User manual COMET LABS WN598

[. . . ] Appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction Thank you for purchasing your Wireless LAN 802. 11g Adapter. This User' s Guide will assist you with the installation procedure. The package you have received should contain the following items: · Wireless LAN 802. 11g Adapter · Quick Installation Guide · CD containing Wireless network adapter utility & drivers and User's Guide Note: if anything is missing, please contact your vendor Note: This manual is valid for all Wireless LAN 11g Series products, such as PC Card, USB, mini-USB, PCI adapter, mini-PCI. . . etc. User's Guide 4 2. [. . . ] Insert the given Installation CD in the CD-ROM, then browse the CD content and find a file which be named setup. exe, double click it for beginning the installation. At the " Welcome" window, click Next. User's Guide 10 4. Click Yes to accept. Click Yes to finish the setup. User's Guide 11 5. Insert / attach Wireless LAN 802. 11g Adapter to your system Windows will recognize the WLAN adapter and auto detect the driver, if the system did not find the driver automatically, please install the driver manually. Click Yes to finish the installation. User's Guide 12 6. Click the right button of mouse on My Computer Properties Hardware Device Manager. Check whether it has WLAN adapter in one of the sockets or not. If you find Wireless Network PC Card in one of the sockets, it means the card is detected properly. 7. Click right button of mouse on the Network Neighborhood. User's Guide 13 8. * For Windows ME and 2000, please select the Local Area Connection's properties to check the following menu. 9. Click on the Protocol then click the Add button. User's Guide 14 10. From the list of network protocols list, select NetBEUI, then click OK. 11. Repeat the step 9 and 10 to add IPX/SPX protocol. User's Guide 15 13. Click on the TCP/IP option for setting the IP address for your computer. You can select either Obtain an IP address automatically or Use the following IP address setting. If your choice is the second one then enter the IP value, Subnet masking, DNS, Domain/ Workgroup name, and Gateway Address values. After setting these parameters appropriately, click OK to return to Network Component Type and you can select the File and Printer Sharing options as well for sharing your computers resources. It will shut down your computer and restart. Important: In order to make sure that the changed values could take effect, please Restart your computer before continue. User's Guide 16 Uninstall Procedure Step 1: If you want to uninstall the WLAN adapter, just simply click Start Menu Program Wireless Network Uninstall, it shall uninstall all related programs. Step 2: Restart your Computer. User's Guide 17 4. Configuration Utility Wireless LAN 802. 11g Wireless LAN adapter uses its own management software. Usually this application starts automatically, or click icon from Start Menu to start the Utility application. A new icon should appear in your Icon tray. If the icon is in red, it means that Wireless LAN 802. 11g NIC configuration is invalid or incomplete. Figure 1 Icon tray with a new icon User's Guide 18 User can navigate through "sheets", by clicking tabs. Below description explains the use and meanings of the various screen messages. User's Guide 19 4. 1 Link Information Connected To Network - This field is used to display the current status of connection. When the state shows "Connected to Network" means normal flow of operation in Infrastructure mode. A state of "Scanning" means that the node is searching for available access point and detecting the SSID for an available access point within range. This field will also display an error message for some reason if the driver fails to initialize. Network Type Infrastructure Mode - The driver will scan all available channels continuously until it finds one or more Access Points that match its SSID. At that point it will try and authenticate and associate with the Access Point. [. . . ] If you do not find the names, there are some problems and the driver is not installed properly. Note: Check the PnP BIOS setup menu and select no in case of the WLAN Adapter installation. User's Guide 28 6. Appendix 6. 1 Using WinXP Wireless Zero configuration for WPA setup Step1: Check and make sure that the Wireless Zero Configuration service is running. Click Start Settings Control Panel Administrative Tools Services Since WPA security standard has been defined after Windows XP lunch date, then you should also update your current Wireless Zero Configuration utility version to the latest. [. . . ]