Realtek RTL8187SE, User Manual

Page 1: ...1 Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter User Guide Version 1 0 ...

Page 2: ...ent could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors TRADEMARKS Realtek is a trademark of Realtek Semiconductor Corporation Other names mentioned in this document are trademarks registered trademarks of their respective owners USING THIS DOCUMENT This document provides detailed user guidelines to provide Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter operation and setting up Though e...

Page 3: ...ations 5 Chapter 3 Installation Un installation 6 3 1 Installation 6 3 2 Un installation 12 Chapter 4 RtWLAN Wireless LAN Management GUI 14 4 1 Introduction of Main Window 14 4 2 Station mode 18 4 3 AP mode 24 Appendix 1 How to use 802 1x Step by step 29 ...

Page 4: ... RTL8187SE supports both the short and long preambles to ensure the compatibility of legacy wireless products and new ones saving the panic works for end users to find compatible products Since the security has became one of the most important issue in the wireless society Realtek provides you with the full security coverage from the naïve 64 128bits Wep encryptions second generation WPA PSK encry...

Page 5: ... Fourier Transform IFFT provide data rate of 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 and 54Mbps WLAN Frequency band 2 4 2 497 GHz Industrial Scientific Medical Band Operation Channel Channel 1 11 Coverage Area Indoors 100m with straight path Outdoors 400m Compatibility Fully compatible to IEEE 802 11 a b g devices Security Hardware based IEEE 802 11i encryption decryption engine including 64 bit 128 bit WEP TKIP and A...

Page 6: ... are similar for Windows 98SE Me 2000 Note2 If you have installed the USB WLAN driver utility before please uninstall the old version first If you install the Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter into your laptop computer before installing the software program from the CD A Ignore the following dialog Please click Cancel B Insert the Installation CD to your CD ROM Drive Execute the set...

Page 7: ...7 C Click Next to process the installation D The system starts to install the software of the WLAN adapter ...

Page 8: ...8 E The system will automatically detect the card and display Hardware Installation screen Click Continue Anyway to continue F Please click Finish to complete the installation ...

Page 9: ...op computer after installing the software program from the CD When you install Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter the following dialog will be shown A Please choose No not this time and click Next B Please choose Install from a list or specific location and click Next ...

Page 10: ...10 C Please choose Don t search I will choose the driver to install and click Next D Please click Have Disk E Please click Browse and specify the path of Realtek RTL8187SE MINI CARD Adapter Driver ...

Page 11: ...11 F Please choose Realtek RTL8187SE MINI CARD Adapter and click Next G The system will automatically detect the card and display Hardware Installation screen Click Continue Anyway to continue ...

Page 12: ...on 3 2 Un installation A Uninstall the RTL8187SE WLAN Driver from Start All Programs Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless Network Driver and Utility or Control Panel Change or Remove Programs Please click Un istall or Change Remove to remove RTL8187SE WLAN driver ...

Page 13: ...13 B Please click OK if you want to remove RTL8187SE USB WLAN Driver C Please click Finish to complete the un installation ...

Page 14: ...in menu includes five submenus Refresh As clicking the refresh menu we can update and re enumerate the contents of adapter list area Mode Wireless configuration was quickly switched to be either Station or Access Point A Main Menu B Adapter List Area C Property Area D Global Control Bar E Status Bar ...

Page 15: ...he present of status bar Without check mark in front will make the status bar hidden Help Click the menu item About RtWLan to show the about dialog The application version and license information are shown in the about dialog ...

Page 16: ... on wireless configuration that the selected adapter was set up If only single adapter was installed on the system only one adapter is always selected C Properties Area The contents of this area are dependent on current wireless configuration The current configuration is determined on previous explanation of submenu Mode The more detail contents are described in following wireless configuration se...

Page 17: ...ng Close button with unchecked condition Radio Off Turn off the radio for saving power While the radio being off the links with other wireless network nodes are disconnected User should be care of it while the wireless configuration is in AP mode The radio off will cause the sub network belong to the AP to disconnect with internet intranet Close To Shutdown or hide the management GUI depend on the...

Page 18: ...x property pages present different information of current wireless network status Reading the following explanations before you reviewing these pages it could help you to well know the wireless environment around the system It is easy use to switch property pages just by left button clicking of mouse the title of each page The following six sections describe detail information of the opposite page...

Page 19: ...ity of signal pf packets received from wireless network We recommend connecting access point with over 70 signal strength 7 Throughput diagram Current throughput including transmission Tx and total traffic Total 8 Network Address group Mac Address six two digital number of this adapter IP Address assigned network address by DHCP server or self definition in four three digital number format Subnet ...

Page 20: ... new profile for access point or IBSS Ad Hoc mode 2 Remove Remove the selected profile 3 Edit Edit contents of selected profile 4 Duplicate Make copy of selected profile 5 Set Default Set the selected profile as default selection 6 Available Network page This page presents all BSS including access points and IBSS around this system And you could pick one of these network connections 2 1 3 4 5 6 ...

Page 21: ...his system 2 Add to Profile Create profile for selected network connection in profile list and add it in to profile list D Advanced page 1 Power Save None without power save mode Min wake up more frequently to receive packets Max wake up less frequently to receive packets 2 Wireless Mode 802 11b 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...

Page 22: ... threshold than low fragment threshold 5 RTS Threshold Threshold of Request To Send mechanism The RTS frame will not send out until the packet size over threshold 6 WOL Wake On LAN The wake on LAN is applied for remote control purpose You could wake up a system through network packets For Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter only the same adapter on another system could wake it up Inpu...

Page 23: ...el Frequency current channel number Status wireless network status SSID name of connecting access point Network Type indicate current network configuration type Power Save Mode current setting power save mode Associated AP MAC MAC address of connecting access point Associated AP IP IP address of connecting access point Up Time total connection time F Statistics page You could watch the Tx Rx statu...

Page 24: ...me of this access point is 2 BSSID Six two digital numbers configure the MAC address of this access point 3 Association Table It is the list of joined station on this access point 4 AID Association ID The AID field is a value assigned by an AP during association that represents 16 bit ID of a station It is a unique value assigned by AP 5 MAC address 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...

Page 25: ... Network Name SSID Name of the access point searched by other wireless nodes The length of SSID should be shorter than 32 characters 7 2 Channel Select the wireless channel within current channel plan 7 3 Network Authentication Data Encryption Three types authentication Open System It is combined with data encryption type to be WEP or disable Encryption disabled you decide to open this access poin...

Page 26: ...is 64 bit to be company with data packets 128 bits The generated pass key is 128 bit to be company with data packets Hexadecimal While both ASCII and PASSPHRASE are not checked you should input hexadecimal number in the network key box For example 10 digits hex number for 64 bit WEP or 26 digits hex number for 128 bit WEP 7 5 Key index 1 4 At most four key index to represent the opposite network k...

Page 27: ...higher quality but with lower performance than preamble short mode Short Normal quality but with higher performance then preamble long mode Auto select the proper preamble mode by current signal frame information C Statistics Page The Tx Rx status of current wireless connection is shown A statistic analysis of packet transition is listed D SoftAP Page ...

Page 28: ...nect to public network 3 ICS Internet Connection Sharing It enables this access point to create the domain to share this internet intranet network connection 4 Firewall Any of a number of security schemes that prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to a computer network or that monitor transfers of information to and from the network 5 Apply Execute the current setting 1 2 3 4 5 ...

Page 29: ...29 Appendix 1 How to use 802 1x Step by step Step 1 Set Authentication mode to WPA 802 1x or WPA2 802 1x Step 2 Set encryption to TKIP or AES Step 3 Set EAP Type to MD5 GTC TLS LEAP TTLS or PEAP ...

Page 30: ...pe to MD5 GTC TLS or MSCHAP V2 Step 3 2 If you do not set PEAP to TLS you could use certificate Step 4 After you finish above steps You should fill up the following fields Username Identity Password User name Certificated user name Identity User s identity in the RADIUS server Password User s pass word in the RADIUS server ...