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Benq Wireless LAN 

AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 

22 

3.6 Version 

 

You may learn the product version including the detail of Driver, Firmware, and 

Application from this “About” tab. When users want to report their problems to 

technical support, they must use this version number. 

 

Summary of Contents for AWL300

Page 1: ...BenQ Wireless LAN USB Adapter AWL300 User Manual Version 1 0 2002 ...

Page 2: ...perienced radio TV technician for help Regulatory information Disclaimers Installation and use of this Wireless LAN device must be in strict accordance with the instructions included in the user documentation provided with the product Any changes or modifications including the antennas made to this device that are not expressly approved by the manufacturer may void the user s authority to operate ...

Page 3: ... 1 Installation 1 1 1 Driver Installation 1 1 2 Application Installation 3 1 3 Application USB Driver Installation 7 2 Uninstallation 13 3 Configuration Monitor Utility 16 3 1 Monitor 16 3 2 Statistics 18 3 3 Site Survey 19 3 4 Encryption 20 3 5 Advanced 21 3 6 Version 22 ...

Page 4: ...SB Adapter User Manual 1 1 Installation 1 1 Driver Installation Insert AWL300 USB Adapter into your PC and then Windows will show the dialog Add New Hardware Wizard Select Specify the location of the driver and press Next button ...

Page 5: ...al 2 Select Specify a location and browse the Benq Wireless LAN CD to find AWL300 For example if your CD ROM is drive D the location is D AWL300 Windows has found Benq AWL300 Wireless LAN USB Adapter Press Next button Please wait while coping files ...

Page 6: ...pter User Manual 3 Press Finish Press Yes and restart your computer 1 2 Application Installation Execute Setup exe in the AWL300 directory in Benq Wireless LAN CD For example if your CD ROM is drive D please execute D AWL300 Setup exe ...

Page 7: ... LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 4 Press Next button Select Application USB Drivers to install both of them if you don t have USB Drivers installed yet Select Application Only to insta ll only AWL300 applications ...

Page 8: ...LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 5 Press Browse if you want to change destination location of applications and then press Next button The folder name will be AWL300 Press Next button if you don t want to change it ...

Page 9: ...Benq Wireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 6 Press Next button Press Finish and restart your computer ...

Page 10: ...00 USB Adapter User Manual 7 1 3 Application USB Driver Installation Execute Setup exe in the AWL300 directory in Benq Wireless LAN CD For example if your CD ROM is drive D please execute D AWL300 Setup exe Press Next button ...

Page 11: ...Benq Wireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 8 Select Application USB Drivers to install both of them if you don t have USB Drivers installed yet Press Next button Press Next button ...

Page 12: ...Benq Wireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 9 Press Next button Select the operating mode and then press Next button ...

Page 13: ...Benq Wireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 10 Specify ESSID and then press Next button Press Next button ...

Page 14: ...Benq Wireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 11 Press Finish and restart your computer ...

Page 15: ...Benq Wireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 12 After complete installation you will get the following screen ...

Page 16: ...ireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 13 2 Uninstallation To uninstall AWL300 you can run the Uninstall Configuration Monitor Utility as the following figure Press OK if you really want to remove AWL300 ...

Page 17: ...Benq Wireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 14 Press OK when uninstall successfully completed You must restart your computer Press OK to do it ...

Page 18: ...Benq Wireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 15 You can also remove AWL300 from Add Remove Programs Properties in Control Panel ...

Page 19: ...hannels continuously until one or more Access Points which matches its SSID are found When it gets to that point it will try to authenticate and associate with the Access Point Ad Hoc Mode In this mode the driver will scan for 5 seconds to look for an existing Ad Hoc network which uses the same SSID Channel This field shows the current radio channel used for an active connection ...

Page 20: ...rking 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 Link Quality This field reveals the quality of the current connection Only when the node is in Infrastructure Mo...

Page 21: ...Benq Wireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 18 3 2 Statistics The Statistics Page shows the counts of packets transmitted and received Press Clear button to set these numbers to zero ...

Page 22: ...Benq Wireless LAN AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual 19 3 3 Site Survey The Site Survey Page shows the APs nearby Press Re Scan button to search APs nearby ...

Page 23: ...x digits to be written to the driver and registry This means that only digit 0 9 and letters A F are valid entries Therefore if entered incorrectly the program will not write keys to a driver Encryption Disabled Disable WEP function 64 Bit Enable WEP with 64 bit Key 128 Bit Enable WEP with 128 bit Key WEP Key to use Select one of these four keys WEP Mode Select WEP mode Mandatory or Optinal ...

Page 24: ...SB Adapter User Manual 21 Authentication Type Select Open System type or Shared Key type 3 5 Advanced The Advanced Page sets the preamble type and threshold of fragmentation and RTS CTS Press Submit button to apply your changes ...

Page 25: ...er User Manual 22 3 6 Version You may learn the product version including the detail of Driver Firmware and Application from this About tab When users want to report their problems to technical support they must use this version number ...

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