NETGEAR MA 301 manual

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iii CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 1 B ENEFIT S ........................................................................................................................................................ 1 F EATURE S .............[...]

1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION The MA301 802.11b Wireless PCI Adapter enables yo u to effo rtles sly netwo rk any desktop PC avo iding the hassles of tr aditional E thernet wir ing and helps yo u create a wir eless networ k for sharing yo ur broadband cable or DSL Internet access amo ng multiple PCs in and around yo ur home or offi ce. It is designed fo[...]

2 CHAPTER 2: WIRELESS NETWORK FUNDAMENTALS Wireless Network C onfiguration Ad-hoc Mode (Peer-to -Peer Wo rkgroup) The Institute o f Electr ical and Electr onics E ngineers (I EEE) st andard for wire less LANs (WLAN s), 802.11, off e rs two methods fo r configur ing a wireles s networ k — ad hoc and infr astructure. I n an ad hoc network, computer[...]

3 Service Set Identification (SS ID) The Service Set I dentificatio n (SS ID) is a thi rty-two al phanumeric character (maximum) str ing identifyi ng the wirel ess lo cal area netwo rk. So me vendo rs r efer to the SS ID as netw ork name. F or stations to commu nicate with each other, all station s must be configured with the same SS ID. A wir eles[...]

4 Wireless Channel S election IEEE 802.11 wireless nodes comm unicat e with ea ch other u sing rad io frequen cy si gnals i n the ISM (Industr i al, Scienti f ic, and Medi cal) band between 2. 4 Ghz and 2.5 Ghz. Nei ghboring channel s are 5M hz apart. However , due to spread s pectrum effect o f the signals , a node sending s ignals using a par tic[...]

5 CHAPTER 3: Hardware Installation Package Contents The product package s hould contain: y Model MA301 802.11b Wireles s PCI Adapter y MA401/MA301 Wireless Network Card Resource CD y Installation Guide y Support I nfor mation Card Call your resel ler or customer suppor t i n your ar ea i f there ar e any wro ng, miss i ng, or damaged pa[...]

6 CHAPTER 4: Driver Installation Windows 95/B Driver Software The MA301 LAN driver in the r elease driver CD-R OM only supports W indows 95/B and above. The LAN drivers for the origi nal versio ns of Window s 95 or Wi ndows 95A ar e not prov ided. Installing Driver Software To install t he NETGEAR MA301 Wireless PCI A dapter LAN driver for the f ir[...]

7 Windows 98 Driver Software Installing Driver Software To install t he NETGEAR MA301 Wireless PCI A dapter LAN driver for the f irs t time in Windo ws 98 : 1. Follow the procedur e described in the hardw are installation chapter to install the MA301 Wir eless PCI Adapter and the MA 401 PC Card into your des ktop system. Po w er up the sys tem. 2. [...]

8 Windows Me Driver Software Installing Driver Software To install t he NETGEAR MA301 Wireless PCI A dapter LAN driver f or the f irst ti me in Window s Me: 1. Follow the procedur e described in the hardw are installation chapter to install the MA301 Wir eless PCI Adapter i nto your des ktop sys tem. Power up the system. 2. Upon power up, Windo ws [...]

9 Windows NT 4.0 Driver Software Micros oft W indow s NT 4. 0 is no t a plug-and-play oper ating system and do es not auto matically detect and prompt you f or i nstallatio n of the PCI adapter driver. The driver installatio n has to be ini tiated manually. Installing Driver Software 1. Follow the procedur e described in the hardw are installation [...]

10 Windows 2000 Driver Software Installing Driver Software 1. Follow the procedur e described in the hardw are installation chapter to install the MA301 Wir eless PCI Adapter and the MA 401 PC Card into your des ktop system. Po w er up the sys tem. 2. Upon power up, Wind ows 2000 automa tically det ects the ex istence of the MA301 Wireless P CI Ada[...]

12 CHAPTER 5: Wireless L AN Configuration Adapter Properties Configuration Device Properti es Page When running W indow s 95/ B, 98 or Me Wireles s parameters f or the MA 301 Wireless PCI Adapter can be mo dified fr om the Networ k control window. 1. Fro m the W indow s deskto p, right-cl ick on the Netw ork Ne ighborho od ico n. When a pop-up menu[...]

13 Device Properti es Mo dification Table 5-1. Device Properties Parameter s General Specificatio ns Model MA401 Wireless PC C ard Authentication A lgori thm Open System: No s ecret key is s hared between the s ender and recipi ent. Each party generates its own key and as ks the receiver to accept the key. Shared Key: B oth sender and recipient sha[...]

14 MA401 Configuration Utility A wireless LAN configurat ion utility p rogram is provid ed to give you in formation on your wireless networ k such as si gnal quality and li nk conditio ns, and to l e t you modif y the vario us conf igurable wireless pa ramete rs. Note: If your MA401/MA301 driver resource CD version is 2.0 or above, th e configurati[...]

15 System Tray Applications Note: The Sys Tray (System Tr ay) resides on one end of the taskbar in the Mi cr oso ft Windo ws deskto p. It displays i nterface ico ns fo r memory -resident appli cations that execute i n the background conti nuously, such as the clo c k, speaker vol ume, and virus detecti on. The wireless LAN configur ation utility in[...]

16 Rescan Only used in in frastructure mode , click on this bu tton to allow the wireless node to star t scanning the wir eless channels for an acces s point again. Throughput (B ytes/sec) T x The current tr ansmit data trans fer r ate of the w irele s s node. Throughput (Bytes /sec) Rx The current receive data tr ansfer r ate of the wi reless no d[...]

17 Encryption Encryption Set the data encryption level for the wir eless node. The data encr yption level must be the same between all wi reless no des and access po ints in the same network. The po ssible values f or the data encryption level ar e Disable, 64 bits and 128 bits. 64-bit data encryption is als o called 40-bit data encryption by some [...]

18 APPENDIX A: HARDWARE SPECIFICATION General Specificatio ns Model MA301 802.11b Wireles s PCI Adapter Radio Data R ate 1, 2, 5.5, 1 1Mbps (A uto Rate Sens ing) Frequency 2.4Ghz to 2.5Ghz Dir ect Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) Range outdoor environment i ndoor envi ronment 1Mbps - 1650 ft ( 503 m) 1Mbp s - 500 ft (152 m) 2Mbps - 1320 ft ( 402 m) [...]