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SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g CARDBUS ADAPTER

Quick Start Guide

About this guide

This Quick Start Guide describes how to install and operate your SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g CARDBUS

ADAPTER.

Please read this manual before you install the product.

Introduction

The SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g CARDBUS ADAPTER is a wireless network adapter transmitting on rates

of 1 to 54 Mbps, in the 2.4 GHz band and implementing the IEEE 802.11g and IEEE 802.11b

standard.

It fully supports wireless networking under Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP.

The SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g CARDBUS ADAPTER can be operated in one of the two following

networking configurations :

1. Infrastructure Networking

In this mode, the radio links are coordinated by

an Access Point providing connection with an

existing wired network and other network

facilities such as Internet, email, shared

devices…

2. Ad-hoc Networking

Also known as peer to peer networking, this

mode allows easy connection between wireless

workstations,

to act as servers to all others. This

mode can be used to share a printer or for file

transfer.

Infrastructure

Ad-hoc

Wired Network

Wireless Network

Access

Point

Package Content

Summary of content (11 pages)

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SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g CARDBUS ADAPTER Quick Start Guide About this guide This Quick Start Guide describes how to install and operate your SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g CARDBUS ADAPTER. Please read this manual before you install the product. Introduction The SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g CARDBUS ADAPTER is a wireless network adapter transmitting on rates of 1 to 54 Mbps, in the 2.4 GHz band and implementing the IEEE 802.11g and IEEE 802.11b standard. It fully supports wireless networking under Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP.
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These are the items included in the package: ♦ One SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g CARDBUS ADAPTER ♦ One Quick Start Guide ♦ One installation CD-ROM Minimum System Requirements ♦ Personal Computer with an available CARDBUS slot. ♦ Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (98SE), Windows Millennium (ME), Windows 2000 or Windows XP installed on the PC.
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2. An Auto-run is automatically executed and the following screen comes up. If not, run the “Autorun.exe” on the CD-ROM In the displayed list, select your adapter model as labeled on it. Once done, the following choices are offered : ♦ Install the Wireless Networking software and drivers ♦ Read the present manual To launch the installation, click “Wi-Fi adapter install” A first screen appears.
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Configuration of your to access to Internet After the two previous steps completion, your Wireless LAN (Local Access Network) is now installed. You now have to configure your connection to be able to access via an access as seen below.
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Once you have installed the Configuration Utility, an icon appears on the right of your Task Bar: Double-click this icon and the main screen of the Utility shows up as seen opposite. Configuration of your Wireless LAN in Infrastructure Mode To access Internet your Wireless LAN must be set in Infrastructure Mode as seen below.
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The SSID can be set up to 32 characters. It is case sensitive (please take great attention to that). Configuration of the Encryption parameters To prevent unauthorized wireless station from accessing data transmitted over your network, the Wireless LAN offers secures data encryption, like “open” and “shared Key” authentication with WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption or WPA-PSK (Wi-Fi Protected Access – Pre Shared Key) authentication with TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) encryption.
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Creation of the WEP keys It is possible to manually enter the WEP key you want to use. However, this entry being rather tedious, especially for 128 bit keys, it is possible to have them generated automatically. To do that, you will have to enter a string of characters called "Passphrase". Create Encryption Keys by Using a “Passphrase” 1- Select first the “WEP (64 bits)” or ”WEP (128 bits)” length of the key. 2- Check “PassPhrase”.
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♦ Alphanumeric: 5 characters (case sensitive) ranging from “a-z”, “A-Z” and “0-9” (e.g. MyKey) ♦ Hexadecimal: 10 hexadecimal digits in the range of “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9” (e.g. 11AA22BB33) For 128bit encryption you may choose: ♦ Alphanumeric: 13 characters (case sensitive) ranging from “a-z”, “A-Z” and “0-9” (e.g. MyKey12345678) ♦ Hexadecimal: 26 hexadecimal digits in the range of “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9” (e.g. 00112233445566778899AABBCC). 2.
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Client 2 Client 1 Client 3 I. Configuration in Ad Hoc mode under Windows : Configuration of Network Type To set your Wireless LAN in the Ad Hoc mode, click the down arrow at the right of the Module Type field and select “Ad Hoc” in the main screen of the WLAN utility. Configuration of the SSID The SSID is a string of characters identifying your wireless network (it is the name of this network).To be part of a same network, wireless clients must have the same SSID. This SSID is the name of this network.
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About Status Information on your Wireless LAN CARDBUS Card Led Indicators The CARDBUS card has two LED indicators giving the following information on the link status : ♦ One should be solid green when the card is power on and the cardbus wireless adpater driver is activated. ♦ The other one is blinking green when the cardbus wireless adpater is transmitting data. I.
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Throughput : Shows the short term transmit and receive throughput in packets/second, and is continuously updated. Segnale: Noise: Sulla base della resistenza ricevuta del segnale radiofonico (in %). Based on the received radio signal noise (in dBm). Uninstall the Wireless LAN 1. To remove the Wireless LAN Utility from your computer, go to the Start menu and select “Uninstall Sagem WL5021-F Cardbus 802.11g ”. 2.