GN-WLBZ101 IEEE 802.11b USB STICK Wireless LAN Card User’s Manual http://www.gigabyte.com.tw Rev. 1.
Contents CHAPTER 1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW 1-1. 1-2. 1-3. 1-4. 1-5. 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE W IRELESS 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 Local Area Network (LAN) card is composed of the IEEE 802.
1-4. LED Indicating Lights This wireless LAN card conforms to the USB standard. There are six LED-indicating lights One indicates Power status. One indicates Link status and the others indicate the intensity of received signals. 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.
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Chapter 2. Installing the Wireless LAN Card 2-1. Installing The Driver & Utility for PC Step 1: Please make sure that you don’t plug your card yet. Step 2: Execute the setup.exe on our CD, and then the following window will pop up. Click “Install Wireless LAN Driver”. Step 3: Click “Yes”. Step 4: Please plug-in your “Gigabyte WLAN card device” ! and will install the device driver Click “Yes”, and then your installation is ok.
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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.
SSID: Network name. Channel: The current channel used by the wireless LAN card. Tx Rate: 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. Available Network: This item will show you all of the 802.11 Access Points or Wireless LAN Cards in your wireless environment. The icon in the front of every item represents an Access Point or a Wireless LAN Card.
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 Profile: You can save various wireless settings for different environments. Change: Press this button to set the configuration in each field of the panel.
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. Encryption Change: Press this button to set the configuration in each field of the panel. The “Apply” button should be pressed before the default values are saved to the driver and registry.
order to select an exact number. Figure 3-6. Advanced settings 3-6. About By choosing this option, you can view basic information about the utility like the Driver, Firmware and Application Version and this adapter’s MAC address(see Figure 3-7). Figure 3-7. Version information and MAC address 3-7. Access Point Supported under Windows 2000/XP The Info tab shows you the current Link States of the Assess Points and the Wireless LAN Card (see Figure 3-8).
Figure 3-8. Current link states of the Access Point Mode Access Point: The AP mode You can change WLAN mode(see 3-1 Info) by clicking on this button. More Setting: You can set the configuration Access Point(see Figure 3-9) by clicking on this button. WEP(ON/OFF): You can using WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) by clicking on this button. Figure 3-9. configuration of the Access Point Mode Change: Press this button to setting the default value in each field of the panel.
Hide SSID: Access Point disable their SSID broadcasting to prevent a wireless device from finding and accessing their networks. Tx Power: Transmitter Output power. MAC Address Filter: You can set the configuration MAC Address Filter(see Figure 3-10) by clicking on this button. Figure 3-10. MAC Address Filter Filter Type: There are three status of a Access Point: 1. Disable: The Filter MAC Address function disable. 2. Accept: The Filter MAC Address (wireless LAN card) can connect to a Access Point. 3.
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 300mA; Rx 260 mA; Sleep 50 mA Operating Range Open space: 100 - 300m; Indoor: 30 - 100m RF Frequency Band 2.400 ~ 2.
