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2.2.2 Install IEEE 802.11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter for Windows XP/2000 

Step 1:

 Insert the included CD into the CD-ROM driver on your computer. Locate and 

double-click 

setup.exe

. 

 

Step 2:

 The following screen displays. Click 

Next

. 

 

Step 3:

 Click 

Next

 to accept installing IEEE 802.11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter driver files. 

Summary of Contents for XN-790

Page 1: ...1 I IE EE EE E 8 80 02 2 1 11 1n n W Wi ir re el le es ss s L LA AN N U US SB B A Ad da ap pt te er r Model XN 790 User s Manual Version 1 0 Date of issue June 6 2007 ...

Page 2: ...ed by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures 1 Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna 2 Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver 3 Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected 4 Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV t...

Page 3: ...ium Liechtenstein Denmark Luxembourg Finland Netherlands France Norway Germany Portugal Greece Spain Iceland Sweden Ireland United Kingdom Cyprus Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Malta Slovakia Poland Slovenia Bulgaria Romania 依據 低功率電波輻射性電機管理辦法 第十二條 經型式認證合格之低功率射頻電機 非經許可 公司 商號或使用者均不得擅自變更 頻率 加大功率或變更原設計之特性及功能 第十四條 低功率射頻電機之使用不得影響飛航安全及干擾合法通信 經發現有干擾現象時 應 立即停用 並改善至無干擾時方得繼續使用 前項合法通信 指依電信規定作...

Page 4: ...you have difficulty solving the problem while installing or using the IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter please contact the supplier for support About This Manual IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter User s Manual is first published on June 2007 This manual is intended for people who want to configure the IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter under Windows Vista Windows XP and Windows 2000 You...

Page 5: ... 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter for Windows Vista 10 2 2 2 Install IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter for Windows XP 2000 15 Note for Windows XP users 21 Chapter 3 22 3 1 Wireless LAN Overview 22 3 1 1 SSID 22 3 1 2 Channel 22 3 1 3 Transmit Rate Tx Rate 22 3 2 Wireless LAN Security Overview 23 3 2 1 Data Encryption with WEP 24 3 2 2 IEEE 802 1x 24 3 2 3 WPA 2 25 3 3 Authentication Type 32 Chapte...

Page 6: ...te network or the Internet in a wireless environment When installed IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter is able to communicate with any 802 11b and 802 11g compliant products 1 2 Features and Benefits 9 Automatic rate selection 9 Support 802 11b g n solution in 2 4GHz frequency band 9 Greater flexibility to locate or move networked PCs 9 Wireless connection without the cost of cabling 9 Easy to ...

Page 7: ...rrange the workplace and change location 9 Temporary LANs for special projects or peak time Trade shows exhibitions and construction sites where a temporary network will be practical Retailers airline and shipping companies need additional workstations during peak period Auditors requiring workgroups at customer sites 9 Access to database for mobile workers Doctors nurses retailers accessing their...

Page 8: ...ble x 1 z Software and Documentation CD x 1 1 5 IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter LED Indicators The IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter has one LED indicators The behavior of the indicators is described as below Power LED OFF No light ON Solid Blue Link LED Solid Blue Connect with the Access Point or Ad Hoc wireless workstation and transmitting data Blinking Blue Indicate the device is acti...

Page 9: ...inimum of 32 MB RAM 9 A computer equipped with USB slot and socket services compliant with revision 1 1 or 2 0 of USB specification 9 A CD ROM drive 9 Windows Vista XP 2000 2 2 Installation This section describes the installation of the IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter software for the Windows 2000 XP and Windows Vista The installation procedures for Windows Vista refer to 2 2 1 Install IEEE ...

Page 10: ...or Windows Vista Step 1 Insert the included CD into the CD ROM driver on your computer Locate and double click setup exe Step 2 The following screen displays Click Next Step 3 Click Next to accept installing IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter driver files ...

Page 11: ...11 Step 4 Click Next to accept the default file location or click Browse to select an alternate folder Step 5 Select a program folder or type a new folder name and click Next ...

Page 12: ...up folder as desired and click Next Step 7 The windows will appear the message about the windows can t verify the publisher of this driver software compatibility with Windows Vista Select Install this driver software anyway to continue installing ...

Page 13: ... Finish to complete the installation Step 9 Insert the IEEE802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter into the USB port on your notebook and the Windows will auto install the IEEE802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter driver and utility ...

Page 14: ... After the driver installed completed the bellowing information will appear in the system tray Click the icon to conifgure the wireless LAN adapter via utility To use the utility please refer to Chapter 4 ...

Page 15: ...r Windows XP 2000 Step 1 Insert the included CD into the CD ROM driver on your computer Locate and double click setup exe Step 2 The following screen displays Click Next Step 3 Click Next to accept installing IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter driver files ...

Page 16: ...16 Step 4 Click Next to accept the default file location or click Browse to select an alternate folder ...

Page 17: ...7 Step 5 Select a program folder or type a new folder name and click Next Step 6 You may add a shortcut in the startup folder as desired and click Next Step 7 Click on Finish to complete the installation ...

Page 18: ...less LAN USB Adapter into the USB port Step 9 After inserting USB Adapter into the USB port on your computer Windows will auto detect new hardware and will display a Found New Hardware Wizard window Select Install the software automatically Recommended and press Next to install the driver ...

Page 19: ...as not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP Click on Continue Anyway button to continue installing Step 11 The windows will find 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter and start copying corresponding files into the system Click on Next to continue ...

Page 20: ...20 Step 12 Click Finish to complete the installation ...

Page 21: ...link status A usable but weak link status Not connected to a wireless network or is searching for an available wireless network Note for Windows XP users If you want to use WZC either to disable the wireless network utility if you already install it or just install the driver To install the driver only 1 Slide the IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter into an available USB port 2 The Found New Har...

Page 22: ...y a wireless device is called a channel 3 1 3 Transmit Rate Tx Rate The IEEE 802 11n Wireless Network USB Adapter support various transmit data rate It include Auto 1 or 2 Mbps 5 5 Mbps 11 Mbps and up to 300Mbps In most networking scenarios the factory default Auto setting proves the most efficient This setting allows your IEEE 802 11n Wireless Network USB Adapter to operate at the maximum transmi...

Page 23: ...ata transmitted over the network the WLAN Utility offers a sophisticated security algorithm Configure the wireless LAN security by clicking the check box next to Security Enable A privacy Configuration window will appear If you do not enable any wireless security on your IEEE 802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter the wireless communications are accessible to any wireless networking device that is in th...

Page 24: ...r wireless LAN You can change the default key by clicking on the up or down arrow and make sure the default key is set up exactly the same on the Wireless LAN stations as they are on the wireless Access Points For 64bit encryption you may choose Alphanumeric entering 5 characters case sensitive ranging from a z A Z and 0 9 e g MyKey Hexadecimal entering 10 hexadecimal digits in the range of A F a ...

Page 25: ... and a CA issues certificates and guarantees the identity of each certificate owner 3 2 3 WPA 2 Wi Fi Protected Access WPA is a subset of the IEEE 802 11i standard WPA2 is a wireless security standard that defines stronger encryption authentication and key management than WPA WPA Allows you to gain access to a more secured wireless network that requires mutual authentication between client and acc...

Page 26: ...llows you to gain access to a secured wireless network that the station and the access point use the same pre shared key to authenticate You must type a mixture of numbers and letters in the Pre shared key section of this menu You may input either 8 63 ASCII characters or 64 HEX characters Choose WPA PSK if needed from Authentication Mode ...

Page 27: ...ise users with a high level of assurance that only authorized users can access to their wireless network There is no difference between WPA and WPA2 The only difference is that WPA2 provides a stronger data encryption via the AES contrast to WPA which uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol TKIP Choose WPA2 if needed from Authentication Mode ...

Page 28: ...r Personal authentication Personal mode requires only an access point and client on the network Similarly you need to type a mixture of numbers and letters in the Pre shared key section of this menu You may input either 8 63 ASCII characters or 64 HEX characters Choose WPA2 PSK if needed from Authentication Mode ...

Page 29: ...K uses a simple common password instead of user specific credentials The common password approach makes WPA 2 PSK susceptible to brute force password guessing attacks but it s still an improvement over WEP as it employs a consistent single alphanumeric password to derive a PMK which is used to generate unique temporal encryption keys 3 2 3 2 IEEE 802 1X Authentication WPA and WPA2 apply IEEE 802 1...

Page 30: ...d to enter the Login Name in the Login information filed to authenticate If you desire to use the Server Certificate manually you can click the check box next to Verify Server Certificate and choose the usable selection in the User Certificate field using drop down menu User Certificated select one of user certificates you have enrolled TLS is used to create a secure tunnel through which authentic...

Page 31: ...r information filed to authenticate Figure 3 1 If you click the Verify Server Certificate check box you are able to choose one of User Certificate from the drop down menu Furthermore you need to input User Name and Password in the User Name field on the screen Figure 3 2 To save the information you entered in the appropriate field click the OK button Otherwise click the Cancel button to close the ...

Page 32: ... defined Open system mode and a Shared key mode z Open system mode is implemented for ease of use and when security is not an issue It requires NO authentication since it allows any device to join a network without performing any security check The wireless station and the AP do not share a secret key Thus the wireless stations can associate with any AP and listen to any data transmitted plaintext...

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Page 34: ...uration Site Survey and About Configuration The Configuration item allows you to modify the configuration parameters for the IEEE802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter such as Profile SSID Network Type Ad Hoc Channel Transmit Rate Security Enabled RTS Fragment Threshold and Power Save mode Furthermore you may monitor the current status of the IEEE802 11n Wireless LAN USB Adapter such as State Current Ch...

Page 35: ...ccess Point For standard 802 11 Ad Hoc note that you may set wireless stations with the same ESS ID and the same channel Security Enable To protect against hacker entering your system and prevent unauthorized wireless station from accessing data transmitted over the network the WLAN Utility offers a sophisticated security algorithm To activate security enable click the check box next to Security E...

Page 36: ...unication can be established RTS Threshold RTS Threshold is a mechanism implemented to prevent the Hidden Node problem If the Hidden Node problem is an issue please specify the packet size The RTS mechanism will be activated if the data size exceeds the value you set It is highly recommended that you set the value ranging from 0 to 2347 The default value is Disable Note Enabling RTS Threshold woul...

Page 37: ...participating in the Ad Hoc network Current Channel Shows the channel on which the connection is made Current Tx Rate Shows the highest transmit rate of the current association Throughput Shows the short term transmit and receive throughput in bytes second and is continuously updated Link Quality Based on the quality of the received signal of the Access Point beacon There are 5 states of link qual...

Page 38: ...By clicking the Rescan button the AP Browser can display Access Points around the working environment Besides showing the ESSID of each Access Point it also displays BSSID Channel Capability Signal and Rates To join any of the displayed Access Points highlight the Access Point you desire to connect and then click the Join button to associate to the AP About The About item displays related version ...

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Page 40: ...Windows to configure my wireless network settings check box is selected in the Wireless Network Connection Properties Step 2 Double click the network icon for wireless connections in the system tray to open the Wireless Network Connection Status screen Warning You must choose one way to configure Wireless LAN USB Adapter either of using our WLAN Utility by un checking this check box or using Windo...

Page 41: ... Wireless Networks to open the Wireless Network Connection screen Step 4 Click Refresh network list to reload and search for available wireless devices within transmission range Select a wireless network in the list and click Connect to join the selected wireless network ...

Page 42: ...ireless connections in the system tray to open the Wireless Network Connection Status screen Step 2 Select the Connect to a network to open the Connect to the network screen Step 3 Select a wireless network in the list and click Connect to join the selected wireless network ...

Page 43: ...If the wireless security is activated for the selected wireless network the related fields must be set to the same security setting as the associated AP Step 4 Click Connect to connect the wireless network ...

Page 44: ...ur products Duration of Hardware Warranty One Year Replacement Repair or Refund Procedure for Hardware 1 This product is design based on the 802 11n draft 2 0 standards do not guarantee the compatibility with the products that design by other vendors based on 802 11n draft or the products that design accroding to the 802 11n formal standard that announce in the future 2 The maximum performance def...

Page 45: ...d does not cover products which have been modified without the reseller s approval or which have been subjected to unusual physical or electrical demands or damaged in any way Service Centre COMPANY NAME ZCOMAX TECHNOLOGIES INC ADDRESS 13850 CERRITOS CORPORATE DR SUITE C CERRITOS CA 90703 TEL 562 926 4588 ...

Page 46: ... along with your products Name Title Company Telephone Fax Email City State Zip code Country Product Name Serial Number MAC Address Invoice Date Product Description If you have any further questions please contact your local authorized reseller for support ...

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