D Link IR827MO1 User Manual

IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n

Wireless PCIe Adapter

User’s Guide

TABLE OF CONTENT

Introduction ....................................................................................1

Overview of this User’s Guide.....................................................1

Software Installation.......................................................................2

Windows 98se/ME/2000/XP Utility and Driver Installation........2

Wireless Utility Setting ................................................................3

Technical Specifications...............................................................13

INTRODUCTION

Congratulations on your purchase of this 802.11a/b/g/n PCIe Adapter. This manual helps to get familiar with the Wireless PCIe Adapter. This manual

contains detailed instructions in operation of this product. Please keep this manual for future reference.

With a Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11g) mini PCI Adapter, a desktop or laptop computer can communicate with another computer in a wireless way. Easy-to-use utilities are bundled with Wireless mini-PCI Adapter for configuration, monitoring, and diagnosis purposes.

Wireless PCIe Adapter can wirelessly transmit and receive data, minimizing the need for wired connections, at a speed of up to fifty-four megabit per second.

Wireless PCIe Adapter provides users with an access to real-time information anywhere in their organization. The mobility provides productivity and service, which are not available under wired networks. The Wireless PCIe Adapter configuration is easy to change from peer-to-peer networks, suitable for a small number of users, to full infrastructure networks of thousands of users that allow roaming around a broad area.

Overview of this User’s Guide

Introduction. Describes the Wireless PCIe Adapter and its features. Software Installation. Tells how to setup the driver and the utility setting. Technical Specifications. Lists the technical (general, physical and environmental)

specifications of the Wireless PCIe Adapter.

SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

This section will lead you to install the driver and utility of the Wireless PCIe Adapter via Windows OS installation.

Windows 98se/ME/2000/XP Utility and Driver Installation

1. Insert the Wireless LAN mini PCI Adapter Driver & Utility CD-ROM into

computer’s CD-ROM Drive and it will automatically run a setup menu and install the driver and the utility, for Win98se, please reboot the system to install the driver to the system properly. In some specific setting on Windows system, you may need to proceed the software manually, go to your Windows Start menu and choose Run, type “D:\Utility\Setup.exe” in the dialog box (D:\ will depend on where your CD-ROM drive is located) and click OK.

2. If you need to install the driver manually, refer each Windows OS to the

following CD-Rom directory path: D:\Drivers\<Windows OS>\SIS163U.INF.

Note: (D:\ will depends on where the CD-ROM drive is located and <Windows OS> will depend on the Windows Operating System you are using).

3. The Install Shield Wizard screen will appear. Click “Next” to continue.

4. The installation program will help you to setup the Wireless Utility.

Be noted that the Windows XP have its own Wireless Utility; you can either use the utility of Windows XP or the provided utility.

5. You will see the icon on the Windows task bar when you finish the installation.

When the icon in the toolbar represents in green color, it is properly connected to the network and if it represents in red color, then it is not connected to the network.

Wireless Utility Setting

With the Wireless PCIe Adapter utility, users can configure all the functions provided by the Wireless Monitor Utility. Double-click the utility icon that appears in the taskbar.

The Wireless Monitor Utility includes seven tabs: Status, Configuration, Advanced, Profile, Network, Statistics and About.

Status

The Status screen shows you the status of the Wireless Adapter, it shows that where the device is connected to, the Network mode, the Channel, the transmit rate and the encryption mode.

There are two dialog boxes showing the data transmitted and the data received. The two signal lines show the Signal Strength and the Link Quality of the device.

Configuration

The Configuration function helps you to configure the Network and the Security.

Network: the setting of the Network mode, the SSID and the Channels.  Network Mode:

If you want to connect with an Access Point, please set to “Infrastructure” mode. If you have more stations and just want to set them as local network, please set the mode to “Ad-Hoc” mode.

 Network SSID: The SSID differentiates one Wireless LAN group name from another; so all access

points and all devices attempting to connect to a specific Wireless LAN group name must use the same SSID. A device will not be permitted to join the BSS unless it can provide the unique SSID.

If the SSID parameter is “ANY”, it will detect the strongest signal of the wireless station.

 Channel: It shows radio channel numbers that used for Wireless LAN networking. The channel number can be set only under the Ad-Hoc operation mode. In Ad-Hoc

mode stations, each station must have the same channel numbers and SSID. In Infrastructure mode, the Wireless mini-PCI Adapter will automatically detect the

channel number of the Access Point. Security: the setting of the Network Encryption.

This function is used to protect wireless communication from eavesdropping. A secondary function of encryption is to prevent unauthorized access to a wireless network, and it can be achieved by using the Encryption function.

 Encryption Mode: There are two kinds of encryption mode, WEP encryption and WPA-PSK. Click the Enable Encryption to activate the security of the mini-PCI Adapter.

WEP-Key: WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) relies on a secret key that is shared between a mobile station and a base station (Access Point).

WEP-Passphrase: the Passphrase in the dialog box helps you to create a group of WEP key in the Key Setting.

 Authentication Mode:

Open System: with the same WEP key between the stations, the stations don’t need to be authenticated, and this algorithm was set to default.

Shared Key: with the same WEP key between the stations in this Authentication algorithm, this type will use packets with encryption by transferring a challenge text which will be acknowledge by both side of the stations. In order to choose which authentication algorithm will be used, you must know which one the station supports this algorithm first.

It is recommended to select “Auto” if you are not familiar with the setting.

 Default Key (Key 1 ~ Key 4): You can type the key that you want to use from Key#1 to Key #4, and the key that

you type will be the encryption between the stations that you connected with.  Key Length, Key Format and WEP Key: If you select 64bit in Hex format, you must type 10 values in the following range

(0~F, hexadecimal), or 64bit in ASCII format, you must type 5 values in the following range (0~9, A~Z and a~z Alphanumeric).

If you select 128bit in Hex format, you must type 26 values (0~F, hexadecimal), or 128bit in ASCII format, you must type 13 values in the following range (0~9, A~Z and a~z Alphanumeric).

Be sure that the mini-PCI Adapter and the wireless station were set in the same key.

Note: After all the settings are completed, click Apply to save the setting.

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