Benq 56W10 Wireless PCMCIA Card User Manual Installation

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BENQ Corporation i GPRS with WLAN PC Card W10 User’s Manual Version 1.0 April 2003

BENQ Corporation iiNotice I Copyright Statement This manual cannot be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative such as translation, transformation, or adaptation without the prior written permission of BenQ Corporation. BenQ Corporation 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 BenQ Wireless LAN products on our web site. http://www.BenQ.com Trademarks Copyright © 2003 BenQ Corporation. All rights reserved. Contents subject to change without prior notice. BenQ is a registered trademark of BenQ Corporation. All other trademarks belong to their respective proprietors.

BENQ Corporation iiiNotice II FCC Warning Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one of the following measures: - Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. - Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. - Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. - Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. FCC Caution: Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate this equipment. 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, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. IMPORTANT NOTE: FCC Radiation Exposure Statement: This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment. This device complies with FCC RF Exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment, under 47 CFR 2.1093 paragraph (d)(2). This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. Note: The W10 has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class Bdigital device and a low power transmitter, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules.These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmfulinterference when the equipment is operated in a residential environment. Thisequipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if notinstalled and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmfulinterference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee thatinterference will not occur in a particular installation.

BENQ Corporation ivTable of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction ................................................................. 1 1.1. Product Kit ......................................................................................... 2 1.2. System Requirements........................................................................ 2 1.3. Mechanical Description...................................................................... 2 Chapter 2. Installation ................................................................... 4 2.1. Installing your SIM card to W10......................................................... 4 2.2. Removing your SIM card from W10................................................... 6 2.3. Driver Installation ............................................................................... 7 2.4. Using and Removing your W10 from your laptop ............................ 12 Chapter 3. W10 Wireless Settings.............................................. 14 3.1. UI Functions..................................................................................... 14 3.1.1. System Tray...............................................................................................15 3.1.2. Main Function Bar .....................................................................................15 3.1.2.1. Network Configuration.....................................................................16 3.1.2.1.1. GSM connection.................................... 錯誤! 尚未定義書籤。 3.1.2.1.2. GPRS connection..................................................................16 3.1.2.1.2.1 GPRS Connection setting ...................................................18 3.1.2.1.3. WLAN....................................................................................20 3.1.2.2. Phone..............................................................................................24 3.1.2.3. Short Message Service (SMS) ........................................................26 3.1.2.4. Phone Book.....................................................................................28 3.1.2.5. Setting .............................................................................................30 Chapter 4. TroubleShooting ....................................................... 35

BENQ Corporation 1Chapter 1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing a BENQ W10 GPRS with WLAN PC Card. The W10 offers GSM/GPRS tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz and IEEE 802.11b WLAN 2.4GHz connectivity in a single PC Card, ensuring that you can connect quickly and easily to the Internet wherever you are in more than 160 countries on five continents. The W10 provides both data and voice communications, giving you the freedom to send and receive e-mail and make voice calls with same device, and even simultaneously. The W10 also includes a phone book, and SMS capabilities, providing the full functionality of a cell phone on your laptop. The W10's specially designed user-friendly utility helps you easily manage all functions. With the W10, you can save thousands of messages and phone numbers on your laptop. The W10 is the best solution for enterprises, SOHO users, and households that need to expand their networking environments easily and that need to access the Internet anytime, anywhere. With the W10, no matter where you are, you can stay in touch with customers and other important people by phone or e-mail. In addition to allowing you to enjoy the wonders of wireless networking, the W10 provides two operating modes—ad-hoc mode (peer-to-peer) and infrastructure mode (station-to-AP)—to meet to your varying needs at different purposes.

BENQ Corporation 21.1. Product Kit Before installation, make sure that you have the following items:  W10 GPRS with Wireless LAN PC Card  Hands-Free  Software CD containing user manual and utility  Quick Start Guide  Warranty card 1.2. System Requirements Before using your W10, please check that you have the following required items:  Notebook PC with PCMCIA Type II slot and CD-ROM drive  Microsoft Windows 2000/XP operating system (recommend), Windows 98 SE/ ME. 1.3. Mechanical Description Top panel of the PCMCIA The following table provides an overview of each LED activity: WLAN LED GPRS LED Color Blue Blue Red Power On Stable On Off On Signal Searching Slow flash Fast flash Off No Signal Off Off On Data RF activity On On WLAN LED GPRS LED SIM card holder Ear Phone Jack

BENQ Corporation 3Ring Tone NA On/switching flash

BENQ Corporation 4Chapter 2. Installation 2.1. Installing your SIM card to W10 To successfully use your W10, you have to insert your SIM card supplied by your network operator. 1. Push the SIM card holder out and slide it in the direction shown. 2. Place your SIM card to the W10 SIM card holder in the direction shown. Note that the gold contact part of the SIM card faces outside.

BENQ Corporation 53. Please make sure the SIM card is firmly fixed in the SIM card holder as below shows. 4. Insert the SIM card holder (with the SIM card inside) back to W10 in the direction shown. Then, you are ready to use full functions of W10.

BENQ Corporation 62.2. Removing your SIM card from W10 Please follow the instructions below to remove your SIM card from W10 after using it. 1. Push the SIM card holder out and slide it in the direction shown. 2. Use your fingers to bend the middle part of the W10 SIM card holder as the follow picture shows in order to remove your SIM card from the holder.

BENQ Corporation 72.3. Driver Installation Please insert the W10 auto-run installation CD into your CD-ROM Drive of your laptop. The CD have installation program and operation manual. Please select “” to start the installation. Then CD will start the installation process automatically. Select a setup language you wish to install and press OK button. The W10 driver is activated to prepare the InstallShield Wizard. Please wait

$BENQ Corporation 8while copying files. Select a location to install W10 files. The default location is C:\Program$

$BENQ Corporation 9Files\BENQ Corporation\w10. To install W10 files to this folder, click Next. If you want to install to another folder, click Browse and select another folder. Please wait while installing files. Press Yes and restart your computer.$

BENQ Corporation 10 After installing the W10 driver, please insert W10 PCMCIA Adapter into your notebook. The system will show “Found New Hardware” message and start the hardware configuration. (If your Operating System is Windows XP, the system will ask if you are willing to continue the installation. Please click “Start to install”.)

BENQ Corporation 11The system will then show a warning message as follows.　 W10 has been tested in stringent conditions. Please feel free and comfortable to click “Yes” to continue the installation. W10 provides dual module functions and the system will continue to find a new hardware “GPRS+Wireless LAN Modem Primary”, please feel free to continue the installation. (If your Operating System is Windows XP, the system will ask again if you are willing to continue the installation. Please click “Yes” to start the installation process.) The system will then show a warning message as follows. The reason is the same as described above. Please feel comfortable to click “Yes” to continue the installation.

BENQ Corporation 12 The same message will appear again when finding the next new hardware “GPRS+Wireless LAN Modem Secondary (1201)”. Please repeat all the procedure illustrated above and click “Yes” to continue the installation. The W10 installation is now completed and after finishing all these steps, you are able to find the W10 Wireless Settings utility icon (as circled below) on the system tool bar. This means the installation is done successfully. Now you may start to enjoy your W10. 2.4. Using and Removing your W10 from your laptop W10 has smart function “Plug & Play”. Once you plug your W10 into the laptop, you can start using W10 right away. If you finish using W10, you may just directly remove and no need to stop it. While you remove the card, Windows will pop-up a warning saying that you didn’t remove your properly. Please feel comfortable and select “OK”. (If you are using WinXP, there is no such warning.)

BENQ Corporation 13 Warning: 1. DO NOT remove W10 while it is still operating any tasks. Please only remove it, while it completes all the tasks. 2. DO NOT plug-in W10 before W10 utility installation. Please make sure you have successfully installed W10 utility before plugging W10 into your CD ROM Drive.

BENQ Corporation 14Chapter 3. W10 Wireless Settings 3.1.1. System Tray When the 56W10 PC Card is inserted into PCMCIA slot, a small icon is shown on the system tray to indicate the card insertion. After you click that icon with right-button of mouse, a menu will be shown.  “Main” is for the function selection region.  “Setting” is for settings of all cell phone supplemental functions.  “RF Function” is the key to active WLAN or GSM. Please see the picture in the left. While “RF function” is not checked, the GSM/GPRS functions will be activated and “WLAN function will be turned off. And vice versus, while “RF Function” is checked, the WLAN function is active and GSM/GPRS functions will be turned off. But SMS, Phone book, and Setting functions still function.  “About” is for the software version of each function.  “Exit” means that user quits using W10 user applications and he/she tries or removes the card from slot.  When there is an either one network (WLAN or GSM) available, an icon will come up with triangle in the system tray. When there are both WLAN and GSM networks available, the icon in the system tray will show 2 triangles. 3.1. UI Functions The UI functions are implemented in individual dialog box.

BENQ Corporation 153.1.1. System Tray When the 56W10 PC Card is inserted into PCMCIA slot, a small icon is shown on the system tray to indicate the card insertion. After you click that icon with right-button of mouse, a menu will be shown. “Main” is for the function selection region, “Setting” is for settings of all cell phone supplemental functions. “Exit” means that user quits using W10 user applications and he tries or remove the card from slot. “About” is for the software version of each functions. When there is a either one network (WLAN or GSM) available, an icon will come up with triangle in the system tray. When there are both WLAN and GSM networks available, the icon in the system tray will show 2 triangles. 3.1.2. Main Function Bar When the Main Function Bar appears on the screen, users can have 5 choices. 1. WLAN/GPRS/GSM Network Configuration 2. Phone 3. Short Messages Service (SMS) 4. Phone Book 5. Phone Setting When the mouse pointer crosses over the button, the color of button will be changed to show which function has been selected. These functions could not operate at the same time except thw phone wizard.

BENQ Corporation 20 3.1.2.1.3. WLAN When users choose network configuration, the submenu will pop up. Left click the mouse on the WLAN item and the WLAN control panel will pop up.  Status - Network Adapter You can select from a list of supporting network adapter in this field. (Please kindly select BenQ W10 GPRS with WLAN PC Card - State The current state of the driver is displayed in this screen. If the state reveals “Associated,“ it means that the normal flow of operation is in Infrastructure mode. This shows that the PC is already connected to access point and BSSID is also shown in the form of hex digits. At the same time, the networking is available for the device.

BENQ Corporation 21In “Scanning ” state, it means that the node cannot detect the SSID to an access point within range and is searching for an available access point. Also, if the driver failed to initiate for some unknown reasons, this field will display an error message. - Network Adapter You can see the current operation mode, Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc mode. - Channel This field shows the current radio channel, which is being used for an active connection. - Tx Rate This field shows the current transmit rate, which is being used for an active connection. - Security This field tells if you have opened your WEP security. - IP Address The field shows the IP Address of the current Internet adapter. - Signal Strength The Signal Strength bar graph only becomes active, when the node is in Infrastructure Mode. This bar graph shows normalized signal strength as reported by the radio, averaged over all frames over 100 bytes long, which are received from the Access Point. Status information about the radio link is displayed in this tab. Detailed description should be placed in this field. - Link Quality This field reveals the quality of the current connection. Only when the node is in Infrastructure Mode does the Link Quality bar graph become active. The bar graph displays the link quality between the node and its Access Point. Over the bar graph, a label summarizes the quality of the link. As a result, the Link Quality is a

BENQ Corporation 23Network Type You can select from a list of supporting network types in this field. The network types displayed will have two values as following: “Infrastructure” and “Ad-Hoc”. Channel This field shows the current radio channel, which is being used for an active connection. In “Ad-Hoc” mode, please select your channel responding to other WLAN adapters you would like to associate with. This is a non-compliant mode, which will allow W10 cards to talk to one another without an AP regardless any SSID. WEP Mode: You could active or inactive your WEP security function by selecting “On” or “Off”. Key Length: According to WEP function select, this page allows the entry of four keys for 64-bit or 128-bit encryption key. Each key must consist of hex digits to be written to the driver and registry. This means that only digit number 0-9 and letters A-F are valid entries. Therefore, if entered incorrectly, the program will not write keys to a driver. Key 1 – Key 4: When you want to enter the keys manually, you may use these four fields. If you wish this node to match keys in a different vendor’s product, this may be necessary. Key ID: You may select one from the 4 keys you have entered to match with the AP’s WEP key. Apply: This button becomes active only when one of the fields has been modified. Press this button to apply the changed values to the driver and saves them to the registry.

BENQ Corporation 24  Site Survey - Rescan This button will scan all available Access Points in your neighborhood and then list their SSID, channel, BSSID and signal respectively. - Join Select the SSID you want to be associated with, and then press this Join button to join this network. 3.1.2.2. Phone When user click phone service button in the W10 main menu bar, a phone-shaped dialog box will be popped up. Users can use the keypad on this dialog as they use a normal mobile phone. Or they can use keyboards on their notebook or PC to enter numbers or do other operations. Users can easily access phone book records for the numbers they want dial. They also can retrieve call records from this scenario, which facilitate quick redial or reply.

BENQ Corporation 25 Phone (Use it as using a normal mobile phone) Out calling: Users can either key-in the phone number on the keyboard and press “Enter” to make a call or use mouse to click the number keypads on the phone-shaped dialog box to dial and then click the “Send/Answer” key to make a call. Incoming call: Users can press “Enter” or use mouse to click the “Send/Answer” key on the phone-shaped dialog box to answer the incoming call. Phone book Users can press the left soft key to access the Phone book. The Phone book contact list menu will pop up and users can either search or edit the Phone book. Adjusting the Ringing Volume Users can press the “volume adjust” key to adjust the ringing volume.

BENQ Corporation 26 3.1.2.3. Short Message Service (SMS) When users choose “Short Message” service, a Microsoft Outlook-shaped dialog box will be popped. A full view for all received or sent short messages. If users click some message item, you can see the content in the below area. Users can edit, save, delete, reply, and create messages in this scenario. I. Inbox: Reading received messages. Click the “Inbox” button and all the messages in the inbox will be listed on the message dialogue box. II. Outbox: Reading sent messages. Click the “Outbox” button and all the messages in the outbox will be listed on the message dialogue box. III. Backup: Backing up messages. Click the “Backup” button and all the messages stored in the backup will be

BENQ Corporation 27listed on the message dialogue box. IV. Delete: Reading deleted messages. All the deleted messages will be stored here. I. Create New Short Message: Click this button and the following frame appears, fill in the recipient’s phone number in the “Tel No” column and enter the message text you desire to send. Then, click the “Send Message” button to send the message. In addition, users can click the “Phone book” button to view phone book. II. Forward Short Message: Click this button to forward short messages. III. Reply Short Message: Click this button to reply short messages. IV. Delete Short Message: Click this button to delete short messages.

BENQ Corporation 28 3.1.2.4. Phone Book When users choose “Phone Book”, a full view of all phone book records are shown in the dialog box. Users can create new records, edit or delete records. Users can search records for names too. It’s convenient for users to dial a number, send a short message from the phone book scenario. When users select one record on the list, and choose to send a short message, the “Short Message” service dialog will be popped up for sending messages. I. View or Add SIM Record: With this item users can view or add phone records to SIM card.

BENQ Corporation 29II. View or Add PC Record: With this item users can view or add phone records to PC. II. View Call Logs: This menu contains lists of the calls you missed, sent and received. Phone Book Tool Bar: 1. Make a Call: Users can select a number from the phone book record list and press the “Make a Call” key to make a call. 2. Send SMS: Users can select a number from the phone book record list and press the “Send SMS” key to send a short message. 3. New: Press this key to add a new record to the phone book list. 4. Edit: Users can select a record from the phone book list and press the “Edit” key to revise the content of the record.

BENQ Corporation 305. Delete: Users can select a record from the phone book list and press the “Delete” key to delete the record. 6. Find: Press this key and a dialogue box will be popped up, users can search for the record from all range (SIM page, PC page, Record page) by entering names or numbers. 3.1.2.5. Setting The settings are phone related settings, which include audio setting, call related setting, network setting, and security related settings. Users can reach all dialog by click the tab.  Audio Setting - Ringer type selection Users can customize their favorite ringers sound types. (The Host must have multimedia capability or a sound output device built-in) - SMS alert selection Users can customize their favorite alert sound types. (The Host must have multimedia capability or a sound output device built-in)

BENQ Corporation 31  Call Setting Users can query, activate, or cancel “Call Divert”, “Call Waiting”, “Call Barring” settings. - Call divert (Call Forward) Users can choose from the following Call Divert modes as needed. Forward Unconditional: Diverts incoming calls to a designated phone number at all time. When Busy: Incoming calls are sent to a designated number when user’s phone is busy. No Reply: When an incoming call is not replied, it will be send to a designated phone number. Not Reachable: When user’s phone is off or located outside the network service area, incoming calls will be sent to a designated number. - Call waiting When users are speaking over their phones and another call comes in, an incoming call number and a call-waiting message will appear to remind them. Choose to activate, deactivate or check the status of this feature. - Call Barring Users can choose from the following Call Barring modes as needed. All Outgoing: Bars all outgoing calls from your phone. Int’l: Bars all outgoing international calls from your phone.

BENQ Corporation 32Int’l except Home Country: Stops all outgoing international calls except local calls and those to your home country. All Incoming: Bars all incoming calls to your phone. Incoming when Roaming: Stops incoming calls to your phone when roaming (when you are traveling abroad). - Network password change In “Call Barring” setting, a network password is needed. So, network password is managed in the dialog box. Any status changed due to operation will be shown on the “Status” area near the bottom of this dialog box.  Network Setting - Current registered operator name - Network registration style User can select “Automatic” way when searching the GSM network, or select “Customization” to select a specific operator from a neighboring available operators.  Security Setting - PIN1 check PIN (Personal Identification Number) is a password provided by your network operator. Once activated, your PIN protects your SIM card from being used by unauthorized people, even if it is inserted in another phone, unless the correct PIN is given when the phone is switched on. - Phone lock Your phone can be locked to prevent calls

BENQ Corporation 33being made by unauthorized people, unless the correct handset lock code is entered when your phone is switched on. Your phone remains locked if a wrong code is entered, even if your SIM card is removed and replaced with another one. Only emergency calls can be made when your phone is locked. You must enter your phone lock code every time you power on your phone when the phone lock is on (there is no limitation on the number of wrong attempts when you enter the phone code). You can set the phone lock in the same way you set PIN check in Set PIN1. - SIM lock With this SIM lock feature, you can prevent unauthorized use of your phone with an unknown SIM card. When you have the SIM lock activated your phone will only work with the SIM card used to enable the lock. If a new SIM card has been inserted into your phone, "Insert Correct SIM" will pop up after you power on and enter the PIN. Press the left soft key and the SIM lock code will be requested. If the incorrect code is entered when a new SIM card has been inserted into your phone, "Insert Correct SIM" will be displayed again, and the phone will not be enabled until the correct SIM lock code is entered. If the correct code is entered the SIM card will be recognized and you can use the phone as normal. The next time your phone is switched on with this newly recognized SIM card, you will not be asked to enter the SIM lock code again. Your phone can recognize up to 3 different SIM cards. To activate the SIM lock you need to key in and save a number only you know as the SIM lock code. (There is no factory preset SIM lock code). The length of the code must be set between 8 to 12 digits. To deactivate the SIM lock you also need to enter the SIM lock code that you previously saved in your phone memory. To change the SIM lock code you must firstly deactivate the SIM lock and then enter the new code you want when activating the SIM lock again. - Fixed dial number setting Enables/disables the fixed dialling feature. You will be prompted to enter PIN2 when you enable/disable fix dialling. Fixed dial list

BENQ Corporation 34Before you can use fixed dialling, you must set up a fixed dialing list in this option. Enter PIN2 and add numbers to your fixed dial list. Add names and numbers in the same way you would a phone book entry. You can then add, edit and delete entries of your fixed-dial numbers. When you have fixed dialling activated your phone can only be used to call numbers on the fixed dial list. Change PIN2 To increase your phone's security you can change the preset PIN2 to a number only you know.

BENQ Corporation 35Chapter 4. TroubleShooting Question 1 What should the users do when the signal icon Cable Disconnected appeared right after pressing the ReScan or Disable Radio button under Peer-to-Peer (Ad-hoc) mode? Answer 1 Please remove the BenQ W10 PC Card from the PCMCIA slot and re-insert the device again, and then it will connect the user back on line. Question 2 What if the user’s PC is unable to connect to the other PC right after switching the network type from access point mode to Peer-to-Peer mode? Answer 2 Please make sure the SSID for both PC are the same and the IP address are in the same subnet. If both SSID and IP address are checked and the same, but the PC is still in disconnection mode, then please remove the BenQ W10 PC Card from the PCMCIA slot and re-insert the device again to connect back online. Question 3 What if the users lost connection due to distance, but still unable to connect to each other after move both devices closer under Peer-to-Peer (Ad-hoc) mode? Answer 3 Please remove the BenQ W10 PC Card from the PCMCIA slot and re-insert the device again, and then it will connect the devices back on line. Question 4 What if the user is unable to alliance with the new association after moving from one AP service set to another under the Access Point (Infrastructure) mode? Answer 4 Please ensure that the SSID is the same for both APs and PC. If the SSID is correct, then please press the ReScan button in the Status menu, and then

BENQ Corporation 36it should create new association for the device with the AP.

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