Planet WNL-9310, User Manual

Page 1: ...Pre N Wireless PCI Adapter WNL 9310 User Manual Version 1 00 Date January 2007 ...

Page 2: ...asonable protection 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 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 in...

Page 3: ... care for the safety of those who install and use it However special attention must be paid to the dangers of electric shock and static electricity when working with electrical equipment All guidelines of this and of the computer manufacture must therefore be allowed at all times to ensure the safe use of the equipment WEEE regulation To avoid the potential effects on the environment and human hea...

Page 4: ...m Requirements 4 1 5 Installation Considerations 4 1 6 PLANET WNL 9310 5 Chapter 2 Installation Procedure 6 2 1 Configuration Utility Driver Installation 6 Chapter 3 Configuration Utility 14 3 1 Status Information 15 3 2 Site Survey 15 3 3 Profile Manager 17 3 4 Advanced Setting 22 3 5 Network Status 24 3 6 About 25 Appendix A Troubleshooting 26 I ...

Page 5: ...tected Access for securing wireless network connections The driver and utility supports most popular operating systems Windows 2000 Professional XP SP2 With advanced features and high performance capability the WNL 9310 is an excellent choice for constructing a wide range of wireless solutions 1 1 Features z 2 4GHz ISM band unlicensed operation z Compliant with IEEE 802 11b IEEE 802 11g IEEE 802 1...

Page 6: ...ing 1 2 Specification Interface Complaint with PCI v2 1 2 2 standard Standards Conformance Compliant with IEEE 802 11b IEEE 802 11g IEEE 802 11n draft 1 0 Data Rate Pre N Up to 300Mbps 802 11g 54 48 36 24 18 12 9 and 6Mbps with auto rate fall back 802 11b 11 5 5 2 and 1Mbps with auto rate fall back Working Mode Infrastructure Mode Ad Hoc Mode Security 64 128 WEP 802 1x WPA PSK TKIP AES WPA2 PSK TK...

Page 7: ...m Based above IBM compatible PC system with one vacancy PCI slot CD ROM drive Windows 2000 XP or above At least 10MBytes of free disk space for utility and driver installation 1 5 Installation Considerations Beware of the walls and ceilings Each wall or ceiling can reduce your wireless cover range form 3 90 feet Properly position your Access Points Residential Gateways and computers so that the nu...

Page 8: ... WNL 9310 User Manual 1 6 PLANET WNL 9310 The status LED indicators of the PLANET WNL 9310 are described in the following z Green Power on z Flashing Indicates the Adapter is transmitting or receiving data 5 ...

Page 9: ...llation operates under Window XP The procedure also applies to Windows 2000 Note If you had ever installed the other Wireless Cards before please uninstall the existed drivers and utilities first z Please shut down your computer and insert the WNL 9310 into the PCI slot on your computer Please power on your computer when your computer enter the Windows XP you will see the below message prompt Plea...

Page 10: ...zard dialog box Please select the desired installation language on the screen and click Next to continue Note If the welcome screen does not appear click Start at the taskbar Then select Run and type D Utility WNL 9310 setup exe where D is your CD ROM drive z The Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for WNL 9310 will display on the screen and click Next to continue 7 ...

Page 11: ...PLANET WNL 9310 User Manual z Please select your Country Domain and click Next to continue z Please click Next to continue 8 ...

Page 12: ... Please select Continue Anyway to continue z The program will start installing the WNL 9310 drivers and utility automatically You will see the below pop up screen When the system stops prompting the system starting to automatically search and installed the WNL 9310 driver Please wait for a moment 9 ...

Page 13: ... Windows will detect the new driver and show you the Found New Hardware Wizard please select No not this time and click Next to continue z Please choose Install the software automatically Recommended Then click Next to continue 10 ...

Page 14: ...NET WNL 9310 User Manual z When this screen appear to inform you that the USB adapter has not passed Windows Logo testing WHQL Click Continue Anyway to proceed z Please click Continue Anyway to continue 11 ...

Page 15: ...PLANET WNL 9310 User Manual z Please click Finish to complete the driver installation z A screen will appear to inform you that you most restart your computer Click Yes to restart your computer now 12 ...

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Page 17: ...hen the WNL 9310 is installed the configuration utility will be displayed automatically This card will auto connect to wireless device which has better signal strength and no wireless security setting If the Configuration Utility does not appear you can double click the on your system desktop start it Another way to start the Configuration Utility is to click on Start Programs PLANET WNL 9310 WNL ...

Page 18: ... z Radio Off The wireless adapter is not associated with the network when the radio is off z Exit Terminate the connection to the WNL 9310 Connection is established The number of green bar indicates signal strength All red bars are mean that no connection WNL 9310 is unplugged 3 2 Site Survey This screen is displayed when the WNL 9310 utility start 15 ...

Page 19: ...e wireless networks are listed MAC Address This is the MAC address of the Access Point or Wireless station if the network is an Ad hoc network Security Data encryption and authentication methods used on the wireless network CH The channel used by the Wireless network Signal This is displayed as percentage 0 100 Frequency The Wireless band used by this Wireless network Network Type This will indica...

Page 20: ...the SSID of the desired wireless network Advanced Setting On the resulting sub screen enter the required data for the advanced settings Network Type Select the desired option z Infrastructure This operation mode requires the presence of an 802 11 Access Point All communication is done via the Access Point or Router z Ad Hoc Select this mode if you want to connect to another wireless station in the...

Page 21: ...ly enters the starting password in their access point or gateway as well as in each wireless stations in the network WPA PSK takes over automatically from that point keeping unauthorized users that don t have the matching password from joining the network while encrypting the data traveling between authorized devices WPA2 PSK This is a further development of WPA PSK and offers even greater securit...

Page 22: ...ption Other stations must have matching key values The WEP keys are used to encrypt data transmitted in the wireless network There are two types of key length 64Bits and 128Bits Fill the text box by following the rules below 64Bits Input 10 digit Hex values in the A F a f and 0 9 range as the encryption keys For example 0123456aef 128Bits Input 26 digit Hex values in the A F a f and 0 9 range as t...

Page 23: ...concern When you have set up LEAP authentication you have to enter the user name and password of your computer Configure WPA Radius For WPA Radius and WAP2 Radius modes click this button to open a sub windows where you can enter details of this Radius server To add a profile 1 On the Profile Manager tab complete the settings on this screen 2 Verify that the settings you configured are correct 3 Cl...

Page 24: ... you want to delete 2 Click Delete Profile To edit a profile 1 On the Profile Manager tab select the profile that you want to edit 2 Change the profile settings as necessary 3 Click Save Profile To enable a profile 1 In the list of available profiles click the profile that you want to edit 2 Click Apply Profile 21 ...

Page 25: ...e in the Ad Hoc network Transmit Rate Use this to manually set the speed if desired This default is Auto There are several options including Auto 1 2 5 5 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54Mbps and MSC 0 15 for you to select When the Auto is selected the device will choose the most suitable transmission rate automatically The higher data rate you designated in the network the shorter distance is allowed between...

Page 26: ...reshold is 0 2346 Typically sending RTS frames is turned off by default threshold 2346 If the packet size the node wants to transmit is larger than the threshold the RTS CTS handshake gets triggered If the packet size is equal to or less than threshold the data frame gets sent immediately The default value is 2346 In some case you may be able to improve performance by adjusting this value 802 11n ...

Page 27: ...SSID It shows the MAC address of the access point Network Type This will indicate Infrastructure or Ad hoc Security Mode It shows the wireless security that the wireless network is using TX RX Speed It shows the current wireless connection speed Internet Protocol DHCP Option It shows if the IP address was automatically obtained from a DHCP server IP Address It shows the current IP address on the w...

Page 28: ...n TX rate and Receiving RX rate over time Signal Signal It graphically presents the signal strength 3 6 About This screen displays details of the traffic sent or received on the current wireless network This tab shows the following in information z Regional Domain z Firmware Version z Driver Version z MAC Address z PLANET DLL Version z PLANET Utility Version 25 ...

Page 29: ...are and software installation as specified in this User Guide Q I cannot communicate with the other computers linked via Ethernet in the Infrastructure configuration A 1 Make sure that the PC to which the Adapter is associated is powered on 2 Make sure that your Adapter is configured on the same channel and with the same security options as with the other computers in the Infrastructure configurat...

Page 30: ...nts from trying to establish a BSS at the same time which can result in multiple singular BSSs being established rather than a single BSS with multiple clients associated to it 6 Check that the Network Connection for the wireless client is configured properly If Security is enabled make sure that the correct encryption keys are entered on both the Adapter and the access point 27 ...