Air Health WL-8000 Series manual

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. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 1) This dev[...]

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 1 W IRELESS N ETWORK O PTIONS ............................................................................... 1 The Peer-to-Peer Network ......................................................................... 1 The Ac[...]

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. Th e Wireless protocols that come with this product ensure data security an[...]

- 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. With Wirele ss LAN Cards, you can connect wir[...]

- 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. If the CD-ROM is not launched au tomatically, go to your CD-[...]

- 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. For W i reless CardBus users, please locate your CardBus slot. 2. [...]

- 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 . Expand the Network adapters item. If the AirLive WL-8000PCM/PCI is listed, it means that your device is pr operly installed and enable[...]

- 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.  IPX/SPX-compatible Prot ocol  NetBEUI  TCP/IP  AirLive WL-8000PCI_PC[...]

- 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. Click OK . After returning to[...]

- 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. 3. After selecting t[...]

- 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 . 6. When finished, you must restart your co m pu ter to com p le[...]

- 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. If the icon doesn’t appear auto matically , go to Start  Programs  Wi reless LAN Utility  Wireless LAN Utility , it wil[...]

- 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. Configure using Windows Zero Confi g. Exte rnal [...]

- 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. Channel The channel that is curre ntly connected. BSS type The [...]

- 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. Enterprise: Enables all security settings, including more complex ce rtificate- b ased settings that[...]

- 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. Authentication Mode ： Determines the type[...]

- 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. In the User Name field, type in the user name assigned[...]

- 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. To specify a user name and password: 1.Select the appropriate rad io button to indicate whether[...]

- 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. Open Advanced Mode ： Click Open Advanced Mode to configure th[...]

- 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. There are two Retry limits fields: Short: For frames without an RTS frame Long: For frames with [...]

- 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. All profiles are displayed in one of the following lists: Profiles Pool: A list of inactive profiles, that i[...]

- 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 li st, select the profile by clicking on it, an d then click To move a profile down one spot in the Active Profi les list, select the profile by clic[...]

- 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. Connection Status Indicates whether the station is currently connected to a network. This is[...]

- 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 . 2. Clic k OK to continue. 3. Clic k Finish to complete the unin stalled p ro ce[...]