Corega Network Card WLCBGMO User Manual

WLCBGMO

MISOWireless Cardbus Adapter

User Manual

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Contents

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1. Preface.............................................................................................................2

1.1 Features ....................................................................................2

1.2 Packing Content ....................................................................2

1.3 Hardware description ..........................................................3

1.4 Installation Steps ..................................................................3

2. Software Installation....................................................................................4

2.1 Hardware Installation..........................................................4

2.2 Utility and Driver Installation ..........................................5

2.3 Verify the Hardware Status ................................................7

3. Setting TCP/IP..................................................................................................9

4. Setting Wireless Network.........................................................................10

5.NetworkSecuritySetting...........................................................................12

5.1 Setting WEP .........................................................................12

5.2 Setting W P A .........................................................................14

《WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK》...........................14

《W P A a nd W P A 2 》..............................................15

6. Utility Introduction....................................................................................17

6.1 Site Survey ............................................................................17

6.1.1 Add one profile ...........................................18

6.2Profile......................................................................................19

6.3 Link Status.............................................................................20

6.4Statistics.................................................................................21

6.5 Advanced settings............................................................21

6.6 IP Information.....................................................................23

6.7 About tab..............................................................................23

7. FAQ................................................................................................................ 24

8. Speciﬁcation............................................................................................... 27

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corega CG-WLCBGMO MISO Wireless Cardbus Adapter, com-

pliance with IEEE802.11b/g standards. Its internal MIMO XR

technology can improve transmit frequency and increase signal

coverage area six times farther then general 802.11g standard

products. Moreover, it supports TX-Burst technology, and can

effectivly improve transmit speed. It also spends less power from

laptop. In sum, these outstanding features make CG-WLCBGMO

a great companion for no Centrino laptop users.

1.1 Features

• Compliance with IEEE802.11b/g standard.

• Internal MIMO XR technology, improve the wire-

less coverage area up to 375M. Its coverage area ra-

dius is six times farther then general 802.11g standard

products.(Environmental factors may adversely affect

wireless signal range).

• Internal 2 antennas, support TX-Burst technology, effectivly

improve transmit speed.

• Supports WEP(64/128 bits),WPA,WPA2, and 802.1 network

security modes.

• Supports roaming function, can automatically search for

stronger signal wireless AP.

• Laptop friendly cardbus design

• Supports power save mode, spending less power.

1.2 Package Content

Before installation, please make sure the packing content is

completed. If there is something loss please contact your local

distributor.

- MISO Wireless Cardbus Adapter

- CD-ROM

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1.3 Hardware description

1. Link LED

ON: network connected.

OFF: network disconnected.

2. Act LED

Indicates the connection status

Blink: transmitting or receiving

data

OFF: not transmitting or receiving

data

1.4 Installation Steps

Please conﬁrm the following steps before installing the product.

Plug the product into the Cardbus slot  Put the Driver CD 

Install the utility program and the driver  Conﬁrm the Device

status of the product Set up TCP/IP  Open the Utility

Program  Setup the Wireless Network  Enable the security

function  Setup the advanced functions  Start to use the

product.

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Software Installation

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2.1 Hardware Installation

Please plug corega WLCBGMO into the Cardbus slot of the lap-

top. After you plug it in, please install the software and driver.

When the following pages appear, please click [cancel].

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2.2 Utility and Driver Installation

1. Put Driver CD into the CD-ROM drive.

2. Please select [English]

3. Click [Install Software]

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4.The [corega Wireless Adapter Setup] page.

5. Click [Continue Anyway].

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6. Click [Finish] to ﬁnish setup.

2.3 Verify the Hardware Status

1. Open [Control Panel]=>Double-click [System].

2. Select [Hardware] tab=>Click [Device Manager].

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3. Select and double-click [CG-WLCBGMO].

4.Verify the device status of CG-WLCBGMO is [This device is

working properly]->Click [OK] to close this page.

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SettingTCP/IP

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1. Enter [Start Menu]=>select [Control panel]=>select [Network].

2. Right-click [Local Area Connections] icon=>select [proper-

ties]。

3. Select [Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)]=>Click [Properties].

4. Select the [General] tab.

a. If your Wireless Router has [DHCP] function, please select

both [Obtain an IP address automatically] and [Obtain DNS

server address automatically].

b. If the router does not support [DHCP] function, you have to

conﬁgure the IP and DNS settings.

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SettingWireless Network

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User can use corega Wireless Utility to conﬁgure wireless net-

work. After ﬁnishing conﬁguration, please check if the connec-

tion works.

Please conﬁrm that user’s computer is in the wireless radio wave

range. If the computer is out of the radio range, the setup will

not be seccessful.

After user installed CG-WLCBGMO and corega Wireless Utility,

CG-WLCBGMO will automatically link with the AP/Router. If the

connection is successful, the following message will appear .

1. Click the

icon in the system tray to open the Utility. If there

is no such icon, enter [Start]->click[Program]->select[CG-

WLCBGMO]->click[corega Wireless Utility] and the icon will

appear.

2.The availibale APs are displayed in the [Site Survey] tab. If there

is no AP in dialog box, please press [Rescan] .

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3.To make connection, select one AP/SSID (eg:corega) and

click [Conncet]. When the connection works, [Connected]

will appear in the left button of this tab and the icon

appears in front of the linked AP. When the connection

failed,[Disconnected] will appear.

If the AP has set up the encryption, please setup the the same

keys on CG-WLCBGMO (refer to chapter 5) before you click

[OK].

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Network Security Setting

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If your AP/Router have setted network security function, your

cardbus needs to have the same security setting.The details

of network security setting are described below. Please open

corega Wireless Utility before you start to setup network secu-

rity:

Double click the

icon in the system tray to open the Utility

page. If there is no wireless icon, please click [start Menu]->se-

lect [Programs]->click [CG-WLCBGMO]->click [corega Wireless

Utility], and the wireless icon will appear.

5.1 Setting WEP

1. If your AP has [WEP] authentication(eg:corega ), press [Con-

nect].

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2. Please follow the instructions:

a. [Authentication Type]: indicates the authentication type of

the AP/Router. Please conﬁrm the setting of the AP/Router.

＊[Open]:WEP open system is based on request and grant. It is

essentially no authentication.

＊[Shared]:WEP shared key is based on request, challenge, challenge

response, grant/deny.

b. Select [WEP] in [Encryption].

c. [Hex]/[ASCII]: It will be auto selected -> Enter AP encryption

keys in the box Key1~Key4.

d. Select the current AP encryption keys from Key1~Key4.

e. Press [OK] to ﬁnish setting.

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5.2 Setting WPA

WPA encryption type can be divided into WPA-PSK,WPA2-PSK,

WPA(or called WPA-EAP), and WPA2(or called WPA2-EAP). All

settings should correspond to the settings of the current con-

nected wireless network.

《WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK》

1. Select an AP with [WPA-PSK] or [WAP2-PSK] authentication

and press [Connect]. Here we use corega A for example.Thus

the following settings must correspond with corega A.

2. Setting the [Authentication and Security] Page:

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a. Authentication Type: Select [WPA-PSK] .

b. Encryption: Select [TKIP] or [AES].(Same as AP)

c. Enter the password in [WAP Preshared Key] box and click

[OK].

《WPA and WPA2》

1. Select an AP with [WPA] or [WAP2] authentication and press

[Connect]. Here we use corega A02 for example.Thus the fol-

lowing settings must correspond with corega A02.

2. Setting the [Authentication and Security] Page:

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a. Authentication Type: select [WPA].

b. Encryption: select [TKIP] or [AES](Same as AP)

c. If the AP/router has [802.1x Setting] function, click it for

advance setting. Please consult your MIS for details.

d. Click [OK] to ﬁnish setting.

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Utility introduction

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Chapter 6 will brieﬂy introduce the sections in the setup utility.

6.1 Site Survey

1. The discription of these sections

• SSID : Name of AP (or called ESSID).

• BSSID : Mac Address of AP

• Signal : Signal strength of AP

• Channel : AP used channel

• Encryption : what encrypted mechanism does AP used

• Authentication :What authentication mechanism does AP

used.

• Network Type :What Network Type does the AP belong to.

Generally it is [infrastruture].

2. Available WLAN list.The

icon means currently connecting.

3. [Connected] means connection ok. [Disconnected] means

connection failed.

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4. Click [Rescan] to rescan and upgrade all the AP’s information

in time

5. Click [Connect] to start connecting the selected AP.

6. Save the selected AP’s information to proﬁle. For more details,

please refer to 6.1.1.

6.1.1 Add one profile

1. Select one AP in the SSID column, eg: corega0205=>Click [Add

to Proﬁle]

2. Setting items in the [conﬁguration] tab:

• Proﬁle Name: Enter the connected AP proﬁle, eg: PROF1.

• SSID: Click the drop-down menu and select one AP.You can

also enter the AP manually.

• PSM:When CAM is selected, indicats that the product is not

in power saving status.When PSM is selected, the product

is in power saving status. (Only select it under Infrastructure

nettype).

• Network Type: [Infrastructure] or [Ad Hoc] type.We recom-

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mend you to select [Infrastructure].

• Transmit power: the amount of power used by a radio trans-

ceiver to send the signal out. User can choose power value

by sliding the bar.

• [RTS Threshold] and [Fragment Threshold] :We recommend

you to use the default value. User can adjust threshold num-

bers by sliding the bars or key in the values directly.

3. Click [OK] and the setted AP will appear in the [Proﬁle] tab.

6.2 Proﬁle

• [Add]: Click [Add] to add a new proﬁle.

• [Delete]: to delete a proﬁle, select one proﬁle name and click

[Delete].

• [Edit]:to edit the setting of a proﬁle, select the proﬁle and

click [Edit].

• [Activate]: to activate the selected proﬁle, select the proﬁle

and click [Activate].

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6.3 Link Status

This tab displays the information of the link status.

• Status: Displays the linked AP name and Mac address.When

[Disconnect] appears in this box, the connection is failed.

• Extra Info: link status and strength.

• Channel:Current channel in use.

• Link Speed: Show current transmit rate and receive rate.

• Throughout: Display transmits and receive throughput value.

• Link Quality: Display connection quality based on signal

strength and TX/RX packet error rate.

• Signal Strength: Receive signal strength, user can choose to

display as percentage or dBm format

• Noise Level: Display noise signal strength.

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6.4 Statistics

Statistics page displays the detail counter information.

• Transmit Statistics: Statistic of transmitted frames .

• Receive Statistics: Statistic of received frames.

• [Reset Counters]: Click [Reset Counter] to zero the statistic

numbers of transmitting and receiving data.

6.5 Advanced settings

The advanced setting sections are shown as follows.

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• Wireless mode: Select wireless network mode(speed)

- 802.11b/g mixed: Automatically detect 11b or 11g

- 802.11b only: Frequency only 11b

- 802.11g only: Frequency only 11g

• 11b/g Protection: In order to keep the connention stable,

please select [Auto] to automatically conﬁrm which mode

the wireless network is in.

• TX Rate: Manually force the Transmit using selected rate.

Please accept the default setting.

• Tx-Burst: Ralink’s proprietary frame burst mode.When it is

checked, transmit throughput will be improved.(Only work

when AP support this function. eg: coreag WLBARGMO)

- Enable TCP Window Size: Extend the Window size of

TCP.(When checked, the recieve speed will improve.)

- Fast Roaming at ___ dBm: It will enter romaing mode when

dBm reaches a level.

• CCX2.0: Open CCX(supports Cisco Compatible Extensions

function). Check it when AP supports Cisco.

- LEAP turn on CCKM: Open CCKM fuction (Cisco Key Man-

agement).

- Enable Radio Measurements:Open the function of CCK

Monitor AP Channel.

- Non-Serving Channel Measurements... : Select and start to

moniter if wireless channel is non-serving.

• Radio Off: Disable wireless radio wave.

• [Apply] : Click this when ﬁnish the settings.

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6.6 IP Information

The MAC Address and the IP information are displayed in this

tab. Click[Release] to release IP address, click [Renew] to renew IP

information.

6.7 About

The About tab displays the information of the utility version and

the driver version.

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There are 2 ways for solving your problems if WLCBGMO can’t

connect to Internet as below:

(1) First, please see following“FAQ”to check your problem.

(2) Please go to http://www.corega-asia.com to download the

latest driver.

(3)Please go to http://www.corega-asia.com, then click

“Supports”=>select“Online Customer Support”, => ﬁll in the

form, =>click“submit”. We’ll reply you as soon as possible.

• Product name: e.g.) WLCBGMO

• Firmware version: access the management program to check.

• Your ISP service name.

• Windows system: e.g.) Windows98/2000/XP and so on.

• WEB browser(Version): e.g.) IE5.0/5.5/6.0 and so on.

• Network adapter manufacturer and its driver version.

• Connection way: ﬁxed IP, dynamic IP or PPPoE dial-up con-

nection.

• What are your problem and situation: e.g.) unable to internet.

• What is the error message or picture?

Q1.What should I do when it’s not able to connect to the Inter-

net?

A: Please make sure if the below processes are complete or not.

(1) Vertify the product is installed.

(2) Vertify the driver and the software are conﬁgured.

(3) Vertify the network setting is correct.

(4) Vertify the security setting is correct.

(5) Vertify the ESSID setting of AP router correspond to that of

WLCBGMO.

(6) Vertify the channel if under Ad-Hoc mode.

(7) Vertify the wireless Standard of AP is the same as WLCBGMO.

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Q2.How to keep the network connection quality well?

(1) Put the AP nearer.

(2) Remove barriers between AP and laptop.

(3) Do not place AP on a metal shelf.

(4) Please keep away from microwave, 2.4GHz cordless phone,

and medical equipment.

(5) Change the direction of your laptop or AP.

Q3.What should I do when I can not ﬁnd other computers in [My

Network Places]?

A:To solve this problem, please open [My Network Places] and

make sure all computers have the same settings in the net-

work name.

Q4.What should I do when there is troubleshooting Informa-

tionthe of network adapter?

A:The below symbols indicates that your product installation

has failed. Please remove the driver and utility of WLCBGMO

and conﬁgure the product again.

＊Displays [Other devices] in the hardware tree with a black

exclamation point“!” on a yellow ﬁeld and a yellow question

mark“?” symbol.

＊The network adapter is not listed in the hardware tree of the

[device Manager] page under [My Computer].

＊Displays two or more product name.

【How to solve this problem】:

(1) Right-click on the [Network controller] under [Other de-

vices] and select [Uninstall].

(2) When conﬁrm delete message appears,click [OK].

(3) Follow the manual to install the product again.

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Q5.What should I do when the network adapter icon appears a

[x] symbol in the [Device Manager] page:

A:When there is a [x] on the icon, the product is disable.To

solve this problem, please follow the instructions below:

■Windows XP

Open [Control Panel]=>Double-click [System]=>Select

[Hardware] tab=>Click [Device Manager]=>Right-click [CG-

WLCBGMO]=>select [enable]

Q6. How to get the latest driver and Utility?

A: Please go to http://www.corega-asia.com, then click

supports=>download =>select“driver”or“Utility”, =>select

and click the model which you want to upgrade.

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Secification

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Compliance

Standard

IEEE802.11, IEEE802.11b, IEEE802.11g

LAN Interface

Protocol

32bit CardBus

CSMA/CA

Transmission

Method

DS-SS, OFDM

Network Type

Infrastructure/802.11 Ad-Hoc

Frequency Band/

Channel

IEEE802.11b/g: 2.412GHz~2.472GHz

Transmission Rate

IEEE802.11b: 11/5.5/2/1Mbps

IEEE802.11g: 54/48/36/24/18/12/9/6Mbps

Transmitter

18.98dBm@11b, 16.38dBm@11g

Output Power

Coverage Area

IEEE802.11b: Indoors 150M, Outdoors 375M(MIMO

XR Function Enable Range)

IEEE802.11g(@54Mbps): Indoors 30M, Outdoors 40M

* Environmental factors may adversely affect wire-

less signal range

Security

WEP(64/128 bits),WPA-EAP (802.1x) / WPA2-EAP

(802.1x)/WPA-PSK / WPA2-PSK

Antenna Type

Antenna Gain

Support OS

Planar Inverted F Antenna

3.48dBi

Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP

Power Consumption 1.22W

Environmental Requirements

Operating

Temperature: 0˚C~40˚C Humidity: <90% (non-con-

densing)

Storage

Temperature: -20˚C~60˚C Humidity: <95% (non-

condensing)

Physical Speciﬁcations

54(W) x 9(D) x 117(H) mm

50 g (main unit)

Dimension

Weight

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