Abocom CWB1000 Quick Installation Manual

Manual is about: IEEE802.11b 11Mbps CompactFlash Card

Summary of CWB1000

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    Ieee802.11b 11mbps compactflash card quick installation guide m73-apo01-560

  • Page 2: Regulatory Statements

    Regulatory statements fcc certification the united states federal communication commission (fcc) and the canadian department of communications have established certain rules governing the use of electronic equipment. Part15, class b this device complies with part 15 of fcc rules. Operation is subjec...

  • Page 3: Software Installation For

    Software installation for windows ce3.0 connect your pda to your pc. Make sure you have the microsoft activesync utility installed on your pc to make an active connection. Caution: do not insert the wireless compactflash card into the pda before installing the configuration utility. 1. Insert the de...

  • Page 4: Next To Continue.

    - 3 - 4. Click next to continue. 5. Click ok. 6. Click finish..

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    - 4 - 7. You can now insert the wireless compactflash card into the pda. Then use the settings on your windows ce to configure the network settings..

  • Page 6: Hardware Installation

    Hardware installation for pda insert the wireless cf card into the windows ce-based pda by aligning the wireless cf card toward the cf slot. For notebook pc note: this section is only for users who had cf to pcmcia adapter. Please refer to the manual for more details. 1. Plug the wireless cf card in...

  • Page 7: Network Connection

    Network connection for windows ce3.0 once the driver has been installed, you must make some changes to your network settings. 1. Go to start Æ settings Æ connections. Click on network adapters. 2. Highlight prism 11mbps wireless lan adapter, click properties. - 6 -.

  • Page 8: Assigned. Then Click Ok.

    - 7 - 3. ~ use server-assigned ip address if your network supports dhcp, select use server-assigned ip address. The ip address and other information will be automatically assigned. Then click ok. ~ use server-assigned ip address if your network does not support dhcp, select use specific ip address. ...

  • Page 9: Affect. Click Ok.

    - 8 - 4. A message as below may appear saying you must remove and re-insert the wireless compactflash card to have the changes take affect. Click ok..

  • Page 10: Configuration Utility

    Configuration utility for windows ce3.0 after installing the wireless compactflash card’s driver successfully, go to start Æ programs. Click on prism settings,the network status icon will appear in the task bar. Network status icon & icon menu the status icon icon link status green indicates a stron...

  • Page 11: Icon Menu

    - 10 - icon menu after clicking on the icon, the icon menu as displayed below will prompt you to configure the wireless compactflash card. Items description wireless radio on wireless radio off these two items allows you to enable or disable the wireless radio. Remove status icon… removes the utilit...

  • Page 12: Link

    - 11 - all settings are categorized into 5 tabs: link configuration encryption site survey about link the link tab provides you the status of the wireless compactflash card. Item description state it displays the connection state of the wireless compactflash card with the wireless network..

  • Page 13: Item Description

    Item description current channel it displays the selected channel that is currently used. (there are 14 channels available, depends on the country.) enable radio / disable radio click this button to enable/disable the wireless radio. The wireless compactflash card will connect/disconnect with the wi...

  • Page 14: Item Description

    - 13 - item description profile name saves values for all previous setting parameters. The default values contain the parameters configured at installation. Once the demands for switching between different networking environments are required, you can also set the additional profiles to eliminate th...

  • Page 15: Item Description

    Item description network type it displays the type of bss. Access point: allows the adapter to communicate with a wired network which employing an access point. Peer-to-peer: allows pc-to-pc, station-to-station communication without employing an access point. Peer-to-peer channel to communicate with...

  • Page 16: Item Description

    - 15 - item description encryption (wep) wep is a data privacy mechanism based on a 64-bit/128-bit shared key algorithm. Under the drop-down box, you can choose to have wep encryption disabled, 64 bit, or 128 bit. Create keys with passphrase a passphrase can be entered to generate four keys used for...

  • Page 17: Key 1:

    - 16 - key 1: key 2: key 3: key 4: this setting is the configuration key used in accessing the wireless network via wep encryption. Use wep key the default key field can be used for specifying which of the four encryption keys to transmit data on the wireless network. Apply click apply to activate t...

  • Page 18: Site Survey

    - 17 - site survey the site survey tab shows all the available access points or peer-to-peer types and their features. Item description network name the name must be identical for all devices and points attempting to connect to the same network. Bssid a set of wireless stations is referred to as a b...

  • Page 19: Item Description

    Item description wep encryption it displays the status of wep encryption. Signal level it displays the signal strength of the connection between the wireless compactflash card and the access point it connects. Rescan search for all available networks. Clicking on the button, the device will start to...