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SAMSUNG
MagicLAN
SWL-2210M/P
User Manual
(Rev. 1.4)
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  • Page 1 SAMSUNG MagicLAN SWL-2210M/P User Manual (Rev. 1.4)

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    1. MagicLAN Installation ……………...………..……………………………………...…...9 1.1 Introduction ..………..…………………...……………………………………….…..9 1.2 Technical Background ………………………………………………..……….…..…9 1.3 MagicLAN Overview….…………………...……………….….……….…..……...11 2. Before the Installation ………………………………………………………..………...13 2.1 What is in your Package …………………………………………………….….…..13 2.2 System Requirement ……………………………………..…………………….…...13 2.3 Preparations For Installation……………………………..…………………….…...13 3. MagicLAN Installation for Windows 98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP ……….………….14 3.1 Installation Overview ……………………………………….……………….……...14 3.2 Installation Procedure of Windows 98 ………………..….………….…..….14 3.3 Installation Procedure of Windows ME ………………..….………….…..….21...
  • Page 3 5.3 General Settings……………….………..…………...….……………..…….….……64 5.3.1 The ‘DHCP’ button…….………………………………………….…..….64 5.3.2 The ‘Options’ button…………………….…………………….……….….65 5.4 Version……………………………………………………….……………..…….65 6. Troubleshooting ………………………………………………...…….……….…….67...
  • Page 4 SAMSUNG Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. reserves the right to change this manual and the specifications to improve products without prior notice. So you can get the most recent software and user documentation for all MagicLAN products on our web site.

  • Page 5: Important Safety Information

    Therefore, the user must maintain a minimum distance of 20 cm from the antenna. Important Safety Information Read these simple guidelines. Breaking the rules may be dangerous or illegal. SAMSUNG will not be responsible for any damages caused by breaking the rules.
  • Page 6 (1024 bytes file transfer) Dimensions Certifications & FCC, R&TTE(Europe), Japan, Korea Regulatory Approvals Are in progress CopyrightⓒSamsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. SWL- 2210M MiniPCI Spec 1.0 2.400 ~ 2.4835GHz(Subject to local regulations) 3.3V±5% Receive :200mA(Typical) Transmit : 370mA(Typical) 1, 2, 5.5 or 11Mbps...
  • Page 7 (1024 bytes file transfer) Dimensions Certifications FCC, R&TTE(Europe), Japan, Korea & Are in progress Regulatory Approvals CopyrightⓒSamsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. SWL- 2210P PCI Spec 2.2 2.400 ~ 2.4835GHz(Subject to local regulations) 5V ±5% Receive :200mA(Typical) Transmit : 370mA(Typical) 1, 2, 5.5 or 11Mbps...
  • Page 8 **** Table: The Operating Channels Channel# Frequency 2412MHz ○ ○ ○ ○ 2417MHz ○ ○ ○ ○ 2422MHz ○ ○ ○ ○ 2427MHz ○ ○ ○ ○ 2432MHz ○ ○ ○ ○ 2437MHz ○ ○ ○ ○ 2442MHz ○ ○ ○ ○ 2447MHz ○...

  • Page 9: Magiclan Installation

    1. MagicLAN Installation 1.1 Introduction Thank you for your purchase of SAMSUNG MagicLAN. Installing this cards allow the computer to join a wireless network based on the IEEE 802.11b (High Data Rate) WLAN standard. You will be surprised how easy for you are a part of the network with no bother of twisted cables.
  • Page 10 • Infrastructure Network Infrastructure Network is architecture that provides communication between wireless clients and wired network resources. An Access Point (AP) and the associated wireless clients define the transition of data. So a wireless client can access all the services that are available for a regular wired LAN by using an AP.

  • Page 11: Magiclan Overview

    In case of direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) physical layer, this scanning process occurs at start up and may also occur when the client roams between APs. 1.3 MagicLAN Overview • The MagicLAN SWL-2210M/P e wireless LAN adapter cards that (MiniPCI/PCI Card) provide wireless connection between computers.
  • Page 12 • The MagicLAN supports various network software. The network driver is provided to support network software such as Windows 95(OSR2), Windows 98/98SE,ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows CE. • To get further information of Samsung MagicLAN WLAN Card, please visit our website http://www.magiclan.com to download the respective drivers.

  • Page 13: Before The Installation

    • For Desktop PCI Card (SWL-2210P): The computer system should have extra IRQs and a Memory address. • For Laptop MiniPCI Card (SWL-2210M): The computer system should have MiniPCI Type IIIA, extra IRQs and Memory address. 2.3 Preparations For Installation ◇...

  • Page 14: Magiclan Installation For Windows 98/Me/Nt4.0/2000/Xp

    1. Install the Access Point at first. AP is needed in case of Infrastructure network mode. 2. You should install the Wireless LAN Card (SWL-2210M/P). 3. Install the software using the Installation CD. 4. Install the network protocol(s) required to communicate on your network. Most likely you will need the TCP/IP protocol.
  • Page 15 You can find the “SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI Card ” and now it is ready to install our software. 5. Press ‘NEXT’ and system will copy driver files. You may require Windows 98 Now driver files are fully installed to start the Wireless LAN Card’s operation.
  • Page 16 6. After rebooting your computer, right click on the My Computer using the mouse and click Properties. 7. Check for the SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI Card by clicking on the Device Manager. If you find the Yellow sign on the adapter, it shows the installation is not successful.
  • Page 17 11. Select the TCP/IP option for setting the IP address value, Gateway value and DNS value of your computer. After setting these parameters appropriately, click OK to return to Network Component Type. 12. you can select the File and Printer Sharing options as well as the access to your computer by other users connected to that network by setting the appropriate options.
  • Page 18 13. Screen message ‘Do you want to restart your computer now?’ will pop up. Select Yes. It will shut down your computer and will restart. 14. After booting the computer, you have to draw out and re-insert the MagicLAN Installation CD to be automatically installed. You can click ‘Install Configuration Utility’...
  • Page 19 2. You can see the pictures of Wireless LAN Cards by model MiniPCI/PCI Card). Click on the model name to install it’s driver. 3. Click on Operating System in the right screen in which you want to install driver. name.(SWL-2210M/P...

  • Page 20: Installation Procedure Of Windows Me

    3. After installing driver, shut down your computer and insert card. And power on the computer. 4. The system recognize the Wireless LAN Card. 5. The other procedures are same to 7~15 of first > Cf.) The third method : You can combine ‘Method 1’...
  • Page 21 5. After booting the computer, right click on the My Computer using the mouse and click property. 6. Check for the SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI Card the Device manager. If you find the Yellow sign on the adapter, it shows the installation is not successful. Select the Adapter and click on Remove. Restart your computer after uninstalling the driver.
  • Page 22 7. Right click on the Network Neighborhood using the mouse. Select Properties from the pop up menu. The network box appears and you see three main tabs: Configuration, Identification and Access Control. 8. Click on the configuration tab and then click on the add button. Select Network Component Type box appears.
  • Page 23 10. Select the TCP/IP option for setting the IP address value, gateway value and DNS value of your computer. After setting these parameters appropriately, click OK to return to Network Component Type. 11. you can select the File and Printer Sharing options as well as the access to your computer by other users connected to that network by setting the appropriate options.
  • Page 24 12. Screen message ‘Do you want to restart your Computer now?’ will pop up. Select Yes. It will shut down your computer and will restart. 13. After booting the computer, you have to draw out and re-insert the MagicLAN Installation CD to be automatically installed. You can click “Install Configuration Utility”...
  • Page 25 2. You can see the pictures of Wireless LAN Cards by model name.(SWL-2210M/P MiniPCI/PCI Card). Click on the model name to install it’s driver. 3. Click on Operating System in the right screen in which you want to install driver.
  • Page 26 The other procedures are same to 5~14 of first > Cf.) The third method : You can combine ‘Method 1’ with ‘Method 2’. In other words, after inserting card into the computer, you can install driver and utility by using the installshield instead, not by the inf file.

  • Page 27: Installation Procedure Of Windows Nt4.0

    3.4 Installation Procedure of Windows NT4.0 Please follow the following steps one by one to install the 1. Insert SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI Card computer. 2. Windows NT will start in your computer and follow the below procedures. Notice that there’s some difference between When Windows NT networking is not installed and When Windows NT networking is already installed .
  • Page 28 6. In Select OEM Option box, you will see MiniPCI/PCI Card and select the correct card type and click on OK. You confirm SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI Card on NEXT. 7. Select the network protocols by clicking on the check box. And click on NEXT.
  • Page 29 8. In the next box to choose network services to use, make sure that all the services you want to use are checked and click on Next. 9. In the next box it is confirmed that necessary NT networking components are selected.
  • Page 30 from, insert your Windows NT CD and type in D:\i386(Where D is the CD-drive of your computer) in the location blank. 11. Some files from the D:\i386 directory are copied and you may be prompted the same box to ask you to specify where NT files are once more. Since it is looking for some files form the MagicLAN Installation CD, insert your MagicLAN Installation CD in CD drive and type D:\nt40 in the blank location and click on continue.
  • Page 31 values respectively and then click on OK. 15. Binding properties will pop up. Click on NEXT. 16. Now it is ready for starting network. Click on NEXT.
  • Page 32 17. You can assign Workgroup/ Domain name. And click on NEXT. 18. Click on the Finish and it will ask you whether you want to restart your computer not. Click on NO. 19. You have to insert the MagicLAN Installation CD to be automatically installed. 20.
  • Page 33 (Where D is the CD-drive of your computer) in the blank and click on OK. 6. In Select OEM Option box, you will see MiniPCI/PCI Card and select the correct card type and click on OK. You confirm SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN...
  • Page 34 SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI Card on Next . 7. Card Setup box may appear. Set each parameters (Network mode, ESSID, and Tx rate etc) for the proper LAN card configuration. 8. Confirm that “SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI selected. 9. Click on Bindings.
  • Page 35 do not need to specify the IP address. In case of Static, enter IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway respectively. 12. Select ‘DNS’ tab and enter the appropriate values. Ask your network administrator about the detailed matter. 13. Select ‘WINS Address’ tab and enter the appropriate values. Ask your network administrator about the detailed matter.
  • Page 36 OSs(Windows NT4.0, 2000, XP). 18. You can set up Wireless LAN environment by our utility program provided. Refer to ‘Chapter 4’ in this manual.

  • Page 37: Installation Procedure Of Windows 2000

    3.5 Installation Procedure of Windows 2000 Please follow the following steps one by one to install the < Method 1 - Inserting card first > 1. Ins ert the MiniPCI/PCI Card 2. Power on your computer and allow Windows 2000 to load fully. 3.
  • Page 38 6. Check for the SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI Card Manger of a Computer Management in the Adminidtrative Tools . If you find the Yellow sign on the adapter, it shows the installation is not successful. In this case, select the adapter and click on Remove.
  • Page 39 8. Click on the TCP/IP option for setting the IP address for your computer. Set the IP value, Gateway value, DNS value. After setting these parameters appropriately, click OK to return to Network Component Type. 9. You can select the File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks options to allow the Access to your computer by other users connected to that network by setting the computer sharing options.
  • Page 40 2. You can see the pictures of Wireless LAN Cards by model MiniPCI/PCI Card). Click on the model name to install it’s driver. 3. Click on Operating System in the right screen in which you want to install driver. name.(SWL-2210M/P...
  • Page 41 4. After installing driver, shut down your computer and insert Wireless LAN card. And power on the computer. 5. The system recognize the Wireless LAN Card. 6. The other procedures are same to 6~12 of < Method 1 - Inserting card first >...

  • Page 42: Installation Procedure Of Windows Xp

    5. Now driver files are fully installed to start the Wireless LAN Card’s operation. 6. Check for the SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI Card Management in the Administrative Tools of the Control Panel. If you find the Yellow sign on the adapter, it shows the installation is not successful. In this case, into slot of your computer.
  • Page 43 select the adapter and click on Remove. Restart your computer after uninstalling the driver to make the changes effective. (See the Adapter Removal in section 3.8) 7. Of the icons displayed on the right bottom of desktop, click on icon Wireless Network Connection.
  • Page 44 Next, move to the General Tab. After the double click the “Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)”, set the IP value, Gateway value and DNS value and click on OK. All will be done by clicking on OK once more.
  • Page 45 1. If you insert the MagicLAN Installation CD into the CD-ROM drive, software will launch automatically. Then, click on the ‘Install MagicLAN Driver’. 2. You can see the pictures of Wireless LAN Cards by model MiniPCI/PCI Card). Click on the model name to install it’s driver. name.(SWL-2210M/P...
  • Page 46 3. Click on Operating System in the right screen in which you want to install driver. 4. After installing driver, shut down your computer and insert Wireless LAN card. And power on the computer. 5. The system recognize the Wireless LAN Card. If Found New Hardware Wizard appears, just click Next .
  • Page 47 “Refresh” in ther Device Manager. [ Use of Our company’s Utility in Windows XP ] You can also set up the Wireless LAN by the our company’s utility program instead of Windows XP’ utility program. After booting the computer, you have to draw out and re-insert the MagicLAN Installation CD to be automatically installed.

  • Page 48: Update Of Magiclan Wireless Lan Card Driver

    3.7 Update of MagicLAN Wireless LAN Card Driver 1. After inserting the MagicLAN Installation CD, click the Install MagicLAN Driver and select the Card and Operating System that you want to update in. If selection box appears, select ‘Reinstall MagicLAN Software’ between ‘Remove’ and ‘Reinstall’.
  • Page 49 (cf) If you want to just remove the WLAN Card from the PC, click and Stop SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI Card icon the right bottom of your computer screen. Then you remove the WLAN Card after clicking the OK button on the message, ‘SAMSUNG 11Mbps WLAN MiniPCI/PCI Card can now be safely removed from the...

  • Page 50: The Program For Setting Magiclan

    4. The Program For Setting MagicLAN 4.1 The concept of Profile TCP/IP settings for the fixed networks/Wired LAN have no problems, as they do not deal with the mobility. But in case of mobile equipments such as WLAN card, when WLAN client has moved from home to Office or vice-versa, the difficulty for using the old TCP/IP settings arises.
  • Page 51 2. Input a profile name in Profile Name and description for your profile name in Description and click the NEXT button, the following window will appear. Select the Operating Mode to use and click the NEXT button. Default operating mode is Infrastructure.
  • Page 52 - Infrastructure Network is the structure that the communication between Wired LAN and Wireless LAN is feasible. Wireless client is possible to access to the other Network (include Internet) via Access Point. - Ad-hoc/802.11Ad-hoc Network support the communication among Wireless clients. Due to the support of communication among Wireless equipment, Ad-hoc Network doesn’t need Access Point.
  • Page 53 5. Select the WEP Mode and Click the Next button - WEP Mode This is security tool to protect your DATA from unauthorized users. To use the function of WEP, The WEP key settings for client must be same to that of AP in the Infrastructure Mode, and the WEP key settings must be same for all clients in the Ad-hoc/802.11Ad-hoc Mode.
  • Page 54 6. Enter a valid IP address. IP address can be allocated automatically. (cf. it is limited to users who use the DHCP server or ADSL connection). As only checked in “Manage TCP/IP together with Profile”, IP address can be controlled in the Profile. This menu does not appear under MS Windows NT.
  • Page 55 8. Click the Profile name shown in the above window click the Apply button. The settings will be over. If the IP address entered in the system settings is different than the IP address selected under profile name, system IP settings will be changed without rebooting your system.

  • Page 56: The Main Configuration Of Program

    5. The main configuration of Program During the installation of your SAMSUNG WLAN Card, configuration utility is also installed. You can see the icon at the right bottom of your screen. Double clicking that icon will show you the screen as shown below.

  • Page 57: Profile

    This is also the MAC address of the WLAN card. IP Address: Address used to send data from one computer to another to create the network of several computers. IP address is unique for every network card installed on a computer to identify it from other computers.
  • Page 58 Clicking the Edit button or the Profile name that was created previously, you can modify that Profile. Click the WEP button to set the security. 1. First of all, select the ‘40 bit’. 2. Input a certain value (ex. test1 etc) in the ‘Passphrase’ and click the Generate button.
  • Page 59 Then it will make four values of keys automatically. 3. Then you set the same value to the WEP of AP. (cf. If you use the WLAN made from other company, you must set the same values in the four keys) You can set the ‘Power Saving’...

  • Page 60: The 'Delete' Button

    RF interference. Click the TCP/IP to input the IP directly or receive IP automatically. 5.1.4 The ‘Delete’ button Select a profile and click on Delete button to remove that profile. 5.2 Status...

  • Page 61: The 'Current Status' Button

    5.2.1 The ‘Current Status’ button It shows the current state of the WLAN card. (Refer to the ‘ The main configuration of Program’) 5.2.2 The ‘AP Status’ button It shows the current state of AP. (You can see the IP address changed by the Get Status button)

  • Page 62: The 'Site Survey' Button

    Model: It shows the name of model. Version: It shows the version of AP. Description: It is the name of AP designated by AP manager during AP setup. NAT: It shows whether the private IP address (NAT server) is enabled or not. DHCP: It shows whether the DHCP sever is enabled or not.

  • Page 63: Statistics

    Signal: It shows the connection state of Stations with AP or Master Station. Rate: It shows the Tx Data rates. WEP: It shows security state with the AP. BSSID: It represents the Physical Address of AP in the Infrastructure Mode and the Random Generation value in the 802.11 Ad-hoc Mode.

  • Page 64: The 'Options' Button

    - It works when it is enabled. - The Get Status button shows the updated information obtained from the DHCP server. - The Release DHCP button releases the IP Address that was received from the DHCP server. - The Renew DHCP button is for receiving the IP Address from the DHCP server. 5.3.2 The ‘Options’...
  • Page 65 You can see the Driver and Firmware version for your WLAN card currently in use. Click the Website to get more information about WLAN.

  • Page 66: Troubleshooting

    A. Open Device Manager and set disable the unused network adapter(PPP adapter ,etc.) by clicking right mouse. Q. I want to use Samsung client utility in the Windows XP. But, we can’t set up correctly. A. Windows XP provides each configuration utility of LAN and Wireless LAN by OS in...
  • Page 67 In case of this, you must select the “Manage the Wireless Control by this utility under WinXP” in the Option menu of General Settings in the Samsung client utility. Please refer to the website: about other detailed questions. http://www.magiclan.com/product/magiclan/support/faq.htm...

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