SENAO 3054 PCI Aries, User Manual

Page 1: ...ired network or add bandwidth to your wireless installation To protect your wireless connectivity the 3054 PCI Aries can encrypt all wireless transmissions through 64 128 152 bit WEP data encryption Dynamic Frequency Selection DFS puts your network on the cleanest channel in your location With the 3054 PCI Aries you will experience the best wireless connectivity available 1 1Package Content The 30...

Page 2: ...wer Control Support TPC offers flexibility to adjust RF output power 1 5Applications Wireless LAN products are easy to install and highly efficient The following list describes some of the many applications made possible through the power and flexibility of wireless LANs 1 Difficult to wire environments There are many situations where wires cannot be laid easily Historic buildings older buildings ...

Page 3: ...at corporations and students at universities use wireless connectivity to ease access to information information exchanges and learning 1 6Network Configuration To better understand how wireless LAN products work together to create a wireless network it might be helpful to depict a few of the possible wireless LAN PCI card network configurations The wireless LAN products can be configured as 1 Ad ...

Page 4: ...a repeater which effectively doubles the distance between wireless stations as shown in Figure 1 3 Figure 1 3 Extended range independent WLAN using AP as repeater If wired to an Ethernet network as shown in Figure 1 4 the AP serves as a bridge and provides the link between the server and the wireless clients The wireless clients can move freely throughout the coverage area of the AP while remainin...

Page 5: ...r an entire building or campus as shown in Figure 1 5 In this scenario access points hand the client off from one to another in a way that is invisible to the client Ensuring Token connectivity wireless clients can roam seamlessly between different coverage areas and remain connected to the network Figure 1 5 Wireless Router and IP Sharing In infrastructure mode in addition to acting as a bridge b...

Page 6: ...gure 1 6 Chapter 2 Installing Drivers Client Utility This chapter describes how to install the PCI Card drivers and client utility under Windows 98 ME 2000 XP 2 1 Installation for Windows 98SE ME 2000 XP ...

Page 7: ...llation Procedure 1 Turn on your computer 2 Be sure that there is no PCI Card inserted yet 3 Insert the Wireless LAN Installation CD into your CD ROM drive and execute Setup exe by selecting the file from the CD ROM drive 4 When the Setup exe program starts it will pop up a window as shown in Figure 2 1 click on the Next button to continue the installation Figure 2 1 5 After finishing all installa...

Page 8: ... display 7 During the installation the driver and utility will both install into the system so please select Install the software automatically Recommended as shown in Figure 2 3 and click Next to search the driver installation file Figure 2 3 8 Then the system will find the driver and start to install as shown in Figure 2 4 ...

Page 9: ...igital signature from Microsoft Therefore Windows 2000 XP will show a warning message Click Continue Anyway to proceed with driver installation as shown in Figure 2 5 Figure 2 5 10 Click Finish to complete the driver installation as shown in Figure 2 6 ...

Page 10: ...uter and then select Properties 2 In the System Properties window select the tag Hardware and then select Device Manager 3 Double click Network adapters and then select WLAN AR5001X Wireless Network Adapter as shown in Figure 2 7 Figure 2 7 4 Right click on WLAN AR5001X Wireless Network Adapter then select Properties This device is working properly is displayed on Device status as show in Figure 2...

Page 11: ...em tray icon is displayed in the bottom right and t he taskbar Launch the 802 11 NIC Client Utility by double clicking the tray icon or by right clicking the tray icon and selecting Open Client Utility The 802 11 NIC Client Utility is used to display or change the PCI Card information such as Current Status Profile Management and Diagnostics The client utility will be installed automatically after...

Page 12: ...ak down the wireless connection the Country Select is used to select suitable country code for the utility If you don t want to see icon shown in Taskbar you can use Disable Tray Icon function to hide it Option you can use Display settings to change Signal Strength Display Units Refresh Interval and Data Display settings ...

Page 13: ...eanings of the various screen messages 1 Current Status Current Status provides user information such as Profile Name Network Type Wireless Mode Current Channel Link Status Encryption and IP Address If you click on the Advanced button it will display an advanced status window as shown in Figure 2 10 Advanced Status provides user information of Country Transmit Power Level Network Name SSID Power S...

Page 14: ...ere exists a Profile file you can use the Modify button to change the settings Use the Remove button to erase the file or Activate button to activate other profile setting Figure 2 11 Click on the New button it will display a Profile Management window which includes General Security and Advanced configuration pages In General page type the desirable profile name into the Profile Name field and the...

Page 15: ...s Disable and you may provide Pre Shared Keys Dynamic Security and Externally Managed 802 1x Keys for selection Dynamic Security the default value is TLS and you may provide TTLS PEAP LEAP and Externally Managed 802 1x Keys for selection ...

Page 16: ...e two key entry methods Hexadecimal and ASCII Text and three levels of Encryption 64 128 152 bit In Advanced page you can set Power Save Mode Network Type 802 11 Preamble Transmit Power Level and Wireless Mode in this page ...

Page 17: ...o get information of available AP and Ad Hoc Networks as shown in Figure 2 12 Figure 2 12 3 Diagnostics Diagnostics provide statistics of Multicast Frames Broadcast Frames Unicast Frames and Total Bytes for Transmit and Receive as shown in Figure 2 13 Figure 2 13 ...

Page 18: ...provide more advanced information for reference as shown in Figure 2 14 Figure 2 14 Driver Information provides information of Card Name MAC Address Driver Driver Version and Driver Date as shown in Figure 2 15 Figure 2 15 ...

Page 19: ...the Start button select Control Panel and then click on Add or Remove Programs 2 In the Add or Remove Programs window then select the 802 11 Wireless LAN item and remove the driver and utility as shown in Figure 2 16 Figure 2 16 3 Select Remove in Install Shield Wizard and click Next to start to remove driver then click Finish to complete driver and utility un installation as shown in Figure 2 17 ...

Page 20: ...d then click on Network Connections to open the Network Connection window Right click on WLAN AR5001X Wireless Network Adapter then select Properties as shown in Figure 3 1 Figure 3 1 3 1 Checking and Adding Client for Microsoft Networks The Client for Microsoft Networks enables you to connect to other Microsoft Windows computers and servers and use the files and printers shared on them If you wor...

Page 21: ...Protocol TCP IP then click on OK as shown in Figure 3 3 and click on its check box If TCP IP exists select the Internet Protocol TCP IP and then click on Properties to configure XXX Due to different network applications there are many different setting here You can select either Obtain an IP address automatically or Specify an IP address If you use the Specify IP address then you need to enter an ...

Page 22: ...ice click on Add and select Microsoft File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks then click on OK as shown in Figure 3 4 and click on its check box Figure 3 4 3 4 Checking and Adding Computer Name Workgroup Name Windows uses the computer name and workgroup name to identify your computer on the network Please enter a unique name for your computer the workgroup it will appear in and a short des...

Page 23: ...Figure 3 5 Then click the Change button to rename the computer and join a workgroup or a domain as shown in Figure 3 6 Figure 3 6 ...

Page 24: ...twork Adapter if it is installed successfully If you find an exclamation mark or a yellow question mark that means there are some resource conflict then please check the following Make sure that a free IRQ has been assigned to this network adapter Make sure that the network adapter has been inserted correctly and drivers have been installed properly If the 3054If the network adapter still does not...

Page 25: ...s Protocol Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance CSMA CA Modulation Technology 802 11g OFDM 64 QAM 16 QAM QPSK BPSK Operating Channels 11 for North America 14 for Japan 13 for Europe 2 for Spain 4 for France Receive Sensitivity 91dBm 1Mbps 85dBm 9Mbps 77dBm 36Mbps 89dBm 2Mbps 82dBm 12Mbps 76dBm 48Mbps 87dBm 5 5Mbps 80dBm 18Mbps 73dBm 54Mbps 86dBm 6Mbps 78dBm 24Mbp Transmit Output ...

Page 26: ...This equipment generates and uses and radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equi...