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Installation 2.1 Install Driver & Utility This section provides instructions on how to install the 300N Draft 802.11n Wireless PCI Adapter. The driver is installed along with the utility. Note: Be sure to power off your computer before inserting the Cardbus adapter. Step 1 Insert the PCI adapter into an available PCI slot and turn on your computer. Step 2 After turning on the computer, Windows will launch the Found New Hardware Wizard. The Found New Hardware Wizard appears differently depending on your operating system. Click Cancel to quit the wizard and insert the Installation CD into your CD drive. Step 3 The Autorun screen will pop up. Select Install Utility and Driver from the menu. 4 Note: If the Autorun screen doesn’t appear automatically, or if you get a blank white screen, go to Start, Run, and type D:\Utility\Setup.exe (where D is the letter of your CD drive) and click OK. Windows Vista users: At this point, you may get a warning message like the one below. Make sure that you click Allow to continue with the installation. 5 Step 4 Click Next at the welcome screen. Step 5 Click Next to accept the default destination folder. 6 Step 6 Click Continue Anyway at the Windows Logo Screen. (For Windows 2000, click Yes at the Digital Signature Not Found prompt). 7 For Windows Vista, click the Install this driver software anyway button when the security warning appears. Step 7 Click Yes, I want to restart my computer now and then Finish to restart your computer. 8 Step 8 After the computer is restarted, Windows will ask to connect to Windows Update, select No, not this time and click Next. If this screen does not appear, you can skip to section 2.2. Step 9 Select Install the software automatically and click Next. 9 Step 10 Click Continue Anyway at the Windows Logo Screen. (For Windows 2000, click Yes at the Digital Signature Not Found prompt). For Windows Vista, click the Install this driver software anyway button when the security warning appears. 10 Step 11 Click Finish. 11 2.2 Verify Driver Installation To verify if the driver has been installed successfully, please perform the following steps. Step 1 Right-click on My Computer from your desktop and select Properties. Step 2 If you are using Windows XP/2000 select the Hardware tab, then click on Device Manager. If you are using Windows Vista, click on the device manager link on the left side of the screen. 12 Step 3 Expand Network adapters from the list and verify that AirLink101 300N Wireless PCI Adapter is listed and no yellow question mark is beside it. If AirLink101 300N Wireless PCI Adapter is not listed, or you see a yellow question mark beside it, you will need to reinstall the driver. 13 3. Configuring the Adapter This section describes how to connect your wireless adapter to a wireless network. Note to Windows XP Users: You must disable the Wireless Zero Configuration Utility in order to use the bundled Wireless Utility. Please follow the steps below to disable XP’s wireless utility. Windows Vista users can skip the following instructions and go to Step 1 Double-click on the Wireless Network Connection Icon in the system tray and then click on Properties or Advanced. When the new wireless network connection properties window appears, go to the Wireless Networks tab, uncheck the “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings” check box and click OK. 14 Step 1 To open the utility, double click on the Wireless Monitor icon in the system tray at the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. Step 2 Go to the AP List tab, select the SSID (Network Name) of the wireless network you wish to connect to, and click Connect. 15 If the network you are attempting to connect to is configured for encryption, you will see an orange lock icon next to the network. 16 When you click on it and click connect, a box will pop up requesting the wireless encryption key for the router. Enter the encryption key into the box and click OK. 17 Step 3 You should now be connected. You should see “Connected” in the top, right hand corner, and there will be a blue circle around the antenna icon next to the network name. Troubleshooting: If you are experiencing problems with the connection (unable to connect, low signal strength, slow connection speed, not working, unstable wireless connection) you will want to tune your router’s signal by changing channels on the router or adjusting the antenna direction. You do not need to change the channel on the card, it will automatically pick up the new channel after you reboot. The only channel that you need to change is the router’s channel. Your router has 11 different channels to choose from. Start with channel 1 and work your way up. Each time you change the channel on the router, make sure that you restart the wireless computer before trying to connect again. Keep going through the channels until you find one that gives you a stable connection. For instructions on changing channels, refer to the documentation that came with your ...