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X-Micr o WLAN 1 1g PCI Adapter U ser M anual[...]
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2 Contents 1. Introduct ion 5 1.1 Product Feature .......................................................................................... 5 1.2 System Requirement .................................................................................. 5 2. Getting Start 5 2.1 LED Indicators .............................................................[...]
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3 This product is in complia nc e with the essential requirement s and other re levant provisions of the R&TTE directive 1999/5/EC. P r o d u c t N a m e : X-Micro WLAN 11g PCI Card M o d e l N a m e : XWL-11GCAG MAX. OUT POWER COUNTR Y CHANNELS INDOOR OUTDOOR Spai n 2400-2483.5 MHz 1-13 < 100 mW EIRP < 100 mW EIRP France 2400-2454 MHz 1-[...]
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4 FCC INFORMA TION FCC Radiati on Exposure Statement This equipment compli es with FCC r a diation ex posure limits set forth for an uncontrolled env ironment. This equipment shoul d be installed and operated wi th minimum distance 20cm between the r adiator & your body . This transmitter must not be co- located or operating i n conjunction wit[...]
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5 1. Introduction 1.1 Product Featur e ● Compliance with IEEE 802.11g and 802.11b standards ● Highly efficient design mechanism to provide unbeatable performance ● Achieving data rate up to 54Mbps for 802.11g and 11Mps for 802.11b with wide range coverage; high performance to de liver up to 108Mbps raw data rate for 802.11g ● Strong network[...]
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6 2.2 Install the 108Mbps W ireless Network PCI Adapter 2.2.1 Utility Installation 1. Before insert PCI Adapter into the PCI slot of your com puter , please install the Utility Program first. Make sure that the 108Mbp s wireless Network PCI Adapter is NOT inserted into the PCI slot. NOTE: all the snapped images of installa tion mentioned in this m [...]
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7 3. InstallShield Wizard will au tom atically start. Please click “Next” to continue.[...]
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9 4. Please click “Finish” 5. Please make sure TURN OFF your comput er and remove the power cord from your PC. Open the computer case and th en please insert the Wireless PCI Adapter into the empty PCI slot of your computer system . Once the Wireless PCI Adapter is installed, place the computer case back. Turn ON your computer. 2.2.2 Driver Ins[...]
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10 2. Please click “Continue Anyway”[...]
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11 3. Please click “Finish” 4. T o make sure if the installation is successful, you could check it through the device management.[...]
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12 5. Once the installation is successful, a utility program icon will show on your desktop. T o lunch the utility , just double click the icon. 3. Configuration 3.1 Link Information The default page is as below after you lau nch the Utility program. Status: Shows the BSSID associated, which can be used to identify the wireless network. SSID: Shows[...]
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13 Encryption: Shows the current encryption m ode used for wireless network. TxRate: Shows the current data rate used for transmitting. Channel: Shows the current channel for communication. Link Quality : Shows the link quality of the 54Mbps wireless network PCI Adapter with the Access Point when opera ting under Infrastructure mode. Signal Strengt[...]
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14 ● Ad-Hoc – to establish point-to-point wi reless communication di rectly with other wireless client devices such as wireless network PCI Adapter. AdHoc Band: There are two bands available for selection- 11B and 11G Channel: The value of channel that AP will ope rate in. You can select th e channel range of 1 to 11 for North America (FCC) dom[...]
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15 Encryption: 4 options are available: Disable , Enable , WPA and WPA-PSK . Select Enable or Disable for WEP data encryption featur e. If one of the two options is selected, it is required to select the Authentication mode from the next dropping list. If WPA is selected, configu ration is enabled. Please click the configuration. The below window i[...]
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16 Aut. Mode: There are three modes available to choose. Open Authentication – the sender and receiver do not share secret Key for communication. Instead, each party generates its own key-pairs and asks the other party to accept it. The key is regenerated when the connection is established every time. Shared Authentication – the sender [...]
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17 3.4 Site Survey This page allows you to enable the Site Survey function to sc an for the available wireless network (wireless clients a nd Access Points) and establish wireless communications with one. Available Network – displays the wireless networ ks (wireless clients and Access Points) that are in your signal range. Select any one of them [...]
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19 3.5 About US This page displays some informat ion about the 54Mpbs PCI Adapt er utility, which includes the version numbers for Driver, Fi rmware and Utility. When there is new version of software availabl e for upgrade, you will be able to i dentify by version numbers. 4. Glossary Access Point: An internetworking device that seamlessly connects[...]
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20 Authentication Type: Indication of an authentica tion algorithm which can be supported by the Access Point: 1. Open System: Open System authentica tion is the sim plest of the available authentication algorithm s. Essentially it is a null authentication al gorithm. Any station that requests authentication with this algorithm may become authentic[...]
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21 both back off and wait a random amount of time before retrying. DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuratio n Protocol, which is a prot ocol that lets network administrators manage and allocate Intern et Protocol (IP) addresses in a network. Every computer has to have an IP address in order to communicate with each other in a TCP/IP based infrastructure net[...]
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22 Gateway : a device that interconnects networ ks with different, incompatible communication protocols. HEX: Hexadecimal, HEX, consists of number s from 0 – 9 and letters from A – F. IEEE: The I nstitute of E lectrical and E lectronics E ngineers, which is the largest technical professional society that promot es the development and applicatio[...]
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23 connection to an Infrastructure network. RTS: R equest T o S end. An RS-232 signal sent f rom the transmitting station to the receiving station requesting permission to transmit. RTS Threshold: Transmitters contending for the m edium may not be aware of each other. RTS/CTS mechanism can solve this “H idden Node Problem ”. If the packet size [...]