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SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN Card

. Double clicking on that will show you the

Card Information

, driver name and the driver file. You must confirm the name of

the driver and the driver file as “

swld11

” and “

swld11.sys

”. If you do not find the

names as we listed before, there are some problems and the driver is not installed

properly. Reinstall the driver.

Note

: Check the PnP BIOS setup menu and select

in case of the Wireless LAN

Card installation.

For PCI Card under Windows NT:

Please check the following if you encounter some problem while installing the PCMCIA card

or your PCI card is non-functional.

1. Check the

Windows NT Diagnostics

. You should find out whether there is any

conflict in the

Resource

allocation or the

I/O Base

address,

IRQ

allocation. If you

find that the IRQ or I/O port address is already assigned to some other devices, you

must change that.

Event Viewer

will show you about the events such as

PCMCIA

Card type i.e.

PCMCIA

PCI,

driver file

swld11

and the

status

. If you find the

Red

Yellow

sign, there is some problem.

3. Click on the

Control panel

. Double click on the

PC Card

. You will see

SAMSUNG

11Mbps WLAN Card

. Double clicking on that will show you the

Card Information

driver name and the driver file. You must confirm the name of the driver and the

driver file as “

swld11

” and “

swld11.sys

”. If you do not find the names as we listed

before, there is some problems and the driver is not installed properly. Reinstall the

driver.

4. Check that your computer has two

IRQ

s free. If not, make two IRQs free.

6.2 Probable Symptoms and their Diagnosis:

This section lists the problems you may encounter during the installation of your PCI or

PCMCIA card.

Summary of Contents for MagicLAN AP SWL-2100AP

Page 1: ...360 Herndon Parkway Suite 1400 Herndon VA 20170 http www rheintech com Certification Report For Samsung Page 40 Document Number 2000486 22 OPERATION MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...SAMSUNG MagicLAN SWL 2100 User Manual ...

Page 3: ...e trademark of SAMSUNG Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other brand and product names are trademarks of registered trademarks of their respective holders http www MagicLAN com Service Dept 82 331 210 6805 Sales Dept 82 331 210 6386 SAMSUNG America Corporation Western US Marketing Office 85 Tasman Drive San Jose CA 95134 USA Tel 408 544 5200 Fax 408 544 4...

Page 4: ...n This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turnin...

Page 5: ...ypes will invalidate any approval or warranty applying to the wireless LAN Card and may be dangerous l Use only the region settings appropriate for the area where the wireless LAN Card is used at the present time Using the card in any other region or with an incorrect region setting is prohibited and may be illegal l Operation of any radio transmitting equipment including a Wireless LAN Card may c...

Page 6: ...ecifications Network architecture Ad hoc infrastructure Infrastructure Wireless standard IEEE 802 11b Operating System Win 95 OSR2 98 Win NT supported Win 2000 Win CE to be supported Roaming IEEE 802 11 compliant with enhanced roaming features Radio Data Frequency band 2 400 2 471 GHz US Canada and ETSI 2 471 2 497 Japan Wireless medium Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Modulation Techniques CCK BPS...

Page 7: ... 2 Installation Procedure of SWL 2100N PCMCIA Card 11 3 3 Installation Procedure of SWL 2100P PCI Card 13 3 4 Uninstallation Method 14 4 MagicLAN Installation for Windows NT 4 0 15 4 1 Installation Procedure of SWL 2100N PCMCIA Card 15 4 2 Installation Procedure of SWL 2100P PCI Card 17 4 3 Uninstallation Method 20 5 Configuration Utility 21 6 Troubleshooting 27 6 1 Procedure to Check the Various ...

Page 8: ...ss Control MAC layer IEEE 802 11 Physical PHY Layer At the PHY layer IEEE 802 11 defines three physical characteristics for WLAN diffused infrared direct sequence spread spectrum DSSS and frequency hopping spread spectrum FHSS While the infrared PHY operates at the baseband the other two PHYs operate at the 2 4GHz ISM Industrial Scientific and Medical band which can be used for operating wireless ...

Page 9: ...s client can access all the services that are available for a regular wired LAN by using an AP Roaming Roaming is a service that allows wireless clients to use the network in motion by automatically changing the connection from an old Access Point to a new Access Point when the clients enter in a new cell During roaming the clients may observe the loose connection or delay in accessing the resourc...

Page 10: ...correct channel and can communicate with its group If no beacons are seen or if the ESS ID does not match the wireless client may move to the next frequency channel and repeat this listening procedure In case of direct sequence spread spectrum DSSS physical layer this scanning process occurs at start up and may also occur when the client roams between APs 1 3 MagicLAN Overview The MagicLAN SWL 210...

Page 11: ... while maintaining mobility The MagicLAN Adapter only PCMCIA has an LED Light Emitting Diode on the part of the card The yellow LED will illuminate when the power is supplied and the card is inserted properly The MagicLAN supports various network software The network driver is provided to support network software such as Windows 95 OSR2 98 and Windows NT 4 0 To install the Samsung MagicLAN Wireles...

Page 12: ...e sure everything is included and ready for use Here is the list of what you should have in your package SWL 2100N PCMCIA Card Adapter or SWL 2100P PCI Card Adapter SWL 2100X Installation CD External Antenna for SWL 2100P only 2 2 System Requirement Operating System MS Windows 95 OSR2 98 Windows NT 4 0 Computer System both Notebook and Desktop with a CD ROM drive For Desktop PC Adapter Card SWL 21...

Page 13: ... IP protocol 3 2 Installation Procedure of SWL 2100N PCMCIA Card Important Do not insert the PCMCIA card until you are asked to do so failure of which may result in unsuccessful installation of your PCMCIA WLAN card Please follow the following steps one by one in order to install the PCMCIA card successfully 1 Power on your computer and allow Windows 95 OSR2 98 to load fully 2 Be sure that there i...

Page 14: ... button Select Network Component Type box appears Click on the Protocol then click the Add button 16 Select Network Protocols box appears From the list of manufactures click on Microsoft From the list of network protocols list select NetBEUI then click OK 17 The NetBEUI protocol is now installed After clicking on OK return back to Network Component Type box 18 Repeat the step 15 and 16 to add IPX ...

Page 15: ...SAMSUNG 11 Mbps PCI WLAN Card 14 Check for the SAMSUNG 11Mbps Wireless PCI LAN Card by clicking on the Device manager If you find the Yellow sign on the adapter it shows the installation is not successful Select the Adapter and click on Remove Restart your computer after uninstalling See the Uninstallation method in section 3 4 the driver And refer the troubleshooting at the end of manual 15 Right...

Page 16: ... your Computer will pop up Select Yes It will shut downyour computer and will restart 3 4 Uninstallation Method If you want to uninstall the PCMCIA PCI card under Win 95 OSR2 98 click on the Start at the left bottom of your screen Select the Programs Click on the MagicLAN Utility and click on Uninstall Confirm message about removing the MagicLAN uninstall and all of its components appear Click on ...

Page 17: ... no Windows NT networking installed yet You should install your driver manually To do so click on start in task bar go to Settings and then to Control Panel 4 Under Control Panel double click on Network icon 5 Since there is no Windows NT networking installed yet you will be asked if you want to install NT networking first Click on Next and then you will be asked how will you access the network mo...

Page 18: ...er the IP value Subnet masking Gateway and DNS values respectively and then click on OK 18 Add the services that you want to avail You can add other protocols such as NetBEUI 19 Now it is ready for installing networking Click on NEXT 20 You can assign the Workgroup Domain name And click on NEXT 21 Click on the Finish and it will ask you whether you want to restart your computer or not Click on Yes...

Page 19: ...dure of SWL 2100P PCI Card Important Do not insert the PCI card until you are asked to do so failure of which may result in unsuccessful installation of your PCI card Please follow the following steps one by one to install the PCI card successfully There are two cases when there is no Windows NT networking Installed and the other when the Windows NT networking is installed When Windows NT networki...

Page 20: ...k you to specify where NT files are once more 15 Since it is looking for some files form the installation CD insert your installation CD in CD drive and type D nt40 in the blank location and click on continue 16 Configure Wireless LAN Card box may appear Set each parameter I O base Interrupt for the proper system configuration set up and other parameters network mode ESS ID and Tx rate for the pro...

Page 21: ...the IP address If you select DHCP you do not need to specify the IP address In case of Static enter IP value Subnet masking Gateway and DNS values respectively Also enter the Workgroup Domain name 11 You can add the optional protocols such as NetBEUI 12 After you add the TCP IP protocol it will ask you whether you want to restart your computer or not Click on Yes to make the changes effective Now ...

Page 22: ...ty During the installation of your SAMSUNG Wireless LAN Card configuration utility is also installed You can see the icon at the right bottom of your screen Double clicking on that icon will show you the screen as shown below ...

Page 23: ...nications between the clients and AP or between the clients only In case of the Infrastructure Network Mode the channel number is scanned automatically Need not to worry about setting the channel number while in case of the Ad hoc Network Mode the channel number is set by the client and can be changed by the client later Network Status Network status explains the properties of the channel currentl...

Page 24: ...verall Link Quality and Connection Status Noise Level This is the measure of the noise level You can change the configuration by clicking on the Configuration Change When you click on the Configuration Change you see the screen given below Configuration Change screen allows you to set the parameters as explained below Net Mode You can set the Network Mode to Infrastructure or Ad hoc SSID The SSID ...

Page 25: ...ations Hidden stations are those clients that are associated with the AP but are not in range with each other PS Mode PS stands for Power Saving Mode Currently the PS Mode is disabled After changing the settings in the Configuration Change Dialog box click on OK It takes a few seconds to set the changes that you made Then you can visualize the Connection Status Link Quality Signal and Noise Levels...

Page 26: ...other WEP key generation method is by inserting the Key values directly from the keyboard And click on the Write to update driver and registry Select the Key number and use that Key for accessing the Access Point If the Key is not entered correctly a client cannot access the resources This Key value protects the illegal access to the wireless network resources As the wireless channel is more prone...

Page 27: ...ghborhood while installing the software 6 Troubleshooting To make the installation of SAMSUNG Wireless LAN Card more users friendly we have suggested following the installation steps one by one as listed in the section 3 and section 4 Still you encounter some problems while installing the WLAN Card or you want to confirm whether your card is installed properly or not we have listed the procedure f...

Page 28: ...Card if it is installed successfully If you see the Yellow sign the resources are conflicting Click on PCMCIA Card and then on PCMCIA Card Service you can see the status of PCMCIA card If there are yellow sign either on adapter or PCMCIA card please check the followings i Check if your Notebook supports 3 3V Card ii Check if your Notebook has a free IRQ If not make an IRQ free by assigning the sam...

Page 29: ...ok computers for Win NT 4 0 operating system that do not support 3 3V cards will not install your PCMCIA card successfully You are advised to install the driver for PCMCIA Controller available from set manufactures or install the CardWizard program that will enable the notebook computers supporting 5 0V cards to support 3 3V cards also and will install your PCMCIA card successfully Please check th...

Page 30: ...ss IRQ allocation If you find that the IRQ or I O port address is already assigned to some other devices you must change that 2 Event Viewer will show you about the events such as PCMCIA Card type i e PCMCIA or PCI driver file swld11 and the status If you find the Red or Yellow sign there is some problem 3 Click on the Control panel Double click on the PC Card You will see SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN Card...

Page 31: ...ts are up and are running with a blue taskbar icon Make it sure that the client that you want to communicate with is within the range of an AP Make sure that your TCP IP is set properly and correctly The NT event log lists the error Server Service terminated Not enough Server Storage Reinstall the Windows NT service pack In Windows NT there is no wireless monitor icon in the taskbar or the Samsung...

Page 32: ...wing domain error If you cannot share a device in NT you may need to reinstall the NT service pack You may wait for several minutes for all of the PCs to appear In case of the Windows NT if there is no sound after you insert the Wireless LAN card You must check the resources of the sound card driver If the resources are conflicting with Samsung Wireless PCI PCMCIA LAN Card driver you must change t...

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