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4.2.3

Network 

4.2.3.1 Network 

The system will display the information of local APs from the last scan result as part of the Network 
section. The Listed information includes the SSID, BSSID, Signal, Channel, Encryption algorithm, 
Authentication and Network type as shown in Figure 2-3-1-1. 

Figure 2-3-1-1 Network function 

Definition of each field:   

SSID: Name of BSS or IBSS network.     
Network Type: Network type in use, Infrastructure for BSS, Ad-Hoc for IBSS network.   
Channel: Channel in use.     
Wireless Mode: AP support wireless mode. It may support 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g or 802.11n 
wireless mode.     
Security-Enable: Indicates if the AP provides a security-enabled wireless network.    Signal: Receive 
signal strength of the specified network.   

Icons and buttons: 

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Summary of Contents for LP-7665

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Page 2: ... WMM 29 4 2 6 1 WMM 29 4 2 6 2 Example to Configure to Enable DLS Direct Link Setup 29 4 2 6 3 Example to Configure to Enable Wi Fi Multi Media 30 4 2 6 4 Example to Configure to Enable WMM Power Save 31 4 2 7 WPS 32 4 2 7 1 WPS 32 4 2 7 2 WPS Information on AP 34 4 2 7 3 Example to Add to Registrar Using PIN Method 35 4 2 7 4 Example to Add to Registrar Using PBC Method 37 4 2 7 5 Example to Conf...

Page 3: ...encryption method can free you from remembering the long passwords Complete WMM function makes your voice and video more smooth 1 2 Product Feature Complies with IEEE 802 11n IEEE 802 11g IEEE 802 11b standards Provides 32 bit PCI interface Provides 300Mbps receiving rate and 300Mbps sending rate Supports 20MHz 40MHz frequency width Auto detects and changes the network transmission rate Provides t...

Page 4: ... g Access Point for infrastructure Mode or another 802 11n or 802 11b g wireless adapter for Ad Hoc Peer to Peer networking mode 2 Designing Your PCI Adapter PCI Adapter supports up to 300Mbps connections It is fully compliant with the specifications defined in 802 11n standard The status LED indicators of PCI Card are described in the following Lnk Act ON Green Indicates a valid connection Lnk Ac...

Page 5: ...w Then close your PC Attach the external antennas to PCI Adapter s antenna port Power on the PC Note Select Cancel when Found New Hardware window appears 3 2 Install Driver and Utility NOTE Snap shot screens of the following installation procedure are based on Windows XP Installation procedures will be similar for other windows operating systems 1 Insert Installation CD to your CD ROM drive And cl...

Page 6: ...3 Click Next 6 ...

Page 7: ...recommended to select Ralink Configuration Tool which provides fully access to all function of PCI Adapter b If you prefer to use the wireless configuration tool provided by Windows XP or Vista please select Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool 5 Click Finish to complete the software installation 7 ...

Page 8: ...e selection window and allow the user make a selection RaUI can co exist with WZC When coexisting with WZC RaUI only provides monitoring functions such as surveying the link status network status statistic counters advanced feature status WMM status and WPS status It won t interfere with WZC s configuration or profile functions It is shown as Figure 1 2 If Use RaConfig as Configuration utility is ...

Page 9: ...rolled by WZC Please read through this document for full details on the other functions provided by RaUI 4 1 2 Use WZC to configure wireless NIC If there is no connection or it is lost the status prompt will pop up as shown in Figure 1 4 Figure 1 4 status prompt for no connection Right click the network connection icon in taskbar Figure 1 5 Select WZC main status Select View Available Wireless Net...

Page 10: ...Select the intended access point and click Connect Then click Connect Anyway as shown as Figure 1 7 Figure 1 7 Select intended AP AP1 then click Connect Figure 1 8 Connect to AP AP1 successfully 10 ...

Page 11: ...formation about the AP click Change advanced settings as shown in Figure 1 9 Then select the Wireless Networks tab shown as Figure 1 10 Figure 1 9 Click Change advanced settings Figure 1 10 choose the Wireless Networks tab 11 ...

Page 12: ...s shown in Figure 1 11 Then click OK button Figure 1 11 AP s properties After filling in the appropriate value click OK The pop up will indicate the status as shown in Figure 1 12 Figure 1 12 Network connection status 12 ...

Page 13: ...nnection status by using WZC to initiate the connection 4 2 RaUI 4 2 1 Start 4 2 1 1 Start RaUI When starting RaUI the system will connect to the AP with best signal strength without setting a profile or matching a profile setting When starting RaUI it will issue a scan command to a wireless NIC After two seconds the AP list will be updated with the results of a BSS list scan The AP list includes ...

Page 14: ... briefly described as follow Button Section Include buttons for selecting the Profile page Network page Advanced page Statistics page WMM page WPS page SSO page CCX page and about button Radio On Off button and Help Figure 2 1 2 Button section Figure 2 1 3 Move to the left Figure 2 1 4 Move to the right 14 ...

Page 15: ...Function Section Appears to present information and options related to the button Figure 2 1 5 Profile page Figure 2 1 6 Network page Figure 2 1 7 Advance page Figure 2 1 8 Statistics page 15 ...

Page 16: ...Figure 2 1 9 WMM page Figure 2 1 10 WPS page Figure 2 1 11 SSO page Figure 2 1 12 CCX page 16 ...

Page 17: ...on This section includes information about the link status authentication status AP s information and configuration and retrying the connection when authentication is failed Figure 2 1 14 Link Status Figure 2 1 15 Authentication Status 17 ...

Page 18: ... mouse s right button to close RaUI utility Figure 2 1 18 Ralink icon in system tray Additionally the small icon will change color to reflect current wireless network connection status The status is shown as follows 4 2 2 Profile 4 2 2 1 Profile The Profile List keeps a record of your favorite wireless settings at home office and other public hot spots You can save multiple profiles and activate t...

Page 19: ...Type used Use 802 1x Shows if the 802 1x feature is used or not Cannel Channel in use for Ad Hoc mode Power Save Mode Choose from CAM Constantly Awake Mode or Power Saving Mode Tx Power Transmitting power the amount of power used by a radio transceiver to send the signal out RTS Threshold Users can adjust the RTS threshold number by sliding the bar or keying in the value directly Fragment Threshol...

Page 20: ...for setup in Ad hoc mode RTS Threshold User can adjust the RTS threshold number by sliding the bar or key in the value directly The default value is 2347 Fragment Threshold User can adjust the Fragment threshold number by sliding the bar or key in the value directly The default value is 2346 Channel Only available for setting under Ad hoc mode Users can choose the channel frequency to start their ...

Page 21: ... key There are several formats to enter the keys 1 Hexadecimal 40bits 10 Hex characters 2 Hexadecimal 128bits 26Hex characters 3 ASCII 40bits 5 ASCII characters 4 ASCII 128bits 13 ASCII characters 4 2 2 3 Example to Add Profile in Profile Click Add below the Profile List The Add Profile will appear 21 ...

Page 22: ...Specify a Profile Name Select an AP from the SSID drop down list The AP list from the last Network Now the profile which the user set appears in the profile list Click Activate 22 ...

Page 23: ...Figure 2 3 1 1 Figure 2 3 1 1 Network function Definition of each field SSID Name of BSS or IBSS network Network Type Network type in use Infrastructure for BSS Ad Hoc for IBSS network Channel Channel in use Wireless Mode AP support wireless mode It may support 802 11a 802 11b 802 11g or 802 11n wireless mode Security Enable Indicates if the AP provides a security enabled wireless network Signal R...

Page 24: ...the connection Please refer to the example on how to fill in the security information When you double click an AP you can see detailed information about that AP The detailed AP information is divided into three parts They are General WPS CCX information and 802 11n The 802 11n button only exists for APs supporting N mode The introduction is as follows General information contains the AP s SSID MAC...

Page 25: ...4 2 3 2 Example on Adding Profile in Network Select the AP from the list on the Network tab Click Add to Profile 25 ...

Page 26: ...The System section will appear at the bottom of the Add Profile window You can specify your own profile name Next you will see the new profile in the profile list Click Activate 26 ...

Page 27: ...roaming which is set by the transmit power Select Your Country Region Code There are eight countries to choose from in the country channel list 11A List Box only shows for 5G adapter Show Authentication Status Dialog When you connect to an AP with authentication choose whether show the Authentication Status Dialog or not The Authentication Status Dialog displays the processes during 802 1x authent...

Page 28: ...Receive CTS Failed to receive CTS after sending RTS Frames Retransmitted Successfully Successfully retransmitted frames numbers Reset counters to zero Receive Statistics Frames Received Successfully The number of frames successfully received Frames Received With CRC Error The number of frames received with a CRC error Frames Dropped Due to Out of Resource The number of frames dropped due to a reso...

Page 29: ...ws Section 2 6 2 WMM Power save Enable Enable WMM Power Save The setting method follows Section 2 6 3 Direct Link Setup Enable Enable DLS Direct Link Setup The setting method follows Section 2 6 4 4 2 6 2 Example to Configure to Enable DLS Direct Link Setup Click the Direct Link Setup Enable checkbox Change to Network function Add an AP that supports DLS features to the Profile The result will loo...

Page 30: ...t Value indicates the time in seconds before it disconnects automatically The value is an integer The integer must be between 0 65535 A zero value specifies that it stays connected The default Timeout Value is 60seconds Click Apply 4 2 6 3 Example to 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 indicat...

Page 31: ...atures to a Profile The result will look like the below figure in Profile page 4 2 6 4 Example to Configure to Enable WMM Power Save Click WMM Power save Enable Please select which ACs you want to enable The setting of enabling WMM Power Save is successfully 31 ...

Page 32: ... detailed information includes the SSID BSSID Channel ID Device Password ID Security Enabled Rescan Issues a rescan command to the wireless NIC to update information on the surrounding wireless network Information Displays the information about WPS IE on the selected network The detailed list includes the Authentication Type Encryption Type Config Methods Device Password ID Selected Registrar Stat...

Page 33: ... select any non security AP 5 Export Profile Exports all credentials to a Profile 6 Delete Deletes an existing credential And then selects the next credential If there is not another credential the driver will select any non security AP PIN Start to add to Registrar using PIN configuration method If STA Registrar remember that enter PIN Code read from your Enrollee before starting PIN PBC Start to...

Page 34: ... Encryption Type For open and shared authentication mode the selection of encryption type are None and WEP For WPA WPA2 WPA PSK and WPA2 PSK authentication mode the encryption type supports both TKIP and AES Config Methods Correspond to the methods the AP supports as an Enrollee for adding external Registrars a bitwise OR of values Value Hardware Interface 0x0001 USBA Flash Drive 0x0002 Ethernet 0...

Page 35: ... of the AP The values are Unconfigured and Configured Version The specified WPS version AP Setup Locked Indicates if the AP has entered a locked setup state UUID E The universally unique identifier UUID element generated by the Enrollee The value is 16 bytes RF Bands Indicates all of the RF bands available to the AP A dual band AP must provide it The values are 2 4GHz and 5GHz 4 2 7 3 Example to A...

Page 36: ...Ps Select an AP SSID BSSID that STA will join to Click PIN to enter the PIN Enter the PIN Code of the STA into the Registrar when prompted by the Registrar The user can also click Rotate to rotate to the next credential usable credential 36 ...

Page 37: ...ceive EAP with wrong NONCE 2 Receive EAP without integrity 3 Error PIN Code 4 An inappropriate EAP FAIL received 4 2 7 4 Example to Add to Registrar Using PBC Method The PBC method requires the user to press a PBC button on both the Enrollee and the Registrar within a two minute interval called the Walk Time If there is only one Registrar in PBC mode the PBC mode selected is obtained from ID 0x000...

Page 38: ...o start the PBC connection 3 Push the PBC on AP Allow time for an exchange between Step 2 and Step 3 4 The progress bar as shown in the figure below indicates that scanning progress 5 When one AP is found join it 38 ...

Page 39: ...6 Check WPS Information on the available WPS APs 7 Configure and receive one or more credential s 8 Then connect successfully The result will be displayed as it is in the figure below 39 ...

Page 40: ...anning AP Too Many PBC AP available Scanning AP Too Many PBC AP available WPS configuration doesn t complete after two minute connection WPS Eap process failed When Errors occur within two minutes of establishing a connection the WPS status bar might report WPS Eap process failed Error messages might be 1 Receive EAP with wrong NONCE 2 Receive EAP without integrity 3 An inappropriate EAP FAIL rece...

Page 41: ... only one PBC AP is available 4 2 7 5 Example to Configure a Network AP Using PIN or PBC Method Select Registrar from the Config Mode drop down list Enter the details of the credential and change configurations SSID Authentication Encryption and Key manually if needed If the PIN configuration is setup enter the PIN sent from the Enrollee 41 ...

Page 42: ...ciated to WPS AP Sending EAPOL Start Sending EAP Rsp ID Receive M1 Sending M2 Receive M3 Sending M4 Receive M5 Sending M6 Receive M7 Sending M8 Receive EAP Rsp Done Sending EAP Rsp ACK Configured WPS status is disconnected WPS status is connected successfully SSID Describe WPS Status Bar PBC xxx as follow A successful PBC Configuration Start PBC connection Scanning AP Begin associating to WPS AP A...

Page 43: ...IP address about current connection Sub Mask Sub mask about current connection Default Gateway Default gateway about current connection Link Speed Show current transmit rate and receive rate Throughout Display transmits and receive throughput in unit of Mbps Link Quality Display connection quality based on signal strength and TX RX packet error rate Signal Strength 1 Receive signal strength 1 user...

Page 44: ... when using WEP encryption algorithm The key must match the AP s key There are several formats to enter the keys Hexadecimal 40bits 10 Hex characters Hexadecimal 128bits 32Hex characters ASCII 40bits 5 ASCII characters ASCII 128bits 13 ASCII characters 4 3 2 802 1x Setting 802 1x is used for authentication of the WPA and WPA2 certificate by the server Authentication type PEAP Protect Extensible Au...

Page 45: ...pport Generic Token Card authentication LEAP Light Extensible Authentication Protocol is an EAP authentication type used primarily by Cisco Aironet WLANs It encrypts data transmissions using dynamically generated WEP keys and supports mutual authentication MD5 Challenge Message Digest Challenge Challenge is an EAP authentication type that provides base level EAP support It provides for only one wa...

Page 46: ...ed connection has failed on the profile page They are as follows When keying in an identity password or domain name error Authentication type chooses PEAP key identity into test Tunnel Protocol is EAP MSCHAP v2 the tunnel identity and tunnel password are tested Those settings are the same as our intended AP s setting Because of keying identity and password errors the result will appear as in the i...

Page 47: ...identity is wpatest2 The tunnel password is test2 These settings are the same as our intended AP s setting When a Timeout occurs The following dialog box will be displayed If it has connected successfully the dialog box will appear as follows 4 3 4 Example to Configure Connection with WEP on Select an AP with WEP encryption and click Connect 47 ...

Page 48: ...The Auth Encry function will appear as below Enter 1234567890 in the Key 1 Hexadecimal field This value is same as our intended AP s setting Click OK The dialog box will appear as below 48 ...

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Page 50: ...ntication mode and click Connect Select WPA PSK as the Authentication Type Select TKIP or AES encryption Enter the WPA Pre Shared Key Click OK Be careful if the WPA Pre Shared Key entered is not correct you won t be able to exchange any data frames even though the AP can be connected 50 ...

Page 51: ...elect WPA as the Authentication Type Click 802 1x and the setting page will appear 1 PEAP Select EAP MSCHAP v2 from the drop down list for tunnel authentication and key in the tunnel identity as wpatest2 and the tunnel password as test2 These settings are the same as our intended AP s setting Then click OK 51 ...

Page 52: ...Authentication type drop down list TLS only requires the identification to be set as wpatest2 for server authentication TLS must use client certification Click Client Certification and select a certification for server authentication Then click OK 52 ...

Page 53: ...ssword These settings are the same as our intended AP s setting Then click OK 4 EAP FAST Select EAP FAST from the Authentication type drop down list Key in the identity as wpatest2 password and a domain name into the blank field These settings are the same as our intended AP s setting Then click OK 53 ...

Page 54: ...is configured on the same channel and with the same security options as with the other computers in the Infrastructure configuration 3 What should I do when the computer with PCI Adapter installed is unable to connect to the wireless network and or the Internet Check that the LED indicators for the broadband modem are indicating normal activity If not there may be a problem with the broadband conn...

Page 55: ...nstallation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try correct the interference by one or more of the following measures 1 Reorient the receiving antenna 2 Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver 3 Connect the equipment into and outlet on a circuit di...

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