Configuration,Encryptions and About.3-1. Info:The Info tab shows you the current Link State of Wireless LAN Card and ReachableAccess points and Stations in the wireless environment.Link State: There are five kinds of states for a Wireless LAN Card:Access Point associated: The wireless LAN card is now connecting to an Access Point.Peer-to-Peer associated: The wireless LAN card is joining a Peer-to-Peer network now.Access Point scanning: The wireless LAN card now search for an Access Point with thesame network name, or SSID to connect.Peer-to-Peer scanning: The Wireless LAN Card now searches for another Wireless LAN
7Card with the same SSID and the same channel to join.WEP security rejection: This will occur if you join an wireless network with incorrect WEPkey.The other items in the table are details about the link state and will only be availablewhen the wireless LAN card is associated with an Access Points or other wireless LANcard.SSID: This is also known as network name.BSSID: This is the MAC address of the Access Point when the Wireless LAN Cardconnects an Access Point or a special serial number when the Wireless LAN Card is inPeer-to-Peer mode.Channel: This represents the channel now used by the Wireless LAN Card.TxRate: This represents the transmission rate now the Wireless LAN Card uses.Signal Quality: This is only available in Access Point mode and represents the quality ofcommunication between the Wireless LAN Card and Access Point.Reachable Access Points / Stations:This item will show you all the other 802.11 Access Points or Wireless LAN Card s in yourwireless environment. The icon in the front of every item represents this point is an AccessPoint or a Wireless LAN Card in Peer-to-Peer mode. One can join a network easily byclicking the SSID which you want to join.Refresh: Clicking this button, the wireless LAN card will rescan the wireless environmentan show you all the newest reachable Access Points and Stations.
83-2. Status:The Status tab will show you the detailed status of the wireless net card.StateThis field is used to display the current state of the Wireless LAN Card. When the state is“Associated “ means normal flow of operation in Infrastructure mode. The PC is connectedto access point. BSSID is shown in the form of hex digits. Networking is available. A state of“Scanning ” means that the node is searching for available access point and unable detectsthe SSID for an available access point within range. This field will also display an errormessage if for some reason the driver failed to initialize.RescanPressing the rescan button causes the driver to restart and begin its Connection Procedure.The connection procedure differs depending on the Mode of the driver.Access Point Mode - The driver will scan all available channels continuously until it findsone or more Access Points that matches its SSID. At that point it will try and authenticateand associate with the Access Point.Point-to-Point Mode - The driver will scan for 5 seconds looking for an existing Ad Hocnetworking the same SSID.Current Channel and Tx RateShows the channel of the radio and transmit rate are being currently used for an activeconnection. This value has no meaning when the radio is “Scanning”Throughput
9These two fields display the instantaneous wireless Receive and Transmit throughputdisplayed in bytes per second. These values are updated every two seconds.Link QualityThe Link Quality bar graph is only active when the node is in Infrastructure Mode. The bargraphically displays the quality of the link between the node and its Access Point. A labelsummarizes the quality of the link over the bar graph, which can take on one of thefollowing values:“Poor”“Weak”“Fair”“Good”“Excellent”Signal StrengthThe Signal Strength bar graph is only active when the node is in Infrastructure Mode. Thebar graphically displays normalized signal strength as reported by the radio, averaged overall frames over 100 bytes long that are received from the Access Point.3-3. Configuration:The Configuration Tab contains several fields where operating parameters of the drivercan be viewed or changed. Changes to any of the parameters in this panel can be appliedto the driver without the need to reboot the PC.Defaults: Pressing this button restores each field in the panel to its default value. TheApply Changes button or OK must be pressed before the default values are saved to thedriver and registry.
10Profile: You can save various wireless settings for different environment. The systemallows you to have 5 different configurations.Network Name: It is also known as SSID and is the unique name shared among all pointsin the wireless network. The SSID must be identical for all points in the network. It is casesensitive and must not exceed 32 characters.Network Type:This field allows you to select from a list of supported Network “Modes”. The modesdisplayed have two values: “Peer-to-Peer” and “Access Point”.Peer-to-Peer: This is the 802.11 peer-to-peer mode of operation. All communication isdone from Client to Client without the use of an Access Point. Peer-to-Peer networkinguses the same SSID for establishing the wireless connection.Access Point: This mode of operation requires the presence of an 802.11 Access Point.All communication is done via the Access Point, which relays packets to other wirelessClients in the BSS as well as to nodes on a wired network such as Ethernet.Peer-to-Peer channel: This specifies the channel used in wireless communication andshould be set to same channel as the other points in the wireless network. This setting canonly be adjusted in Peer-to-Peer mode.TX Rate: The transmission rate at which client of AP transmits the data packets. You mayset this to Auto 1 or 2 Mb, 5.5 Mb, 11 Mb, or Fully Automatic.3-4. Encryption:To prevent unauthorized wireless stations from accessing data transmitted over thenetwork, the 11Mbps Wireless LAN Card offers highly secure data encryption, known asWEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). If you require high security in transmission, go to theEncryption tab and do the following. Pull down the Encryption menu and select either 64bit or 128bit encryption method. Specify the encryption keys. There are two methods to set the WEP keys, asdescribed below:
11From the WEP encryption item, pull down the menu and it will list three options:Disable – Allows wireless adapters communicate with Access Points without any dataencryption.64 Bit – Requires wireless stations to use data encryption with 64 Bit algorithm whencommunicating with the Access Point.128 Bit – Allows wireless clients to communicate with the Access Point with 128 Bitencryption algorithm.The Encryption tab enables you to identify up to 4 different encryption keys and select oneof them to encrypt your transmission data. The key value of your choice may either be:For 64-bit encryption: Five alphanumeric characters in the range of “a-z”, “A-Z” and “0-9” (e.g. MyKey) 10 digit hexadecimal values in the range of “A-F” and “0-9” (e.g. 11AA22BB33).For 128-bit 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.11AA22BB33123456789ABCDEFF).Alternatively a Passphase can be entered which is used as a “seed” to randomlygenerate the four keys. This saves considerable time since the same keys must be enteredinto each node on the wireless network.Key 1 – Key 4These four fields can be used to manually enter the keys. This may be necessary if youwish this node to match keys in a different vendor’s product. These fields also display the
12keys when they are generated using a Pass-phrase.3-5. About:About tab shows the product version including the detail of Driver, Configuration Utility, andNIC firmware version. Users must use this version number when reporting their problems totechnical support.Chapter4. Specification
13 4-1. SystemStandards IEEE 802.11b compliant, Wi-Fi compatibleHost Interface PCMCIA PC Card Type IIModulation 1Mbps : DBPSK; 2Mbps : DQPSK; 5.5 and 11 Mbps : CCKData Rate 1, 2, 5.5, 11 MbpsOperating Voltage 3.3V / 5V DCOperating Range Open space : 100 - 300m; Indoor : 30 - 100m4-2. RFFrequency Band 2.400 ~ 2.4835 GHz (subject to local regulation)Radio Technology DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum)11 Channels (US, Canada) 4 channels (France)Number of Channel 14 Channels (Japan) 13 Channels (Most European countries, ETSI)Minimum radiated output power 15dBm @ Nominal Temp RangeReceive Sensitivity Typical: - 83dBm @ 11 Mbps date rate, 8% PERAntenna Two internal antenna supporting diversity4-3. Regulatory and Environmental ComplianceFCC part 15 (USA)R&TTE (Europe)EMC certificationARIB-Telec (Japan)Temperature Range Operating : 0 ~ 55 deg C , Storing : -20 ~ 65 deg CHumidity Max. 95% Non-condensing4-4. SoftwareDriver Windows 95/98/Me; Windows 2000/XP; Windows NT4.0RoamingNetwork Protocol Full mobility and seamless roamingTCP/IP, IPX, NetBEUI, NDIS4, NDIS5, NDIS5.1Security 64 bit WEP (128 bit WEP optional)Management Utility Link Configuration for network join and diagnostic4-5. MechanicalDimensions 118.4 x 54 x 6 mmWeight 43 gPackaging Generic, Gigabyte, private labeling optionalLED indicator Power on/Link/Received signal strength
14Federal Communication Commission Interference StatementThis equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digitaldevice, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to providereasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. Thisequipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed andused in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radiocommunications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in aparticular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio ortelevision reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the useris encouraged to try to correct the interference by one of the following measures:- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiveris connected.- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.FCC Caution: To assure continued compliance, (example - use only shielded interfacecables when connecting to computer or peripheral devices) any changes or modificationsnot expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user'sauthority to operate this equipment.This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the followingtwo conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this devicemust accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesiredoperation.IMPORTANT NOTE:FCC Radiation Exposure Statement:This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolledenvironment. This equipment should be installed and operated with minimum distance2.5cm between the radiator & your body.This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antennaor transmitter.This device and its antenna(s) must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with anyother antenna or transmitter. End-users must be provided with specific operatinginstructions for satisfying RF exposure compliance."

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