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2.2 Install the WNC-0300 11g Wireless Network PC I Adapter 2.2.1 Utility Installation 1. Before insert PC I Adapter into the PC I slot of your computer, please install the Utility Program first. Make sure that the LevelOne 11g wireless Network PC I Adapter is NOT inserted into the PCI slot. NOTE: al...

7 4. Please click “Finish” NOW. 1. Turn off your computer, and remove the power cord from your PC. 2. Open up the cover of your PC. 3. Remove the PCI slot cover from PC case. 4. Insert the 11g Wireless Network PCI Adapter into the empty PCI slot. 5. Place the computer case back on and plug the power...

2. Please click “Continue Anyway” 8 2.2.2 Driver Installation 1. Please select the first option and click “Next”.

4. To make sure if the installation is successful, you could check it through the device management. 9 3. Please click “Finish”

5. Once the installation is successful, a utility program icon will show on your desktop. To lunch the utility, just double click the icon. 3. Configuration 3.1 Link Information The default page is as below after you launch the Utility program. Status: Shows the BSSID associated, which can be used t...

Frequency: Shows the current frequency used for wireless network. Wireless Mode: Shows the current wireless mode used for wireless communication. Encryption: Shows the current encryption mode used for wireless network. TxRate: Shows the current data rate used for transmitting. Channel: Shows the cur...

Wireless Mode: There are two types available for selection ● Infrastructure – to establish wireless communication with LAN and other wireless clients through the use the Access Points. ● Ad-Hoc – to establish point-to-point wireless communication directly with other wireless client devices such as w...

3.3 Advanced This is the page where you configure Security settings of your 108Mbps wireless LAN PC I Adapter Encryption: 4 options are available: Disable , Enable , WPA and WPA-PSK . Select Enable or Disable for WEP data encryption feature. If one of the two options is selected, it is required to s...

Profile – You can create and manage the created profiles for Home, offices or public areas. By double-clicking on one of the created profile, the setting will adapt to the configuration such as SSID, channel, and WEP settings saved by that particular profile. Remove : To remove the selected the prof...

3.5 About US This page displays some information about the 108Mpbs wireless LAN PC I Adapter utility, which includes the version numbers for Driver, Firmware and Utility. When there is new version of software available for upgrade, you will be able to identify by version numbers. 4. Glossary Access ...

amount of time before retrying. If the network is quiet and two devices access the line at exactly the same time, their signals collide. When the collision is detected, they both back off and wait a random amount of time before retrying. DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, which is a protocol...

heavy interference caused by the big size of transmission frame. But if the frame size is too small, it will create the overhead during the transmission. Gateway: a device that interconnects networks with different, incompatible communication protocols. HEX: Hexadecimal, HEX, consists of numbers fro...

PSDU: PLCP service data unit Roaming: A LAN mobile user moves around an ESS and enjoys a continuous connection to an Infrastructure network. RTS: R equest T o S end. An RS-232 signal sent from the transmitting station to the receiving station requesting permission to transmit. RTS Threshold: Transmi...

WNC-0300 Appendix Appendix A Networking Basis ...........................................25 Appendix B 802.1X Authentication Setup ...........................38

25 Go to Start menu > Control Panel > Network Connections In the menu on the leftside of the window, select “ Set up a home or small office network ” Click “ Next ” to procced Click “ Next ” to continue APPENDIX A : NETWORKING BASIS This chapter will help you learn the basics of home networkin...

26 1. Enter a short description for your computer. 2. Enter a name for your computer to berecognized among the network. 3. Click “ Next ” to continue. Select the option that best describes how you connect your computer to the Internet. In the case of usingrouter in the network, choose the second opt...

29 Click “ Format Disk ” if you wish to format the disk. Click “ Next ” to copy the necessary files to the disk. Click “ Next ” to continue with the Network Setup Wizard

30 NOTE: Now you may use the Network Setup Disk you just created in any PCs in your network that you wish to setup. Simply insert the Network Setup Disk into the disk drive of a PC, and open to browse the content of the disk with “My Computer” or “Windows File Manager”. Double-click and run the file...

31 Checking IP Address of Your Computer in Windows XP Sometimes you will need to know the IP address of the computer that you are using. For example, when you want to make sure that your computer is in the same network domain as that of your Access Point for you can configure and access the AP. When...

33 Dynamic IP Address V.S. Static IP Address By definition Dynamic IP addresses are the IP addresses that are being automatically assigned to a network device on the network. These dynamically assigned IP addresses will expire and may be changed over time. Static IP addresses are the IP addresses th...

35 NOTE: The IP address must be within the same range as the wireless route or Access Point. Wireless Network in Windows 2000 The TCP/IP Properties window appears. Select “ Obtain an IP address automatically ” if you are on a DHCP enabled network. Click “ OK ” to close the window with the changes ma...

36 Wireless Network In Windows 98 SE and Windows ME Go to Start menu > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Network Select TCP/IP of the network device Click “ Properties ” to continue Select “ Use the following IP address ” Enter the IP address and subnet mask fields. Enter the IP ad...

38 APPENDIX B : 802.1x Authentication Setup There are three essential components to the 802.1x infrastructure: (1) Supplicant, (2) Authenticator and (3) Server. The 802.1x security supports both MD5 and TLS Extensive Authentication Protocol (EAP). The 802.1x Authentication is a complement to the cur...

40 Supplicant: Wireless Network PC Card Here is the setup for the Wireless Network PC Card under Windows XP, which is the only Operating System that our driver supports for 802.1x. Microsoft is planning on supporting 802.1x security in all common Windows Operating System including Win98SE/ME/2000 by...

41 5. Click on the “ Wireless Network ” tab. 108 Mbps High Speed Network Adapter

42 6. Click “ Properties ” of the available wireless network, which you wish to connect or configure. Please note that if you are going to change to a different 802.1x authentication EAP method, i.e. switch from using MD5 to TLS, , you must remove the current existing wireless network from your Pref...

43 TLS Authentication 7. Select “ The key is provided for me automatically ” option 8. Click “ OK ” to close the Wireless Network Properties window.

44 9. Click “ Authentication ” tab 10. Select “ Enable network access control using IEEE 802.1x ” option to enable 802.1x authentication. 11. Select “ Smart Card or other Certificate ” from the drop-down list box for EAP type. 12. Click “ OK ” to close the Wireless Network Connection Properties wind...

45 TLS Authentication – Download Digital Certificate from Server In most corporations, it requires internal IT or MIS staff’s help to have the certificated downloaded to your local computer. One of the main reasons is that each corporation uses its own server systems, and you will need the assistanc...

46 16. Now we are connected to the Certificate Service. Select “ Request a certificate ”, and click “ Next ” to continue. 17. Select “ User Certificate request ”, and click “ Next ” to continue.

47 18. Click “ Submit >” to continue. 19. The Certificate Service is now processing the certificate request.

48 20. The certificate is issued by the server, click “Install this certificate” to download and store the certificate to your local computer. 21. Click “ Yes ” to store the certificate to your local computer.

50 24. Select the certificate that was issued by the server (WirelessCA), and click “ OK ” to continue. 25. Check the server to make sure that it’s the server that issues certificate, and click “ OK ” to complete the authentication process.

51 MD5 Authentication 26. Select “ Data encryption (WEP enabled) ” option, but leave other option unselected. 27. Select the key format that you want to use to key in your Network key. ASCII characters: 0~9, a~z and A~Z HEX characters: 0~9, a~f 28. Select the key length that you wish to use 40 bits ...

52 30. Click “ OK ” to close the Wireless Network Properties window, thus make the changes effective. 31. Select “ Authentication ” tab. 32. Select “ Enable network access control using IEEE 802.1X ” to enable 802.1x authentication. 33. Select “ MD-5 Challenge ” from the drop-down list box for EAP t...

53 Unlike TLS, which uses digital certificate for validation, the MD-5 Authentication is based on the user account/password. Therefore, you must have a valid account used by the server for validation. 35. WindowsXP will prompt you to enter your user name and password. Click on the network connection...

54 Authenticator: Wireless Network Access Point This is the web page configuration in the Access Point that we use. 1. Enable 802.1x security by selecting “ Enable ”. 2. If MD5 EAP methods is used then you can skip step 3 and go to step 4. 3. Select the Encryption Key Length Size ranging from 64 to ...

55 Radius Server: Window2000 Server This section to help those who has Windows 2000 Server installed and wants to setup Windows2000 Server for 802.1x authentication, which includes setting up Certificate Service for TLS Authentication, and enable EAP-methods. 1. Login into your Windows 2000 Server a...

58 11. Go to Start > Program > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers . 12. Right-click on domain, and select ” Properties ” to continue. 13. Select “ Group Policy ” tab and click “ Properties ” to continue.

61 Adding Internet Authentication Service 21. Go to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs 22. Select “ Add/Remove Windows Components ” from the panel on the left. 23. Select “I nternet Authentication Service ”, and click “OK” to install.

62 Setting Internet Authentication Service 24. Go to Start > Program > Administrative Tools > Internet Authentication Service 25. Right-click “ Client ”, and select “ New Client ” 26. Enter the IP address of the Access Point in the Client address text field, a memorable name for the Access ...

63 27. Click “ Finish ” to complete adding of the Access Point. 28. In the Internet Authentication Service, right-click “ Remote Access Policies ” 29. Select “New Remote Access Policy”.

64 30. Select “ Day-And-Time-Restriction ”, and click “ Add ” to continue. 31. Unless you want to specify the active duration for 802.1x authentication, click “ OK ” to accept to have 802.1x authentication enabled at all times.

65 32. Select “ Grant remote access permission ”, and click “ Next ” to continue. 33. Click “ Edit Profile ” to open up

66 For TLS Authentication Setup (Steps 34 ~ 38) 34. Select “ Authentication ” Tab 35. Enable “ Extensible Authentication Protocol ”, and select “ Smart Card or other Certificate ” for TLS authentication

67 36. Go to Start > Program > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers 37. Select “ Users ”, and double-click on the user that can be newly created or currently existing, who will be configured to have the rights to obtain digital certificate remotely. Please note that i...

68 38. Go to the “ Dial-in ” tab, and check “ Allow access ” option for Remote Access Permission and “ No Callback ” for Callback Options.

69 For MD5 Authentication (Steps 39 ~ 54) 39. Go to Start > Program > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers . 40. Right-click on the domain, and select “ Properties ” 41. Select “ Group Policy ” tab, and click “ Edit ” to edit the Group Policy.

70 42. Go to “Computer Configuration” > “Windows Settings” > “Security Settings” > “Account Policies” > “ Password Policies ” 43. Click “ Define this policy setting ”, select “ Enabled ”, and click “ OK ” to continue.

71 44. Go to Start > Program > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers . 45. Go to Users . Right-click on the user that you are granting access, and select “ Properties ” 46. Go to “ Account ” tab, and enable “ Store password using reversible encryption ” 47. Click “ OK ...

72 48. Go to Start > Program > Administrative Tools > Internet Authentication Service . 49. Go to Remote Access Policies 50. Make sure that MD5 is moved up to Order 1 51. Right-click “ MD5 ”, and select “Properties”

73 52. Go to “ Authentication ” tab 53. Enable “ Extensible Authentication Protocol ” 54. Select “ MD5-Challenge ” for EAP type list.