Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/ISA Card User manual

Brand: Lucent Technologies

Model: WaveLAN/ISA Card

Type: User manual

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The product described in this book is a licensed product of Lucent

Technologies Inc. --formerly the communications systems and

technology units of AT&T.

WaveLAN and WavePOINT are trademarks of Lucent Technologies.

IBM and AT are registered trademarks of International Business

Machines Corporation.

Microsoft, Windows 95, Windows NT, MS-Word, and MS-DOS are

registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Novell and Netware are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc.

Velcro is a registered trademark of Velcro, Inc.

Adobe, Acrobat is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.

All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered

trademarks of their respective holders.

September, 1996

It is the policy of Lucent Technologies to improve products as new

technology, components, software, and firmware become available.

Lucent Technologies, therefore, reserves the right to change

specifications without prior notice.

All features, functions, and operations described herein may not be

marketed by Lucent Technologies in all parts of the world. In some

instances, drawings are of equipment prototypes. Therefore, before

using this document, consult your Lucent Technologies

representative or Lucent Technologies office for information that is

applicable and current.

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WaveLAN Technical Support

If you encounter problems when installing or using this

product, or would like information about our other

WaveLAN products, please contact your local Lucent

Technologies Sales Office or Authorized WaveLAN

Reseller.

In emergency, or when no local support is available, you

can reach us at the telephone numbers listed below.

If applicable, please complete the WaveLAN Driver

Problem Report form and Fax or E-Mail it to us. This

form is available on WaveLAN software diskette 1 as

WVLANPRF.TXT

You can find the most recent software and user

documentation for all WaveLAN products on our

Bulletin Board Service and World Wide Web Site.

Useful Numbers and Addresses

U.S.A.

The Netherlands

Voice

+1 800 ATT WAVE

+31 30 609 7554

Fax:

+1 513 445 5552

+31 30 609 7636

BBS Line 1

+1 612 638 8494

+31 30 603 9417

BBS Line 2

+1 612 638 7619

+31 30 609 7553

Email (Internet)

SUPPORT@WAVELAN.COM

FTP Server

FTP://FTP.WAVELAN.COM/PUB

World Wide Web

HTTP://WWW.WAVELAN.COM

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Radio Frequency Interference Statement

Canada:

This device complies with RSS-210 of Industry and Science Canada.

USA - Federal Communications Commission (FCC):

This device complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules.

Operation of this device is subject to the following two conditions:

This device may not cause harmful interference.

This device must accept any interference that may cause undesired

operation.

Information to User:

This device must be installed and used in strict accordance with the

manufacturer's instructions. However, there is no guarantee that

interference to radio communications will not occur in a particular

commercial installation. If this device does cause interference, which

can be determined by turning the host equipment off and on, the user

is encouraged to consult the instruction manual of the host

equipment or the local device supplier. In case the device does cause

harmful interference with an authorized radio service, the

user/operator shall promptly stop operating the device until harmful

interference has been eliminated.

Lucent Technologies is not responsible for any radio or television

interference caused by unauthorized modification of this device or

the substitution or attachment of connecting cables and equipment

other than specified by Lucent Technologies.

The correction of interference caused by such unauthorized

modification, substitution or attachment will be the responsibility of

the user.

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Table of Contents

Preface

About This Manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v

Who Should Use This Manual . . . . . . . . . . .v

Chapter 1

Getting Started

About WaveLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Typical Network Configurations . . . . . . . 1-1

Other WaveLAN Products . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

WaveLAN Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Network Interface Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Optional Boot ROM Feature Kit. . . . . . . . 1-4

Preparing for Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Chapter 2

Installing the WaveLAN Card

Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Setting the Hardware Configuration

Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Installing the Card in your Computer . . . . . . . . 2-4

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Chapter 3

Installing the Software

Software Installation Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-1

Installing under Windows 95/NT . . . . . . 3-1

Installing under MS-DOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Installation Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-2

Create a Utilities Diskette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Install theNetwork operating Software . . 3-2

Create a WAVELAN.INI file . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6

Frequency Selection (2.4 GHz) . . . . . . . . . 3-6

Chapter 4

Troubleshooting

Radio-frequency Network Characteristics. . . . .4-1

Optimizing Network Performance. . . . . . 4-2

Arranging Network Stations . . . . . . . . . . .4-2

Problem Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

The Point-to-Point Diagnostics Utilities. .4-4

Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7

Chapter 5

The Point-to-Point Diagnostics Utility

About Point-to-Point Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . .5-1

Running Point-to-Point Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Selecting the Local WaveLAN Card. . . . . 5-2

Selecting a Link Test Partner . . . . . . . . . . .5-2

Changing Local Identifiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Selecting a Test Partner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-5

The Measurement Data Display. . . . . . . . 5-6

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Logging the Measurement Data. . . . . . . . 5-7

Command Line Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

Chapter 6

The Frequency Select Utility

About the Frequency Select Utility . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Running the Frequency Select Utility . . . . . . . . 6-3

Select a New Frequency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Command line parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4

Appendix A

WaveLAN Specifications

Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-1

Environment Definitions: . . . . . . . . . . . . .A-2

Appendix B

Driver Installation Examples

NetWare Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

DOS/ODI Workstation Driver . . . . . . . . B-1

NDIS Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3

LAN Manager Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3

Appendix C

Changing the Default IRQ

SETIRQ Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C-1

Index

Index1

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WaveLAN/ISA Card User’s Guide

Preface

About This Manual

This manual explains how to install and use the

WaveLAN Network Interface Card in an Industry

Standard Architecture (ISA or PC/AT) based personal

computer, running in a Novell NetWare or Network

Driver Interface Standard (NDIS) compatible network

environment.

Who Should Use This

Manual

The manual is intended to be used by network

administrators and others involved in planning,

installing and operating a WaveLAN network.

The manual assumes you have a working knowledge of

basic PC operations and are familiar with network driver

installation procedures.

Overview of the Manual

Chapter 1, “Getting Started”

Introduces you to WaveLAN networking concepts and

describes the system components. Lists the installation

steps and what you should consider before you begin.

Chapter 2, “Installing the WaveLAN Card”

Tells how to set up and install the WaveLAN Network

Interface Card in a personal computer, and how to

connect and position the antenna.

Chapter 3, “Installing the Software”

Describes how to install the WaveLAN software and set

WaveLAN parameters in the network driver

configuration files.

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Chapter 4, “Troubleshooting”

Describes the characteristics of radio-frequency

operation and how to optimize network performance.

Introduces the diagnostic utilities.

Chapter 5, “The Point-to-Point Diagnostics Utility”

Describes how you can use the Point-to-point

Diagnostics utility to optimize antenna placement and

verify proper operation of the WaveLAN card and

antenna.

Chapter 6, “The Frequency Select Utility”

Describes how you can use the WaveLAN Frequecny

Select Utility to verify the operating frequency of a

WaveLAN 915 MHz or 2.4 GHz card, and to change the

operating frequency of 2.4 GHz cards.

Appendices: A, “WaveLAN Specifications”

B, “Driver Installation Examples”

C, “Changing the Default IRQ”

Further Information

Special Installation Bulletins for installing

WaveLAN/ISA under Windows 95 or Windows NT are

provided on software diskette 2 that came with your ISA

Card. To view or print these Bulletin of your choice, copy

the files (

WIN95ISA.EXE

WINNTISA.EXE

from the

DOCS

directory to a local hard-disk drive. In your Filemanager

or Windows Explorer, double-click the file of your choice

to extract the document to MS-Word 6.0 format.

Note: Before installing the WaveLAN card, be sure to look at

the README.TXT file on the WaveLAN software

diskette, which contains information not available when

this User's Guide was printed.

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Getting Started

WaveLAN/ISA User’s Guide

Chapter 1

Getting Started

About WaveLAN 1-1

Typical Network Configurations 1-1

Other WaveLAN Products 1-2

WaveLAN Components 1-3

Network Interface Card 1-4

Optional Boot ROM Feature Kit 1-4

Preparing for Installation 1-6

1. Install the WaveLAN Card in a PC 1-6

2. Install the software 1-6

3. Test the Communications Path (optional) 1-7

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About WaveLAN

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WaveLAN/ISA User’s Guide

Getting Started

About WaveLAN

WaveLAN provides cable-free departmental local area

networking for personal computers. This gives you the

flexibility to relocate people and equipment, or to add

more stations to your network, without the planning

effort and cost of re-cabling.

Using radio communications technology, WaveLAN is

ideally suited to workgroup or departmental networks,

to extending wired networks into difficult to wire areas,

or to setting up temporary ad-hoc networks in special

situations.

Typical Network

Configurations

The WaveLAN Network Interface Card (NIC) and driver

software have been developed for use with common

industry-standard networking systems such as Novell

NetWare, LAN Manager and Windows for Workgroups.

Typical configurations include:

●

Standalone WaveLAN network including one or

more servers.

●

Physically separated WaveLAN networks (for

example: on different floors of the same building)

connected via a wired backbone.

●

Wired network with WavePOINT access point,

allowing wireless connection into the wired network

from one or more WaveLAN stations (see Figure 1-1

on page 1-2).

●

A wireless bridge connecting two wired LANs

(overcoming physical obstacles to a wired

connection).

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Figure 1-1

Wireless access to wired network

Other WaveLAN

Products

The WaveLAN family of wireless networking products

also includes:

●

WavePOINT - a wireless access point, facilitating

wireless cell extensions to wired LANs, and

backbone connections between wireless cells.

●

WaveLAN/PCMCIA - a WaveLAN NIC for

notebook and notepad computers and other

PCMCIA-equipped devices, enabling mobile

communications in WaveLAN networks.

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WaveLAN Components

The WaveLAN/ISA adapter kit contains the basic set of

components required to install WaveLAN in a personal

computer:

●

WaveLAN Network Interface Card.

●

Omni-directional Antenna Module.

●

WaveLAN software.

●

User's guide (this book).

The WaveLAN card is available with or without a built-

in encryption feature.

Figure 1-2

WaveLAN/ISA Kit

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Network Interface

Card

The Network Interface Card (NIC) is a printed circuit

board which acts as the interface between your personal

computer and the rest of the network. The NIC is

installed in a card slot inside the computer. It contains a

radio-frequency modem in addition to the circuitry

needed to process the signals exchanged between your

computer and other stations on the network. The NIC

also contains a socket for the optional Remote Boot ROM

feature.

Antenna Module

The Omni-directional Antenna module uses a coaxial

cable to attach to the NIC. The antenna module is

accompanied by a mounting bracket which you can use

to fix the antenna to a wall or let it stand upright on a

horizontal surface (e.g. PC base, desktop or filing

cabinet).

WaveLAN Software

The WaveLAN software consists of a number of drivers

and utilities, to enable you to install your WaveLAN

Card in various network environments:

●

Miniport Driver and

‘INF

’ file to install the card in a

Windows 95 or Windows NT environment.

●

Network drivers and support files that enable you to

use your WaveLAN NIC in a ODI- or NDIS-

compatible environment.

●

Diagnostic utilities allowing you to position

workstations and antennas for best performance, and

to monitor and diagnose your network.

●

Utilities for frequency selection and other

configuration options.

Optional Boot ROM

Feature Kit

A Remote Boot ROM for NetWare, that allows a network

station to boot from the server, can be installed on the

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card. For availability, contact your WaveLAN vendor or

local Lucent Technologies office.

New Features

The "half-size" ISA card is available in 915 MHz and

2.4 GHz versions. New features are:

●

Auto-connect - the ability to automatically connect to

a WavePOINT access point. This provides

relocatability without the need to reconfigure, for

terminals in environments where WavePOINTs are

present.

●

Frequency select (2.4 GHz cards) - ability to set the

WaveLAN card's frequency to any 2.4 GHz channel

(subject to national regulatory availability). This

enables more efficient management of the on-

premises radio spectrum usage and better protection

against interference.

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Preparing for Installation

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Preparing for Installation

What You Need

To install a WaveLAN network station, you must have

the following:

●

A (half-size) PC/AT or ISA compatible personal

computer with a free card slot.

●

MS-DOS version 5.0 or higher.

●

One of the following network operating

environments:

●

Windows 95 or Windows NT (workgroups)

●

Novell NetWare versions 2.1x or higher, 3.1x,

version 4.xx or Personal NetWare.

●

Any network operating system supporting the

NDIS-2 standard. Examples include: LAN

Manager, Microsoft Windows for Workgroups.

●

The basic WaveLAN component set, described

earlier.

●

An appropriate tool for removing the cover of your

computer.

Installation Steps

1. Install the WaveLAN Card in a PC

Install the optional Boot ROM on the WaveLAN

Network Interface Card if required, set the configuration

switches and install the card in a personal computer.

Connect the antenna. This step is described in Chapter 2,

“Installing the WaveLAN Card”.

2. Install the software

Install the WaveLAN software, and the Network

Operating software if not already installed.Set network

configuration parameters and optionally the card's

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operating frequency. The procedure is described in

Chapter 3, “Installing the Software” with references to

the appropriate appendices.

3. Test the Communications Path (optional)

When you have installed at least two WaveLAN cards,

or if a WavePOINT access point is installed, you can run

the Point-to-point Diagnostics utility to check out your

WaveLAN installation. Using the Point-to-point

Diagnostics utility is described in Chapter 5, “The Point-

to-Point Diagnostics Utility”.

Before you begin

Use the MS-DOS

Diskcopy

command to create a working

copy of your WaveLAN diskette. Use your working copy

in all card configuration and driver installation

procedures. Store the original in a safe place.

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