D-Link AirPro DWL-AB650 User manual

802.1a/b WLAN PC Card

802.11a and 802.11b Multimode WLAN Cardbus Adapter

Note: The installation screenshots were taken in Windows 2000. For other Windows Operating

Systems, the installation procedure will be nearly the same but the screens will differ in appearance

somewhat.

Package Contents:

D-Link AirPro DWL-AB650 Wireless Cardbus Adapter

Printed Quick Installation Guide

CD with Manual and Drivers

If any of the contents are missing, please contact your reseller.

System Requirements

A laptop computer with an available 32-bit Cardbus slot

At least a 300 MHz processor and 32 MB of memory

Cardbus Controller properly installed and working

An 802.11a or an 802.11b Access Point (for Infrastructure Mode) or

another computer with an 802.11a or an 802.11b wireless adapter

installed (for Ad-Hoc mode).

Turn on the computer.

Insert the D-Link

AirPro DWL-AB650

Wireless Cardbus

Adapter into an

available 32-bit

Cardbus slot.

Installing the DWL-AB650

Installing the software for your new DWL-AB650 Cardbus Adapter

involves two steps. The first is to install the driver for the Cardbus Adapter,

and the second is to install the Configuration Utility.

When the Cardbus Adapter is inserted in a Cardbus slot, Windows will

recognize the card and the following screen will appear:

Insert the Driver CD into your CD-ROM drive, if you have not done so

already. If the Driver CD is not in the CD-ROM drive, a prompt such as

the one below will appear. Click OK.

The installation will continue. The following screen appears to let you

know that the driver installation is continuing.

Installing the Driver

When the driver installation is complete, the screen shown above will

disappear.

Look for the file named “Setup.exe” on the installation CD-Rom. Double-

click on it to start the installation for the configuration utility.

Installing the Configuration Utility

Click Next.

To install to the folder C:\Program Files\D-Link\AirPro Utility. Click

Next. Otherwise click on Browse to choose an alternate location.

Click Next.

Click Next

Or Click

Browse

Click Next

The Setup Status screen will appear and display the progress of the

installation.

A screen alerting you that all backup files have been removed will appear.

This is the next to the last screen to appear in the installation.

After AirPro Utility has been successfully installed, the

InstallShield Wizard will prompt you to restart your computer.

Select Yes, I want to restart my computer now, and click Finish.

After your computer has restarted, the following screen will appear.

Click Next.

Click Next

Select the SSID (the name of an AP) by clicking on it in the Please select

a network name (SSID) to connect dialog box, shown below. Click Next

to put settings into effect.

If the Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP) is enabled on the AP you

have selected, the WEP Setting dialog box will become active and allow

you to select the length of the WEP encryption keys as well as allowing

you to enter the WEP encryption keys in the appropriate fields. All four

of these keys must be exactly the same as the WEP encryption keys in

use on the AP. Contact your network administrator if you do not know

what keys are in use by the AP.

There are three distinct modes of operation for WEP on the connection

between an AP and your DWL-AB650 Cardbus Adapter, in terms of

WEP encryption. The first is unencrypted. That is, WEP is disabled on

both the AP and your Cardbus Adapter. The second is the Network

Authentication (Shared Mode). When this box is checked, the AP and

your Cardbus Adapter will verify that the exact same WEP keys are in

use by sending each other encrypted messages. After this authentication,

all data transfer between the AP and your Cardbus Adapter will be

unencrypted. The third is Enable Data encryption. In this mode, all

data exchanged between the AP and your Cardbus Adapter is encrypted.

Here, the Enable Data encryption mode will be selected if you enter

Click on

the SSID of

your AP

Then click

WEP keys and leave the Network Authentication (Shared Mode) click-

box blank.

All of the WEP settings (the four WEP keys and the operating mode)

must be exactly the same as the WEP settings in use on the AP. You can

modify these settings later, if necessary, using the configuration utility,

as explained below in the section titled Connecting to the Wireless

Network below.

A connection attempt between your new DWL-AB650 and the Access

Point (AP) you selected will be made. While the connection attempt is

being made, a red bar will oscillate vertically across the face of the D-

Link AirPro Configuration Utility icon in the task tray.

If a valid connection between your DWL-AB650 and the AP is made, the

D-Link AirPro Configuration Utility icon will show a yellow color −as

illustrated above.

Click Finish

Showing a

good AP

connection

Double-clicking on the D-Link AirPro Configuration Utility in the task

tray will open the main configuation utility. This utility can be used to

verify that your DWL-AB650 Cardbus Adapter is working properly, and

it can be used to change any of the configuation settings for you Cardbus

Card.

When a valid connection is made between your Cardbus Adapter and the

selected AP, a small blue circle appears at the top of the icon to the left of

the SSID (name) of the selected AP under the heading Preferred WLANs.

This indicates that a valid connection (link) has been established between

the selected AP and your Cardbus Adapter.

Note that in the above example, WEP is disabled on both the selected AP

and on the Cardbus Adapter (there is no encryption of the data transferred

between the AP and the Cardbus Adapter). WEP settings can be entered

here, or later, using the configuration utility. For an explanation of WEP

settings, see the section, Connecting to the Wireless Network below.

Configuring WEP as disabled is the easiest way to connect to an AP and

gain access to network resources, but is not secure. For WEP to work, all

of the WEP settings must be exactly the same on the AP as they are on

the Cardbus Adapter.

You have completed the installation of the DWL-AB650.

Showing a

good AP

connection

An additional utility is provided with your DWL-AB650 Cardbus Adapter to

set the card’s country location. Different countries around the world regulate

the frequencies that your DWL-AB650 Cardbus Adapter uses to communicate

with an AP and to transfer data. The Select Country utility allows you to tell

the card which country you are in, and the card will then select the frequencies

appropriate to that country.

It is important to note that the Country settings of your DWL-AB650 must be

the same as the country settings of an AP or another 802.11a or 802.11b

Cardbus Adapter in order for communication to take place.

From the Windows Start button, select Programs, and then D-Link

AirPro, and finally Select Country. The following screen will open:

Select your DWL-AB650 from the Network Card: pull-down menu, if

you have multiple NICs installed in your computer.

Select the appropriate country from the Country: pull-down menu.

Click OK.

The Select Country utiltiy will display the following screen for confirmation

of the change:

Select Country Utility

Click OK

Select Country

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