Specifications
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Wireless card features
- Setting up your wireless card
- Troubleshooting
- Placement of your wireless networking hardware for optimal performance
- You cannot connect to the Internet wirelessly
- The installation CD does not start WNU
- The Power LED does not come on. The card is not working
- The Link LED is blinking slowly and you cannot connect to a wireless network or the Internet
- The Link LED is solid, but you cannot connect to the Internet
- The data transfer is sometimes slow or signal strength is poor
- Why are there two wireless utilities in your system tray? Which one should you use?
- The card does not work or the connection is unstable when the computer has a second built-in wireless network card (such as a mini PCI or Intel® Centrino™)
- Card does not work or the connection is slow when computer has a built-in wired Ethernet card
- Specifications
- Legal notices
- One-Year Limited Warranty

Setting up your wireless card
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To access the security settings on your card:
1 Open the WNU.
2 Click the My Connections tab, then click the connection you want to change.
3 Click Edit, then click Advanced to change settings.
Setting up WEP
To set up 64-Bit WEP encryption:
1 Select OPEN from the Network Authentication menu on the Wireless Network
Properties tab on the Edit information for a network page.
2 Select WEP from the Data Encryption menu.
3 After selecting your WEP encryption mode, you can enter your key by typing in the hex
key manually, or you can type in a passphrase in the Passphrase field, then click
Generate to create a key.
A hex (hexadecimal) key is a combination of numbers and letters from A–F and 0–9.
For 64-bit WEP, you need to enter 10 hex characters.