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Version 1.1, Nov. 08, 2001

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Page 1: ...G GL L2 24 41 11 1V V1 1 A A Version 1 1 Nov 08 2001...

Page 2: ...xperienced radio TV technician for help The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics card is required to assure compliance with FCC regulations Changes or modifications to...

Page 3: ...its set forth for an uncontrolled Environment This equipment should be installed and operated with a minimum distance of 20 Centimetres between the radiator and your body This transmitter must not be...

Page 4: ...1V1 A PC CARD 10 3 3 GL2411V1 A Driver Installation Windows 95 11 3 4 GL2411V1 A Driver Installation Windows 98 20 3 5 GL2411V1 A Driver Installation Windows 2000 29 3 6 GL2411V1 A Driver Installation...

Page 5: ...networks 5 Robust Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum DSSS technology provides secure interference resistant wireless connection 6 Wireless connections eliminate the hassle and cost of cabling 7 Supports...

Page 6: ...Small Office and Home Office users Perfect for users that need a small easy to install network that deploys rapidly Inter building connection Wireless building to building networks are quickly and eas...

Page 7: ...for enterprise LANs LAN Interconnection for point to point link as a campus backbone 2 1 NETWORK TOPOLOGY Fig 1 Ad Hoc Wireless LAN An Ad Hoc wireless LAN is a group of computers each equipped with on...

Page 8: ...ective wireless transmission range for 2 GL2411V1 A PCs Since the Access Point is able to forward data within its BSS the effective transmission range in an infrastructure LAN is doubled Fig 3 The eff...

Page 9: ...roaming capabilities for mobile users More than one BSS can be configured as an Extended Service Set ESS The continuous network allows users to roam freely within an ESS All GL2411V1 A PCs and GL 241...

Page 10: ...g up slide the PCMCIA Card completely into the PCMCIA slot Fig 5 Insert the GL2411V1 A into Notebook After properly inserting the Network Adapter into your notebook continue with the GL2411V1 A driver...

Page 11: ...preceding section 2 Windows 95 will automatically detect the GL2411V1 A and prompt you to install the necessary driver Click Next to begin the installation 3 Check Other Locations and click Next 4 Che...

Page 12: ...copied to the appropriate location you will be prompted to insert the Windows 95 CD Insert the Windows 95 CD Select C win95 from the drop down list where C represents the Windows 95 set up source clic...

Page 13: ...Card Adapter from the list and press the Properties button 11 From the Properties menu please select the Advanced tab 12 Select Adhoc STA ATIM Windows and set up the default value 0 from a range betwe...

Page 14: ...mpliant See Appendix B Glossary 14 Select Channel from the list and choose a Value from the drop down list FCC regulations require a Value between 1 and 11 and ETSI between 1 and 13 15 Select Fragment...

Page 15: ...ucture mode allows a wireless adapter to communicate with a wired network while Ad Hoc and 802 11b Ad Hoc mode allow wireless to wireless communication Consult your System Administrator for informatio...

Page 16: ...g for your network type For more information about Power Save Mode see the chapter entitled PRISM Configuration Utility in this manual 19 Select Preamble Mode and set up the default value Long Tx Prea...

Page 17: ...s the recommended setting for clients that are farther away from the AP and where there may be interference between the client and the AP 23 Select Use Wep and choose a Value for 128 bit 64 bit or Dis...

Page 18: ...ct Microsoft from the list of Manufacturers and TCP IP from the list of Network Protocols then click OK 28 Select TCP IP and click Properties 29 Please select the IP Address tab If you are using a DHC...

Page 19: ...guration tab and key in the DNS sever IP address which is near your PC Then click OK 31 From the Network menu please select the Advanced tab Enter a Computer name Workgroup and Computer Description th...

Page 20: ...cribed in the preceding section 2 Windows 98 will automatically detect the GL2411V1 A and prompt you to install the necessary driver Click Next to begin the installation 3 Check Search for the best dr...

Page 21: ...rop down list where D represents the CD ROM drive click OK NOTE You must insert the Windows 98 CD as the driver installation requires special files that will not be available even if you have stored a...

Page 22: ...1 A PC Card properties From the Control Panel double click the Network icon 10 Select PRISM25 IEEE 802 11 PC Card Adapter from the list and press the Properties button 11 From the Properties menu plea...

Page 23: ...ure mode allows a wireless adapter to communicate with a wired network while Ad Hoc and 802 11b Ad Hoc mode allow wireless to wireless communication Consult your System Administrator for information a...

Page 24: ...g for your network type For more information about Power Save Mode see the chapter entitled PRISM Configuration Utility in this manual 16 Select Preamble Mode and set up a default value Long Tx Preamb...

Page 25: ...s the recommended setting for clients that are farther away from the AP and where there may be interference between the client and the AP 20 Select Use Wep and choose a Value for 128 bit 64 bit or Dis...

Page 26: ...the protocol has been installed Never install the same protocol twice 23 Select Protocol and click Add button 24 Select Microsoft from the list of Manufacturers and TCP IP from the list of Network Pr...

Page 27: ...27 If you use DHCP sever please click OK and jump to step 31 If you do not use a DHCP server and must manually enter the IP address and DNS number Please select the Gateway tab and key in your gatewa...

Page 28: ...ill be prompted to restart your computer click Yes to complete the installation Note Please see the trouble shooting if you encounter some problem while installing the PC Card or your PCI Card is non...

Page 29: ...scribed in the preceding section Then insert the driver CD into the CD ROM 2 Windows 2000 will automatically detect the GL2411V1 A and prompt you to install the necessary driver Click Next to begin th...

Page 30: ...acknowledge of Windows 2000 please click Next 8 Windows 2000 will show a windows information dialog Click Yes 9 Windows 2000 will install the driver As the driver files are being copied to the appropr...

Page 31: ...work and Dial up Connections icon 11 Move the mouse to the local area connection which the GL2411V1 A generates and right click the mouse Then click the Properties 12 Click Install and Add to add prot...

Page 32: ...d OK to install the protocol 16 The system will also show the windows information dialog above Click No to skip 17 Click Configure to configure the adapter 18 Select Authentication Algorithm and set u...

Page 33: ...inistrator for information about your network communication type For more information about Infrastructure and Ad Hoc networks see Chapter 2 of this manual 21 Select Power Save Mode and choose a Value...

Page 34: ...and set up a default value Long Tx Preamble See Appendix B Glossary 23 Select RTS Threshold and set up a default value 2432 See Appendix B Glossary 24 The SSID can have any value but should have the s...

Page 35: ...e interference between the client and the AP 26 Select Use Wep and choose a Value for 128 bit 64 bit or Disabled See Chapter 4 2 and Appendix B Glossary 27 After configuration please click OK 28 Click...

Page 36: ...n you may also key in the DNS sever IP address which is near your PC After keying in all IPs click OK 30 Click Close 31 Windows 2000 will show a windows information dialog You will be prompted to rest...

Page 37: ...location of the driver Advanced and click Next to begin the installation 2 Insert the driver disk Check Specify a location and browse D pc oem driver WIN9x folder Then click Next where D represents th...

Page 38: ...o add complete protocols NOTE Before installing any protocol please make sure that the protocol has been installed Never install the same protocol twice 8 Select Protocol and click Add 9 Select Micros...

Page 39: ...Select PRISM25 IEEE 802 11 PC Card Adapter from the list and press the Properties button 12 From the Properties menu please select the Advanced tab 13 Select Authentication Algorithm and set up a defa...

Page 40: ...inistrator for information about your network communication type For more information about Infrastructure and Ad Hoc networks see Chapter 2 of this manual 16 Select Power Save Mode and choose a Value...

Page 41: ...and set up a default value Long Tx Preamble See Appendix B Glossary 18 Select RTS Threshold and set up a default value 2432 See Appendix B Glossary 19 The SSID can have any value but should have the s...

Page 42: ...Fully Auto is the recommended setting for clients that are farther away from the AP and where there may be interference between the client and the AP 21 Select Use Wep and choose a Value for 128 bit 6...

Page 43: ...and subnet mask 25 If you use DHCP sever please click OK and jump to step 32 If you do not use a DHCP server and must manually enter the IP address and DNS number Please select the Gateway tab and key...

Page 44: ...3 7 GL2411V1 A SETUP FOR WINDOWS NT 4 0 Login as Administrator 1 Insert the GL2411V1 A Card into a standard Type II or Type III PCMCIA card slot as described in the preceding section 2 Power on the PC...

Page 45: ...Add 4 Click Have Disk 5 Insert the driver CD and key in the path of the driver Then click OK where D represents the CD ROM drive 6 Select PRISM25 IEEE 802 11 PC Card Adapter and click OK 7 Windows NT4...

Page 46: ...FCC regulations require a Value between 1 and 11 and ETSI between 1 and 13 E Tx Rate Fixed 11 Mb s is the preferred Value for environments where the client has line of sight access and is a short dist...

Page 47: ...ck Obtain an IP address from a DHCP sever to get IP from the DHCP sever Otherwise you must check Specify an IP address and key in your IP Address Subnet Mask and Default Gateway Then click OK 10 From...

Page 48: ...and click Yes to complete the installation 13 Upon restart open the Devices menu from the Control Panel to confirm that the driver installation was successful Your adapter driver should now be listed...

Page 49: ...gotten to the contents of these directories The empty README is just a trick to prevent CVS from pruning the directory 4 DISCLAIMER prism2dl This utility is used for loading firmware images into pris...

Page 50: ...have a date time mismatch Run the command find type f exec touch to fix the date and time stamps then run make clean again 4 make config To configure the pcmcia cs 3 1 8 package run make config and r...

Page 51: ...always sets to y Set to n if you wish to load the flash WLAN_ENABLE y WEP Dis En able WEP Settings only matter if PrivacyInvoked is true dot11PrivacyInvoked false true false dot11WEPDefaultKeyID 1 0 1...

Page 52: ...P y n BOOTP n Use DHCP y n If your local network has DHCP you can set DHCP to y then save the file and exit If you set DHCP to n you must set the items below DHCP n Host s IP address netmask network a...

Page 53: ...ith the command ln s etc rc d init d pcmcia pcmcia pcmcia restart 14 Insert the card A solid LED indicates that the SSID you specified was found a bss was joined and the firmware completed the authent...

Page 54: ...represents a CD ROM 2 It will show a wizard windows and then Click Next 3 You may click Browse to change the install folder Click Next 4 You may change the program folder Click Next 5 The system will...

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Page 56: ...aunch menu in the lower right hand corner of the screen near the clock The Configuration Utility Double clicking the utility icon in the Quick Launch bar will open the Configuration Utility main menu...

Page 57: ...rovides additional features such as WEP security power saving and extended range SSID An acronym for Service Set Identifier SSID is the unique name shared among all clients and Access Points in a wire...

Page 58: ...type network without an Access Point active on the default channel clients will scan through all available channels searching for a network with matching SSID Changing the Channel Changing the channe...

Page 59: ...t also be enabled on the Access Point Select the WEP tab to enable or disable this feature The 64 bit or 128 bit WEP keys can be generated from a user defined passphrase any text string with a maximum...

Page 60: ...60 About The About displays the information about Driver Utility and firmware version of the PC Card...

Page 61: ...nstalled in your computer 1 Click on the Control Panel and then on PC Card Check whether it has PCMCIA card in one of the sockets or not If you find PRISM25 IEEE 802 11 PC Card Adapter in one of the s...

Page 62: ...municate with other computers linked via Ethernet in the Infrastructure configuration Probable Solution Ensure that the GL2411V1 A with which the station is associated is powered on Confirm the statio...

Page 63: ...ach base station in turn is interconnected with other cells base BSS Stands for Basic Service Set An Access Point associated with several wireless stations ESS Stands for Extended Service Set More tha...

Page 64: ...nting the original version of the protocol Roaming A function that allows one to travel with a mobile end system wireless LAN mobile station for example through the territory of a domain an ESS for ex...

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