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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card Driver Installation Install Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card. Laptop is turn off during installation. Once the card is installed, turn on the laptop. 1. Wait for the following dialog box to display, and click Next to continue.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 4 - 2. Choose “Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended),” and click Next.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 5 - 3. Insert the CD in your CD-ROM drive. Choose “Specify a location” under “ Optional search locations,” and click Next to continue.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 6 - 4. Browse to the location where the NDIS driver is located (assuming D is the CD-ROM drive), the default folder is D: .Click OK to continue. 5. When you find the driver installation file (net5211.inf), click Next to continue.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 7 - 6. The evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. There, Windows shows a warning message. Click Yes to proceed with the driver installation. 7. Click Finish to complete the driver installation. See Section 2.0 for the device...
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- 8 - Device Configuration Configuration of the Philips miniPCI Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the Network Control Panel (NCP) in adapter properties. You can set the Wireless Network Adapter to work in one of two modes, either infrastructure mode (which leverages an AP) or ad hoc mode (which consists of a group of stations participating in the WLAN).
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 9 - B. S YSTEM PPLICATION 1. Screen Layout (1) Figure 1: System Tray Icon and Menu The system tray application provides status information to users via an icon displayed in the Windows system tray.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 10 - • Security Settings: Launches our Control Panel Application with the “Security” screen displayed. • Status: Launches our Control Panel Application with the “Status” screen displayed. • Product Information: Launches our Control Panel Application to the “About”...
Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 11 - C. S TATUS CREEN 1. Screen Layout Figure 2 (Status Screen) The Status Screen is the first tab in our Control Panel application. It displays status information about the 802.11a/b/g card, including the connection state, the associated server MAC address (if any), transmit and receive rates, Current Channel, Security Mode, link quality and signal strength.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 12 - 2. Controls on the Status Screen Field Description State Displays link status, along with associated MAC address (if any). Current Tx Rate Displays the current transmit rate, depending on...
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 13 - D. C ONFIGURATION CREEN 1. Screen Layout Figure 3 (Main Configuration Screen)
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 14 - The Configuration screen is the second tab in our Control Panel application. It displays a list of existing configuration profiles, which can be modified, renamed or deleted by the user.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 15 - Field Description Profile Name List of available profiles. User may select from list to activate or modify a profile. New/Rename/Delete Buttons For creating, renaming and deleting profiles from the list above.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 16 - (5) The “Peer-to-Peer Channel Net Start” is enabled only if the Network Type is “Ad- Hoc”. (6) The user can select between different available Transmit rates only if the “Wireless Mode”...
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 17 - E. N ROFILE AND ENAME ROFILE IALOGS 1. Screen Layout...
Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 18 - (i) Figure 4: New/Rename Profile Dialogs The New Profile and Rename Profile dialogs are actually the same dialog. Only the instructional texts differ depending upon whether the user is creating a new profile or renaming an existing one.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 19 - Figure 5 (Security Screen – Main Screen)
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 20 - Figure 6 (Security Screen – Pre -Shared Key Option) The Security screen is the third tab in our Control Panel application. It allows the user to view and modify security settings for the selected profile. Up to four encryption keys may be specified.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 24 - Figure 7 (User Information – TLS) Figure 7 (User Information – PEAP)
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 25 - Figure 7 (Advanced User Information – PEAP)
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 26 - Figure 8 (User Information – LEAP) 2. Controls on the Security Screen Field Description Disable Radio button Disables the encryption Leap radio button Enables Leap security User Name Enter the leap user name...
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 27 - (7) Keys are restricted to contain only hex digits (0-9,A-F). The edit control for each key will ignore entry of any non-hex digits. Digits may be upper or lower case.
Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 28 - G. P OWER CREEN 1. Screen Layout Figure 9 (Power Screen) The Power screen is the fourth tab in our Control Panel application. It allows the user to view and modify power settings for the selected profile. Currently the only available settings are the Power Saving mode and Transmit Power level.
Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 29 - 3. Interaction of Power Screen Controls Currently, there is no special interaction between controls on the Power screen. H. A BOUT CREEN 1. Screen Layout Figure 10 (About Screen) The About Screen is the last tab of the Control Panel Application.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 30 - 2. Controls on the About Screen Not Applicable. 3. Interaction of Power Screen Controls Not Applicable.
Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 31 - II. Regulatory Information To identify this product refer to the part or model number on the product • label A. F (FCC) EDERAL OMMUNICATIONS OMMISSION FCC Modular Labeling Requirements:...
Mobile Satellite Systems. Modifications: The FCC requires the user to be notified that any changes or modifications made to this device that are not expressly approved by Philips Components may void the user's authority to operate the equipment. B. I...
Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 33 - C. E UROPEAN OMMUNITY OTICE Marking by the symbol indicates compliance with the Essential Requirements of the R&TTE Directive of the European Union (1999/5/EC). This equipment meets the following conformance standards:...
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 34 - European Community Declaration of Conformity: • English Hereby, Philips Components, declares that this Radio LAN device is in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of Directive 1999/5/EC.
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Quick Installer Guide for Philips miniPCI 802.11a/b/g card - 35 - Greek ÌÅ ÔÇÍ ÐÁÑÏÕÓÁ Philips Components ÄÇËÙÍÅÉ ÏÔÉ Radio LAN device ÓÕÌÌÏÑÖÙÍÅÔÁÉ ÐÑÏÓ ÔÉÓ ÏÕÓÉÙÄÅÉÓ ÁÐÁÉÔÇÓÅÉÓ ÊÁÉ ÔÉÓ ËÏÉÐÅÓ Ó×ÅÔÉÊÅÓ ÄÉÁÔÁÎÅÉÓ ÔÇÓ ÏÄÇÃÉÁÓ 1999/5/ÅÊ Italian Con la presente Philips Components dichiara che questo Radio LAN device è...