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ABLELink

EW5302 Ethernet to Wireless

Client Adaptor

User’s Manual

Version 1.0

Updated on November 13, 2008

TEL: 886-3-5508137

FAX: 886-3-5508131

http://www.atop.com.tw

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Page 1: ...ABLELink EW5302 Ethernet to Wireless Client Adaptor User s Manual Version 1 0 Updated on November 13 2008 TEL 886 3 5508137 FAX 886 3 5508131 http www atop com tw ...

Page 2: ...ed transmitted stored in a retrieval system or translated into any human or computer language in any form by any means in whole or in part without the prior explicit written consent of Atop Technologies Inc Published by Atop Technologies Inc 2F No 146 Sec 1 Tung Hsing Rd Jubei Hsinchu 30261 Taiwan R O C Tel 886 3 5508137 Fax 886 3 5508131 http www atop com tw Copyright 2007 Atop Technologies Inc A...

Page 3: ...the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help This product complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation FCC Caution Any changes or modifications...

Page 4: ... APPLICATION CONNECTIVITY 7 4 1 TCP UDP PROTOCOLS 7 4 1 1 Transmission Control Protocol TCP 7 4 1 2 User Datagram Protocol UDP 7 4 2 CONNECTIVITY TOPOLOGY 7 4 3 ETHERNET TO WLAN BRIDGE FUNCTION 8 4 4 VIRTUAL COM MODE 8 4 4 1 TCP Server in Virtual COM Mode 8 4 4 2 TCP Client in Virtual COM Mode 8 4 5 TUNNELING MODE 9 4 6 UDP MODE 11 5 CONFIGURE EW5302 BY WEB INTERFACE 12 5 1 LOGIN TO SYSTEM 12 5 2 ...

Page 5: ...UNICATION 27 APPENDIX B CONFIGURATION UTILITY 30 B 1 SERIALMANAGER UTILITY INTRODUCTION 30 B 2 INTERFACE 30 B 3 FUNCTIONS 30 B 3 1 Device Search 30 B 3 2 Firmware 33 B 3 3 Configuration 35 B 3 4 Security 41 B 3 5 View 43 B 3 6 About 43 APPENDIX C UPGRADING SYSTEM SOFTWARE 44 C 1 SYSTEM UPGRADING PROCEDURES 44 C 2 CRITICAL ISSUES IN UPGRADING PROCESS 44 APPENDIX D SPECIFICATIONS 45 D 1 HARDWARE SPE...

Page 6: ...thernet RS 232 RS 485 however RS 232 RS 485 serial communication has its limitations For instance it is hard to transfer data through Wireless or long distance With EW5302 it is possible to communicate with a remote device in the Intranet environment or even in the Internet and thus increases the communication distance dramatically Flexible configuration options enable this unit to be setup remote...

Page 7: ... 2 ports with Terminal Block serial connector EW5302 WgN1Sis TB Wireless Client Adaptor plus 2 ports RS 422 485 photo Isolated with terminal block serial Connector Optional Accessories and their ordering codes US315 12 US USE315 12 EU 1A25F US 1A25F EU AC100 240V US plug DC12V 3 pin Terminal block for TB model AC100 240V EU plug DC12V 3 pin Terminal block for TB model AC100 240V US plug DC12V DC j...

Page 8: ...device Please make sure the connector and wiring of RS 232 or RS 485 is correct Plug in EW5302 to DC 9 48V power source with DC jack or 3 pin terminal bock connector buzzer will beep and the RUN LED will blink if EW5302 functions normally For LED Status see Appendix D 4 Use SerialManager configuration utility on the Product CD to check the status of EW5302 If it starts up successfully users shall ...

Page 9: ...other default settings of EW5302 are shown in the following table Property Default Value Wireless Client Adaptor IP IP Address 10 0 50 100 Gateway 10 0 0 254 Subnet Mask 255 255 0 0 Security User Name Admin Password Null Leave it blank Serial COM 9600 None 8 1 No flow control packet delimiter disabled Link Mode TCP Server Listen port 4660 4661 No Filter Virtual COM disabled SNMP SysName of SNMP Na...

Page 10: ...ity software Note All settings will NOT be changed if User ID or Password was incorrect If there is more than one device using the same IP address in the same subnet users need to correct the mapping between MAC address and IP address using ARP commands as explained in the next section 3 2 2 Configure IP address using ARP commands ARP Address Resolution Protocol commands can be used to assign a st...

Page 11: ...s assignment using DHCP DHCP server can automatically supply an IP address gateway address and subnet mask to EW5302 device if its DCHP client function is set By default the DHCP client function is disabled users can activate the DHCP function by following these steps Execute SerialManager Utility Click on the IP address of EW5302 This can be the default IP address if it was never set before Click...

Page 12: ...so distinguishes the transmitted data for different applications such as a Web server or an Email server on the same computer For redundant or dual network connectivity purposes EW5302 offers two TCP operation modes so users may choose for their specific application TCP Server Mode and TCP Client Mode 4 1 2 User Datagram Protocol UDP UDP is a faster datagram delivery protocol User can configure EW...

Page 13: ...diagram Fig 5 TCP Connection in Virtual COM Mode 4 4 1 TCP Server in Virtual COM Mode EW5302 can be configured in the TCP server mode a computer or PC acts as a client with a unique IP and Port number and EW5302 waits passively for the PC to establish a connection After the connection is established PC can communicate to serial devices through EW5302 Configure EW5302 to be TCP server Using one of ...

Page 14: ... on port 1000 Each EW5302 connected with serial device configured as TCP client mode with destination IP address 10 0 0 100 and the destination port 1000 and the IP filter is disabled by default Fig 6 TCP Server in Virtual COM Mode Fig 7 TCP Client in Virtual COM Mode 4 5 Tunneling Mode Tunneling Mode is used for multiple serial devices to talk among one another through EW5302 s wireless LAN or wi...

Page 15: ...to each other transparently For example users can implement EW5302 tunneling mode for Master Slave mode PLCs or between other serial devices Fig 8 TCP Link in Tunneling mode Configuring EW5302 to Tunneling Mode Using one of two configuration methods Web based or Windows based SerialManager utility users can configure EW5302 to TCP Server mode with a desired IP address and port and with other EW530...

Page 16: ...e Use one of the two configuration methods Web based or Windows based SerialManager utility Users can configure EW5302 to UDP mode In UDP mode EW5302 can be configured to communicate to more than one node Multicasting Note that the Multicast IP address is limited by the Class of IP address and subnet mask As an example for a network of Class C of subnet 192 168 1 X and a subnet mask of 255 255 255...

Page 17: ...Open one of the web browsers ex Microsoft IE or Firefox etc Enter the IP address of EW5302 on the URL Example http 10 0 50 100 or http your device IP address The following authentication screen shall appear Enter User Name and Password then click on OK The default user name is admin and password is null leave it blank Fig 12 Authentication request for system security 5 2 General Information Once t...

Page 18: ...User manual Version 1 0 EW5302 Wireless Serial Server Copyright 2007 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 13 Fig 13 Overview of system information on a Web Interface ...

Page 19: ...or Information Wireless Client Adaptor Information fields display both LAN Wireless LAN WLAN information The information provided are LAN MAC address Region for Regulation LAN IP address WLAN MAC address WLAN IP address and Link status Fig 15 Wireless Client Adaptor Information from Overview web page 5 2 3 Serial Information EW5302 COM1 COM2 information includes UART mode link mode baud rate parit...

Page 20: ...2007 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 15 5 3 Network Configurations There are three items allowed to change on Networking page included Wireless Client Adaptor Settings DNS Setting and SNMP Settings Fig 17 Network information by Web page ...

Page 21: ...k and the following screen shall appear Fill in the IP Address of DNS Servers in DNS1 and DNS2 fields Alternatively User can configure DNS by checking on Obtain an IP automatically field in LAN Settings or WLAN Settings fields to automatically obtain DNS from a DHCP server Fig 19 DNS Settings from Network web page 5 3 3 SNMP Settings Click on the Network link and the following screen shall appear ...

Page 22: ...ed in Taiwan 17 Fig 20 SNMP Setting from Network web page 5 4 Wireless Configuration There are three configuration pages for Wireless Configuration which are Default Current and Site Survey Information Pages Click on Wireless link and the following screen shall appear Fig 21 Wireless Interface Information by Web page ...

Page 23: ...be shown for advanced wireless settings if Select or User Define button was clicked For example User can configure SSID BSSID Topology Wireless Band Mode TxRate Channel Authentication and Encryption of the access point that EW5302 want to connect to The advanced wireless settings also include Roaming Threshold User can configure roaming signal threshold EW5302 will change to the stronger signal wi...

Page 24: ...e access point with WEP Encryption Topology Infrastructure Channel Auto assignment from Access point Authentication Shared Encryption WEP WEP Key1 4 Hexadecimal or ASCII 64 or 128bit WEP Key Fig 24 Share Authorization and WEP Encryption Note1 Enter 5 ASCII value or 10 Hexadecimal digit if select 64 bit encryption Note2 Enter 13 ASCII value or 26 Hexadecimal digit if select 128 bit encryption ...

Page 25: ... 27 In this mode the connection waits for a connecting requirement from a remote host PC which is running a Serial to IP utility or setting EW5302 in tunneling mode Users need to configure a listening port to allow clients establishing a connection to this server Default port number of COM1 is 4660 IP filtering function is a simple ACL Access Control List for incoming IP packets It can be disabled...

Page 26: ...User manual Version 1 0 EW5302 Wireless Serial Server Copyright 2007 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 21 Fig 26 COM port Information Web Page Fig 27 TCP Server in Link mode ...

Page 27: ...IP is assigned by a single IP or a group of IP addresses The configuration is limited by the Local Listening Port For example the EW5302 listening port is 4660 which receives data sending from the host computers EW5302 can support up to 4 group IP addresses for UDP connection if users needed Note In UDP mode the device does not support Virtual COM mode Fig 29 UDP protocol in Link mode 5 5 4 Serial...

Page 28: ...provides two ways in parameter setting 1 Packet delimiter by timer and 2 packet delimiter by Character pattern By default packet delimiter timer is 10 ms the range of packet delimiter timer is 10 to 30 000 ms For Character pattern terminator if a character pattern is selected and a data stream ended with 0x0a04 then the entire data buffer of the serial device is transmitted 5 6 Configure System Th...

Page 29: ... to deploy the EW5302 This selection will affect the bands of channels of EW5302 wireless mode For example the normal system level channel configurations for deployments are channels 1 6 and 11 for FCC countries and 1 5 9 and 13 for European Union countries Fig 33 Time service settings from System web page 5 6 3 Security Password Change Click on the Security link and the following screen shall app...

Page 30: ...efault value blank Fig 34 Change password from System Security Page 5 6 4 Restoring Factory Default Configurations User can click on Set to default and Restart button to restore EW5302 s settings to factory default Fig 35 Set all parameters to factory default by Web Interface 5 6 5 Restart System The changes of networking parameters will take effect only after the EW5302 is restarted User can rest...

Page 31: ...sical COM2 COM3 Virtual COM Port COM4 Virtual COM Port COM5 Virtual COM Port COM6 Virtual COM Port COM256 Virtual COM Port PC HUB TCP IP Network Serial Line Serial Device 1 Serial Line Serial Device 2 Serial Line Serial Device 3 Serial Line Serial Device 4 SW5002 WgN1 Fig 37 Setup of a Virtual COM driver A 1 Pre installation Requirements Please check the operating system on your PC complied with t...

Page 32: ...ccess EW5302 device from a web browser typing its IP address in URL location bar and then click on Serial link to access Serial page On the top half of the page click on TCP Server and enable Virtual COM by putting a check in front of the Enable checkbox Then type in the local port number in the Local Port field as indicated in Fig 38 Fig 38 Enable Virtual COM Mode using Web page Running Serial to...

Page 33: ...302 device Click Configuration Wizard to pop up a dialog to set up a configuration On Username and Password the default is no login required If the EW5302 does require the login you must provide a username and password to access the EW5302 device Click the Start button that shall appear on the wizard window This step verifies that the Virtual COM Redirector communicates with the EW5302 If Log disp...

Page 34: ...User manual Version 1 0 EW5302 Wireless Serial Server Copyright 2007 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 29 Fig 40 Configuration Wizard from Serial to IP tool ...

Page 35: ...work devices for address search device positioning parameter configuring and firmware downloading B 2 Interface The operating interface of the SerialManager utility is shown below Device details Main menu Status bar B 3 Functions B 3 1 Device Search This function is applied to search devices in the network There are four methods to search devices Search by Broadcast Search by IP addresses Search b...

Page 36: ...reserved Designed in Taiwan 31 Alternatively users can select by clicking a button on the toolbar as below Broadcast Search Rescan Broadcast Search Once Broadcast Search is selected a box will pop up as below The user may type in or select different broadcast address based on his or her own requirement ...

Page 37: ... IP Address is selected an interface will pop up as below Here user may have two options Select an IP address to search or Search device in the range of IP address Search by MAC Address If Search by MAC Address is selected another box will pop up as below Here the user may search in two ways Search a MAC address to search or Search devices in the range of MAC address ...

Page 38: ...ger utility shall re search devices by using the current search way B 3 2 Firmware This function is applied to downloading a firmware into the selected device The user can enter the window for downloading by firstly clicking a designated network device and then selecting the submenu option Firmware Download in the main menu option Firmware or directly clicking the button Upgrade from disk Upgrade ...

Page 39: ... user can also select several same devices at one time and realize the firmware updating for them by selecting Apply for all selected devices have same model You may want to save device s parameters before upgrading a firmware and then it can be downloaded to the device after upgrading Alternatively you can configure one device and save device s parameters to be downloaded to other devices of the ...

Page 40: ...ded to devices as shown below Note Some of the outdated firmware versions do not support SerialManager firmware upgrade function Please refer to Appendix Upgrading System Software for details B 3 3 Configuration This function is for device configuration to set up parameters to import and to export the parameters and to set up some options Here is the list of configurations Network SNMP COM Port Lo...

Page 41: ...n 36 Locate Network COM Port Import Setting Export Setting Network The user can modify the IP address of any selected device shown as the figure below You can statically assign IP address Subnet mask and Gateway Optionally you can set up the device with a host name You can select DHCP option to obtain an IP address automatically ...

Page 42: ...plied to the configuration of COM port parameters only The COM Port setting dialog is shown below Note This function can be realized only after a successful login The user can also select several devices at one time and carry out the configuration for them at the same time by selecting Apply for all selected same model devices Note COM tabs generated automatically according to the COM port number ...

Page 43: ... IP address is known but its position is unknown If a device is selected the device will appear to sing Users can locate the device by selecting the Configuration submenu Locate or clicking the Locate button on the toolbar Reset The device should be restarted after a successful modification of parameter configuration Users can also carry out a restart through the submenu option Reset Import Settin...

Page 44: ...nu option Export setting or clicking the Export setting button on the toolbar for backup purpose or to be imported to other device The dialog of Export Setting is shown in the figure below The user can also select several devices at one time and save the parameter information of these selected devices into a designated parameter file by selecting Save all the selected devices Virtual COM Some devi...

Page 45: ...used to configure similar to SerialManager software Users can carry out any parameter setting directly through the submenu option Config by Browser and a Web browser is shown in the figure below Option The option is mainly applied to setting some common working rules of SerialManager utility such as the device search time interval or whether to display any device information tip The dialog is show...

Page 46: ...ifying configuration leading in and leading out and some other important functions Here three functions are mainly supplied including Login Logout and Change Password shown in the figure below Logout Login Login This function is applied to the login to any network device as some important devices can only be operated after a successful login shown in the figure below The user can also select sever...

Page 47: ... to any important device shown in the figure below The user can also select several devices at one time and log out them at the same time by selecting Apply for all selected devices Change Password This function is applied to modifying the password for logging in any network device but can only be realized after a successful log in shown in the figure below The user can also select several devices...

Page 48: ... select a display mode of the network device according to his her own requirement through the menu option View such as display in sequence of device module name or display in sequence of IP address and so on shown in the figure below B 3 6 About This function is mainly applied to displaying information of the SerialManager utility shown in the figure below ...

Page 49: ...Use command ping or SerialManager utility program to verify their availability Edit dll bat to yield the system requirements Please make sure to save all modifications Run dll bat or type a command and parameters as shown below as shown in Fig 41 C linux_dl_v2 exe zImage bin 10 0 152 100 The device s IP is 10 0 152 100 Note linux_dl_v2 exe is the executable file which can be found in Setup CD ROM ...

Page 50: ...t data encryption WPA Compatible TKIP AES Encryption WPA2 PSK RF Performance Tx Power 14 dBm for 802 11b and 13 dBm for 802 11g Rx Sensitivity 66 dBm 54 Mbps 80 dBm 11Mbps Transmission Rate 54 Mbps max with auto fallback Transmission distance Up to 300 meters 12 Mbps in open areas Mobile for Fast Roaming Interfaces Reverse SMA connector for an external antenna Network Hardware 10 100M Auto Negotia...

Page 51: ... D 2 Software Specifications Software Protocol ICMP IP TCP UDP DHCP Client Telnet DNS SNMP HTTP SMTP SNTP Utility Virtual COM Utilities for Windows 98 2000 XP 2003 Vista Configure Utilities Supported for Windows 98 2000 NT XP 2003 Vista Configuration Web browser Windows utility software Buffer Size TCP receiving buffer size 8K bytes TCP transmitting buffer size 16K bytes RS 232 RS 485 receiving bu...

Page 52: ...4 2 Wireless Signal Strength status The Access Point link quality can be detected by LED indicator on EW5302 In a running mode once press a default key and then release one of the specified actions below shall be performed depending on the released time after you heard how many beeps The Access Point radio link quality is indicated by the number of LEDs lid on as shown in the table below Radio Lin...

Page 53: ...Message Message Description LED Off No data is transmitting on Ethernet LED Blinking Data is transmitting on Ethernet D 4 4 COM Port LED Message Message Description LED off No data is transmitting on COM port LED Blinking Data is transmitting on COM port D 4 5 RUN LED Message Message Description LED Blinking 0 5 sec interval AP firmware is running ...

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