BenQ AWL-100 User manual

Benq Wireless LAN PCMCIA Adapter
AWL100
User Manual
Version 1.0

MPE Statement (Safety Information)
Your device contains a low power transmitter. When device is transmitted it sends out Radio
Frequency (RF) signal.
Safety Information
In order to maintain compliance with the FCC RF exposure guidelines, this equipment should
be installed and operated with minimum distance 2.5cm between the radiator and your body.
Use only with supplied antenna. Unauthorized antenna, modification, or attachments could
damage the transmitter and may violate FCC regulations.
Caution Statement of the FCC Radio Frequency Exposure
This Wireless LAN radio device has been evaluated under FCC Bulletin OET 65C and found
compliant to the requirements as set forth in CFR 47 Sections 2.1091, 2.1093, and
15.247(b)(4) addressing RF Exposure from radio frequency devices. The radiation output
power of this Wireless LAN device is far below the FCC radio frequency exposure limits.
Nevertheless, this device shall be used in such a manner that the potential for human contact
during normal operation—as a mobile or portable device but use in a body-worn way is strictly
prohibit. When using this device, a certain separation distance between antenna and nearby
persons has to be kept to ensure RF exposure compliance. In order to comply with the RF
exposure limits established in the ANSI C95.1 standards, the distance between the antennas
and the user should not be less than 2.5cm.
In order to avoid from mutual interference, this device must not be co-located or
operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Requirements, Part 15
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for
a class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits
are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in
a residential installation.
This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy
and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause
harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no
guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this
equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception,
which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is
encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following
measures:
---Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
---Increase the separation between the equipment and
receiver.
---Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit
different from that to which the receiver is connected.
---Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV
technician for help.
The identification of the product:
Product Name : BenQ WLAN PCMCIA Adapter
Model : AWL100
BenQ Wireless LAN Technical Support:
BenQ Corporation
Address : 8, Jihu Rd., Nei-hu Dist., Taipei 114, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Telephone : [phone]
Fax : [phone]
Technical Support in the US:
BenQ Incorporated
Address : 20480 East Business Parkway, City of Industry,
CA 91789, USA
Telephone : [phone]
Fax : [phone]
WWW : www.benq.com

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Contents
Contents ..........................................................................................................................i
1. Installation..................................................................................................................1
1.1 Driver Installation....................................................................................1
2. AWL100 Wireless Settings ........................................................................................3
2.1 Status ........................................................................................................5
3.2 Configuration...........................................................................................7
3.3 Encryption................................................................................................8
3.4 Site Survey...............................................................................................9
3.5 About......................................................................................................10

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1. Installation
1.1 Driver Installation
Insert AWL100 PCMCIA Adapter into your PC, and then Windows will show the
dialog –‘Add New Hardware Wizard’.
Select ‘Search the location of the driver’ and press Next button.

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Select ‘Specify a location’ and browse the Benq Wireless LAN CD to find AWL100.
For example, if your CD-ROM is drive D and you want to install the English version
of driver, the location is D:\AWL100\English.
Windows has found AWL100 PCMCIA Adapter. Press Next button.
Please wait while coping files.

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Press Finish.
Press Yes and restart your computer.
2. AWL100 Wireless Settings
You can launch AWL100 Wireless Settings utility by clicking the icon or from
Control Panel.

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2.1 Status
State
The current state of the driver is displayed in this field. If the state reveals
“Associated,“ it means that the normal flow of operation is in Infrastructure mode.
This shows that the PC is already connected to access point and BSSID is also shown
in the form of hex digits. At the same time, the networking is available for the device.
In “Scanning ” state, it means that the node can not detect the SSID to get an access
point within range and is searching for an available access point. Also, if the driver
failed to initialize for some unknown reasons, this field will display an error message.
Rescan
The driver will restart and begin its Connection Procedure if the rescan button is
pressed. In general, the connection procedure will be different according to the Mode
of the driver.
Enable / Disable Radio
This button is used to enable or disable the radio of AWL100

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Current Tx Rate
This field shows the current radio channel which is being used for an active
connection.
Current Channel
This field shows the current radio channel which is being used for an active
connection.
Throughput
The instantaneous wireless Receive and Transmit throughput are displayed in bytes
per second in this field. Every two seconds, these values are updated.
Link Quality
This field reveals the quality of the current connection. Only when the node is in
Infrastructure Mode does the Link Quality bar graph become active. The bar graph
displays the link quality between the node and its Access Point. Over the bar graph, a
label summarizes the quality of the link which can take on one of the following
values:
“Not Applicable”
“Poor”
“Fair”
“Good”
“Excellent”
When the Link Quality becomes “Poor,” the driver will start to look for a better
Access Point. As a result, the Link Quality is a very good measure of receiving and
transmitting errors over the radio.
Signal Strength
Only when the node is in Infrastructure Mode does the Signal Strength bar graph
become active. This bar graph shows normalized signal strength as reported by the
radio, averaged over all frames over 100 bytes long which are received from the
Access Point.
Status information about the radio link is displayed in this tab. Detailed description
should be placed in this field.

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3.2 Configuration
Several fields illustrated as following are offered by the Configuration Tab. Operating
parameters of the driver can be viewed or changed here. Under the circumstances,.
changes to any of the parameters in this panel can be applied to the driver without the
need to reboot the PC.
Default:It restores each field in the panel to its default value by pressing this
button. However, before the default values are saved or loaded to the
driver and registry, the Apply Changes button or OK button must be
pressed.
Apply: Only when one of the fields has been modified does this button
become active. Press this button to apply the changed values to the
driver and saves them to the registry for the next time when the PC
boots up.
Profile Name
These settings will be stored by the given name
Network Name
This field shows the network name or called SSID which your AWL100 will be
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with.
Network Type
You can select from a list of supported network types in this field. These network
types displayed will have two values as following: “Access Point,” and
“Peer-to-Peer”.
Access Point (Infrastructure)
This is an operation mode which requires the existence of an 802.11 Access Point.
Owing to the existence of the Access Point, all communication is done via the Access
Point which relays packets to other wireless Clients in the BSS as well as to nodes on
a wired network such as Ethernet.
Peer-to-Peer (Ad Hoc)
This is a non-compliant mode which will allow AWL100 cards to talk with one
another without an AP regardless any SSID.
3.3 Encryption
According to WEP function select, this page allows the entry of four keys for 64-bit
encryption and one set of 128-bit key. Each key must consist of hex digits to be
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A-F are valid entries. Therefore, if entered incorrectly, the program will not write
keys to a driver. Alternatively a Pass-phrase can be entered which is used as a “seed”
to randomly generate the four keys. Since the same keys must be entered into each
node on the wireless network, this saves considerable time while setting.
-Key 1 –Key 4
When you want to enter the keys manually, you may use these four fields. If
you wish this node to match keys in a different vendor’s product, this may be
necessary. These fields also display the keys when they are generated using a
Pass-phrase.
-Apply
You may also update the driver with the four keys displayed in Key field by
pressing this button. The keys are also written to the registry for permanent
storage. This button clears all the bytes in the four keys. It’s very useful when
you wish to start over or enter manually.
3.4 Site Survey
Rescan
This button will scan all available Access Points in your neighborhood and then list
their SSID, channel, BSSID and signal respectively.

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Join
Select the SSID you want to be associated with, and then press this Join button to join
this network.
3.5 About
You may learn the product version including the detail of Network Driver,
Configuration Utility, and NIC firmware version from this “About” tab. When users
want to report their problems to technical support, they must use this version number.