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2.2 Install the Driver & Utility

2.2.1 For Windows XP/2000/ME/98SE

Note:

The following installation was operated under Windows XP. (Procedures will be

same for Windows 2000 / Windows ME / Windows 98SE)

STEP1:

Found New Hardware Wizard

is displayed after the adapter is installed and the

computer is restarted. Please click

Cancel

to continue.

STEP2:

Insert Installation CD into CD-ROM drive then windows below will appear. Click

Install Driver

to begin device driver installation.

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Summary of Contents for AWN-MIMO-54RA

Page 1: ...802 11g 54Mbps MIMO PCI Wireless Adapter User s Manual Model AWN MIMO 54RA ...

Page 2: ...perienced radio TV technician for help the receiver is connected FCC Caution Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate this equipment This device 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 mu...

Page 3: ...2 Revision History Revision History V1 1 Second release All brand and product names mentioned in this manual are trademarks and or registered trademarks of their respective holders ...

Page 4: ...or Windows Vista x86 x64 bit 13 3 Wireless Network Configuration Utility 19 3 1 Profile 20 3 2 Link Status 21 3 3 Site Survey 22 3 3 1 Configure the Profile 23 3 3 2 Authentication and Security 25 3 3 3 802 1x Setting Certification 27 3 3 4 802 1x Setting CA Server 29 3 4 Statistics 30 3 5 Advanced 31 3 6 QoS 33 3 6 1 Configure to enable Wi Fi Multi Media 33 3 6 2 Enable WMM Power Save 35 3 6 3 En...

Page 5: ...tee the best security for users This product is made in ISO9001 approved factory and complies with FCC part 15 regulations and CE approval 1 1 Features Compatible with IEEE 802 11g standard and maximum data transfer rate up to 54Mbps Increase Speed and Coverage by MIMO XRTM and Packet OVERDRIVETM Technology Dynamic date rate scaling at 54 48 36 24 18 12 9 and 6Mbps for 802 11g Dynamic date rate sc...

Page 6: ...start You must have the requirements as follow A laptop computer desktop PC with an available 32 bit Cardbus PCI slot At least a 300MHz processor and 32MB memory Windows 98SE ME 2000 XP XP 64bit Vista 32bit Vista 64bit support A CD ROM drive PCI Cardbus controller properly installed An IEEE802 11g or IEEE802 11b Access Point for Infrastructure mode or another IEEE802 11g or IEEE802 11b wireless ad...

Page 7: ...mputing device the Wireless Cardbus Adapter must be equipped with an internal or external PCMCIA Card Type II or Type III slot STEP2 Please firmly insert the Wireless Cardbus Adapter into an available PCMCIA Card slot PCMCIA Card slot is located on one side of the Laptop PC For Wireless PCI Adapter STEP1 Turn off your computer and remove its cover STEP2 Insert the PCI card to an available PCI slot...

Page 8: ...s such as concrete and thick walls limit radio signal penetration and reduce the throughput and the coverage range of the PCI card Place the PC as high as possible The higher the PC is placed the better the performance Adjust the antenna position The WLAN PCI card has two antennas for signal reception and one antenna for high power signal transmission The antennas on the right and left side are fo...

Page 9: ...cedures will be same for Windows 2000 Windows ME Windows 98SE STEP1 Found New Hardware Wizard is displayed after the adapter is installed and the computer is restarted Please click Cancel to continue STEP2 Insert Installation CD into CD ROM drive then windows below will appear Click Install Driver to begin device driver installation ...

Page 10: ... Please wait for a while during the Setup Wizard is preparing the setup STEP4 Please read the following license agreement Use the scroll bar to view the rest of this agreement Click Yes to accept the agreement ...

Page 11: ...ero Configuration Tool or the Ralink Configuration Tool It is recommended to choose the Ralink Configuration Tool for the adapter Click Next to continue STEP6 If you need the adapter to operate with better performance place choose Optimize for performance mode to enable the Tx Burst mode Or you can choose Optimize for WiFi mode to run in standard wireless network ...

Page 12: ...11 STEP7 Please wait for a while during the adapter is configuring your new software installation STEP8 When the adapter is installed properly the configuration utility will be displayed automatically ...

Page 13: ...mputer after the installation has finished Choose Yes I want to restart my computer now and click Finish button To check if the adapter is properly installed you can right click My Computer Æ choose Properties Æ click Device Manager ...

Page 14: ...tion to open the Configuration Utility tool z Use Zero Configuration as Configuration utilityÆ Select this option to use Windows XP built in wireless configuration utility Windows Zero Configuration to configure to card z Switch to AP Mode z Exit Æ Select Exit to close the Configuration Utility tool 2 2 2 For Windows Vista x86 x64 bit Step1 Update Driver Software Network Controller is displayed af...

Page 15: ...nstallation CD into CD ROM drive then windows below will appear Click Install Driver to begin device driver installation Step3 Please wait for while during Wireless LAN Card is configuring your new software installation ...

Page 16: ...er Wireless Network Card has finished installing click Finish to exit the setup wizard Step5 To check if the adapter is properly installed you can right click My Computer Æ choose Properties Æ click Device Manager ...

Page 17: ...16 To setup Wireless Network in Windows Vista Operation System Step1 Start Î All Programs Î Control Panel Step2 Choose Network and Sharing Center ...

Page 18: ...17 Step3 Choose Connect to a network Step4 From the list of available networks choose one of networks which you want to connect ...

Page 19: ...18 Step5 And then the network has been connected Click Close to exit the setup Step6 Final your wireless network has connected ...

Page 20: ...s adapter will auto connect to wireless device which has better signal strength and no wireless security setting Note In Windows XP there is a Windows Zero Configuration Tool for you to setup wireless clients If you want to switch the configuration utilities please follow one of the ways as below First Way Right click the icon in the system tray and select Use Zero Configuration as Configuration u...

Page 21: ...view and manage the current using Available Point s You can Add Delete Edit or Activate the current Available Point s Also you can duplicate the AP or set current AP as Default Profiles List The Profiles List displays all the profiles and the relative settings of the profiles including Profile Name SSID and Channel etc Add Delete Edit Button Click these buttons to add delete edit the selected prof...

Page 22: ...mediately monitor the current connected link status such as Link Speed Throughput Link Quality Signal Strength Noise Level etc Status Display the SSID and MAC ID of the network that the adapter is connecting to Extra Info Display the link status ...

Page 23: ...ition of the wireless device for quality network operation Signal Strength2 This card shows two antennas for receiving The Signal Strength2 indicates the receiving signal strength for the second antenna Noise Level Display the noise level in the wireless environment 3 3Site Survey When you open the Configuration Utility the system will scan all the channels to find all the access points stations w...

Page 24: ... will display as follow You can configure your Wireless Network Security for the card Profile Name Define a recognizable profile name for you to identify the different network SSID The SSID up to 32 printable ASCII characters is the unique name identified in a WLAN The ID prevents the unintentional merging of two co located WLANs You may specify a SSID for the adapter and then only the device with...

Page 25: ...1 G only This card can be compatible with both 802 11g and 802 11b wireless stations If there are only 802 11g wireless stations in the network you can set the card to this mode Preamble The preamble defines the length of the CRC block for communication among wireless devices This option is only active in the Ad Hoc network There are two modes including Auto and Long Preamble If Auto mode is selec...

Page 26: ...ation Type This setting has to be consistent with the wireless networks that the adapter intends to connect Open No authentication is needed among the wireless devices Shared Only Wireless device using a shared key WEP Key identified is allowed to ...

Page 27: ...sword from joining the network while encrypting the data traveling between authorized devices WPA2 Like WPA WPA2 supports IEEE 802 1x EAP authentication or PSK technology It also includes a new advanced encryption mechanism using the Advanced Encryption Standard AES AES is required to the corporate user or government users The different between WPA and WPA2 is that WPA2 provides data encryption vi...

Page 28: ...ill the text box by following the rule below 64 bit Input 10 digit Hex values in the A F a f and 0 9 range or 5 digit ASCII characters including a z and 0 9 as the encryption keys For example 0123456aef or test1 128 bit Input 26 digit Hex values in the A F a f and 0 9 range or 13 digit ASCII characters including a z and 0 9 as the encryption keys For example 01234567890123456789abcdef or administr...

Page 29: ...han TLS in that they specify a stand alone authentication protocol be used within an encrypted tunnel TTLS supports any protocol within its tunnel including CHAP MS CHAP MS CHAPv2 PAP and EAP MD5 PEAP specifies that an EAP compliant authentication protocol must be used this adapter supports EAP MSCHAP v2 EAP TLS Smart card and Generic Token Card This client certificate is optional required for the...

Page 30: ... for the server Use Client Certificate A client certificate is required for TLS and is optional for TTLS and PEAP This forces a client certificate to be selected from the appropriate Windows Certificate Store and made available to the RADIUS server for certification Tunneled Authentication Protocol When the authentication type is PEAP or TTLS select a protocol to be used to build the encrypted tun...

Page 31: ...n authority certificate store of the host computer Intermediate or subordinate certification authorities are trusted only if they have a valid certification path from a trusted root certification authority Server Name Enter the authentication server name Server name must match exactly When selected the server name must match exactly the server name found on the certificate Domain name must end in ...

Page 32: ...If there are only 802 11g wireless stations in the network you can set the adapter to this mode Select Your Country Region Code The available channel differs from different countries For example USA FCC is channel 1 11 Europe ETSI is channel 1 13 The operating frequency channel will be restricted to the country user located before importing If you are in different country you have to adjust the ch...

Page 33: ...ng the wireless connection especially the adapter is applied to the multimedia application or a voice call The adapter will fast roaming to the near network when the receive sensitivity signal strength is lower to the value you have set up Turn Off RF Button If you want to turn off the radio of the adapter temporarily click this button To turn on the radio click this button again Enable CCX CCX Ci...

Page 34: ...surement time The default value is 250 milliseconds 3 6QoS The QoS Page of RaConfig It involves WMM Enable WMM Power Save Enable and DLS setup 3 6 1 Configure to enable Wi Fi Multi Media If you want to use WMM Power Save or Direct Link you must enable WMM The setting method of enabling WMM indicates as follows Step1 Click WMM Enable Step2 Click Apply ...

Page 35: ...34 Step3 Change to Site Survey Page And add an AP that supports WMM features to a Profile The result will look like the below figure in Profile page ...

Page 36: ...lick WMM Power Save Enable And Click Setting button Step2 After clicking Setting button show Power Save Setting dialog Please select which ACs you want to enable Then click Apply button The setting of enabling WMM Power Save is successfully ...

Page 37: ...irect Link Setup Step1 Click Direct Link Setup Enable And Click Apply button Step2 Change to Site Survey Page And add an AP that supports DLS features to a Profile The result will look like the below figure in Profile page ...

Page 38: ...tions as follow Step1 Connect with the same AP that support DLS features Step2 Have to enable DLS 2 Timeout Value represents that it disconnect automatically after some seconds The value is integer The integer must be between 0 65535 It represents that it always connects if the value is zero Default value of Timeout Value is 60 seconds ...

Page 39: ...fully show MAC address of the opposite side and Timeout Value of setting in DLS Status In DLS Status of the opposite side it shows MAC address of myself and Timeout Value of setting 2 Display the values of DLS Status to Direct Link Setup as follow Step1 In DLS Status select a direct link STA what you want to show it s values in Direct Link Setup ...

Page 40: ...39 Step2 Double click And the result will look like the below figure 3 Disconnect Direct Link Setup as follow Step1 Select a direct link STA ...

Page 41: ...ure 3 7About In the About you can click the hyperlink to connect the website for the information of the wireless chipset vendor and review basic information about the Utility such as the RaConfig Version Driver Version EEPROM Version IP Address Sub Mask and Default Gateway ...

Page 42: ...n does not appear in your icon tray Possible Remedy Make sure that you have installed the Utility from the attached CD 4 Symptom The Wireless adapter is linking but can t share files with others Possible Remedy Make sure the File and printer sharing function is enabled 5 Symptom Slow or unstable performance Possible Remedy Try to change the channel of the communicating group or move your device cl...

Page 43: ...tep 10 Click OK if all the settings are correct 9 What is the IEEE 802 11g standard 802 11g is the new IEEE standard for high speed wireless LAN communications that provides for up to 54 Mbps data rate in the 2 4 GHz band 802 11g is quickly becoming the next mainstream wireless LAN technology for the home office and public networks 802 11g defines the use of the same OFDM modulation technique spec...

Page 44: ...atabase or wireless application for mobile workers 13 What is BSS ID A specific Ad hoc LAN is called a Basic Service Set BSS Computers in a BSS must be configured with the same BSS ID 14 What is WEP WEP is Wired Equivalent Privacy a data privacy mechanism based on a 40 bit shared key algorithm as described in the IEEE 802 11 standard 15 What is TKIP TKIP is a quick fix method to quickly overcome t...

Page 45: ...e as with Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum technology it has the inherent security feature of scrambling On the software side WLAN series offer the encryption function WEP to enhance security and Access Control Users can set it up depending upon their needs If you have any troubles to configure or setup this WLAN adapter please feel free to contact us Before contacting us make sure collect followin...

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