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Benq Wireless LAN 

AWL100 PCMCIA Adapter User Manual 

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Summary of Contents for AWL-100

Page 1: ...Benq Wireless LAN PCMCIA Adapter AWL100 User Manual Version 1 0 ...

Page 2: ... set forth in CFR 47 Sections 2 1091 2 1093 and 15 247 b 4 addressing RF Exposure from radio frequency devices The radiation output power of this Wireless LAN device is far below the FCC radio frequency exposure limits Nevertheless this device shall be used in such a manner that the potential for human contact during normal operation as a mobile or portable device but use in a body worn way is str...

Page 3: ...vision reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the deale...

Page 4: ...s LAN AWL100 PCMCIA Adapter User Manual i Contents Contents i 1 Installation 1 1 1 Driver Installation 1 2 AWL100 Wireless Settings 3 2 1 Status 5 3 2 Configuration 7 3 3 Encryption 8 3 4 Site Survey 9 3 5 About 10 ...

Page 5: ...IA Adapter User Manual 1 1 Installation 1 1 Driver Installation Insert AWL100 PCMCIA Adapter into your PC and then Windows will show the dialog Add New Hardware Wizard Select Search the location of the driver and press Next button ...

Page 6: ...location and browse the Benq Wireless LAN CD to find AWL100 For example if your CD ROM is drive D and you want to install the English version of driver the location is D AWL100 English Windows has found AWL100 PCMCIA Adapter Press Next button Please wait while coping files ...

Page 7: ...less LAN AWL100 PCMCIA Adapter User Manual 3 Press Finish Press Yes and restart your computer 2 AWL100 Wireless Settings You can launch AWL100 Wireless Settings utility by clicking the icon or from Control Panel ...

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Page 9: ... networking is available for the device In Scanning state it means that the node can not detect the SSID to get an access point within range and is searching for an available access point Also if the driver failed to initialize for some unknown reasons this field will display an error message Rescan The driver will restart and begin its Connection Procedure if the rescan button is pressed In gener...

Page 10: ...aph displays the link quality between the node and its Access Point Over the bar graph a label summarizes the quality of the link which can take on one of the following values Not Applicable Poor Fair Good Excellent When the Link Quality becomes Poor the driver will start to look for a better Access Point As a result the Link Quality is a very good measure of receiving and transmitting errors over...

Page 11: ... value by pressing this button However before the default values are saved or loaded to the driver and registry the Apply Changes button or OK button must be pressed Apply Only when one of the fields has been modified does this button become active Press this button to apply the changed values to the driver and saves them to the registry for the next time when the PC boots up Profile Name These se...

Page 12: ...Access Point all communication is done via the Access Point which relays packets to other wireless Clients in the BSS as well as to nodes on a wired network such as Ethernet Peer to Peer Ad Hoc This is a non compliant mode which will allow AWL100 cards to talk with one another without an AP regardless any SSID 3 3 Encryption According to WEP function select this page allows the entry of four keys ...

Page 13: ...may use these four fields If you wish this node to match keys in a different vendor s product this may be necessary These fields also display the keys when they are generated using a Pass phrase Apply You may also update the driver with the four keys displayed in Key field by pressing this button The keys are also written to the registry for permanent storage This button clears all the bytes in th...

Page 14: ...with and then press this Join button to join this network 3 5 About You may learn the product version including the detail of Network Driver Configuration Utility and NIC firmware version from this About tab When users want to report their problems to technical support they must use this version number ...

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