User manual IOGEAR GWP514

[. . . ] IOGEAR makes no warranty of any kind with regards to the information presented in this document. All information furnished here is for informational purposes only and is subject to change without notice. assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies or errors that may appear in this document. Package Content Overview Features Requirements Introduction Installation Uninstallation Configuration Utility WinXP Zero Configuration Utility WPA Configuration Utility Specification Technical Support Radio and TV Interference Statement Limited Warranty Regulatory Compliance FCC Warning Table of Contents 78 77 76 75 74 67 56 34 31 10 6 5 4 3 2 Package Contents GWP514 package contains: (1) 802. 11g PC Card (1) Installation and Manual CD (1) Quick Start Guide (1) Warranty/Registration Card PKG-M0109B 2 Overview IOGEAR®'s Wireless-G Notebook Network Card is a sleek and versatile device for both small and home office users. With IOGEAR®, you can surf the Internet, share files, chat with your friends, and. . . . Wirelessly! [. . . ] Select a program folder and click on Next. 13 Installation 10. The installation gives you information regarding 11. At this moment please insert you GWP512 CardBus card in your Laptop, and Click OK. If you have Windows XP Service Pack 2, you will get the "Found News Hardware Wizard" menu, click on Cancel. 15 Installation 15. At the Hardware installation menu click Continue Anyway. 14. At the Found New Harware dialog box Cancel. 16 Installation 16. The setup configuration shows the installation progress 17. Click Finish to complete the client utility installation. Your computer will be rebooted. 17 Installation 18. After rebooting, The IOGEAR Client Utility icon Start -> Programs -> IOGEAR Wireless -> IOGEAR Wireless Client utility resides on the Desktop at the System Tray automatically. After you launch the utility it will reside on the windows system tray as illustrated above. The device driver icon appears as a series of four vertical bars. These bars provide the following color coded indications of the received signal strength: ·Red indicates poor quality (<5 dB) ·Yellow indicates average quality (5 to 10 dB) ·Green indicates from good (10 dB) to excellent (20 dB) quality If you hold your mouse pointer over the icon, the profiles, quality, ip address display, along with the name of the current configuration profile. If wireless-reception-four-bars does not launch and cannot get wireless connection open the configuration utility from Windows by performing the following steps: 18 Installation 19. Press the right mouse button and click Open IOGEAR Client Utility The user can now use of the management fuctions available in the IOGEAR Client Configuration Utility. (Refer to the IOGEAR CLIENT UTILITY section) 19 Installation Verifying Driver Installation: 1. Right-click mouse button on the My Computer icon on your Windows desktop, and select Properties from the pop-up menu. The System properties screen will pop-up. Under Hardware tab, click Device Manager. After clicking Device manager, the following screen will be shown. 20 Installation Click on the +symbol in front of "Network 4. Click the general tab, if the Device Status field adapters" and see if an item labeled reports that "This device is working property". If you don't see the item below the network adapter icon but a"?" or "!" symbol is displayed, it means that the driver installation was unsuccessful. Highlight "IOGEAR Network Adapter", right-click mouse button and select "Properties". 21 Installation TCP/IP Setup Procedure After the network adapter driver and configuration utility are installed, the TCP/IP address for the network adapter must be set up in order to communicate with other wireless LAN access. Right-click on My Network Places and select Properties from the pop-up menu. [. . . ] 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. [. . . ]