GN-WBZB-M IEEE 802.11b USB WLAN Card User’s Manual http://www.gigabyte.com.tw Rev. 1.
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Contents CHAPTER 1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW 1-1. 1-2. 1-3. 1-4. 1-5. 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE WIRELESS LAN CARD ..............................................................1 FEATURES .................................................................................................................1 PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS/PACKAGING .............................................................................1 LED INDICATING LIGHTS .........................................................................................
Chapter 1. Product Overview 1-1. Introduction to The Wireless LAN Card This wireless LAN (Local Area Network) card is composed of the IEEE 802.11b MAC, Baseband, and radio components, USB 1.1 interface, and one external antenna. This product adopts the direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technology and the DBPSK, DQPSK, and CCK modulation mode to provide a very stable wireless communication quality and an excellent signal receiver capability.
1-4. LED Indicating Lights This wireless LAN card conforms to the USB standard. There are two LED-indicating lights. One indicates Power status. One indicates Link status. Power: This LED is continuously on while the card is powered on. Link: Blinking Slow Continuously On Blinking Quickly The card is scanning the network. The card is successfully connected to a network. The data is being transmitted/received 1-5. System Requirements 1-5-1. Supported Platform: IBM PC/AT compatible computer 1-5-2.
Chapter 2. Installing the Wireless LAN Card 2-1. Installing The Driver & Utility for PC Step 1: Click “Cancel”. Step 2: Insert our setup CD into your CDROM drive, the following window will pop up Step 3: Click “Next”.
Step 4: Click “Next”. Step 5: Click “Yes”, and then your installation is ok. Reboot you computer Step 6: Click “YES”.
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Chapter 3. Using The Utility on PC The Configuration & Monitor Utility is a powerful application that helps you to configure the card and monitor the statistics of the communication link. Unlike the standard method of configuring the card via the operating system utilities (e.g. Control Panel), this application permits the dynamic modification of the configuration parameters while the card is operating. It also offers some more configuration options.
Other items in the table are the detailed information about the link state, which are available only when the wireless LAN card is connected to an access point or other wireless LAN card. SSID: Network name. Channel: The current channel used by the wireless LAN card. TxRate: The current transmission rate used by the wireless LAN card. AP Signal: It shows the signal quality and signal intensity of the currently connected base station.
3-3. Configuration The Configuration Tab contains several fields where operating parameters of the driver can be viewed or changed. Changes to any of the parameters in this panel can be applied to the driver without resetting the wireless LAN card(see Figure 3-4). Figure 3-4. Configuration Cancel Press this button to restore the default value in each field of the panel. The “Apply Changes” button should be pressed before the default values are saved to the driver and registry.
Peer-to-Peer mode. TX Rate: The transmission rate for transmitting data packets at the user end. You may set the transmission rate to 1Mb, 2 Mb, 5.5 Mb, 11 Mb, or Fully Automatic. 3-4. Encryption To prevent unauthorized user to access the data on wireless stations, the Wireless LAN Card offers a highly secure data encryption, known as WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). If you require high security in transmission, go to the Encryption tab and set it up as follows(see Figure 3-5). Figure 3-5.
WEPencryption). 26 hexadecimal values in the range of “0-F” (e.g. 11AA22BB33123456789ABCDEFF). you have the option to select whether Open System, Shared Key, or Auto authentication will be used. In order to take effect the changes you wish to make, click the “Apply” button at the bottom of the screen. 3-5. Advanced By Choosing the Advanced option in any of the two modes, you can change advanced configuration settings, such as the Fragmentation Threshold, and RTS/CTS Threshold (Figure 3-6).
Figure 3-7. Version information and MAC address The “About” tab shows the detail of information on the version of the product such as the version of Driver, Configuration Utility, and the version of wireless LAN card’s firmware. Users must use this version number when reporting their problems to the technical support.
Chapter 4. Specification System Standards IEEE 802.11b compliant Host Interface USB 1.1 Modulation 1Mbps: DBPSK; 2Mbps: DQPSK; 5.5 and 11 Mbps: CCK Data Rate 1, 2, 5.5, 11 Mbps Operating Voltage 5V Power Tx 320mA; Rx 230 mA; Sleep 50 mA Operating Range Open space: 100 - 300m; Indoor: 30 - 100m RF Frequency Band 2.400 ~ 2.
