Preliminary User manual
FCC ID: OSZ37704C
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0-Introduction
The Intersil ISL37704C WLAN Cardbus Card is a complete wireless high speed Network Interface
Card (NIC) utilizing the Intersil PRISM® 5 chip set. It provides a complete PRISM 5 reference design
evaluation platform of hardware and software to system providers or integrators requiring wireless data
communications capability and is ideal for integration into computer platforms.
It supports the IEEE 802.11a specification, providing data rates of 54, 48, 36, 24, 18, 12, 9, and 6
Mbps. Access Points are available from a number of suppliers, enabling a total wireless network
solution.
• FCC Certified Under Part 15 to Operate in 5GHz ISM Band
• Support for 54, 48, 36, 24, 18, 12, 9, and 6 Megabit Per Second (Mbps) Data Rates
• Supports the lEEE 802.11a Specification
• Driver Supports Microsoft® Windows® 98/SE, ME, XP, 2000 (SR1)
• Supports Dual Diversity Antennas
• Provides Wireless Data Communications to support live video applications
• Intelligent Power Control, Including 802.11 Power Save Mode
1-Card Installation procedure
1.1 Installing the Cardbus card into the host PC Notebook
a-insert Cardbus Card into Cardbus slot of PC host notebook
1.2 Installing the software drivers
a-Start windows
b-When windows detects new hardware and asks for drivers, point to directory where the Intersil driver
is located (for example floppy drive, cdrom , harddisk) to install.
c-after drivers are installed, restart windows
d-the Intersil WLAN icon will appear in system tray on the bottom right of the screen (see yellow
arrow in fig. 01)
fig, 01: Intersil WLAN icon
