Appendix A:
Troubleshooting
Symptom:
The LED is off.
Possible Remedy:
Make sure the PC Card is inserted properly. Otherwise
contact Gigafast technical support.
Symptom:
The LED is always on not blinking.
Possible Remedy:
Make sure that you have installed the driver from attached
CD. Otherwise contact Gigafast technical support.
Symptom:
The LED is blinking but the PC Card icon does not appear in your
icon tray.
Possible Remedy:
Make sure that you have installed the Utility from attached
CD.
Symptom:
The PC Card icon is red.
Possible Remedy:
It means there is no wireless link.
1. Make sure there is any 802.11b or 802.11g device in the servicing area.
2. Double click the icon to pop up the configuration window
a. Make sure they are sharing the same SSID and channel. If the SSID is
same, you could press the
Link Info
→
Re-Scan
to scan the channel to link.
b. Make sure they are operating under same authentication type. WEP
function has to be enabled, if Shared Key Authentication is the selection, and the
secret Keys have to be same in the communicating group.
3. Position the antenna to gain the maximum RF power and make sure there is
no metal objects, electron devices or cordless phone in the vicinity.
Symptom:
The PC Card icon is green, but can’t access wired-LAN
Possible Remedy:
1. Make sure there is any 802.11b or 802.11g AP in your LAN.
2. Make sure the PC Card is configured as infrastructure mode.
3. Make sure the Network setting is proper. You could check and modify through
My Computer
→
Control Panel
→
Network
→
TCP/IP / NetBEUI /
→
Gigafast WF 727-AEX
→
Content
.
Symptom:
The PC Card icon is green, but can’t share files with others.
Possible Remedy:
Make sure the
file and printer sharing
function is enabled.
You could enable the function by checking the icon of
My Computer
→
Control
Panel
→
Network
→
file and printer sharing
→
I want to be able to give
others to access to my files
.
Symptom:
Slow or erratic performance
Possible Remedy:
Try changing the channel of the communicating group or
move your device closer to the communicating device.
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