IEEE802.11b

11Mbps

CompactFlash Card

Quick Installation Guide

M73-APO01-560

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 subject to the following two conditions:

1) This device may not cause harmful interface, and

2) This device must accept any interface received, including interface that may cause undesired operation. 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 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 distance between the equipment and receiver.

Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

CAUTION:

1) To comply with FCC RF exposure compliance requirements, a separation distance of at least 20 cm must be maintained between the antenna of this device and all persons.

2) This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.

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 device driver CD into the CD-ROM drive.

3. Inside the WINCE3.0 folder, click on

PrismForPocketCE.

For Handheld PC users: Please select

PrismForHandHeldCE

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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.

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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 into the PCMCIA

Adapter. The Wireless CF card is then turning into a conventional PCMCIA type II

PC Card.

2. Align the PC Card toward the PC Card slot with brand label facing upward, as shown below.

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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.

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3.

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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.

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Use server-assigned IP address

If your network does not support DHCP, select Use specific IP address. You may need to enter the IP address and other information. When you have finished entering settings, click OK.

If you forget to click OK, your settings will not take effect!

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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.

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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 strong link.

Yellow indicates a weak link.

Red indicates no or a very poor link.

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Icon Menu

After clicking on the icon, the icon menu as displayed below will prompt you to configure the

Wireless CompactFlash Card.

Items

Wireless Radio On

Wireless Radio Off

Description

These two items allows you to enable or disable the wireless radio.

Remove Status Icon… Removes the Utility icon from the PDA’s system tray. Each time you power on your PDA, the icon will

Wireless Network

reappear.

Clicking these items will

Status

Advanced

Configuration…

launch the Wireless

Settings window, as described below.

WEP Encryption…

Version

Information…

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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.

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Item Description

Current

Channel

Enable Radio

/ Disable Radio

Rescan

Current Tx

Rate

Throughput

Link Quality

It displays the selected channel that is currently used. (There are

14 channels available, depends on the country.)

Click this button to enable/disable the wireless radio. The Wireless

CompactFlash Card will connect/disconnect with the wireless network.

Search for all available networks.

Clicking on the button, the device will start to rescan.

It displays the current transfer rate.

It displays the transferring (Tx) and receiving (Rx) data rate in bytes per second.

It displays the link quality of the connection between the Wireless

CompactFlash Card and the

Access Point or Peer-to-Peer type it connects. the connection between the

Wireless CompactFlash Card and the Access Point or Peer-to-Peer type it connects.

Configuration

The Configuration tab allows to set parameters for the Wireless CompactFlash Card.

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Item Description

Profile

Name

Network

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 the configuration time. To save the current parameters, highlight the Profile field, type a new name, and click on the Apply button.

A specific name shared among connected Wireless CompactFlash

Card, Access Points and other wireless stations on the wireless network. The name must be identical for all devices and points attempting to connect to the same network. The default name is ANY.

To change the Network Name, simply enter a new name in the field.

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Item Description

Network

Type

Peer-to-Peer

Channel

Transmit

Rate

Default

Undo

Apply ok

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.

To communicate with other Wireless

CompactFlash Card, you must specify the same channel. Click the up and down arrow at the right of the

Peer-to-Peer Channel to set the desired channel.

It displays the current transmit rate.

1Mb, 2Mb, Auto 1 or 2 Mb, 5.5Mb,

11Mb or Fully Automatic)

Clicks the button to restore to the default settings.

Click Undo to ignore the previous setting.

Click Apply to activate the settings.

Click OK to save your changes.

Encryption

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption can be used to ensure the security of your wireless network.

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Item Description

Encryption

(WEP)

Create Keys with Passphrase

Create Keys

Manually

~ Alphanumeric:

5 characters

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.

A Passphrase can be entered to generate four keys used for WEP.

For the easiest configuration, the

Passphrase method is recommended.

These four fields can be used to enter WEP keys manually. The method is required to match the keys of other wireless devices on the existing network.

Click Alphanumeric if you are using an alphanumeric phrase.

~ Hexadecimal:

10 digits (0-9,

A-F)

Click Hexadecimal if you are using a hexadecimal number.

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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 the settings.

You must use the same value/phrase and WEP key settings for all wireless computers in order for the wireless network to function well

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Site Survey

The Site Survey tab shows all the available

Access Points or Peer-to-Peer types and their features.

Item Description

Network

Name

BSSID

Channel

The name must be identical for all devices and points attempting to connect to the same network.

A set of wireless stations is referred to as a Basic Service Set (BSS).

Computers in a BSS must be configured with the same BSS ID.

It shows the selected channel that is currently used.

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.

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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

Connect

Search for all available networks.

Clicking on the button, the device will start to rescan and list all available sites.

To connect with a new access point, highlights the desired one in the left list box and clicks on the Connect button. Wait a while and the selected one will be marked as a current used access point.

About

The About tab shows the information and version of the Configuration Utility.

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