AzureWave AW-GE870 User manual

AW-GE870 802.11 b/g PCI Express Card
User Manual

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USING THIS DOCUMENT
This document provides detailed user guidelines to provide AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express
WLAN Card operation and setting-up. Though every effort has been made to assure that this
document is current and accurate, more information may have become available subsequent to
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Contents
Safety statements..........................................................................................................2-1
About this guide............................................................................................................2-1
AW-GA800BT802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card specification summary............................2-2
Chapter 1 Product Information......................................................................................2-2
1.1 Product overview...............................................................................................2-2
1.2 Features ...........................................................................................................2-2
1.3 LED and antenna port.........................................................................................2-2
1.4 Supported network setup...................................................................................2-3
1.4.1 Ad-Hoc mode...........................................................................................2-3
1.4.2 Infrastructuremode .................................................................................2-4
1.4.3 Softwareaccess point (Soft AP)..................................................................2-4
Chapter 2 Installation ..................................................................................................2-1
2.1 System requirements.........................................................................................2-1
2.2 HardwareInstallation.........................................................................................2-1
Chapter 3 WiFi-AP Solo Wizard.....................................................................................2-1
3.1 Launch WiFi-AP Solo Wizard...............................................................................3-2
3.2 Wi-Setup Wizard Steps.......................................................................................3-3
3.3 Station Mode Configuration................................................................................3-3
3.3.1 Configure Infrastructure type network .......................................................3-4
3.3.2 Build Ad-Hoc networking mode network.....................................................3-5
3.4 Build Soft AP network ........................................................................................3-6
3.4.1 Normal User ............................................................................................3-6
3.4.2 Advanced User....................................................................................... 3-10
Chapter 4 AzurewaveWLAN: Wireless LAN Management GUI...........................................4-1
4.1 How to Launch AzurewaveWLAN.........................................................................4-3
4.2 Introduction of Main Window..............................................................................4-3
4.3 Station mode ....................................................................................................4-6
4.3.1 Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc.........................................................................4-7
4.4 AP mode.........................................................................................................4-11
4.5 Windows Zero Configuration............................................................................. 4-14
4.5.1 Swap from AzurewaveWLAN to Windows Zero Configuration...................... 4-14
4.5.2 Rollback from Windows Zero Configuration to AzurewaveWLAN ................. 4-15
Appendix A: Mapping of country and channel plan.......................................................4-1
Appendix B: Q&A ......................................................................................................4-2
Appendix C: Release History.......................................................................................4-3

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Safety statements
FCC Radiation Exposure Statement:
This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled
environment. This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other
antenna or transmitter.
About this guide
The user guide contains the information you need to install and configure your
AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card.
Guide organization
This guide contains the following chapters:
zChapter 1: Product Information
This chapter describes the general functionality, features and configuration modes of
AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card.
zChapter 2: Installation
It is recommended that users should read this chapter before installing both
AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card hardware and software. This chapter
presents the systematic installation of AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card and
antenna, utilities and driver on the support CD.
zChapter 3: W-Set Wizard
This chapter shows you the setup of wireless network in your office or home. Follow The
step-by-step direction,provided by WiFi-AP Solo Wizard, you can have your own wireless
local area network up and running very quickly.
zChapter 4: Management GUI
This chapter teaches you the proper operations of selected mode from W-Set Wizard. The
GUI display network status, connection profiles and network traffic to help you monitor and
manage the network configuration.

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AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card specification
summary
Host system connections
Interface Fully complies with PCI Express 1.0a interface.
Chapter 1 Product Information
1.1 Product overview
Thank you for choosing AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card.
The AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card is an easy-to-use wireless local area
network (WLAN) adapter which is designed for home or office use. Direct Sequence Spread
Spectrum (DSSS), Complementary Code Keying (CCK), and Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) base band processing are implemented to support all IEEE 802.11b, and
802.11g data rates. Differential phase shift keying modulation schemes, DBPSK and DQPSK
with data scrambling capability, are available, along with complementary code keying to provide
data rates of 1, 2, 5.5, and 11Mbps, with long or short preamble. A high-speed Fast Fourier
Transform (FFT)/Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) combined with BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM
and 64QAM modulation of the individual sub-carriers provides data rates of 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36,
48 and 54Mbps, with rate-compatible punctured convolution coding with a coding rate of 1/2,
2/3, and 3/4.
The AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card also supports Wake-On-LAN (WOL)
function and remote wake-up giving you the convenience to remote log in from other places to
this system.
To provide efficient security to your wireless communication, the hardware-based IEEE 802.11i
encryption/decryption engine, including 64-bit/128-bit WEP, TKIP, and AES, supports Wi-Fi
alliance WPA and WPA2 security. With these features and many more, AzureWave802.11 b/g
PCI Express WLAN Card is ready to connect you to the world of wireless communication.
1.2 Features
System requirements
The AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card is for desktop system or motherboard

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requiring manual installation. Make sure that your system meets the following requirements.
zmotherboard with PCI Express Card Slot
zMinimum 64MB system memory
zOperating system
Station mode : Windows® 2000/XP/Server 2003, Windows XP/Server 2003 x64
AP/wireless bridge mode : Windows® 2000/XP/Server 2003
zOptical drive for utilities and driver installation
Easy hardware installation
Please plug AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card in motherboards lot PCI-E x1. Just
connect the antenna, install the driver and utilities from the motherboard support CD and start
wireless communication immediately.
54Mbps speed wireless travel
The AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card provides up to five times more data
transmission than IEEE 802.11b standards, and breaks the wireless transmission barrier to peed
up the internet connection.
WiFi-AP Solo Wizard
Easy-use wireless LAN setup wizard helps you to connect with present wireless network. The
step-by-step wizard provides a convenient way to facilitate the complex wireless LAN setup
process.
Automatic wireless establishment
The utility application of AzureWaveAR2425 Wireless LAN PCI Express Card automatically
searches and reports the hot spots around it and the wireless signal quality and WEP capability
associated with each hot spot. Then you could connect to the most suitable wireless node
1.3 Supported network setup
You can use AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card in various wireless network
configurations. We recommend you to select the most appropriate configuration for your home
or office network before setting it up.
1.3.1 Ad-Hoc mode

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Ad-Hoc wireless networks bring together workstations and computers to act as servers to all
other users on the network without
complex infrastructure, setup or
administration. Users on the network can
share files, printers. When in ad hoc mode,
the AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express
WLAN Card connects to another wireless
device within its effective range and
communicates with each other in the same
LAN workgroup. Select this configuration
when no access point is present in your
wireless network.
1.3.2 Infrastructure mode
The biggest difference between
infrastructure mode and ad-hoc mode is
that it includes an access point. In
infrastructure mode, an access point
establishes the network that provides
wireless links in the validating range for
clients to communicate with each other
or with a wired network to the internet.
On an infrastructure network, the access
point may manage the bandwidth to
maximize utilization. Infrastructure
networking has the following advantages over ad-hoc networking:
zRange Extension
Each wireless LAN enabled computer within the range of the access point can communicate
with other wireless LAN enabled computers within the valid range of signal from the access
point.
zRoaming
A wireless LAN enabled computer can physically move from the operating range of one
access point to another without losing connection to the LAN. A quick association
“hand-shake” is made between the new access point and the wireless device as the
computer traverses from the coverage of one access point to another.
zWired to wireless LAN connectivity

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Access point establishes the bridge between wireless LAN and other wired counterparts.
You could configure AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card as a software access
point (softAP). In this mode, the AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card acts as the
access point that provides wireless links in the validating range to client stations to the internet.
Your system should satisfy the following two
requirements to apply this mode:
zThe system you use already connects to the
internet or intranet through another one
Ethernet adapter.
zYou are using Windows® 2000, XP or
Server2003 operation system
Notice: Windows XP/Server2003 x64 platforms
are not supported to have software access point
capability.

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Chapter 2 Installation
2.1 System requirements
Before installing the AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card, driver and utilities, make
sure your system satisfy the following requirements
zmotherboard with PCI Express X1 slot
zIntel® Pentium™ 4 or later version
zMinimum 64MB system memory
zWindows® Operation System
Ad-Hoc and infrastructure mode: Windows® 2000, XP and Server 2003
Software AP and Wireless Bridge: Windows® XP and Server 2003
zOptical drive for driver and utilities installation
2.2 Hardware Installation
To complete the hardware installation of AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card, you
only need to install the moveable dipolar antenna at the rear of
motherboard.
Installing the antenna:
zLocate the wireless LAN antenna port on the motherboard
rear panel.
zConnect the antenna twist-on connector (female) to the
wireless LAN antenna port (male)
zPlace the antenna at an elevated location to enhance your
wireless LAN valid coverage.

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Chapter 3 WiFi-AP Solo Wizard
3.1 Launch WiFi-AP Solo Wizard
In this section, you will obtain detail instruction in setting wireless configuration by following
WiFi-AP Solo Wizard. Please refer to Chapter 1.4 to understand the network types the
AzureWave802.11 b/g PCI Express WLAN Card supports.
In the first time installation, WiFi-AP Solo Wizard is executed immediately after installation to
help you set the proper wireless configuration.
In addition, you could launch it from either program menu
or Wireless LAN Management GUI.
In the following sections, we represent
the steps, the convenient and easy
wireless set up, in WiFi-AP Solo
Wizard.

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3.2 Wi-Setup Wizard Steps
Whatever which wireless configuration you would set up,
the first scene of WiFi-AP Solo Wizard is “Select
Operation Mode” dialog that shows as right picture. You
could select either station or AP mode from the first step.
For Ad-hoc and infrastructure type configuration, you
should select Station mode. The software access point
configuration could be archived by select AP mode.
zStation
Set the operation mode to be “Station”. Follow steps
in section 4.3.
Set the operation mode to be “Access Point”. Follow steps in section 4.4.
zNext
Go to next step of selected mode.
zCancel
Give up WiFi-AP Solo Wizard. The default wireless configuration will be automatically
applied as “Infrastructure” type of Station mode if user won’t set it up here.
3.3 Station Mode Configuration
Two types, infrastructure and ad-hoc types, of station mode are provided here.
zInfrastructure
Configure the wireless as infrastructure type network.
Follow steps in 4.3.1 Build Infrastructure type network.
zAd-Hoc
Configure the wireless as Ad-Hoc type network. Follow
steps in 4.3.2 BuildAd-Hoc networking mode network
zBack
Go back to previous step – Select Operation Mode.
zNext
Go to next steps of selected type.
zCancel

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Give up WiFi-AP Solo Wizard and keep the last configuration.
3.3.1 Configure Infrastructure type network
It is easy to build up infrastructure type network with WiFi-AP Solo Wizard. The next step after
select infrastructure type network is to select the desired connection.
Select the BSS connection list
Select valid wireless BSS, Infrastructure Basic Service
Set, connection nearby your system for connecting.
The listed BSS are touchable access point around you.
You have to pick one from the list and go to next.
zSSID list box
Four fields are shown in the list box to provide
access point status.
SSID: the name of access point
Security: the security status of access point. None
means security/password is not necessary. WEP means the access point acquire security/password
to log in.
Channel: the channel this access point applies.
Signal: The signal strength; higher mean better.
zRefresh
Rescan the IBSS list.
zBack
Go back to previous step ~ Select Station
Type.Next
Go to next step of infrastructure type
configuration. It is relative the security status of
selected access point.
None: Setup TCP/IP.
WEP: A WEP dialog is pope dup before Setup
TCP/IP as below picture. You have to input the password/network key to join this access point
before setup TCP/IP. The password/network key is defined by the administrator of access point.
The invalid network key will stop going to next step.

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zCancel
Give up WiFi-AP Solo Wizard and keep the last configuration.
Setup TCP/IP
You have to setup the TCP/IP by following the configuration of connect access point. The
following setting should match the configuration of access point you join. Please check the
setting of it.
zBack
Go back to previous step ~ Select the IBSS connection list
zFinish
All settings of infrastructure are finished.
3.3.2 Build Ad-Hoc networking mode network
It is easy to build up Ad-Hoc type network with WiFi-AP Solo Wizard. The next step after select
Ad-Hoc type network is to select the desired connection.
Select The IBSS Connection List
In this step, you could select the present Ad-Hoc station to join. In addition, you could create
another Ad-Hoc station by press “New IBSS” button.
zSSID list box
Display all present Ad-Hoc station around this system.

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zNew IBSS
Create a new Ad-Hoc station by the
shown-up dialog instead of joining with a
present Ad-Hoc node. In this dialog, you
could configure network name, applied
channel, authentication and encryption rule
on this Ad-Hoc node. After creating a new
Ad-Hoc node, the steps of buildAd-Hoc
network connection is finished.
zRefresh
Rescan the Ad-Hoc stations nearby this system.
zBack
Go back to previous step ~ Select Station Type.
zNext
The wizard will show up the contents of profile. You should set it up to match the security
configuration with selected Ad-Hoc station. Then the steps are finished.
zCancel
Give up WiFi-AP Solo Wizard and keep the last
configuration.
3.4 Build Soft AP network
Setup a Wireless Network
The setting of SoftAP could settle done by Wife-AP Solo
Wizard.

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Only basic settings are included in following steps. Less-experience users could apply this
kind setup to archive access point setup. Fundamental security setting is included.
zBack
Go back to previous step ~ Select Operation Mode
zNext
The next step is dependant on the option user select:
zCancel
Give up current WiFi-AP Solo Wizard setup and roll back to previous configuration.
3.4.1 Software AP setting
For Software AP mode, the basic security function only request two types network/password
key to provide WEP encryption.
Wireless Network Properties
zNetwork Name (SSID)
The service serve identify of this access
point. The length of the self-naming does
not exceed 32 characters.
zWEP Encryption
Enable: The joined wireless station should
have same network/password key with this
access point.
Disable: no network/password key is
required for joined wireless station.
zBack
Back to previous step ~ Setup a Wireless
Network
zNext
The next step is dependant on the decision of WEP to be either Enable or Disable.
WEP Enable: You should prepare network/password key for WEP. Go to Wireless Network Security.
WEP Disable: The access point is set as an opened hot-spot. Anyone could join this access point

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and connect to internet.
zCancel
Give up current WiFi-AP Solo Wizard setup and roll back to previous configuration.
Wireless Network Security
Two types pass key, ASCII and Passphrase,
perform security with different level.
zASCII
You should provide either 5 or 8 ASCII
characters on Network key edit box.
zPASSPHRASE
You could input words on Network Key edit
box.
64 bits: The generated pass key is 64-bits to be
company with data packets.
128 bits: The generated pass key is 128-bits to
be company with data packets.
zBack
Go back to previous step ~ Wireless Network Properties
zNext
Go to next step ~ Show Setting Information
zCancel
Give up current WiFi-AP Solo Wizard setup and roll back to previous configuration.
Show Setting Information
zBack
If you do not satisfy with current setting, you could go back to previous step ~ Wireless
Network Security

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zNext
Confirm the current setting and go to
next step ~ Finish.
zCancel
Give up current WiFi-AP Solo Wizard
setup and roll back to previous
configuration.
Select the Internet Connection List
This step only shows with multiple network
connection system. If there is only one
internet connection available, this step is
discarded. In this step, you have to select
one network connection from the list box.
This network connection should be
configured to connect internet.
zNetwork List Box
In the list box, you could see all network
connection this system provides. You
have to pick one from the list.
zBack
Go back to previous step ~ Show Setting Information.
zNext
Go to next step, Finish, while the internet connection is selected.
If the status of selected network connection is disconnected, a warning dialog will pop up
to inform you that.
zCancel
Give up current WiFi-AP Solo Wizard setup and roll back to previous configuration.

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Finish
zFinish
Press finish button to close WiFi-AP
Solo Wizard. The wireless configuration
is going to be applied within few
seconds.
3.4.2 Advanced User
The steps of advanced user provide more
detail configuration including channel and
authentication
Wireless Network Properties
In this step, you could assign the channel
number and authentication mode for the
access point.
If the setting of WEP to be “Disable” and
Authentication to be “Open system”, then
this access point is opened for free join.
zNetwork Name (SSID)
The service serve identify of this access point. The length of the self-naming does not
exceed 32 characters.
zChannel select
You could pick one channel from 1 to 11.

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zWEP Encryption
An encryption system prevents eavesdropping on wireless network traffic.
Enable: The joined wireless station should have same network/password key with this access
point.
Disable: no network/password key is required for joined wireless station.
zAuthentication
The next generation of Wi-Fi security, Wi-Fi Protected Access, or WPA, will use
authentication to verify whether users have access to a particular wireless network.
Open system: This access point is without authentication protection with user.
Share key: Any station would join this access point should pass with key same as the setting on
access point.
zBack
Go back to previous step ~ Setup a Wireless Network.
zNext
Go to next step. It depends on the setting of WEP and Authentication.
Authentication
Encryption Open system Shared key WPA-PSK
WEP WLAN Security
WEP(Disable) Show Network Setting n/a
zCancel
Give up current WiFi-AP Solo Wizard setup and roll back to previous configuration.
Wireless Network Security
Two types pass key, ASCII and Passphrase, perform security with different level.
zASCII
You should provide either 5 or 8 ASCII characters on Network key edit box.
zPASSPHRASE
You could input words on Network Key edit box.
64 bits: The generated pass key is 64-bits to be company with data packets.
128 bits: The generated pass key is 128-bits to be company with data packets.
zBack

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Go back to previous step ~ Wireless Network Properties
zNext
Go to next step ~ Show Setting Information
zCancel
Give up current WiFi-AP Solo Wizard setup and roll back to previous configuration.
Show Setting Information
zBack
If you do not satisfy with current setting, you could go back to previous step ~ Wireless
Network Security
zNext
Confirm the current setting and go to next step ~ Finish.
zCancel
Give up current WiFi-AP Solo Wizard setup and roll back to previous configuration.
Select the Internet Connection List
This step only shows with multiple
network connection system. If there
is only one internet connection
available, this step is discarded. In
this step, you have to select one
network connection from the list box.
This network connection should be
configured to connect internet.
zNetwork List Box
In the list box, you could see all
network connection this system
provides. You have to pick one
from the list.
zBack
Go back to previous step ~ Show Setting Information.
zNext
Go to next step, Finish, while the internet connection is selected.