ASSMANN Electronic DN-7043-4 manual

WIRELESS USB 2.0 ADAPTER Manual (DN-7043-4 & DN-7053-2)[...]

1. Introduction ................. .................... ................ ............. ........... 1 2. Wireless LAN Basics ... .................. ...................... ............ .......... 3 3. IP ADDRESS ............... ................ .................... ................ ........ 4 4. Install Driver/Utility ................... .............[...]

1 Thank you for your purchase of th e Wireless LAN Adapter. Featuring wireless technology, this wireless networking solution has been designed for both large and s mall businesses, and it is scalable so that you can easily add more users and new networ k f eatures depending on your business scale. FEATURES Support Microsoft 7(32bit/64bit), Vista(32[...]

2 BEFORE YOU START 1. Confirm Box Contents: •  Wireless LAN 11n USB Client Adapter • Quick S tart Guide •  Driver CD CONNECTING YOU R WIRELESS LAN 11n USB ADAPTER TO PC Quick Start Guide Connect your Wireless LAN 11n USB Cli ent Adapter to your PC. Install driver. GETTING TO KNOW WIRELESS LAN ADAPTER LED LED turns on when Wireless[...]

3 Wireless LAN network defi ned by IEEE standard committee could be configured as : Ad Hoc w ireless LAN. Infrastructure wireless LAN. Ad Hoc network is a group of PCs install ed with wireless LAN cards, this group of PCs is called a BSS (Basic Service Set). PCs in this group can use their wireless LAN cards to communi cate with each other, but can[...]

4 To use the Wireless LAN 11n USB Client Adapter with a computing device, the Wireless LAN Adapter must be equipped wit h a proper Interface. All drivers and supporting software for the Wireless LA N Adapter must be installed and configured first. Ask your system administrator fo r the following information, which you may need to provide during dri[...]

5 The installation & driver CD will automatically acti vate the autorun installation program after you insert t he disk into your CD drive. Step 1 : Insert the installation CD into your CD-ROM. Choose the Setup Language and click Next button. Step 2 : Installation descriptions shown. Click Next to continue. Click Install to begin the installati[...]

6 Installing & configuring WLAN utility Installing Drivers. Step 3 : Click Finish to complete installation[...]

7 Wireless LAN 11n USB Client Adapter us es its own management software. All functions controlled by user s are provided by this applic ation. When you insert the Wireless LAN Adapter in to your laptop or desktop, an icon should appear in the Windows System Tr ay automatically. 5.1 Utility Icon ▓ Client mode utility r unning but no Wireless LAN A[...]

8 5.2.1 GENERAL SETTING Once device is set, double click on that icon and the configuration window will pop up as shown. It shows the current connected network. The signal strength and link quality are displaye d also. The bar graph displays the quality and strengt h of the link between the node and its Access Point. Link Quality is a measurement o[...]

9 5.2.3 AVAILABLE NETWOEK SETTING Click Available Network tab and it will show all available networks that radio can reaches. Select proper SSID & BSSID you want to connect. Click Refresh button to force and rescan available networks currently. Select one of SSIDs, and click Add to Profile to create profile that can be configured more wireless [...]

10 5.2.5 Statistics Statistics page tab will show real-time TX/RX relative counters to check or evaluate the wireless performance. Click Reset button to set counter to zero. 5.2.6 Wi-Fi Protected Setup A n e a s y a n d s e c u r e s e t u p s o l u t i o n f o r W i - F i n e t w o r k . y o u c a n c h o o s e P I N C o d e o r P u s h B u t t o [...]

11 Step 2 : Select a specific AP Step 3 : Enter the PIN code into your AP . Step 3 : Select AP that you want to configure. Step 4 : W ait for configuring your wireless AP to be the security setting.[...]

12 ▓ PBC method: Step 1 : Push the PBC button. Step 2 : P u s h t h e p h y s i c a l b u t t o n o n your AP or visual button on the WPS config page.[...]

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14 Sy mptom : The LED is off. Remedy : Make sure the PC Card is inserted properly. Otherwise contact your vendor. Sy mptom : The LED is always on not blinking. Remedy : Make sure that you have installed t he driver from at tached CD. Otherwise contact your vendor. Sy mptom : The LED is blinking but the PC Card ic on does not appear in your icon tra[...]

15 IEEE 802.11 Standard The IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN standards subcommittee, which is formulating a standard for the industry. Access Point An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and wireless networks together. Ad Hoc An Ad Hoc wireless LAN is a grou p of computers, each with a WLAN adapter, connected as an independent wirel ess L[...]

16 systems, such as a LAN and a mainframe. In Internet terminology, a gateway is another name for a rout er. Generally a gateway is used as a funnel for all traffic to the Internet. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Infrastructure An integrated wireless and wired LA N is called an Infrastructure configuration. Infrastructure is[...]

17 uses the same IP address every time it reboots and logs on to the network, unless it is manually changed. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) The Temporal Key Integrity Protocol , pronounced tee-kip, is part of the IEEE 802.11i encryption standard for wir eless LANs. TKIP is the next generation of WEP, the Wi red Equivalency Protocol, which i[...]

18 cracked in a couple of hours with off-the-shelf tools. Wireless LAN A wireless LAN does not use cable to transmit signals, but rather uses radio or infrared to transmit packe ts through the air. Radio Frequency (RF) and infrared are the commonly us ed types of wireless transmission. Most wireless LANs use spread spec trum technology. It offers l[...]

19 mechanism, the transmitting station sends out an RTS packet to the receiving station, and waits for the receiving station to send back a CTS (Clear to Send) packet before sending the actual packet data. This setting is useful for networks with many clients. With many clients, and a high network load, there will be many more collisions. By lowe r[...]

20 802.1x Authentication 802.1x is a framework for authenticated MAC-level access control, defines Extensible Authenticat ion Protocol (EAP) over LANs (WAPOL). The standard encapsulates and leverages much of EAP, which was defined for dial-up authentication with Point-to-Poi nt Protocol in RFC 2284. Beyond encapsulating EAP pack ets, the 80 2.1x st[...]