User's Manual Part 1

1 Introduction

1.1 Scope

This user's guide provides the necessary information for first-time users to successfully install the

802.11a Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver, for the purpose of evaluating and/or

operating the 802.11a Station in a Microsoft Windows environment. This guide also provides

information for users who wish to upgrade the 802.11a NDIS driver from previous releases.

1.2 Objectives

This guide describes the steps required to install NDIS drivers for the 802.11a Wireless LAN

Network Adapter in Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98 Second Edition,

Windows XP, and Windows NT 4.0. This guide also includes detailed instructions for configuring

the PC Card device, or IEEE 802.11a station (STA) to interact with an access point (AP) in

infrastructure mode and with other STAs in ad hoc mode. Instructions for installing or upgrading

the diagnostic utility LinkMon are also included. You should also read this before proceeding to

install the 802.11a Wireless LAN Network Adapter and NDIS driver in the targeted operating

system (OS) environment.

1.3 Intended Audience

This document is intended for 802.11a customers who wish to install and evaluate the 802.11a

PC Card in the supported Microsoft Windows environments.

1.4 Features

The 802.11a Wireless LAN Network Adapter is an IEEE 802.11a two-chip solution reference

design based on the 802.11a AR5110 and AR5210 chipset. This reference design implements a

half-duplex, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) baseband processor supporting

all IEEE 802.11a data rates (6 to 54 Mbps). It also supports the 802.11a Turbo Mode

supporting

data rates up to 72 Mbps. The host interface is compliant with the PC Card 7. 1 standard.