ParkerVision WLAN1500 manual

REVISION: 2 / VERSION: 100103B / DA TE: October 2004 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card USER’S GUIDE WWW .P ARKERVISION.COM W ireless to the P a r k e r V i s i o n ® SIGNAL MAX[...]

2 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® COPYRIGHT ©2003 ParkerVision Inc. All rights reserved. ParkerVision Wireless™ and D2D™ T echnology are registered trademarks of ParkerVision Inc. All specifi cations are subject to change without notice. May include one or more of the following patents: US6421534, US6049706, US6266518, US6061555, US6061551,U[...]

5 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® T a ble of Contents Copyright ............................................................................................................................................................... 2 Federa l Commu nication s Commi ssion(FC C) Inte rference Statem ent ......................................................[...]

6 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® INTRODUCTION All ParkerVision Wireless products are designed and manufactured by ParkerVision. Products are fully compliant with IEEE 802.1 1b standards and are optimized to provide maximum possible speed and bandwidth through your Internet connection for fastest uploads and downloads. The distance capabilities of[...]

7 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® T he follo wing chapters ar e str uctur ed as a step-by-step guide to help you connect, install and setup your ParkerVision W ir eless LAN Car d. Par t I Getting Star ted[...]

8 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Chapter 1 : Getting to Know Y our ParkerVision Wireless L AN Card This chapter introduces the main features of the ParkerVision W ireless LAN Card 1.1 Introduction The ParkerVision W ireless PC LAN Card is an 1 1 Mbps IEEE 802.1 1b wireless PCMCIA card and has a standard PCMCIA adapter which fi ts into any standa[...]

9 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® and construction sites where a temporary network is required. For retailers, airline and shipping companies who need additional workstations during peak periods. For auditors requiring workgroups at customer sites. • Database Access for Mobile Users - Doctors, nurses, retailers who need to access their databases[...]

10 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Make sure that you install the software onto your computer BEFORE you install the ParkerVision W ireless LAN Card! The Park erVision D2D Wireless LAN Card works with Windows XP and 2000 Operating Systems. ?[...]

11 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ®  The License Agreement screen will appear . The License Agreement must be accepted to continue. Click  to continue. [...]

12 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ®  The following screen will appear and the software will be installed onto y our computer .  [...]

13 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® 2.2 IMPORT ANT INFORMA TION FOR WINDOWS XP USERS For Windows XP Users Only: In order to achieve the best possible performance of the WLAN1500 Wireless LAN card in your computer it is necessary to make a change in the way Windows XP handles you wireless networking connections. After your WLAN1500 LAN Card is insta[...]

14 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® 2.2 IMPORT ANT INFORMA TION FOR WINDOWS XP USERS - Continued Step 3: Selecting the “Advanced Button” on the previous screen will bring up the window shown below . Select the “Wireless Networks” tab, and not the box to the left of the line “Use Windows to confi gure my wireless network settings.” Step[...]

15 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® 3.1 System Requirements • PCMCIA T ype II slot • PCMCIA card and socket service that is Revision 2.1-compliant to PCMCIA specifi cation (or higher). • Windows 2000/XP Operating System • 500 Kbytes free hard disk space (minimum) for driver and utility program installation. • 128 MB RAM 3.2 Installing th[...]

16 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® The PC MCIA slo t s uppo rts “ho t s wapp ing” of PCM CIA ada pte r, a llow ing you to ins ert or rem ove the Par kerV isi on W irel ess LAN Ca rd f rom the slo t w hene ver you li ke, eve n w hen powe r t o yo ur comp ute r is on . Ho weve r, you sho uld alwa ys disa ble the Par ker Visi on W ire less LA N C[...]

17 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® T he follo wing chapters will show you ho w to manage and confi gure advanced parameter s of your ParkerVision W ir eless LAN Car d. Par t II Advanced Management[...]

18 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® 4.1 Confi guration ParkerVision-Wireless D2D Management Utility will assist in setting up and customizing your wireless network. The D2D Management Utility will provide you with information regarding signal quality and link conditions as well as let you modify various wireless parameters. T o access the ParkerVi[...]

19 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® 4.2 Confi guration - Using the D2D/ParkerVision Management Utility The D2D Confi guration Dialog Box is displayed as shown below and consists of four primary sections. From here, different connections may be detected, confi gured, and stored. The Above Sections are covered individually on the pages that follow[...]

20 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® 4.3 A V AILABLE CONNECTIONS SECTION - Continued The top-most section of the D2D Confi guration Dialog Box shows the available connections. The available connections will be displayed from a scan performed when the software was started, or when the scan button was clicked. T o begin using the WLAN1500 Wireless LA[...]

21 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® 4.4 CURRENT CONNECTION SECTION This section shows the connection that is currently active, giving the status of each category described in the A V AILABLE CONNECTION SECTION on the previous page. The SPEED indicates the rate of data transfer as dictated by the Access Point to which the Wireless LAN Card is connec[...]

22 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® 4.6 MORE ON AD-HOC AND AP MODES Ad-Hoc Mode (Peer-to-P eer W or kgr oup) The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard for wireless LAN’s (WLAN’ s), 802.1 1 offers two methods for confi guring a wireless network — Ad-Hoc and infrastructure (Access Point). In an Ad-Hoc network, compu[...]

23 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® 4.7 MORE ON SSID Service Set Identifi cation (SSID) The Service Set Identifi cation (SSID) is a thirty-two alphanumeric character (maximum) string identifying the wireless local area network. ParkerVision-Wireless refers to the SSID as network name. For stations to communicate with each other , all stations mus[...]

24 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® T his par t inc ludes T roubleshooting, Appendices, and the Index. Par t III Additional Information[...]

25 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® 5.1 Problems During Driver Installation P RO B LE M CO RR ECT IV E ACT ION The ParkerVision Wireless LAN Card is not working after the dr iver in stallati on Make sure the driver softwar e is ins talled BEFORE y ou inse rt your wireless LAN ca rd into your com puter . Failur e to in stall th e softw are fi rs t [...]

26 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Chapter 5 - T roubleshooting - Continued 5.2 Problems With the Utility Confi guration P RO B LE M CO RR ECT IV E ACT ION While startin g the co nfi gura tion utilit y , the pro gram sta rts up and termi nates im mediatel y with no errors . The D2 D/Parke rVisi on soft ware may not re cognize that the card h as [...]

27 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Chapter 5 - T roubleshooting - Continued 5.4 Problems Communicating With the Computer P RO B LE M CO RRE CT IVE AC TI ON The ParkerVision Wireless LAN Card client cannot commu nicate w ith the other computer on the Ethernet when the Infrastructure mode is con fi gure d. Make sure that the AP and the associated c[...]

28 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® The P arkerV isio n Wirel ess WLA N1500 W ireless LAN Ca rd sup ports t he same networ k confi gurati on opti ons of Legacy Ethern et LAN’ s a s defi ned by the IEEE 802 standard. The ParkerVision Wireless LAN Card can be confi gured as: • Ad-hoc for departmental or SOHO LAN’s. • Infrastructure for ent[...]

29 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Ad-hoc Wireless LAN T opology - Continued An Ad-ho c wirel ess LAN is a group o f compu ters, e ach equ ipped w ith one wirele ss ada pter , and c onnecte d as an indepe ndent w ireles s LAN. Compute rs in a specifi c Ad-ho c wirel ess LAN m ust be confi g ured o n the same radio channel. An Ad-hoc wireless LAN[...]

30 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Ad-hoc Wireless LAN T opology - Continued The P arkerV isio n Wirel ess LAN Card p rovides access to a wired L AN for wireles s compu ters. An in tegrate d wirel ess and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure confi guration. A group of wireless LAN computer users and an Access Point constitute a Basic Service Set[...]

31 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® General ParkerVision WLAN1500 W ireless LAN Card Specifi cations Operating S ystems Supported Windows 2000 and XP Standards IEEE 802.11b Host Interface PC Card T ype II Slot Extended Data Rates 1, 2, 5.5, 11 Mbps, with Auto-F all- back Support Modulation BPSK, QPSK, CCK Range (t ypical) Open Environment: 1 Mile*[...]

32 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Should you wish to uninstall the ParkerVision Software from your Windows 2000 or XP computer , the following steps should be followed: Step 1: Locate the fi le WLAN1500 Uninstall.ex e . This fi le is generally located in the folder in which the ParkerVision software was installed, as shown in the example below [...]

33 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Uninstalling the ParkerVision Software - Continued Step 2: After the remaining fi les associated with the ParkerV ision/D2D software are removed, you will see the following dialog box: Click Finish to complete the uninstall of the ParkerVision software.[...]

34 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Index 128-bit 20 64-bit 20 68-Pin Connector 13 802.1 1b 8 Access T ray Section 17, 21 Additional Information 25 Ad-Hoc 29 Ad-Hoc Mode 21 Ad-Hoc Wireless T opology 30, 31 Advanced 23 Advanced Management 15 Antenna 2 AP Mode 21 AP Settings 27 Applications 8 Auto Run 10 Available Connections 17, 18 Basic Service Set[...]

35 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Index Service Set Identifi cation (SSID) 22 Signal 18 Site Survey 28 Software Installation 10 SOHO 9, 30 SSID 18, 20, 22, 28 System Requirements 4, 13 System T ray 16 SysT ray 16 T able of Contents 5 T ransmitter 2 T roubleshooting 25, 27, 28 T ype 18 Uninstalling 33 United States 32 Use Windows to confi gure m[...]

36 WLAN1500 Wireless PC LAN Card ® Glossar y Channel: The radio channel of a wireless network, 1 through 1 1. Connect: Connect to an available network, or connect to a network using a specifi c profi le. Delete: Delete a named profi le. Done: Save changes and close the window . Edit: Edit a named profi le. Name: Profi le name, such as, “W o[...]