3. Installation for Windows 95/98/NT4. 1. Introduction

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1 Cat. No Rev. D SA-PCR PRO.11 Drivers and Applications Quick Installation & Operation Guide 1. Introduction 1.1 Package Contents When you first open the SA-PCR PRO.11, the package contains the following: SA-PCR PRO.11 PC Card. SA-PCR PRO.11 Drivers and Applications, Quick Installation and Operation Guide. Two diskettes: 1. Windows 95/98/NT4/ODI Drivers 2. Application Diskette. 2. General Information For instructions to install ODI driver, see paragraph 8. In order to configure the SA-PCR you must install the Configuration Application. It is advisable to turn on the AP before installing the SA-PCR PRO.11 thereby enabling you to see the status via the LED's once the installation of the SA-PCR is complete. (See paragraph 4) The units work only with AP-10 PRO.11 ( software version or later). If you have previously installed the driver and/or the applications please un-install before re-installing (see Paragraph 6). In order to improve performance where there are more than 7 stations (all SA-PCRs or a mix of SA- PCRs and SA-10/40) you need to change the RTS Threshold in the AP-10 to To view the version of the SA-PCR make sure the card is inserted, run the Configuration Application and select the "Status" tab. 3. Installation for Windows 95/98/NT4 IMPORTANT: Make sure that you have access to the Windows CAB files (Installation CD or copy on local hard disk usually found in c:\windows\options\cabs). Please note that Windows requires your cab files to be in a directory whose name must NOT exceed 8 letters. It is advisable to restart windows when the installation is completed. 1. Installation of PC cards is different for different versions of Windows. Before starting to install the card check which version of Windows you are running 2. To check which version of Windows 95 do the following: Select icon My Computer from the desktop. Press the right button of the mouse. Select Properties from the pop-up menu. Under the title System will appear the version of Windows. If appears B then you have Windows 95B otherwise Windows 95A. 3. While Windows is running, insert the SA- PCR card into the PCMCIA slot. 4. Continue to paragraph 3.1 for Windows 95A Continue to paragraph 3.2 for Windows 95 B Continue to paragraph 3.3 for Windows 98 Continue to paragraph 3.4 for Windows NT4

2 3.1 Windows 95A 1. Windows 95 detects the adapter and displays the dialog box "New Hardware Found". 2. Select "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer", and then click OK. 3. In the "Install from disk " dialog box: Type "A:\, insert diskette provided by BreezeCOM, then click OK. The PC copies the necessary files from the diskette 4. The dialog box Please insert disk labeled Windows 95 CD-ROM appears then click OK. 5. The installation of the drivers is now complete. NOTE: If it is the first time a network card is installed, usual network setup dialog will sometimes be displayed (Machine name, workgroup name, etc). 3.2 Windows 95 B (OSR2) 1. Windows 95 detects the adapter and displays briefly the dialog box "New Hardware Found". 2. Windows then displays the "Update Device Driver Wizard" dialog box. 3. Insert the disk provided by BreezeCOM. 4. Click "Next" 5. When the dialog box notifying that Windows found the driver " BreezeCOM Wireless LAN Adapter", click "Finish". At this point there are two possibilities: A. If the CAB files were found automatically: 6. If file BRZCOM.VXD is not found a dialog box will appear requesting the file. Direct it to look in A:\ again and it will find it this time. The installation of the drivers is now complete. B. If the CAB files were not found automatically: 6. A window will appear with the message "Please insert the disk labeled Windows 95 CD-ROM " just press OK. 7. If file BRZCOM.VXD is not found a dialog box will appear requesting the file. Direct it to look in A:\ again and it will find it this time. 8. A window will appear with the message "Please insert the disk labeled Windows 95 CD-ROM " just press OK. 9. Enter the path where the cab files can be found. The installation of the drivers is now complete. 3.3 Windows Windows 98 detects the adapter and displays briefly the dialog box "New Hardware Found". 2. Windows then displays the "Add New Hardware Wizard" dialog box. Click "Next" 3. Select option Search for best driver. and press Next 4. Insert the disk provided by BreezeCOM. 5. Select option Floppy disk drives and press Next 6. Wizard notifies that driver for BreezeCOM PCMCIA Wireless LAN Adapter located. Click "Next" When the dialog box notifying that Windows finished installing the driver for " BreezeCOM Wireless LAN Adapter", click "Finish". 3.4 Windows NT 4 1. Open Control Panel and double click on the Network icon. 2. If message is displayed, The Windows NT Networking is not installed. Do you want to install it now?, click Yes, choose Wired to the network, and click Have Disk. If message is not displayed, go to Adapters tab, click Add, and click Have Disk. 3. Enter location of the driver files (for example, A: ). Click OK. 4. Choose from the displayed list BreezeCOM BreezeNET Wireless LAN PC Card. Click OK.

3 5. Specify the hardware resources for the PC Card: - Address of memory window - IRQ number (Use Windows NT Diagnostic WINMSD to see which resources are already taken) 6. Click on Close. 7. Click on Close. Configuration dialogs for other network components may appear. Enter information required for these dialogs. The installation is complete. Restart Windows NT. 3.5 Troubleshooting If the card does not function properly, check Device Manager for conflicts with other devices and drivers. 1. Right click my computer, Properties then Device Manager Tab. Click the Network Adapters to verify the status of the BreezeCOM PC card wireless LAN adapter. An exclamation mark next to the card indicates a conflict. In the event you have a Resource Conflict do the following: 1. Double click on the BreezeCOM Wireless LAN adapter. 2. Select Resources tab. 3. In the event that conflicting resources are listed in "Conflicting device list", edit the Memory Range and Interrupt to values that do not cause conflicts. If you don't have resource conflict and the card still doesn't work there might be a conflict with DOS drivers that Windows doesn't recognize. 1. Look for device drivers or lines containing device or call commands in either autoexec.bat or config.sys. 2. Disable the conflicting drivers and devices and uninstall and then reinstall the card. If you have bad performance with the NT driver, try using a different IRQ, even if the IRQ does not appear in the conflicting list. 4. LED Indicators The LED indicators are very useful for checking on activity on the SA-PCR PRO.11 Color Id State Meaning Yellow Link Status Blink Scanning Yellow Link Status Solid Authenticated / Associated. Green Data Traffic Blink According to traffic. 5. Installing the application software Note: If previously installed please remove the application (see paragraph 6) 1. Insert diskette labeled Application Disk Select Start=>Run and type a:\setup and press enter. 2. Press the Setup button. 3. A screen enabling you to choose the Destination Location will be displayed. If you want to change the destination press the button Browse. 4. Press OK. 5. A screen notifying you that setup is complete will be displayed. Press OK. 6. Un-installing in Windows 95/98/NT4 1. To stop the PC card (if it is running) Select Start=>Setting=>Control Panel=>PC Card icon Then the PC Card Properties window will appear. Select "BreezeCOM Wireless LAN PC Card" and press Stop. 2. Wait for the message You may safely remove this device and then remove the SA-PCR from your computer. 3. Close all active applications. 4. Select Start=>Setting=> Control Panel=>Network, select the BreezeCOM Wireless LAN adapter, and press the REMOVE button and then press OK. 5. Select No when asked to restart your computer

4 6. Insert the Driver Diskette. Select Start=>Run and type a:\drvclean. 7. When notified that the program deletes the SA- PCR driver press the Setup button. 8. Restart the computer. 9. If you installed the application software you must now uninstall it by selecting Start=> Programs=> BreezeCOM Utilities=> Uninstall. A window will appear asking if you are sure. Press Yes. Then Press OK You may then restart your computer. 7. Running the Configuration Application. 1. Select Start=> Program=> BreezeCOM Utilities=> Configuration. 2. Select WLAN Parameters tab. 3. Enter the ESS Id as defined in the AP (if using default ESS ID no need to change this value). 4. Perform reset by either restarting the computer or stopping the PC card and then pull out and reinsert the SA-PC PRO.11 card. NOTE: Default ESSID is ESSID1 in capital letters. 8. Installation for DOS Environment 8.1 Introduction The ODI driver for Novell Client16 (DOS requestor- VLM or DOS shell - NETX). For configuration of NDIS2 stack you require ODINSUP program which is available from Novell, Microsoft web site or BreezeCOM Technical Support. The following files are supplied for the DOS ODI environment: brzwlan.com brzwlan.ini ODI driver file, generic version. Default configuration file. net.cfg brzsetup.exe brzsurv.exe brzwlan.ins Sample ODI16 configuration file Configuration application. Site survey application Installation information for Novell client (DOS and Windows) In order to edit the SA-PCR configuration file you must use the configuration application, brzsetup.exe. A sample net.cfg file is provided, you may edit this to alter the parameters, generally this is not required. 8.2 Installation 1. Ensure Card Services are installed and running. 2. Using diagnostic utility provided with Card Services (For Phoenix - pcm.exe and for SystemSoft - Cardinfo.exe), verify that Card Services recognizes insertion and removal of the SA-PCR card. 3. Create directory for BreezeCOM DOS ODI driver c:\breezcom 4. Copy all the file from the directory DOSODI on the Driver Diskette to c:\breezcom. 5. Copy the LSL.COM file to c:\breezcom. 6. Change to directory c:\breezcom. Then run LSL.COM. 7. Type: BRZWLAN to load the driver. After DOS prompt is displayed again, the yellow LED on the card should blink several times, then stay lit. If the LED is not lit please go to Troubleshooting. 8. If required you may run BRZSETUP.EXE to change the WLAN parameters and edit the file net.cfg and then return to step You may now continue to install the required network environment such as Novell, Lantastic, etc. 10. For examples of installation for Novell clients or NDIS2 clients, see file examples.txt in the DOSODI directory on the driver disk.

5 8.3 Using the Configuration Application. 1. Change to the directory c:\breezcom. 2. Run brzsetup.exe. 3. Enter the filename of the configuration file or a name of a file that does not exist in order to create a new configuration file. The default is brzwlan.ini 4. Enter the ESS Id as defined in the AP (if using default ESS ID no need to change this value). 5. Restart the computer or unload and reload the driver, brzwlan.com. NOTE: Default ESSID is ESSID1 in capital letters. 8.4 List of Parameters in NET.CFG FRAME frametype - specifies the Ethernet frame type bound to the adapter (see Novell documentation). IRQ n - parameter specifies the default IRQ for the driver. (INT is synonym of IRQ) If this parameter is not specified, or the IRQ is not available, the driver will use any available IRQ. MEM xxxx - specifies physical address for memory. By default, the address is provided by Card Services. INIFILE filename - parameter points to the brzwlan.ini file. It will first try use file specified by this parameter. If it can not be found then it will look in the following locations, the directory of NET.CFG or otherwise the current directory 8.5 Troubleshooting. It is important that the driver, BRZWLAN.COM finds the configuration file. It looks for the file in the following order: According to the INIFILE parameter in net.cfg Brzwlan.ini in the same directory as the net.cfg Brzwlan.ini in the current directory when running brzwlan.com After installation of a Novell client, two copies of brzwlan.ini, brzwlan.com and net.cfg files may exist. If Card Services fails to provide correct memory and IRQ, edit net.cfg and alter IRQ and MEM parameters. If the driver reports an error allocating IRQ or memory, the Card Services failed to provide the required resources to the driver, or there are no resources available. Reboot without EMM386 or other programs that may take up the adapter memory region. Change the IRQ or MEM parameters in NET.CFG to force the driver to request specific resources. If driver did not display message "Testing device" the Card Services failed to recognize the card, or to provide the required information to the driver. Check the Card Services configuration. If an error is reported in NET.CFG or BRZWLAN.INI The files are corrupt, or you're not in correct directory. The yellow LED blinks and will not stay lit steady after several seconds. The AP and the PC Card are not configured with the same parameters. Check the configuration, the built-in antennas are not pulled out, or the external antenna is not attached to the PC Card. If the yellow LED does not light or blink, the driver is not receiving interrupts. Try to change IRQ. Electronic Emission Notices This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 1.This device may not cause harmful interference. 2.This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may caused undesired operation. FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense. Cat. No Rev. D