How to install a wireless network card in a wireless routing application

Relatively speaking, the installation of wireless network cards is complicated. The article explains the precautions during the installation through examples. Those who reported the first step were scrambling to sort out their own network cables, but I was almost overwhelmed. Looking at a few roommates with laptops on hand, I suddenly felt very funny. It was really "a good horse with a poor saddle", and there was no wireless network. Why should we generate such a huge "Spider Web ".

Wireless Nic Installation

In just a few words, I reached an agreement with my classmates regarding the wireless route brought by my family. There is no network cable in our dormitory. If you have a laptop, you must "swim in bed ", desktop Users also need to "move around", and even those holding a PDA should make it "Unlimited wireless ".

I. Portable and easy-to-use MiniPCI wireless network card

According to the statistics, six out of the eight people in the dormitory use laptops, and three of them have built-in wireless NICs. Three other laptops are not built in, but one of them reserves a MiniPCI slot, which allows you to buy a wireless network card separately ".

The built-in MiniPCI wireless Nic does not integrate a signal antenna. Therefore, to install the MiniPCI Nic, in addition to requiring the laptop to reserve a MiniPCI slot, you must also have a preset antenna or a preset antenna. Not all brands of MiniPCI interface wireless NICs can be used in any model of laptop. Therefore, various manufacturers will list their compatible laptop models in their product descriptions. pay more attention to the models when purchasing them.

When the built-in MiniPCI wireless network card is installed for the local wireless network card, the merchant can perform wireless network card installation for the whole process. If you are not at ease, you can install it on your own. The method is very simple. Just remove the cover plate with the MiniPCI on the bottom of your laptop and you will see the MiniPCI slot. When installing a wireless network card, you only need to align the golden finger of the wireless network card with the MiniPCI slot in the notebook, insert it to the slot at a horizontal 45 degrees angle, and then press and hold the vertical at both ends of the wireless network card, when you hear a click, it indicates that the MiniPCI wireless network card has been installed.

Unfortunately, Mr. Li's current account is a "student computer", which only reserves the MiniPCI slot, but does not have a preset antenna. In this case, he had to buy a standard antenna separately. It took 20 yuan to buy an antenna with a moderate length, and then put the metal part of the antenna under the memory slot, and then connect the antenna to the interface of the wireless network card.

2. PCMCIA wireless network card with good signal

MiniPCI wireless network card can be installed once and for all, and the wireless signal strength is also good. However, it is a little expensive, and Mr. Smith's book does not reserve MiniPCI slots, and he cannot install MiniPCI. In this regard, he purchased a PCMCIA Interface wireless network card, this is also a good solution.

When installing a wireless network card with the PCMCIA Interface, you must first press the black switch next to the PCMCIA slot to bring up a plastic fill card. After removing the plastic fill card, insert the PCMCIA wireless network card in the horizontal direction. After the installation is complete, you can see that the PCMCIA wireless network card is exposed outside, it is a signal Receiving Terminal. After the driver is installed, the light on it is displayed. To remove the PCMCIA wireless network card, you must disable it in the system before plugging. You can also press the black switch next to the PCMCIA slot to bring up the PCMCIA wireless Nic.

Iii. plug-and-play USB wireless network card

Zhou's book is too "vicissitudes", not only does not reserve the MiniPCI wireless Nic slot, but even the PCMCIA slot is omitted. It seems that he can only choose a USB wireless network card to solve the problem. With the advantage of the USB device "out-of-the-box", you only need to plug the USB interface of the USB wireless network card into the USB port of the laptop. After a USB wireless network card is inserted, the system automatically identifies and prompts you to install the wireless network card driver. You can install the wireless network card on the drive disc as prompted.

After Zhou completed the wireless network, Zhao's desktop also installed a USB wireless network card on the wireless network card. After dozens of Yuan, the wireless network was completed, satisfying both of them. However, most common USB wireless NICs do not have external antennas, so their signal strength is also unsatisfactory. Fortunately, their beds are very close to the wireless router, and they are not affected.