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802.11b/g/Draft 2.0-N
Wireless LAN PCI Card
User Manual
Version: 1.0 (April, 2007)
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CATALOG CHAPTER I: Product Information......................................................................................... 3 1-1 Introduction and safety information ............................................................................ 3 1-2 Safety Information...................................................................................................... 4 1-3 System Requirements...............................................................................................
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CHAPTER I: Product Information 1-1 Introduction and safety information Thank you for purchasing this high-speed 802.11b/g/Draft 2.0-N wireless network card! Excepting common wireless standards 802.11b/g, this wireless network card is also 802.11 Draft 2.0-N compatible - data transfer rate is 300Mbps, and that’s six times faster than 802.11g wireless network. 802.11 Draft 2.0-N also provides wider wireless coverage, so you don’t have to worry if your computer is far from your wireless ac
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1-2 Safety Information In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the following safety instructions: 1. This PCI wireless network card is designed for indoor use only. DO NOT expose this network card to direct sunlight or rain, snow. 2. DO NOT put this network card at or near hot or humid places, like kitchen or bathroom. Also, do not left this wireless network card in the car in summer. 3. Shutdown the computer and remove the power cord of your compute
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1-3 System Requirements An empty PCI slot Windows 2000, XP, XP64, or Vista Operating System CD-ROM drive At least 100MB of available disk space 1-4 Package Contents Before you starting to use this wireless network card, please check if there’s anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items: One Wireless LAN PCI Card Three Antennas One English Quick Installation Guide One CD-ROM (Including all the software utilities, driv
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CHAPTER II: DRIVER INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION Before you proceed with the installation, please notice following descriptions. Note1: The following installation was operated under Windows XP. (Procedures are similar for Windows 2000/Vista.) Note2: If you have installed the Wireless PCI Card driver & utility before, please uninstall the old version first. 2-1 Network Card Installation Please follow the following instructions to install your new wireless network card: 1. SWITC
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3. Close the computer case and switch the computer on, the following message will appear on your computer, please click ‘Cancel’. 4. Insert device driver CDROM into the CD/DVD ROM drive of your computer, and execute ‘Setup.exe’ program in ‘Driver’ folder. Please read the end user license agreement and click ‘Yes’ to accept license agreement. - 7 -
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5. You can choose the configuration tool used to configure the wireless network card here. It’s recommended to select ‘Edimax Configuration Tool’, which provides fully access to all function of this wireless network card. If you prefer to use the wireless configuration tool provided by Windows XP or Vista, please select ‘Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool’, then click ‘Next’. 6. There are two wireless performance modes you can select here: Optimize for WiFi mode or Optimize for
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7. When you see this message, please click ‘Finish’ to complete the driver installation process. - 9 -
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8. A new icon will appear at lower-right corner of your computer desktop, you can put the mouse cursor on the icon, and the status of wireless card will be displayed as a popup balloon. HERE! 9. When you want to configure your wireless connection, please right click on this icon, and a popup menu will appear. You can click ‘Launch Config Utilities’ to start configuration program. If you want to close configuration utility, please click ‘Exit’. - 10 -
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2-2 Connect to Wireless Access Point There are two ways you can configure your wireless network card to connect to wireless access point: using the Ralink configuration utility which comes with wireless card driver, and using built-in windows zero configuration utility. 2-2-1 Using Edimax Utility Please follow the following instructions to use Edimax configuration utility to connect to wireless access point. 1. Right-click the Edimax configuration utility icon located at lower-righ
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Here are descriptions of every setup item: SSID: The Service Set IDentifier of wireless access point or other network device. You can think it as the name of access point of wireless device. BSSID: The MAC address of wireless access point or other network device. Unlike SSID, BSSID of every access point or network device is unique, and will not be the same with others. So you can identify a single access point or wireless device from others by BSSID, if they all have the same SS
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Authentication: Shows the authentication mode that access point or wireless device uses. If the wireless access point does not require authentication, you’ll see ‘Unknown’ displayed here. Network Type: Shows the type of wireless connection. If it’s a wireless access point, ‘Infrastructure’ will be displayed here; if it’s a computer or network device, ‘AdHoc’ will be displayed here. Tips: Wireless access point (Infrastructure) is a network device, which acts as a bridge, to let w
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3. Click the wireless access point or network device you wish to connect, it will be highlighted, then click ‘Connect’. If the access point you selected does not enable encryption (The content of ‘Encryption’ field of the access point you selected is ‘None’, you’ll be connected to this wireless access point within one minute. Please jump to step 6. If the access point you selected enables encryption, please proceed to next step. 4. If the wireless access point does not have SSID,
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5. If the wireless access point uses encryption, you have to input WEP passphrase or WPA preshared key. Please ask the owner of the wireless access point you want to connect, and input the correct passphrase / preshared key here, then click ‘OK’. If the value you inputted here is wrong, you will not be able to connect to this wireless access point. Authentication type is selected automatically, please don’t change it. If the access point you selected does not enable encryption and
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6. You’ll see ‘Connected <-> SSID’ (‘SSID’ is the SSID of the wireless access point or wireless device you connected to) message displayed at lower-left corner of configuration utility, congratulations, you’re successfully connected to the access point or wireless device you selected! 7. You can put the mouse cursor over the Edimax configuration utility icon, and the brief information about link status and signal strength of current wireless connection will be shown as a popup balloo
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2-2-2 Using Windows Zero Configuration Windows XP and Vista has a built-in wireless network configuration utility, called as ‘Windows Zero Configuration’ (WZC). You can also use WZC to configure your wireless network parameter: 1. Right-click Edimax configuration utility icon and select ‘Use Zero Configuration as Configuration utility. 2. Click ‘Start’ button (should be located at the bottom-left corner of windows desktop), click ‘Control Panel’, then click ‘Network and Internet
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3. Right-click ‘Wireless Network Connection’ (it may have a number as suffix if you have more than one wireless network card, please make sure you right-click the ‘Ediamx 802.11n Wireless LAN Card), then select ‘View Available Wireless Networks’. 4. All wireless access points in proximity will be displayed here. If the access point you want to use is not displayed here, please try to move your computer closer to the access point, or you can click ‘Refresh network list’ to rescan access
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5. If the access point is protected by encryption, you have to input its security key or passphrase here. It must match the encryption setting on the access point. If the access point you selected does not use encryption, you’ll not be prompted for security key or passphrase. 6. If you can see ‘Connected’ message, the connection between your computer and wireless access point is successfully established. - 19 -
