Linksys WMP54G manual

Instant Wireless ® Series User Guide Wireless-G PCI Adapter Use this Guide to install: WMP54G[...]

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• Linksys Group déclar e que la Instant Wireless ® Wir eless-G PCI Adapter est conforme aux conditions essentielles et aux dispositions relatives à la dir ective 1999/5/EC, la directive 89/336/EEC, et à la dir ective 73/23/EEC. • Belgique B L'utilisation en extérieur est autorisé sur le canal 11 (2462 MHz), 12 (2467 MHz), et 13 (2472[...]

Instant Wireless ® Series Wireless-G PCI Adapter Chapter 1: Introduction The Linksys W ireless-G PCI Adapter installs in most desktops and lets you put your computer almost an yw here in the building, without the cost and hassle of running network cab les. No w y ou don't ha v e to drill holes in y our walls and climb through the attic or cel[...]

Wireless-G PCI Adapter Instant Wireless ® Series If the wireless netw ork is relati vel y small and needs to share resources onl y with the other computers on the wireless netw ork, then the ad-hoc mode can be used. (See Figure 2-2.) Ad-hoc mode allo ws computers equipped with wire- less transmitters and receiv ers to communicate directl y with ea[...]

Wireless-G PCI Adapter 5 Chapter 4: Hardware and Driver Installation and Configuration for Windows XP After installing the Adapter into your PC, you will install the dri ver and con- f igure the Adapter . 1. T urn off y our desktop PC. 2. Open your PC case and locate an a vailable PCI slot on the motherboard. Check with your computer manufacturer f[...]

Instant Wireless ® Series 1. W indo ws XP will automatically detect the Adapter . Insert the Setup CD- R OM into the CD-R OM driv e and the screen in Figure 4-1 should appear . Click the radio button next to Install the softw are automaticall y (Recommended) . Then click the Next button. 6 Figure 4-1 Wireless-G PCI Adapter 2. When W indo ws has f [...]

Instant Wireless ® Series 8 2. The screen that appears will sho w any a vailab le wireless network. Select the netw ork you w ant. If you ha ve already enabled WEP encr yption on your netw ork, skip ahead to step 3. If you ha ve NO T enabled WEP encr yp- tion on your netw ork, the screen in Figure 4-4 will appear . Check the box ne xt to Allow me [...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 11 Instant Wireless ® Series 10 1. T o install the Adapter, click the Install button on the W elcome screen, Figure 5-1. Click User Guide to vie w the User Guide or click Exit to exit the Setup Wizard. 2. After reading the License Ag reement, shown in F igure 5-2, click the Next button to continue the installation, or c[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 13 Instant Wireless ® Series 12 Netw ork Mode - Select Mixed Mode , and both W ireless-G and W ireless- B computers will be allo wed on the netw ork, but the speed will be reduced. Select G-Only Mode for maximum speed , but no W ireless-B users will be allo wed on the netw ork. 5. The Setup W izard will ask you to re vi[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 15 Instant Wireless ® Series Chapter 6: Hardware Installation for Windows 98SE, Me , and 2000 1. T ur n off y our desktop PC. 2. Open your PC case and locate an a vailable PCI slot on the motherboard. Check with your computer manufacturer for instructions. 3. Slide the PCI Adapter into the PCI slot. Make sure that all o[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 17 Instant Wireless ® Series The Link Information screen displa ys signal strength and link quality infor ma- tion about the cur rent connection and pro vides a button to click for additional status information. Ad-Hoc Mode or Infrastructur e Mode - The screen indicates whether the Adapter is cur rently w orking in ad-h[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 19 Instant Wireless ® Series 18 The Pr of iles screen (Figure 7-6) lets y ou sav e different conf iguration prof iles for different netw ork setups. Y ou can also impor t or export prof iles. The def ault prof ile holds the initial conf iguration sa ved when y ou ran the Setup W izard. Pr of ile - Name of the connection[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 1. On the Pr of iles screen, sho wn in Figure 7-6, click the New button to create a new prof ile. 2. When the Cr eate connection pr of ile screen appears (Figure 7-9), enter a name for the new prof ile. Click OK to sa ve the prof ile name or click Cancel to return to the previous screen. 3. The Choose a networ k type scr[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 23 Instant Wireless ® Series 4. The W ireless Settings screen (F igure 7-11) will appear . If you chose Infrastructure Mode, go to Step 5 now . If you chose Ad-Hoc Mode, select the cor rect operating channel for your netw ork from the Channel drop- do wn menu. Then, select the Networ k Mode from the drop-do wn menu. Cli[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 25 Instant Wireless ® Series WEP (Disabled/64 bits WEP/128 bits WEP) - If you do not w ant to use WEP encryption, choose Disabled . T o use WEP encryption (recommended to increase netw ork security), select 64 bits or 128 bits WEP from the drop-do wn menu, and enter either a Passphrase or WEP key . P assphrase - Instead[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter Can I play computer games with other members of the wireless network? Y es, as long as the game suppor ts multiple play ers o ver a LAN (local area net- w ork). Refer to the game’ s user guide for more infor mation. What is the IEEE 802.11b standard? It is one of the IEEE standards for wireless netw orks. The 802.11b s[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 29 Instant Wireless ® Series 28 an unintended receiv er , FHSS appears to be short-duration impulse noise. Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum (DSSS) generates a redundant bit patter n for each bit to be transmitted. This bit pattern is called a chip (or chipping code). The longer the chip, the greater the probability that [...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 31 Instant Wireless ® Series 30 CSMA/CA ( C ar rier S ense M ultiple A ccess/ C ollision A voidance) - In local area netw orking, this is the CSMA technique that combines slotted time-divi- sion multiplexing with carrier sense multiple access/collision detection (CSMA/CD) to a void ha ving collisions occur a second time[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 33 Instant Wireless ® Series 32 Hop - The link betw een two netw ork nodes. IEEE (The I nstitute of E lectrical and E lectronics E ngineers) - The IEEE describes itself as "the w orld's largest technical professional society , promoting the dev elopment and application of electrotechnology and allied sciences [...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter P assphrase - Used much like a passw ord , a passphrase simplif ies the WEP encryption process by automaticall y generating the WEP encryption keys for Linksys products. PCI ( P eripheral C omponent I nterconnect) - A peripheral bus commonly used in PCs, Macintoshes and w orkstations. It was designed primaril y by Intel [...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter TCP ( T ransmission C ontrol P rotocol) - A method (protocol) used along with the IP (Internet Protocol) to send data in the for m of message units (datag ram) betw een network de vices o ver a LAN or W AN. While IP takes care of handling the actual deliv er y of the data (routing), TCP takes care of keeping track of the[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter Dimensions: 4.8" x 8.66" x 0.91" (122 mm x 220 mm x 23 mm) Unit Weight: 4.5 oz. (0.13 kg) P ower: 3.3V Certifications: FCC Operating T emp.: 32ºF to 150ºF (0ºC to 65ºC) Storage T emp.: -40ºF to 185ºF (-40ºC to 85ºC) Operating Humidity: 0% to 95%, Non-Condensing Storage Humidity: 0% to 95%, Non-Cond[...]

Wireless-G Notebook Adapter 41 Instant Wireless ® Series 40 Appendix E: Contact Information F or help with the installation or operation of the W ireless-G PCI Adapter, con- tact Linksys T echnical Suppor t at one of the phone numbers or Internet addresses belo w . Sales Information 800-546-5797 (LINKSYS) T echnical Support 800-326-7114 RMA (Retur[...]

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