Edimax EW-7811UN User manual

EDIMAX COMPUTER INC.

Edimax EW-7811Un

150Mbps Wireless IEEE802.11b/g/n Nano USB Adapter

3350 Scott Blvd., B ilding #15

Santa Clara, California 95054, USA

Phone 408-496-1105 • Fax 408-980-1630

www.edimax.us

Edimax EW-7811Un

Congradulations on your purchase of the Edimax EW-7811Un. It is currently the smallest

wireless adapter, and we back them up with great technical support. We are committed to

making you a success because our success depends on yours.

This is a detailed step-by-step installation instruction for Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard,) and it is

basically the same for OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and OSX 10.4 (Tiger)

Assumptions:

1. You have the Edimax EW-7811Un Wireless USB adapter.

2. You have installed the adapter.

3. You have started-up the Mac and you are on the desktop.

4. You are running OSX 10.5 (Leopard.)

5. You download the latest EW-7811Un Mac driver from http://www.edimax.us

Download section. You have the downloaded driver file in the desktop.

Fig. 1

If the download file is a zip file, unzip

the file to get the folder of the driver.

Double click on the folder..

Fig. 2

Double click on Installer.pkg file.

Fig. 3

Welcome screen appears. The

installation process will strat.

Click on Continue button.

Fig. 4

Read the information. Click on Continue

button.

Fig. 5

Click on Continue button.

Fig. 6

Click on Agree button.

Fig. 7

It tells you how much disk space is

required. Click on Install.

Fig. 8

If you have an Administrator account

with password, you will need to enter it.

We entered our password and click on

OK.

Fig. 9

Acknowledge you the computer needs to

restart after the software been installed.

Click on Continue Installation.

Fig. 10

The software is installing.

Fig. 11

Congratulations! You’ve finished

installing your Mac OSX 10.5 driver.

Click on Restart. The Mac computer

will restart automatically.

If the EW-7811Un is not plugged into a

USB port of your computer, please plug it in.

Fig. 12

Upon Restarting, you should see the

Wireless Utility showing in the system

tray.

The Notice window pops up and reminds

you enable the WLAN Card in the

Network Item of System Preferences.

Click on OK.

Fig. 14

Open System Preference and go to

Network.

If you see a new Ethernet adapter show

up, that is the Nano Wireless adapter.

Just click on Apply.

If you do not see a new Ethernet adapter

show up, you can Edit Location and add

a new location. The default name for

Location is Untitled. You can change it

to a different name. Click on Done.

While you are back to Network status,

you should see the new Ethernet adapter

show up.

Close Network.

Fig. 15

Go back to Wireless Network Utility.

Go to the tab of “Available Network”.

Your 2.4GHz wireless network should

show up. Select your wireless network.

Click on “Add to Profile”.

Fig. 16

In the field of “Network Key” and

‘Confirm network key”, enter the

wireless security key (also known as

Passphrase). Click on OK.

Please note the wireless encryption key

is case sensitive. Most wifi issue is

caused by wrong encryption key. If you

do not know your key, you will need to

check the wireless security settings in

your wireless router.

Fig. 17

The wireless network utility shows

“Connected” in Link Status.

Fig. 18

Go to Network in System Preference to

verify the IP address of the new adapter.

You might have an IP address like

192.168.x.x or 10.0.1.x.

If the IP address is a self-assigned IP like

169.254.x.x., the wifi connection is

failed and the adapter does not get an IP

address from the wireless router.

Fig. 19

Open browser like Safari to get on

Internet.

Congratulations. Your wireless

connection is successful.

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