Edimax Technology Co 9577480713 Users Manual

802.11b/g/n

Wireless LAN PCIe Card

User Manual

Version: 1.1

(August, 2007)

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C A T A L O G

Chapter I: Product Information........................................................................ 4

1-1 Introduction and safety information................................................................4

1-2 Safety Information...........................................................................................5

1-3 System Requirements......................................................................................6

1-4 Package Contents.............................................................................................7

1-5 Familiar with your new wireless network card ...............................................8

CHAPTER II: DRIVER INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURA TION ... 9

2-1 Network Card Installation ...............................................................................9

2-2 Connect to Wireless Access Point .................................................................18

2-2-1 Using Ralink Utility.....................................................................18

2-2-2 Using Windows Zero Configuration............................................24

2-3 Connection Profile Management...................................................................28

2-3-1 Make a profile for an access point or wireless device........................28

2-3-2 Using 802.1x – Certification..............................................................35

2-3-3 Using 802.1x - CA Server..................................................................38

2-4 View Network Statistics and Link Status.................................................39

2-4-1 Network Statistics ..............................................................................39

2-4-2 Link Status..........................................................................................41

2-5 Advanced Settings ...................................................................................44

2-6 QoS Setting..............................................................................................48

2-7 WPS Configuration........................................................................................51

2-7-1 WPS Setup - PBC (Push-Button Configuration)................................52

2-7-2 WPS Setup - PIN................................................................................56

2-8 About .............................................................................................................58

CHAPTER III: Soft-AP Function................................................................. 60

3-1 Switch to AP Mode and Basic Configuration................................................60

3-2 Security Settings............................................................................................65

3-3 Access Control...............................................................................................67

3-3 Access Control...............................................................................................68

3-4 Connection table............................................................................................71

3-5 Event Log ......................................................................................................73

3-6 Statistics.........................................................................................................74

CHAPTER VI: APPENDIX........................................................................ 75

4-1 Hardware Specification .................................................................................75

4-2 Troubleshooting.............................................................................................76

4-3 Glossary.........................................................................................................79

4-4 FCC and Other Compliance Statements........................................................83

Chapter I: Product Information

1-1 Introduction and safety information

Thank you for purchasing this high-speed 802.11b/g/Draft-N wireless network card! Excepting common wireless standards 802.11b/g, this wireless network card is also 802.11 Draft-N compatible - data transfer rate is 300Mbps, and that’s six times faster than 802.11g wireless network!

802.11 Draft-N also provides wider wireless coverage, so you don’t have to worry if your computer is far from your wireless access point. This wireless network card also supports MIMO (Multi-In, Multi-Out) technology, which uses two different radio channels to enhance data transfer rate and wireless coverage.

With easy-to-install PCIe interface - a new and fast expansion port of most of desktop computers - plug this wireless network card into any empty PCIe slot of your computer, just that simple!

Other features of this router including:

 High-efficiency antenna, expands the scope of your wireless

network.  QoS function: control the bandwidth required for different

applications.

 802.11b/g/Draft-N compatible.  Supports major encryption methods like WEP, WP A, and WPA2

encryption.  PCIe interface - you can get it installed on your computer in just

few seconds!  Wireless access control - prevent unauthorized network access to

your network and computer.

1-2 Safety Information

In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the following safety instructions:

1. This wireless network card is designed for indoor use only. DO NOT expose this network card to direct sun light, rain, or snow.

2. DO NOT put this network card at or near hot or humid places, like kitchen or bathroom. Also, do not left this wireless network card in the car in summer.

3. This network card is small enough to put in a child’s mouth, and it could cause serious injury or could be fatal. If they throw the network card, the card will be damaged. PLEASE KEEP THIS NETWORK CARD OUT THE REACH OF CHILDREN!

4. This network card will become hot when being used for long time (This is normal and is not a malfunction). DO NOT put the network card on a paper, cloth, or other flammable objects after the network card has been used for a long time.

5. There’s no user-serviceable part inside the network card. If you found that the network card is not working properly, please contact your dealer of purchase and ask for help. DO NOT disassemble the network card by your self, warranty will be void.

6. If the network card falls into water, DO NOT USE IT AGAIN BEFORE YOU SEND THE CARD TO THE DEALER OF PURCHASE FOR INSPECTION.

7. If you smell something strange or even see some smoke coming out from the network card, switch the computer off immediately, and call dealer of purchase for help.

1-3 System Requirements

 An empty PCIe slot  Windows 2000, 2003, XP, or Vista operating system  CD-ROM drive  At least 100MB of available disk space

1-4 Package Contents

Before you starting to use this wireless network card, please check if there’s anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items:

1 2

3 4

□ User manual / device driver CDROM (1 pcs) ………………….. 1 □ Quick installation guide (1 pcs) ………………………………… 2 □ Antennas (3 pcs) ……………….……………………………….. 3 □ PCIe wireless network card (1 pcs) …………………………… 4

1-5 Familiar with your new wireless network card

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1. PCIe Interface

2. WPS Button

3. Antenna Connectors (3x)

4. ‘Link’ LED

5. ‘Tx/Rx’ LED

LED Name Light Status Description

On Linked to a wireless access point Link

Off Not linked to any wireless access point Blinking Transferring / receiving data Tx/Rx Off No wireless activity

CHAPTER II: DRIVER INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION

2-1 Network Card Installation

Please follow the following instructions to install your new wireless network card:

1. SWITCH THE COMPUTER OFF, remove the cover and insert the

wireless network card into an empty PCIe slot of your computer.

Tip: It’s recommended to touch some metal material before installing the network card, or the static on your body may damage the components on network card and computer.

2. Fasten the antennas to the antenna connectors on the network card by

clockwise direction.

3. You can bend the antenna to fit actual needs:

4. To improve radio reception, please adjust antennas to the position

shown in the picture.

When view from back:

When view from top:

When view from side:

5. Switch the computer on, the following message will appear on your

computer, please click ‘cancel’.

6. Insert device driver CDROM into the CD/DVD ROM drive of your

computer, and execute ‘Setup.exe’ program in ‘Driver’ folder. Please read the end user license agreement and click ‘I accept the terms of the license agreement’ and ‘Next’ to accept license agreement.

7. You can choose the configuration tool used to configure the wireless

network card here. It’s recommended to select ‘Ralink Configuration Tool’, which provides fully access to all function of this wireless network card. If you prefer to use the wireless configuration tool provided by Windows XP or Vista, please select ‘Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool’, then click ‘Next’.

8. There are two wireless performance mode you can select here:

Optimize for WiFi mode or Optimize for performance mode

If you want to enhance wireless performance, please select ‘Optimize for performance mode’. However, wireless compatibility is not guaranteed in this mode. If you want to use this mode, you may not be able to communicate with older wireless devices and wireless access point, such as 802.11b devices, but the data transfer rate will be enhanced in this mode. You can select this mode when you only plan to communicate with 802.11 Draft-N devices.

If you want to keep compatibility and communicate with older wireless devices, please select ‘Optimize for WiFi Mode’.

When you select one mode, please click ‘Next’ to continue. If you see

‘Found New Hardware’ message again, please ignore it and wait.

9. Please wait while the install procedure is running. When you see this

message, please click ‘Finish’ to complete the driver installation process.

10. A new icon will appear at lower-right corner of your computer desktop,

you can put the mouse cursor on the icon, and the status of wireless card will be displayed as a popup balloon.

HERE!

When you want to configure your wireless connection, please right click on this icon, and a popup menu will appear. You can click ‘Launch Config Utilities’ to start configuration program.

If you want to close configuration utility, please click ‘Exit’.

Please note that if you stopped config utility by ‘Exit’ function, you’ll not be able to maintain the wireless link to the access point you wish to use. In this case, you can start config utility again by clicking ‘Ralink Wireless Utility’ icon from ‘Start’ -> ‘All Programs’ -> ‘Ralink Wireless’, as shown below.

2-2 Connect to Wireless Access Point

After the driver is correctly installed, it will try to connect to any unencrypted wireless access point automatically. If you want to connect to a specific wireless access point, or the access point you wish to connect uses encryption, you have to configure the wireless network card and input required parameters, to get connected to the wireless access point you wish to connect.

There are two ways you can configure your wireless network card to connect to wireless access point: using the Ralink configuration utility which comes with wireless card driver, and using built-in windows zero configuration utility.

2-2-1 Using Ralink Utility

Please follow the following instructions to use Ralink configuration utility to connect to wireless access point.

1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right

corner of computer desktop, then click ‘Launch Config Utilities’.

2. Configuration utility will scan for all wireless access points

automatically. Scan results will be displayed here, please check if the wireless access point with the SSID (the name of wireless access point) you preferred is shown here.

If the wireless access point you wish to connect does not show here, please click ‘Rescan’ to try again, until the one you preferred is displayed. You may have to click ‘Rescan’ for more than two times before you can see the access point you wish to use here sometimes.

If you still can not see the access point you wish to use after clicking ‘Rescan’ for more than five times, please move your computer closer to the location where the wireless access point is, or see instructions in chapter 4-2 ‘Troubleshoot ing’.

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

SSID: The Service Set IDentifier of wireless access point

or other network device. You can think it as the name of access point of wireless device.

BSSID: The MAC address of wireless access point or other

network device. Unlike SSID, BSSID of every access

point or network device is unique, and will not be the same with others. So you can identify a single access point or wireless device from others by BSSID, if they all have the same SSID.

Signal: Shows the signal strength of ac cess point or wireless

device. Larger number means better radio strength, which often means you’re not too far from that access point or wireless device.

Channel: Shows the channel number that access point or

wireless device uses.

Encryption: Shows the encryption method that access point or

wireless device uses. If the wireless access point does not enable encryption, you’ll see ‘None’ displayed here.

Authentication: Shows the authentication mode that access point or

wireless device uses. If the wireless access point does not require authentication, you’ll see ‘Unknown’ displayed here.

Network Type: Shows the type of wireless connection. If it’s a wireless

access point, ‘Infrastructure’ will be displayed here; if it’s a computer or network device, ‘AdHoc’ will be displayed here.

Tips: Wireless access point (Infrastructure) is a network device which acts as a bridge, to let wired and wireless network devices communicate with each other.

AdHoc is another connection type. A computer or network device can establish a direct wireless link with other computer or network device directly, without the help of wireless access point.

3. Click the wireless access point or network device you wish to connect,

it will be highlighted, then click ‘Connect’.

If the access point you selected does not enable encryption (The content of ‘Encryption’ field of the access point you selected is ‘None’, you’ll be connected to this wireless access point within one minute. Please jump to step 6.

If the access point you selected enables encryption, please proceed to next step.

4. If the wireless access point does not have SSID, you’ll be prompted to

input it here. Please ask the owner of wireless access point and input the exact SSID here, then click ‘OK’ when ready. If the SSID you provided here is wrong, you’ll not be able to connect to this access point.

If the wireless access point you selected have SSID, please skip this step.

5. If the wireless access point uses encryption, you have to input WEP

passphrase or WPA preshared key. Please ask the owner of the wireless access point you want to connect, and input the correct passphrase / preshared key here, then click ‘OK’. If the value you inputted here is wrong, you will not be able to connect to this wireless access point.

Authentication type is selected automatically, please don’t change it.

If the access point you selected does not enable encryption and does not require authentication, please skip this step.

6. You’ll see ‘Connected <-> SSID’ (‘SSID’ is the SSID of the wireless

access point or wireless device you connected to) message displayed at lower-left corner of configuration utility, congratulations, you’re successfully connected to the access point or wireless device you selected!

2-2-2 Using Windows Zero Configuration

Windows XP and Vista has a built-in wireless network configuration utility, called as ‘Windows Zero Configuration’ (WZC). You can also use WZC to configure your wireless network parameter:

1. Right-click Ralink configuration utility icon and select ‘Use Zero

Configuration as Configuration utility.

2. Click ‘Start’ button (should be located at the bottom-left corner of

windows desktop), click ‘Control Panel’, then click ‘Network and Internet Connections’ in Control Panel.

3. Click ‘Connect to a network’ under ‘Network Connections’

4. Right-click ‘Wireless Network Connection’ (it may have a number as

suffix if you have more than one wireless network card, please make sure you right-click the ‘Ralink 802.11n Wireless LAN Card), then select ‘View Available Wireless Networks’.

5. All wireless access points in proximity will be displayed here. If the

access point you want to use is not displayed here, please try to move your computer closer to the access point, or you can click ‘Refresh

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