Tecom Co WL5011S User Manual

WL 5011s

802.11g Wireless Network Adapter
Client Utility User Guide

10/2005

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1. Introduction

WL5011s client utility is a clean, straightforward GUI (Graphic User Interface) tool,
which is designed for users to configure, manage and monitor users’ wireless network
with ease.

System requirement

Laptop/ PC containing:

• 32-bit Cardbus slot (or Desktop PC with PC Card-PCI adapter)

• Mini PCI

• 32 MB memory or greater

• 300 MHz processor or higher

Operation Systems:
Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98 Second Edition,
Windows XP, or Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 6)

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2. Starting WL5011s Utility

Insert WL5011s and click the icon in the system tray (on the right-hand side of the
taskbar), the utility window will appear.

There are total 5 pages (Configure, Status, Network, Site Survey and About) provided
by this utility.

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3. Configuration

‘Configure’ page allows you to make all the required settings in order to integrate the
adapter into an existing WLAN.

Profile: Your settings can be collected under one name, e.g. if you want to use your
computer in more than one WLAN network. Click ‘Save’ and all the current
settings will be assigned to the profile name and saved. They will then be
available for future use and are ready to be called up. Click ‘Delete’ to remove
the selected profile. Click ‘Apply’ to use the selected profile.
SSID: All computers in the domain of a wireless LAN must have the same identity in
order to be recognized. If you click the Open arrow you can see a list with the
SSID of all networks which are within the range of the computer. Select the
SSID which you would like to connect up to.

Desired rate: Here you can select the transmission rate. Recommended: ‘Auto’.
Module Type: Here you can define the type of network: ‘Infrastructure’ (all

cable-linked and radio controlled computers within the network are
connected up to one another via an access point) or ‘Ad hoc’ (the
computers only communicate with one another via radio and have no

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access to a cable-linked network).
Country: for Ad hoc networks only. Radio channel restrictions are different by
countries. Please select properly.

Note: For the US version this item is locked by factory setting and the select
function is disabled.

Channel: for Ad hoc networks only. You can set the radio channel which all computers
must use. The availability of channels depend on which country you have
selected in previous “Country” item.

Note: For the US version only CH 1 to CH 11 is selectable by factory setting.

Security Type: Five network authentication types can be selected.
(1) WEP 64 bit (2) WEP 128 bit (3) WPA-PSK (4) WPA (5) 802.1x.

The detail describe as below.

For security reason, enabling one of the security measurements is strongly recommended.

WARNING

WEP is older and more commonly used in public wireless network. WPA provides stronger
protection than WEP but is more complicated to configure.

(1) WEP 64 bits & (2) WEP 128 bits:
WEP: The same key must be used for the radio module and the access point /router (in

the case of Infrastructure networks). In Ad hoc networks: All computers must
use the same key. 64 or 128 bit keys are supported.
Key Type: The type of WEP key. ‘HEX’: 10 (64 bits) or 26 (128 bits)
Hexadecimal characters (0 - 9 and A - F). ‘ASCII’: 5 (64 bits) or 13
(128 bits) characters.

Key Index: Select which key (Key 1 to Key 4) to use.
PassPhrase: Use this one for WEP key auto-generation. Check box and enter a

password sentence (max. 32 characters, highest safety level) into the
entry field (appears unreadable). The ‘Key Type’ fields will then be
deactivated. For 64 bit WEP key, four keys will be generated. Select the
key number from ‘Key Index’ which is also being used by the access

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