Wireless LAN
User manual
WL-211 PC Card
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6. Troubleshooting
To make the installation of Wireless LAN Card more users friendly, we have suggested following the
installation steps one by one as listed in the section 4 and section 5. 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 for checking the various components after you have installed the
card. In first part of
Troubleshooting,
we have suggested the users to check the various properties of
the card to check the proper installation. In second section, we have listed the various problems that
you may encounter during the installation and have also listed the possible solution. Check the first
part to guess the probable reason of unsuccessful installation.
Procedure to Check the Various Properties of Card after Installation under Windows 95
(OSR2)/98:
Please check the followings if you encounter some problem while installing the PCMCIA card or your
PCMCIA card is non-functional.
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
GemTek IEEE 802.11 PC CARDd
in one of the sockets, it
means the card is detected properly. If you see the
Yellow
sign of Question-mark (?), the
resources are conflicting.
2.
Right click on
My Computer
and the select
Properties.
Select the
Device
Manager
and click
on the
Network Adapter.
You will find
GemTek IEEE 802.11 PC 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
sip 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 same IRQ to some devices, for example COM 1, COM 2 can be assigned same
IRQ values.
iii) Check that you have inserted the right card and have installed the proper driver.
