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The WireFree Utility is a Graphic User Interface (GUI) program.  For Microsoft

Windows 95, you start WLU after setup the utility program.

 

NOTE: 

An error message will be displayed if the WireFree wireless LAN 

adapter is not installed correctly into your PC.

 

ERROR: Planet Wireless LAN adapter does not exist.

 

Make sure the installation of your WireFree wireless LAN adapter is

OK and start WLU again.

Summary of Contents for WireFree WL-2400

Page 1: ...WireFree WL 2400 Wireless LAN ISA Adapter ...

Page 2: ...a is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at this own expense The user should not modify or change this equipment without written approval from company name Modification could void authority to use this equipment For the safety reason people should not work in a situation which RF Exposure limits be exceeded To prevent the situati...

Page 3: ...Planet be liable for any damage including loss of data or profits cost of cover or other incidental consequential or indirect damages arising from the installation maintenance use performance failure or interruption of Planet s products whatever caused and on any theory of liability This limitation will apply even if Planet has been advised of the possibility of such damage About This Manual The p...

Page 4: ...TWARE INSTALLATION 10 3 1 SETUP WIREFREE FOR WINDOWS 95 98 10 3 2 SETUP WIREFREE FOR WINDOWS NT 3 51 OR 4 0 14 3 3 SETUP WIREFREE FOR NETWARE CLIENT USING ODI DRIVER DOS WINDOWS 3 X 18 3 4 SETUP WIREFREE FOR DOS TCP IP APPLICATIONS 21 CHAPTER 4 NETWORK CONFIGURATION 23 4 1 INSTALLATION OF WLU UTILITY 23 4 2 NAVIGATING THE WIREFREE UTILITY 25 APPENDIX A TROUBLESHOOTING 36 APPENDIX B SPECIFICATIONS ...

Page 5: ...pen environment 3 Supports point to point and point to multipoint access 4 Seamless connectivity to wired Ethernet and PC network LAN s augments existing networks quickly and easily 5 Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum DSSS technology provides robust interference resistant and secure wireless connection 6 Wireless connection without the hassles and cost of cabling 7 Supports a wide range of LAN NOS W...

Page 6: ...ctors nurses retailers white collar workers need access to database while being mobile in the hospital retail store or office campus 6 SOHO Small Office and Home Office users SOHO users need easy and quick installation of a small computer network 7 Inter building connection The wireless building to building network installs quickly requires no monthly lease fees and provides the flexibility to rec...

Page 7: ... during installation 3 MS DOS 3 0 or higher 4 Minimum 500 Kbytes free disk space for installing driver and utility program 2 2 Hardware Installation for WL 2400 The installation of WL 2400 wireless LAN ISA adapter includes the following steps Step1 Insert the WL 2400 ISA Adapter 1 If the power of your computer is on please turn it off 2 Open the chassis of your computer 3 Insert your WL 2400 adapt...

Page 8: ... a suitable position that might get the best Tx Rx performance Normally the higher the position is the better the performance will be Fig2 3 Attach the Antenna to the WL 2400 Step3 Power on Your Computer Turn on the power of your PC then continue the installation steps in the next chapter Software Installation NOTE The WireFree WL 2400 wireless LAN adapter is a jumperless plug and ...

Page 9: ...the network driver or utility is running WLJMP is an MS DOS command You can simply issue the command in the DOS prompt WLJMP irq IRQ Number port IO Port Address The IRQ Number can be 10 11 or 12 The IO Port Address is from 0x280 to 0xFFC0 stepped by 0x40 such as 0x280 0x2C0 0x300 0x340 0x380 0x3C0 0xFFC0 You should provide the IRQ Number and I O Port Address manually depend on the configuration of...

Page 10: ... 95 98 1 Turn off your computer insert the WL 2400 ISA adapter into ISA slot WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter 2 Windows 95 98 will automatically detect the new hardware and will prompt you to install the driver needed 3 Select Search for the best driver for your device ...

Page 11: ...ee Driver Utility into CD ROM drive in your computer have the path E WL2400 and then click Next assume the CD ROM driver letter is E 5 Windows 95 98 found WireFree WL 2400 PnP ISA Adapter and then click Next WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter A WISA INF 6 It will copy files from disk to the system ...

Page 12: ...12 A WISA SYS WISA sys 7 Set parameters for WL 2400 WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter Properties 8 Click Finish to complete the hardware installation ...

Page 13: ...AN PnP Adapter 9 Restart the computer 10 Open the Control Panel folder double click System and Adapters to see if there is any error message appears If no that means your WL 2400 works well WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter ...

Page 14: ...op select Control Panel double click Network go to the Interface Card tab and then click the Add button 3 Windows NT will present a list of all its supported adapters Select OTHERS or click Have Disk to continue 4 Windows NT will ask for the drive path containing the WireFree WL 2400 Windows ...

Page 15: ... have entered the path name correctly Windows NT should copy the appropriate drivers to the Windows NT system You need to recognize the selection WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter 6 A WireFree WL 2400 Wireless LAN Adapter Setup dialog box will show up Please select the Default Channel Network Case RTSThreshold and ESSID manually Your WL 2400 adapter will thereafter work on this configuration under Win...

Page 16: ... Wireless LAN PnP Adapter Setup WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter 7 At this point the drivers would have been properly copied and the installation would proceed to the next step Network Setup 8 Restart the system ...

Page 17: ...17 9 To ensure whether the WL 2400 adapter works fine or not go to Control Panel and Double click Devices WISA Adapter Driver ...

Page 18: ...t Driver files into your workstation if not yet installed Follow the installation procedure described in the NetWare installation manual 2 The suggested way to install a NetWare Client workstation is to use the NetWare Client Install program to install all necessary files Please follow its prompted screens to accomplish the installation procedure and select the WireFree ODI driver as the network d...

Page 19: ... Set NetWare 4 X to English Language LSL Link Support Layer Module provided by Novell WL2400 Hardware Specific Module For PCMCIA uses WL2400 for PC104 IPXODI IPX Protocol Stack Module provided by Novell VLM DOS Support Module provided by Novell L Change current drive to connected device L for example LOGIN Issue login command to login to file server You may run STARTNET BAT to access logon the Nov...

Page 20: ...20 WISA COM Fig3 2 Configure STARTNET BAT Fig3 3 Login NetWare Server ...

Page 21: ...er 2 First setup the configurations of WL2400 Type A PACKET PKTCFG COM Fig3 4 Configure WL2400 3 Please select the Wireless LAN LLC protocol type Wireless LAN Net work type ESSID and Default Channel manually Press F10 after setting properly Fig3 5 Save current parameters 4 To install Packet Driver for WL2400 load WLAPKT COM from DOS command prompt ...

Page 22: ...e software interrupt vector number used by the packet driver program which can be from 96 0x60 to 128 0x80 Example To load packet driver for the WL2400 card which will be found first by the driver on packet interrupt vector 0x60 A PACKET WLAPKT COM h 60 Fig3 6 Packet driver works properly ...

Page 23: ...guration 4 1 Installation of WLU utility 1 Insert WireFree WL 2400 Driver Utility Diskette into floppy drive and then execute A WLU setup exe Fig4 1 Step1 of Wireless LAN Utility setup Fig4 2 Step2 of Wireless LAN Utility setup ...

Page 24: ...24 Fig4 3 Step3 of Wireless LAN Utility setup Fig4 4 Step4 of Wireless LAN Utility setup ...

Page 25: ...e current adapter configuration information that is the MAC address firmware version frequency domain BSS joined current channel and ESS ID of the adapter that you installed in your desktop or notebook computers The Main Menu screen shows all main functions of the WireFree Utility Network Configuration WireFree Utility provides a screen for you to configure parameters of the WireFree wireless LAN ...

Page 26: ...26 1 Click Start point to Programs and run WLA Utility 2 Main menu appears WISA Wireless LAN PnP Adapter ...

Page 27: ...1 ESS ID PARAMETERS ESS ID Input a digit ESS ID while the roaming feature is enabled ANY is default setting B 2 NETWORK TYPE PARAMETERS Station Operation Mode Set the station operation mode to Ad Hoc without Access Point or Infrastructure with Access Point default setting WAP 1000 Access Point Ad Hoc Default Channel Select the channel number as your operating radio channel B 3 RTS Threshold If you...

Page 28: ...ality Test Test point to point communication quality Access Point Browser Show all active WireFree Access Points in your site The instructions of using each diagnostics tool are as follows l Site Survey When Site Survey screen is displayed the channel quality of all 14 radio channels will be displayed These channel quality measurements are shown on each gauge for the 14 radio channels The higher b...

Page 29: ... you can test the transmission quality between your wireless LAN station and the WAP 1000 Access Point When Link Quality Test Screen is displayed you may choose one of the roles that this wireless LAN station should perform 1 Act as Master test station You should input the destination slave test station address before press Start button The slave address can be found from the slave test station s ...

Page 30: ...n sent Packet Received Total responding packets have been received Elapsed Time Total testing time Signal level The signal level when receiving last responding packet The signal level is calculated as the percentage of its signal level measurement relative to the full signal level 2 Act as Slave test station You can press Start button to start the slave test station The Slave Test Station window w...

Page 31: ...The signal level when receiving last test packet The signal level is calculated as the percentage of its signal level measurement relative to the full signal level 3 Loopback through Access Point If you use the infrastructure wireless LAN configuration you can select the Access Point loopback test The loopback test is between this wireless station and the associated Access Point ...

Page 32: ...is calculated as the percentage of its signal level measurement relative to the full signal level The Access Point Loopback Test window will be displayed after pressing the Start button This window contains same status statistical information in the Master Test Station window It works only in Infrastructure Mode l Access Point Browser Select the Access Point Browser in and you will see a screen sh...

Page 33: ...D Firmware Upgrade WireFree WL 2400 Utility provides the function of upgrading the firmware in the wireless adapter to newer version Choose the Firmware Upgrade button in Main Menu and follow the directions on the screen N CAUTION Improper operation of firmware upgrade could damage your adapter We strongly suggest that the firmware upgrade is done by experienced computer personnel and follows this...

Page 34: ...m and drivers l How to Operate the Firmware Upgrade Tool Fig4 13 Firmware Upgrade Firmware filename The firmware of WL2400 Flash type The type of current flash bios It will take about 5 seconds to finish the installation and verification If you access the new firmware file via a floppy drive the process can take much longer than just 5 seconds N CAUTION Don t power off reset or try anything to ter...

Page 35: ...art WLU after setup the utility program NOTE An error message will be displayed if the WireFree wireless LAN adapter is not installed correctly into your PC ERROR Planet Wireless LAN adapter does not exist Make sure the installation of your WireFree wireless LAN adapter is OK and start WLU again ...

Page 36: ...tion for WL2400 l WL2400 WL3501 station cannot communicate with computer in the Ethernet when the Infrastructure mode is configured Probable Causes Solution a Make sure the WAP 1000 which the station associated with is powered on b Make sure the station is configured with the same operating radio channel as the WAP 1000 c Start the Site Survey Utility to make sure the operating radio channel is in...

Page 37: ...t s technical support hot line is Tel 886 2 22199518 Fax 886 2 22199528 Direct any of your questions to sales support department d Check Planet s Web site at www planet com tw for FAQ and most updated information ...

Page 38: ...z ETSI 2 484 GHz Japan RF Technology Spread Spectrum Direct Sequence Transceiver RF Output Power 50 mW Data Rate 2 Mbps Media Access Protocol CSMA CA 802 11 Ready No of Channels 12 Channels Range 800 ft Host Bus Interface PnP ISA Bus Driver ODI NDIS Packet Driver Regulatory Approval FCC Part 15 CE Mark ETS 300 328 ...

Page 39: ...ed Service Set An ESS is basically a roaming domain Ethernet A popular local area data communications network originally developed by Xerox Corp which accepts transmission from computers and terminals Ethernet operates on 10 Mbps baseband transmission over shielded coaxial cable or over shielded twisted pair telephone wire Infrastructure An integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastruc...

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