Samsung SWL-2300U User Manual

3.6 Installation Procedure of Windows XP

Please follow the following steps one by one in order to install the USB Adapter successfully.

1.Insert the USB Adapter into USB slot of your computer.

2.“Found New Hardware Wizard” appeared and the system looks for “USB Device”. Insert the MagicLAN Installation CD into the CD-ROM Drive.

3.You can find the “SAMSUNG WLAN USB Adapter(SWL-2300)” and system will copy driver files. You can click Continue Anyway in the 'Hardware Installation' Message box.

4.Now driver files are fully installed to start the Wireless LAN Card’s operation.

5.Check for the SAMSUNG WLAN USB Adapter(SWL-2300) on Computer Management in the Administrative Tools of the Control Panel. If you find the

Yellow sign on the adapter, it shows the installation is not successful. In this case, select the adapter and click on Remove. Restart your computer after uninstalling the driver to make the changes effective. (See the Adapter Removal in section 3.7)

6.Of the icons displayed on the right bottom of desktop, click on icon stated

Wireless Network Connection.

7.When you are using DHCP, just select the AP that you want to connect in the

Connect to Wireless Network above.

8.To manually set your IP address, WEP and some other configuration, click on Advanced of the above picutre and then click Configure Available networks on the Wireless Networks Tab . Set the SSID and parameters to be needed to modify and then clicking on OK. The AP that you selected will be displayed on the Preferred Networks.

9. Next, move to the General Tab. After the double click the “Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)”, set the IP value, Gateway value and DNS value and click on OK. All will be done by clicking on OK once more.

1.If you insert the MagicLAN Installation CD into the CD-ROM drive, software will launch automatically. Then, click on the ‘Install MagicLAN Driver’.

2.You can see the pictures of Wireless LAN Cards by model name.(SWL-2300U USB Adapter). Click on the model name to install it’s driver.

3. Click on Operating System in the right screen in which you want to install driver.

4.After installing driver, insert Wireless LAN card. You can click Continue Anyway in the “‘Hardware Installation’ Message box.

5.The system recognize the Wireless LAN Card. If Found New Hardware Wizard appears, just click Next to install the driver files.

6.The other procedures are same to 5~9 of < Method 1 - Inserting card first > .

Cf.) The third method :

You can combine ‘Method 1’ with ‘Method 2’. In other words, after inserting card into the computer, you can install driver and utility by using the installshield instead, not by the inf file. In case of Windows 2000 and Windows XP, system will recognize the card automatically during installation .

Notice that if you install a card after removing it in a Device Manager, you have to mark the check box(“Do you want to scan for hardware changes?”). The function is same to the “Refresh” in ther Device Manager.

[ Use of Our company’s Utility in Windows XP ]

You can also set up the Wireless LAN by the our company’s utility program instead of Windows XP’ utility program.

After booting the computer, you have to draw out and re-insert the MagicLAN Installation CD to be automatically installed. You can click “Install Configuration Utility” to install our utility. Choose the appropriate language when a context box appeared to choose utility’s language.

You should reboot the computer to use our utility properly in the NT-based OSs(Winows 2000, Windows XP).

-If you click the icon on the right bottom of the desktop, you can see the current state of the Wireless LAN.

-Click on Option of the General settings on the bottom of the Utility and mark

“Manage the Wireless Control by this utility under WinXP”. For more details, refer to ‘Chapter 4’ in this manual.

-If you want to use Wireless LAN Utility in the system of Windows XP , be sure that the mark of “Manage the Wireless Control by this utility under WinXP” of the our company’s utility program is removed.

3.6 Update of MagicLAN Wireless LAN Card Driver

1.After inserting the MagicLAN Installation CD, click the Install MagicLAN Driver and select the Card and Operationg System that you want to update in.

2.If selection box appears, select ‘Reinstall MagicLAN Software’ between ‘Remove’ and ‘Reinstall’.

3.7 Removal of MagicLAN Wireless LAN Card Driver

(Adapter Removal)

Click like followings :

-> All Programs -> MagicLAN -> MagicLAN Driver -> Remove USB adapter.

Select ‘Remove all MagicLAN Software’ and click Next.

(Utility Removal)

Click like followings :

-> All Programs -> MagicLAN -> MagicLAN Utility -> Remove Utility Uninstall.

Select ‘Remove Configuration Utility Software’ and click Next .

(cf) If you want to just remove the WLAN Card from the PC, click and Stop SAMSUNG WLAN USB Adapter(SWL-2300) icon the right bottom of your computer screen. Then you remove the WLAN Card after clicking the OK button on the message, ‘SAMSUNG WLAN USB Adapter(SWL-2300) can now be safely removed from the system’

** - ‘Safely remove hardware’ icon (Windows ME , 2000, XP)

4. The Program For Setting MagicLAN

4.1 The concept of Profile

-TCP/IP settings for the fixed networks/Wired LAN have no problems, as they do not deal with the mobility. But in case of mobile equipments such as WLAN card, when WLAN client has moved from home to Office or vice-versa, the difficulty for using the old TCP/IP settings arises.

-The concept of profile makes it easy to use the same TCP/IP settings for WLAN cards regardless of the movement.

-Profile can be selected again with ease if it were saved. Saving the settings for WLAN and TCP/IP as a Profile, it is easy for user to select and use one of the saved profiles, especially, it can be used quickly without rebooting your computer while the settings for TCP/IP is updated.

4.2 Installation Procedure

First time use of WLAN on your computer needs the following settings.

1. Insert your WLAN card. After clicking on the icon , which is found at the right bottom your computer screen, “Please create your first network profile now” window will appear. Click ‘Y’ button for yes and the following window will appear. cf) The above message will not be appeared in the Win XP. Make a Profile with clicking ‘New’ button.

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