SendFar Technology WPC-02005 User Manual

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CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION................................................................. 1

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Wireless LAN Card

User’s Manual

The user guide is fit for both Long Range Wireless LAN Card WPC­8110 and Wireless LAN Card WPC-2110

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1.2 PC CARD DESCRIPTIONS ...................................................................... 1

1.3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ....................................................................... 2

1.4 NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS ................................................................. 2

CHAPTER 2. INSTALLING DRIVERS & CLIENT UTILITY ..................... 4

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2.2 CHECKING AFTER INSTALLATION ............................................................ 9

2.3 WIRELESS LAN CLIENT UTILITY .......................................................... 11

2.4 UNINSTALLING DRIVER AND UTILITY ..................................................... 17

CHAPTER 3. CONNECTING TO A NETWORK..................................... 18

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3.2 CHECKING AND ADDING NETBEUI ....................................................... 20

3.3 CHECKING AND ADDING TCP/IP .......................................................... 20

3.4 CHECKING AND ADDING FILE AND PRINTER SHARING FOR MICROSOFT

NETWORKS ................................................................................................... 22

3.5 CHECKING AND ADDING COMPUTER NAME & WORKGROUP NAME ......... 22

CHAPTER 4. TROUBLESHOOTING...................................................... 23

CHAPTER 5. PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS ......................................... 25

CHAPTER 6. REGULATORY COMPLIANCE INFORMATION ............. 26

ACKAGE CONTENTS ............................................................................1

NSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95/98/ME/2000/XP................................. 4

HECKING AND ADDING CLIENT FOR MICROSOFT NETWORKS ............... 18

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Chapter 1. Introduction

This chapter describes the package contents, PC Card description, system
requirements, features & benefits, applications and network configurations
of our wireless LAN products.

1.1 Package Contents

The PC Card package contains the following items as shown in Figure 1-1

1. One PC Card

2. One Installation CD

Figure 1-1

1.2 PC Card Descriptions

The PC Card is a standard PC Card that fits into any PCMCIA Card Type II
slot. The PC Card has a LED indicator as shown in Figure 1-2.

1.3 System Requirements

Installation of the PC Card requires:

1. PC/AT compatible computer with PCMCIA Type II slot.

2. Windows 98//ME/2000/XP operating system environment.

3. Minimum 1.3M bytes free disk space for installing the PC Card driver
and utility program.

1.4 Network Configurations

To better understand how the wireless LAN products work together to
create a wireless network, it might be helpful to depict a few of the possible
wireless LAN PC card network configurations. The wireless LAN products
can be configured as:

1. Ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) for departmental or SOHO LANs.

2. Infrastructure for enterprise LANs or IP Sharing for 56K/ISDN
TA/Cable/DSL Modem – Connect Internet and your SOHO network.

Ad-hoc (peer-to-peer) Mode

This is the simplest network configuration that several computers equipped
with the PC Cards that form a wireless network whenever they are within
range of one another (Figure 1-3). In ad-hoc mode, each client, is peer-to­peer, would only have access to the resources of the other client and
requires no the access point. This is the easiest and least expensive way
for the SOHO to set up a wireless network.

Figure 1-2

The LED shows three Link statuses:
Blinking –, When the PC Card operate in a Peer-to-Peer mode, no matter
the wireless is connected or not.
Solid Green – When the PC card setup a wireless connection with an
Access Point.

Off – No wireless activity.

Figure 1-3 A wireless Ad-hoc network

Infrastructure Mode

The infrastructure mode requires the use of an access point (AP). In this
mode, all wireless communications between two computers have to be via
the AP no matter the AP is wired to Ethernet network or stand-alone.
If wired to an Ethernet network as shown in Figure 1-4, the AP serves as a
bridge and provides the link between the server and the wireless clients.
The wireless clients can move freely throughout the coverage area of the
AP while remaining connected to the server. Since the AP is connected to
the wired network, each client would have access to server resources as
well as to other clients.

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Chapter 2. Installing Drivers & Client Utility

This chapter describes how to install the PC Card drivers and client utility
under Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP.

2.1 Installation for Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP

Installation Procedure:

1. Turn on your computer.

2. Insert the Wireless LAN Driver CD into your CD-ROM drive. Run it by
selecting RUN from the Start menu and running PrismWin.exe or just
double click the PrismWin.exe from CD-ROM drive.

3. The setup information will shown as Figure 2-1. Follow the instructions
as they appear.

Figure 1-4 Infrastructure mode

Figure 2-1

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4. Click Finish to complete setup and then restart your computer.

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5. Insert the PC Card into the PCMCIA slot of your computer.

6. A warning message would pop up while installation, the message
shows this driver need the “digital signature”, and click the Yes button.

7. Make sure that the network protocol parameters are set correctly for
your computer. These include the IP address, subnet mask, gateway
and DNS. If you are unfamiliar with how to set network protocol
parameters, refer to Chapter 3 Connection to Network for details.

8. Restart your computer for changes to take effect.

Uninstallation Procedure:

1. Insert the Wireless LAN PC Card into the PCMCIA slot.

2. Right click My Computer--->Select Properties.

3. On the Hardware tab, choose Device Manager, and click Network

Adapter.

4. Choose Wireless LAN PC Card and remove it.

5. After removing the Wireless LAN PC Card, restart your computer.

Note

1. If your computer running Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT installed
Wireless LAN PC card and you would like to upgrade to Windows XP,
you have to remove Wireless LAN PC card driver & utility from your
computer in advance to let the Wireless LAN PC card work with
Windows XP properly.

2. Please follow the procedure: click Start button, select Program, point
to Wireless LAN PC Card, and then click Uninstaller to uninstall the
driver and utility automatically

3. Once you finish removing the driver and utility, please refer to the
above installation procedure for Windows XP.