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Realtek RTL8187SE User Manual

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Realtek RTL8187SE
Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter
User Guide
Version 1.0
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  • Page 1 Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter User Guide Version 1.0...
  • Page 2 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. DISCLAIMER Realtek provides this document “as is”, without warranty of any kind, neither expressed nor implied, including, but not limited to, the particular purpose. Realtek may make improvements and/or changes in this document or in the product described in this document at any time.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Content Chapter 1 Introduction ..................4 Chapter 2 Specifications ................5 Chapter 3 Installation/ Un-installation............6 3.1 Installation..................6 3.2 Un-installation .................12 Chapter 4 RtWLAN: Wireless LAN Management GUI .......14 4.1 Introduction of Main Window............14 4.2 Station mode ...................18 4.3 AP mode ..................24 Appendix 1: How to use 802.1x ( Step by step )........29...

  • Page 4: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Realtek. Realtek hopes you can enjoy the wireless world through this solid profiled wireless card. RTL8187SE provides a full solution of all the IEEE 802.11 b/g protocols. Both of our solutions passed the WIFI tests and will be compatible with all the wireless products with WIFI logos, including WPA2, WMM, WMM Power Save.

  • Page 5: Chapter 2 Specifications

    Chapter 2 Specifications Host system connections Interface Fully complies with MINI CARD USB date transfer USB high speed (480Mbps), and full speed (12Mbps) rate Wireless LAN (WLAN) environment connections WLAN Interface Multimode features Fully complies with IEEE 802.11 b/g specifications WLAN transfer rate 802.11 b: DQPSK with data scrambling capability to provide data rate of 1, 2, 5.5, and 11Mbps...

  • Page 6: Chapter 3 Installation/ Un-Installation

    Note2: If you have installed the USB WLAN driver & utility before, please uninstall the old version first. If you install the Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter into your laptop computer before installing the software program from the CD.
  • Page 7 C. Click “Next” to process the installation D. The system starts to install the software of the WLAN adapter.
  • Page 8 The system will automatically detect the card and display “Hardware Installation” screen. Click “Continue Anyway” to continue. Please click “Finish” to complete the installation.
  • Page 9 If you install Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter into your laptop computer after installing the software program from the CD. When you install Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter, the following dialog will be shown. Please choose “No, not this time” and click “Next”.
  • Page 10 C. Please choose “Don’t search I will choose the driver to install” and click “Next”. D. Please click “Have Disk…”. Please click “Browse..” and specify the path of Realtek RTL8187SE MINI CARD Adapter Driver.
  • Page 11 Please choose “Realtek RTL8187SE MINI CARD Adapter” and click “Next”. G. The system will automatically detect the card and display “Hardware Installation” screen. Click “Continue Anyway” to continue.

  • Page 12: Un-Installation

    H. Please click “Finish” to complete the installation. 3.2 Un-installation Uninstall the RTL8187SE WLAN Driver from “Start”→ “All Programs”→ “Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless Network Driver and Utility” or “Control Panel”“”→“Change or Remove Programs”. Please click “Un-istall” (or “Change/Remove”) to remove RTL8187SE...
  • Page 13 Please click “OK” if you want to remove RTL8187SE USB WLAN Driver. C. Please click “Finish” to complete the un-installation.

  • Page 14: Chapter 4 Rtwlan: Wireless Lan Management Gui

    Chapter 4 RtWLAN: Wireless LAN Management GUI 4.1 Introduction of Main Window A. Main Menu B. Adapter List Area C. Property Area D. Global Control Bar E. Status Bar A. Main Menu The main menu includes five submenus. Refresh As clicking the refresh menu, we can update and re-enumerate the contents of adapter list area.
  • Page 15 View Enable/disable the present of status bar. Without check mark in front will make the status bar hidden. Help Click the menu item “About RtWLan” to show the about dialog. The application version and license information are shown in the about dialog.
  • Page 16 B. Adapter List Area All connected adapters on this system for multiple adapter installations are displayed in this area. It is easy for users to change the selected adapter by one click. The contents of properties area are dependant on wireless configuration that the selected adapter was set up.
  • Page 17 D. Global Control Bar Each control items on this bar affects the adapter or management GUI directly. Show Tray Icon Making this item to be checked and pressing “Close” button, the management GUI will be minimized and stay on the tray icon located at the right down corner of Windows.

  • Page 18: Station Mode

    4.2 Station mode The following explanations focus on the properties area. Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc With both Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc types, the properties should looks like the picture beside. Six property pages present different information of current wireless network status. Reading the following explanations before you reviewing these pages, it could help you to well know the wireless environment around the system.
  • Page 19 A. General page This page represents the general information of this adapter. 1. Status The connection status with access point this station has. 2. Speed Current transition speed in Mbps.(Mega-Bits-Per-Second) 3. Type Current wireless LAN configuration type 4. Encryption Current encryption mode used 5.
  • Page 20 B. Profile page This page provides profiles management like add, remove, edit and duplicate just by pressing the button. Available Profile(s) The list box shows all the created profiles. 1. Add Add a new profile for access point or IBSS (Ad-Hoc mode). 2.
  • Page 21 C. Available Network(s) Present network connection around this system 1. Refresh Rescan network connection around this system 2. Add to Profile Create profile for selected network connection in profile list and add it in to profile list. D. Advanced page 1.
  • Page 22 6. WOL (Wake On LAN) The wake-on-LAN is applied for remote control purpose. You could wake up a system through network packets. For Realtek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN MINI CARD Adapter, only the same adapter on another system could wake it up.
  • Page 23 Status page Manufacturer: It always is RealTek. NDIS Driver Version: Short Radio Header Encryption: Current encryption mode. Authenticate: authentication state Channel Set: selected channel plan currently. MAC Address: MAC address of this adapter. Data Rate: wireless LAN transition speed Channel(Frequency): current channel number...

  • Page 24: Ap Mode

    4.3 AP mode A. General Page In this page, it provides general information of this access point including name, MAC address and list of joined stations. 1. SSID The name of this access point is. 2. BSSID Six two-digital numbers configure the MAC address of this access point. 3.
  • Page 25 It is the six two-digit numbers that assemble the MAC address of joined station. 6. Life Time It is timer and counts down from 10 minutes whenever the access point connects the station successfully. If a STA associated to 8187SE SW AP does not have any interaction with the AP in 10 minutes, it will be disassociated from the Infra-structure BSS.
  • Page 26 prevent illegal login. WPA-PSK + TKIP The most advance authentication and data encryption could provide best security protection. 7.4. ASCII/ PASSPHRASE The most advance authentication and data encryption could provide best security protection. ASCII: You should provide either 5 or 13 ASCII characters on Network key edit box.
  • Page 27 in unit of TU (1024 micro-seconds). 2. DTIM Period The DTIM Period field is the number of Beacon intervals between successive DTIMs. 3. Preamble Mode Long: higher quality but with lower performance than preamble short mode Short: Normal quality but with higher performance then preamble long mode.
  • Page 28 1. ConnName List all network connections on this system. You should pick up one from the listed item(s) which network domain you would want to connect. 2. Select Make the desired network connect to public network. 3. ICS Internet Connection Sharing. It enables this access point to create the domain to share this internet/intranet network connection 4.

  • Page 29: Appendix 1: How To Use 802.1X ( Step By Step )

    Appendix 1: How to use 802.1x ( Step by step ) Step 1 : Set Authentication mode to WPA 802.1x ,or WPA2 802.1x Step 2 : Set encryption to TKIP ,or AES Step 3 : Set EAP Type to MD5 , GTC , TLS , LEAP , TTLS ,or PEAP...
  • Page 30 Step 3.1.1 : When set TTLS Set Tunnel Type to CHAP , MSCHAP , MSCHAP-V2 , PAP , or EAP-MD5 Step 3.1.2 : When set PEAP Set Tunnel Type to MD5 , GTC , TLS , or MSCHAP-V2 Step 3.2 If you do not set PEAP to TLS ,you could use certificate. Step 4 : After you finish above steps.

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