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Страница 2: ...n against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may...
Страница 3: ...EL SELECTION 7 CHAPTER 3 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 9 PACKAGE CONTENTS 9 HARDWARE DESCRIPTION 9 WIRELESS ADAPTER INSTALLATION 9 CHAPTER 4 DRIVER INSTALLATION 10 WINDOWS 98 DRIVER SOFTWARE 10 WINDOWS MILLEN...
Страница 4: ...and Bluetooth devices Supports the vast majority of notebook PCs equipped with a CardBus slot Features The key features of the HA501 Wireless Adapter are Reliable IEEE 802 11a standards based wireles...
Страница 5: ...P encryption key or an identical WEP encryption key Set all stations to use the same wireless channel for communication Infrastructure Mode With a wireless access point you can put the wireless LAN in...
Страница 6: ...eceiving node share an authentication key to perform a checksum on the original message By default IEEE 802 11 wireless devices operate in an open system network Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP data encr...
Страница 7: ...ted in HA501 Wireless Adapter IEEE 802 11a uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM a new encoding scheme that offers certain benefits over a spread spectrum in channel availability and da...
Страница 8: ...1 user can use three channels in turbo mode Turbo mode ON Channel Frequency 42 5 21 GHz 50 5 25 GHz 58 5 29 GHz Note The available channels supported by the wireless products in various countries are...
Страница 9: ...are Description The HA501 Wireless Adapter has two interfaces a 32 bit 68 Pin CardBus connector that connects to any notebook PC with an available CardBus slot and a wireless interface that remains ou...
Страница 10: ...r returning to the original Add New Hardware Wizard dialog box make sure that the Specify a location entry field shows D assuming that D is the driver letter for the CD ROM drive Click Next 8 The dial...
Страница 11: ...ppy disk drive and the CD ROM drive for the appropriate driver Windows Millennium automatically installs the appropriate driver from the CD ROM for the HA501 Wireless Adapter Click Finish 4 Click Yes...
Страница 12: ...enter D in the field provided assuming that D is the driver letter for the CD ROM drive Click OK 7 The Select OEM Option dialog box opens listing the drivers from which to choose Select NETGEAR HA501...
Страница 13: ...Next 5 Windows searches the driver CD ROM and locates the driver for the HA501 Wireless Adapter Verify that Windows has found the driver in the D directory assuming that D is the driver letter for the...
Страница 14: ...the appropriate driver Windows XP automatically installs the appropriate driver from the CD ROM for the HA501 Wireless Adapter Click Finish 5 Click Yes when asked if you want to reboot the system The...
Страница 15: ...01 802 11a Configuration Utility instead of using Windows XP to configure the wireless network settings The Zero Configuration feature can be disabled in the Wireless Network Connection Properties win...
Страница 16: ...Ad hoc mode Infrastructure mode Red The wireless adapter has not initiated communication with any other wireless node Either the wireless adapter is not able to link to any access point or the link be...
Страница 17: ...ciated access point when the HA501 Wireless Adapter is configured in infrastructure mode Network Mode Indicates the configuration mode used 802 11a ad hoc mode ad hoc mode or infrastructure mode 802 1...
Страница 18: ...e possible data rates supported are 54 Mbps 48 Mbps 36 Mbps 24 Mbps 18 Mbps 12 Mbps 9 Mbps and 6 Mbps It can go up to 72 Mbps if the turbo mode is enabled Receive Rate Shows the current receive data t...
Страница 19: ...ut an access point In infrastructure mode the wireless node searches all available wireless channels to associate with an access point Network Name SSID Enter a 32 character maximum service set ID in...
Страница 20: ...encryption please refer to the Wireless Network Fundamentals chapter at the beginning of this reference guide Unchecking the Enable Security WEP Key box or setting the data encryption level to Disable...
Страница 21: ...bout The About section of the NETGEAR HA501 802 11a Configuration Utility dialog box shows the release information of both the device driver for the wireless adapter and the wireless LAN configuration...
Страница 22: ...eters of the wireless nodes to be the same as the access point The access point may not be powered on The access point and the PC card are not configured with the same wireless parameters Check into t...
Страница 23: ...4 bit 128 bit or 152 bit WEP data encryption Maximum computers per network Limited by the amount of wireless network traffic generated by each node typically 30 to 70 nodes Bus interface PCMCIA type I...
