VERIZON WIRELESS VZACCESS MANAGER PC5740 User’s Manual
CONTENTS CONTENTS 1. BEFORE USING PC5740 1.1 About this User’s Manual 1.2 Product Overview 1.3 What’s Inside the Product Package 1.4 Introduction to Verizon Wireless PC5740 PC Card 1.5 Product Features 1.6 Product Handling 1.7 Configuration 1 2. INSTALLATION AND SETUP FOR THE VZACCESS MANAGER 4 2.1 The VZAccess Manager Setup Program 2.2 The VZAccess Manager Setup Wizard 3. USING VZACCESS MANAGER 3.1 Features 3.2 Getting Started 3.3 Connecting 3.4 Warning Message 3.5 Using Dial Up Connections 3.
1. BEFORE USING PC5740 1.1 About this User’s Manual You will find all the information you need to install and use the PC5740 in this user’s manual. Before using PC5740, you must properly install the PC5740 by closely following the installation instructions. 1.1.1 Instructions • Install the PC5740 software before inserting the PC5740 card into your laptop. The installation software is included in the product package. Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive. Installation may take a few minutes.
1.5 Product Features - Power management: PC5740 utilizes power management and system overhead reduction functions provided by the standard 32-bit CardBus electrical interface for maximum power savings. - Antenna design: Efficient, innovative design optimizes data transfer rate and sensitivity to network signals. - Type II PCMCIA format that supports CardBus I/O interface. - Supports North American PCS (1900 MHz) and Cellular (800 MHz) bands. - Utilizes QUALCOMM MSM6500 chip set.
1.6 Product Handling 1) Do not put any adhesive label on the PC5740 card. It may leave a sticky residue that can cause problems inside the laptop PC card slot. 2) PC5740 card should easily slide into the PC card slot. Do not force the PC5740 into the slot as it may cause damage to the card and/or the slot. 3) Keep PC5740 in a dry and clean place. (Storage temperature: - 30° to 65°C [86° to 149°F]). Keep your card away from liquids, dust and excessive heat. 1.
2. INSTALLATION AND SETUP FOR THE VZACCESS MANAGER This section will guide you through the installation and setup process for the VZAccess Manager. Before getting started, you should become familiar with the documentation that came with your mobile phone or PC Card. CD's 1. If VZAccess Manager was obtained in a Mobile Office kit, install the USB drivers for your phone from Disc 1 before installing VZAccess Manager that is on Disk 2. 2.
STEP 2: After the Welcome screen you will see the VZAccess Manager License Agreement. In order to install and use this product you must agree with the terms of this agreement. Select “I agree with this software license agreement”, then click the Next button to continue. If you do not agree with this agreement, click the Cancel button to exit. STEP 3: You are now ready to select the location on your computer where the VZAccess Manager should be installed.
STEP 5: During this step the components of the VZAccess Manager product are being installed onto your computer. Installation will occur to the destination folder specified in Step 3 above. STEP 6: Installation is now complete. Click the Finish button to leave the VZAccess Manager setup program and begin using your new software * The setup program will automatically create a VZAccess Manager shortcut on your desktop.
2.2 The VZAccess Manager Setup Wizard After you have successfully completed the installation process of VZAccess Manager, you are ready to start the VZAccess Manager program and begin your initial setup. The steps in the Setup Wizard are critical to the proper operation of VZAccess Manager when using your WWAN or Wi-Fi device to connect to the Internet wirelessly. STEP 1: Click the Start button, select the Programs menu and choose the VZAccess Manager menu item to start the VZAccess Manager program.
STEP 4: In this step VZAccess Manager will detect the Wi-Fi adapters on your computer. If your computer has a built-in Wi-Fi adapter, you do not need to do anything and can proceed to the next step. Otherwise, please insert your Wi-Fi PC Card now. You will need the drivers for the card if not already installed on the computer. Once complete, click Next to continue.
STEP 7: In this step the VZAccess Manager will find your wireless device. If you selected USB and have not already installed the data cable drivers supplied with the cable, you must install them now. To install the data cable drivers click the Cancel button below to exit the Setup Wizard and then refer to the documentation included with the cable. Please plug the data cable into your wireless phone and then plug the cable into your computer. If your wireless phone is not turned on, do so now.
STEP 8: The detection and configuration process for your wireless device is now complete. In this step you can elect to run the VZAccess Manager automatically every time you start up your computer. To do so, check the “Run VZAccess Manager at Startup” checkbox. Click Finish when complete. After clicking the Finish button VZAccess Manager will launch the Venturi client install program. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the Venturi client.
3. USING VZACCESS MANAGER Today’s online world offers more services everyday and Verizon Wireless gives you the tools you need to take advantage of the best in connectivity solutions. With VZAccess Manager, enjoy the freedom and convenience of wireless Internet connectivity from your notebook computer! 3.1 Features WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network, 1xEV-DO/1xRTT/CDMA) Specific Features: • Configures your PC to use your wireless phone and cable or wireless CDMA PC Card as a modem.
Other Features: • Can also be used to launch all of your dial-up networking connections, if desired. • Can launch your browser, e-mail client, VPN or a program of your choice upon connection. • Logs connections used, duration and bytes sent and received. • See the section “Additional Features” for more information about the features of VZAccess Manager. • TXT messaging. 3.
This will cause VZAccess Manager to look for your wireless device(s) and verify network availability. If you have any Wi-Fi networks you manually added because they do not broadcast their SSID, they will always be displayed, and you will have to refer to the signal strength displayed to know when you are in range. See the section “Wi-Fi Specific Settings” for additional details. * Note that with certain Wi-Fi adapters the signal strength for Wi-Fi networks is not accurate until you connect to the network.
3.3 Connecting Once your Wi-Fi or WWAN device is properly configured, connecting to the Internet is as simple as selecting the network connection type shown in the list and clicking the Connect button. Note that the Connect button immediately above the list will change to “Connect WWAN” or “Connect Wi-Fi” as appropriate based on the current selection in the networks list. 1. Select one of the following connections: “NationalAccess”, “NationalAccess BroadbandAccess”, or “Quick 2 Net (14.4kbps)”. 2.
The status is also reflected in the Task Tray icon. Connected Idle - Not Connected Connecting Disconnecting A window will also slide out of the tray showing when you connect and disconnect from networks. A window will also slide out of the tray showing when you connect and disconnect from networks. The pop up status can be turned off, if desired, by selecting “Options”, “Preferences”, “Options” tab, un-checking “Show popup status windows by tray”.
At any time during your connection you can check your current connection speed and throughput stats in the Statistics tab of the Session Information window. To see this window, select “Statistics” from the “Options” menu. The Session Information window will also contain a My Computer tab and a Wi-Fi tab if applicable. The My Computer tab contains detailed information about your computer. This information is helpful when troubleshooting a problem. Additional information when using the Quick 2 Net (14.
Dormancy: NationalAccess and BroadbandAccess data sessions become dormant if you are not sending or receiving any data. As soon as you resume sending or receiving data, the data session will return to an active state. Depending on your device and your NationalAccess or BroadbandAccess plan, your data session may disconnect during a dormant state. See your Verizon Calling Plan brochure for details or visit www.verizonwireless.com. If this happens, select disconnect, and then connect again.
Quick 2 Net (14.4 kbps) The first time you connect via the Quick 2 Net (14.4 kbps) connection, the following warning message will be displayed: ATTENTION Quick 2 Net(sm) may be charged differently than NationalAccess sessions. Please check your Calling Plan for details. This message will display each time you go to connect via the Quick 2 Net (14.4 kbps) connection, until you select “Do not show this warning again”.
3.5 Using Dial Up Connections This section is only applicable if you are using a WWAN Device that supports Dial-Up connections (a wireless phone and cable or a PC Card). You can make wireless copies of existing dial up accounts on your system. This will wirelessly enable them and allow you to connect to them wirelessly. To launch the copy utility, select “Options”, “Dial-up Accounts” then “Copy”. Click on the connection or connections you want to copy and click on the “OK” button.
To delete connections: If you are using Windows 95, 98, or ME you can access Dial-Up Networking from VZAccess Manager by selecting “Options”, “Dial-up Accounts”, “Edit”. To delete a connection, click on it to select it, and press the delete key. Windows 2000 and XP users can access Dial-Up Networking from VZAccess Manager by selecting “Options”, “Control Panels”, “Network and Dial-up Connections”, right click on the desired connection and select “Delete”. 3.
• To reply to an inbound message, select the message and press the “Reply” toolbar button. The phone number of the sender will be populated in the send area below. Enter your new message and press the “Send” button to send the message. • To forward an inbound message, select the message and press 'Forward' toolbar button. The message will be populated in the send area below prefixed with a “FW:”. Press the “Send” button to send the message.
4. VZACCESS MANAGER PREFERENCES This section will cover the preferences that are common to both WWAN and Wi-Fi usage. The next two sections will cover preferences unique to WWAN and Wi-Fi. 4.1 General Preferences This section will cover the preferences that are common to both WWAN and Wi-Fi. The next two sections will cover preferences unique to WWAN and Wi-Fi. Options Tab Click on “Tools”, then “Preferences. . .”. Only show preferred wireless networks at start up: This only applies to Wi-Fi networks.
Minimize Application into tray: With this option selected, when you minimize VZAccess Manager, instead of taking up space in your taskbar, it will just disappear. You can get it back by double clicking on the tray icon ( ), alternatively you can right click in the icon and select “Show Application”. You can minimize the main window of VZAccess Manager by selecting the minimize icon ( ) in the upper right corner of the main window.
You can allow the software to check automatically for updates, daily, weekly (default), or monthly. It only checks when the application is running and when it detects that you are connected and able to access to the Internet. If desired, you can select “Manually” and the software will only check for updates when you select “Update Now” (pictured above), or you when you select, from VZAccess Manager’s main screen, “Help”, “Check for Updates”. 4.
Set Options . . . : This is used to set various connect options. See below. Automatically Connect: If desired, you can select to have VZAccess Manager automatically connect to Verizon Wireless NationalAccess - BroadbandAccess or NationalAccess at application startup. Show non-wireless accounts in list: If you select this option all of your dial up accounts will show up in VZAccess Manager's list of accounts, allowing you to use VZAccess Manager to launch them instead of Dial-Up Networking.
Open my browser to my default home page: With this option selected, when you connect to a WWAN network (NationalAccess - BroadbandAccess, NationalAccess or Quick 2 Net), VZAccess Manager will automatically launch your default web browser and your home page will load.
VPN Client: VZAccess Manager automatically detects if certain VPN clients like Microsoft, Cisco, CheckPoint, etc are installed on the compuuter and allows you to select the one you wish to use. Check with your network administrator to setup your VPN connection. If the VPN client you wish to use does not appear in the list, you can select Other VPN Application Other VPN Application: This allows automatically running any VPN program when you use VZAccess Manager to connect to a WWAN network.
Venturi Tab The last WWAN specific option is the “Venturi” tab (“Tools”, “Preferences”, “Venturi” tab): The Venturi compression software works in the background between your computer and Venturi compression servers on the Verizon Wireless network to improve your performance when using the NationalAccess - BroadbandAccess, NationalAccess or Quick 2 Net (14.4 kbps) connection.
4.3 WI-FI Specific Settings The following options are available if you selected “detect Wi-Fi” device during setup. If you have added a Wi-Fi device after having installed VZAccess Manager, you can select “Options”, “Run Wizard” to run the setup wizard again.
Move Up: Changes the priority of the Wi-Fi networks you have added or connected to in the past. This option is only available when you have two or more Wi-Fi networks in the Preferred list. Move Down: Changes the priority of non Verizon Wireless Wi-Fi networks you have added or connected to in the past. This option is only available when you have two or more Wi-Fi networks in the Preferred list. Add: Used to manually add Wi-Fi network.
The following options exist on the Network tab: Network Name: On the Network tab, for private networks you can edit or enter the Network name and specify if it is a closed network. Note: The name has to match the network to work. If the network broadcasts it's SSID, instead of manually adding it, select the Wi-Fi network connection when it appears, and then select “Connect”. If it is password protected you will be prompted to enter your WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key.
VPN Tab The following options exist on the VPN tab (“Tools”, “Preferences”, “Wi-Fi” tab, select “Add” or a network in the “Preferred Network” list and “Edit”, then “VPN”): VPN Client: VZAccess Manager automatically detects if certain VPN clients like Microsoft, Cisco, CheckPoint, etc are installed on the compuuter and allows you to select the one you wish to use. Check with your network administrator to setup your VPN connection.
4.4 TXT Messaging Settings The following options are available for PC Cards only that support TXT Messaging. TXT Messaging Preferences Click on “Tools”, then “Preferences. . .”. Incoming message options • Open TXT window on arrival of new message: VZAccess Manager will automatically switch to the TXT view when a new message arrives. • Play sound on arrival of new messages: A sound file (.WAV) can be selected to play when new messages arrive.
5. INSTALLING PC5740 5.1 Precautions 1) Do not insert the PC5740 before installing the software in laptop computer. When you complete the software installation, the system will prompt you to insert the PC5740 into the Type II PC card slot. 2) Once the card has been inserted into the laptop, do not remove it from your laptop without first completing the unplugging/ejection process. (See page 36 for more information on this process.) 5.
5.3 Installing Software 5.3.1 Installation • If you install VZAccess Manager, it will install USB Driver for PC5740. You can just follow the instruction from VZAccess Manager installation. 5.3.2 Warnings • Make sure to complete the unplugging/ejection process before removing the PC5740. If you remove the card improperly, the product may be damaged. • Before inserting the PC5740 into your laptop’s PC Card slot, remove the Installation CD from the CD-ROM drive. 5.3.
5.3.4 Unplugging or Ejecting the Card • Make sure to complete the unplug/eject process before removing the PC5740. If you remove the card improperly, the product can become damaged. • Double click the Unplug/Eject Hardware icon in the system tray.
1) Unplug or Eject Hardware with Win2000 • As shown in the above figure, two “NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller” will be displayed in the Hardware devices list of Win2000. However, one of them is disabled and marked with “x”. Select the device with no “x” mark. If you select it and click the “Stop” button, the following window will appear. • Select one of two “NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller” and click the [OK] button. • The dialog box above will appear. Click the [OK] button.
• Then, the above window will appear. Now, you can unplug PC5740. 2) Unplug or Eject Hardware with Win XP • As shown above, only one “NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller” will be displayed in Windows XP. Select “NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller” and click the “Stop” button. • Then, two “NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller” will be displayed. Select one of them and click the [OK] button.
• Click the [Close] button. Now, you can unplug PC5740. 3) Unplug or Eject Hardware with Win ME • Click the “Unplug or Eject Hardware” icon on the Windows task bar to display the following window. • Select “NEC USB Open Host Controller (E13+)” and click the [Stop] button to display the following window.
• Select “NEC USB Open Host Controller (E13+)” and click the [OK] button. • Click the [OK] button on the above dialog box. • Click the [Close] button on the above window. Now, you can unplug the PC card. 4) Unplug or Eject Hardware with Win98 SE • Click the “PC Card (PCMCIA) Status” icon to display the following window.
• Select “NEC USB Open Host Controller – Socket 1” and click the [Stop] button. • Then, the above dialog box appears to notify you that you can safely remove the device. Click the [OK] button and unplug the PC card. • Now, you can remove the PC5740 from your laptop. When removing the PC5740, always grip the either sides of the card rather than the top and bottom of the card. Gripping the top and bottom of the cards and pulling the card and put pressure on the antenna and cause damage.
6. REGULATORY AND SAFETY INFORMATION 6.1 Regulatory Notices PC5740 complies with Parts 15, 22, and 24 of the FCC rules. It has been tested with the typical laptop computer with the side loading PCMCIA bay. This PC card must not be co-located or operated in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. If you use this PC card in any other configuration, the FCC RF Exposure compliance limit can be exceeded. 6.
3) If this PC card does cause harmful interference with radio or television signals (determine this by turning the PC card off and on), attempt to correct the interference by trying one or more of the following: • Reorient or relocate the antenna. • Increase the separation between the PC card and receiver. • Connect the PC card into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. • Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
2) Do not use this PC card in areas where blasting is in progress, where explosive atmospheres may be present, near medical equipment, life support equipment, or any equipment which may be susceptible to any form of radio interference. Turn of this PC card in these areas, since it can transmit signals that could interfere with this equipment. 3) Do not use this PC card in any aircraft whether the aircraft is on the ground or in flight. Make sure to turn off this PC card in aircraft.
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• Defects in appearance, cosmetic, decorative or structural items such as framing and non-operative parts; • Damage from external causes such as fire, flooding, dirt, sand, weather conditions, battery leakage, blown fuse, theft or improper usage of any electrical source. 4) The Company disclaims liability for removal or reinstallation of the product, for geographic coverage, for inadequate signal reception by the antenna or for communications range or operation of the cellular system as a whole.
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