CN2833715Y - Wireless terminal with wireless network card state display - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a wireless terminal with state display for a wireless network card, wherein an identifying unit of the wireless network card identifies the connection state of a wireless network and the type of the connected wireless network according to information received from the wireless network, and transmits information containing the connection state of the wireless network and the type of the connected wireless network to an embedded controller/keyboard controller unit. The embedded controller / keyboard controller unit decides control information transmitted to a state indication unit of the wireless network card according to the information of the connection state of the wireless network and the type of the connected wireless network. The state indication unit of the wireless network card displays the connection state of the wireless network card or the type of the connected wireless network according to the control information. A user can judge the type of the currently connected wireless network without any operations and directly via the colors of state indicator lamps of the wireless network, and easily connect to a requisite wireless network.
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Technical field
The utility model relates to wireless communication field, particularly a kind of wireless terminal with the demonstration of wireless network card state.
Background technology
Along with the continuous development of wireless communication technology, various wireless terminals progress into people's work and sphere of life, such as: mobile phone, PDA etc.Especially after Intel promotes " Centrino " technology, equipped wireless network card on the increasing computing machine (special portable computer), make computing machine also become the wireless terminal with wireless communication, and can obtain the support of the related radio network that telecom operators build, make the people can be on the airport, ground such as coffee shop enter " internet " at any time, give our work, life, amusement brings great convenience.
Wireless terminal uses the wireless network card of agreements such as supporting 802.11a, 802.11b or 802.11g at present, and wherein, the 802.11b wireless network occupies the 2.4G frequency range, theoretical bandwidth 11Mbps; 802.11g wireless network occupies the 2.4G frequency range, theoretical bandwidth 54Mbps.On the notebook wireless network status indicator lamp is arranged all generally now, finding wireless network, and after the successful connection, pilot lamp can be from the state that extinguishes to showing a kind of color, yet this structure only is applicable to that the wireless network card on the notebook only supports the situation of a kind of wireless network protocol (can only use and a kind of wireless network type).But along with the progress of wireless technology, the wireless network card that disposes on the notebook is also double mode from only supporting at first the wireless network card of 802.11b agreement, develop into that the 802.11b/g of support is arranged now, even supports the wireless network card of 802.11a/b/g three-mode.Therefore, if use existing wireless network card status indicator lamp structure, which wireless network no matter notebook be connected to, and the wireless network card status indicator lamp all shows can't discern the type of the current connection wireless network of notebook with a kind of color.
The utility model content
Problem to be solved in the utility model is to provide a kind of wireless terminal that the wireless network card state shows that has, to solve the defective of the wireless network type that prior art can't the current connection of identified wireless terminal.
For achieving the above object, the utility model provides a kind of wireless terminal that the wireless network card state shows that has, and comprising: wireless network card recognition unit, embedded controller/keyboard controller unit and wireless network card state indicating member, wherein,
Described wireless network card recognition unit, according to the information that receives from wireless network, the connection status and the wireless network type that is connected of identification wireless network, and will comprise the connection status of wireless network and the information of the wireless network type that is connected sends to described embedded controller/keyboard controller unit;
Described embedded controller/keyboard controller unit is used for according to the connection status of wireless network and the information of the wireless network type that is connected, and determines the control information that sends to described wireless network card state indicating member;
Described wireless network card state indicating member is used for the connection status of the control information display radio network interface card that sends according to described embedded controller/keyboard controller unit or the wireless network type that is connected.
Described wireless network card is connected with described embedded controller/keyboard controller unit by south bridge circuit.
Described wireless network card is the multimode network interface card, has two or more mode of operation, comprises the state indication subelement corresponding with operating mode of wireless network card in the described wireless network card state indicating member.
Described state indication subelement comprises light emitting diode and resistance.
Described state indication subelement comprises light emitting diode, resistance and electronic switch.
Described electronic switch comprises: triode, field effect transistor or relay.
Described led color difference.
Described wireless network comprises: 802.11a, 802.11b or 802.11g.
Described wireless terminal comprises: portable computer, desk-top computer or personal digital assistant PDA.
Described wireless network card state indicating member is integrated on the wireless network card or with wireless network card and separates.
Compared with prior art, the utlity model has following advantage:
The user need not anyly operate, and directly by the color of wireless network status indicator lamp, just can judge the wireless network type of current connection, easily is connected to own needed wireless network.
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Fig. 1 the utlity model has the wireless terminal ultimate principle figure that the wireless network card state shows;
Fig. 2 is the whole pie graph that the utlity model has the wireless terminal application of wireless network card state demonstration;
Fig. 3 is an embodiment synoptic diagram of wireless network card state indicating member in the utility model;
Fig. 4 is another embodiment synoptic diagram of wireless network card state indicating member in the utility model.
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Fig. 1 is ultimate principle figure of the present utility model, comprising: wireless network card recognition unit 101, embedded controller/keyboard controller unit 102 and wireless network card state indicating member 103.Wherein, wireless network card recognition unit 101, can be integrated in the wireless network card, the information that the identification wireless network card receives, the connection status and the wireless network type that is connected of identification wireless network, and will comprise the connection status of wireless network and the information of the wireless network type that is connected sends to described embedded controller/keyboard controller unit; Embedded controller/keyboard controller unit 102 is used for sending control information to wireless network card state indicating member 103 according to comprising the connection status of wireless network and the information of the wireless network type that is connected; Wireless network card state indicating member 103 is used for the state according to the control information indication wireless network card of described embedded controller/keyboard controller unit.
Because the utility model is mainly used on the wireless terminal with wireless network card, particularly portable computer (also can be the wireless terminal of desk-top computer or other use wireless network card) therefore, is example explanation the utility model with the portable notebook.In order intactly to describe the utility model, need describe from the integrated circuit structure of portable computer, as shown in Figure 2, comprise central processing unit 201, north bridge circuit 202, random access memory 203, hard disk 204, south bridge circuit 205, PCI socket 206, wireless network card 207, embedded controller/keyboard controller 208, wireless network card state indicating member 209 and embedded controller/BIOS (Basic Input Output System, Basic Input or Output System (BIOS)) flash memory 210.Wherein, wireless network card 207 is a kind of multi-mode radio network interface card of handling different wireless signal that receives, can with different wireless communication (as: GPRS, 802.11a/b/g, BlueTooth, CDMA etc.), and has a wireless network card recognition unit, be connected on the mini PCI socket 206, and be connected with south bridge circuit by pci bus, south bridge circuit 205 does not directly link to each other with central processing unit, (the various chipsets of different vendor are different but by certain mode, for example, the Hub Architecture of Intel and the Multi-Threader of SIS) link to each other with north bridge circuit, south bridge circuit is responsible for the communication between the I/O bus, comprise: pci bus, USB (Universal Serial Bus, USB (universal serial bus)), LAN (Local AreaNetwork, regional network), ATA, SATA, Audio Controller, keyboard controller, communication between real-time clock controller and the Advanced Program Zoom etc.
Embedded controller/keyboard controller 208 (as the PC87591 chip etc.) comprising: EC (EmbedController, embedded controller) is 16 single-chip microcomputers, and its is inner itself also to have the Flash of a constant volume to store the code of EC.EC is controlling the sequential of most signal of interests in the process that system opens.In notebook, EC one is heading straight for, and no matter is at start or off-mode.Under off-mode, EC keeps operation always, and at the boot-strap information of waiting for the user.And after start, EC is more as keyboard controller, the control of equipment such as charging indicator light and fan, it in addition controlling the state such as standby, dormancy of system.The framework of present EC is: the FLASH of BIOS receives EC by X-BUS, and EC receives south bridge by LPC then, and the general code of EC in this case also is placed among the FLASH, just with the shared FLASH of BIOS.Wherein lpc bus is the bus standard that INTEL releases in order to replace the backward X-BUS of low speed in early days.
Generally all contain keyboard controller on the EC, so also claim KBC (Keyboard Controller).In system closedown, have only RTC (Real-Time Clock, real-time clock) part and EC part in operation.RTC is partly keeping the clock and CMOS (Complementary Metal-OxideSemiconductor, the complementary metal oxide semiconductor) configuration information of computing machine, and EC is then waiting for that the user is by the start key.Detect the user by the start key after, EC can notify total system power supply opening.CPU by RESET after, can go to read in the BIOS instruction (be a jump instruction in fact, this address is by the CPU hardware setting) in the particular address.For first kind of situation, south bridge to north bridge, is arrived by HUB-LINK by FSB then in this address that CPU sends, and to EC, arrives BIOS by X-BUS by LPC more always.After the instruction in CPU reads the address of being sent, carry out its first instruction after by RESET.In this system, EC has played the effect of bridge joint BIOS and south bridge (total system in other words).The keyboard of notebook can not directly be received the PS/2 interface, and must receive on the EC; Be exactly that notebook has more little function in addition, such as a lot of special functions such as charging indicator light, WIFI pilot lamp, Fn, and notebook must support functions such as discharging and recharging of battery, and intelligent recharge and discharge then needs the support of EC; In addition, the switching sequence of notebook TFT screen also must be controlled by EC.These reasons have caused notebook to use EC to do the necessity of inner management.On the whole, EC and BIOS are in the bottom of machine.EC is an independent processor, before start and in the start process total system is played overall management.And BIOS just brings into operation after waiting EC the internal physical context initialization.
According to the kind and the performance of wireless network card, wireless network card state indicating member 209 can be realized by different circuit structures.For example, when wireless network card has three kinds of mode of operations, promptly support 802.11a, 802.11b or 802.11g agreement, can adopt circuit as Fig. 3.Wireless network card state indicating member 209 comprises three wireless network card state indication subelements; each wireless network card state indication subelement comprises a light emitting diode (blue, green, redness) and a resistance (playing the current-limiting protection effect); the positive pole of light emitting diode is connected with resistance; and receive positive direct supply and (be generally between the 3-12V; can change according to the side circuit design), the negative pole of light emitting diode is connected to the GPIO of embedded controller/keyboard controller (general I/O) mouthful.Embedded controller/keyboard controller 208 can be exported according to the voltage that the type that whether wireless network card 207 connects with wireless network or institute connects wireless network is pressed the corresponding GPIO mouth of predefined software adjustment.Such as, wireless network card 207 links to each other with the 802.11b wireless network, in running order, then the wireless network card recognition unit in the wireless network card 207 can be determined this duty according to the information that receives, and this duty sent to embedded controller/keyboard controller 208 by south bridge circuit 205, after embedded controller/keyboard controller 208 is received this information, put the output GPIO of the indicating circuit of the wireless network card of the indication 802.1b that reserves in advance low, two output GPIO put height in addition, then light emitting diode (indigo plant) conducting in the wireless network card state of this output terminal correspondence indication subelement, shinny, two light emitting diodes do not work in addition, and the indication wireless network card is in the 802.1b mode of operation; And for example: wireless network card links to each other with the 802.11a wireless network, in running order, then the wireless network card recognition unit in the wireless network card can be determined this duty according to the information that receives, and this duty sent to embedded controller/keyboard controller by south bridge circuit, after embedded controller/keyboard controller is received this information, put the output GPIO of the indicating circuit of the wireless network card of the indication 802.1a that reserves in advance low, then the light emitting diode (green) in the wireless network card state of this output terminal correspondence indication subelement is bright, two light emitting diodes do not work in addition, and the indication wireless network card is in the 802.1a mode of operation; For another example: wireless network card links to each other with the 802.11g wireless network, in running order, then the wireless network card recognition unit in the wireless network card can be determined this duty according to the information that receives, and this duty sent to embedded controller/keyboard controller by south bridge circuit, after embedded controller/keyboard controller is received this information, put the output GPIO of the indicating circuit of the wireless network card of the indication 802.1g that reserves in advance low, then the light emitting diode (red) in the wireless network card state of this output terminal correspondence indication subelement is bright, two light emitting diodes do not work in addition, and the indication wireless network card is in the 802.1g mode of operation; Actually the light emitting diode of which kind of color indicate which kind of operating mode of wireless network card can be as required or situation preestablish or change.
Certainly have the situation of two kinds of mode of operations or multiple mode of operation for wireless network card, this circuit theory is suitable equally.
When having two kinds of mode of operations for wireless network card, wireless network card state indicating member 209 can also be used another kind of circuit, as shown in Figure 4.For example, in a network environment that 802.11b and 802.11g arranged, the wireless network state indicating member of a portable computer is made of two light emitting diodes, and one glows, a blue light-emitting.After portable computer is connected to one of them wireless network, after the wireless network card recognition unit of wireless network card enters identification actual wireless network type and is notified to the EC/KBC chip, the EC/KBC chip is controlled the state of diode by the voltage of the corresponding GPIO mouth of input end of predefined software adjustment and wireless network card state indicating member.When being connected to the 802.11b circuit, the input input high level makes triode (also can use other electronic switch, as field effect transistor or relay etc.) the T1 conducting, triode T2 ends, and the diode (LED) 1 that glows is communicated with, the line broken circuit that connects blue light diode LED2, the LED lamp shows red.When being connected to the 802.11g circuit, the input output low level, T1 ends, and the T2 conducting makes the diode current flow of blue light-emitting, connects the line broken circuit of red diodes, and the LED lamp shows blue.The advantage that this circuit has is to save the GPIO mouth of EC/KBC chip, and each GPIO can indicate two kinds of wireless network card states.
In addition, wireless network card state indicating member can separate with wireless network card, also can integrate with wireless network card, so that according to the kind difference of wireless network card, design different wireless network card state indicating members.
The above only is a preferred implementation of the present utility model; for those skilled in the art; under the prerequisite that does not break away from the utility model principle, can also make some improvements and modifications, these improvements and modifications also should be considered as protection domain of the present utility model.
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1, a kind of wireless terminal with the demonstration of wireless network card state is characterized in that, comprising: connect wireless network, identification comprises the wireless network card recognition unit of connection status with the wireless network type information that is connected of wireless network;
Connect described wireless network card recognition unit, determine and control the embedded controller/keyboard controller unit of the information transmission of the connection status of wireless network and the wireless network type that is connected;
Connect described embedded controller/keyboard controller unit, the wireless network card state indicating member of the connection status of the control information display radio network interface card that embedded controller/keyboard controller unit is sent or the wireless network type that is connected.
2, have the wireless terminal that the wireless network card state shows according to claim 1, it is characterized in that described wireless network card is connected with described embedded controller/keyboard controller unit by south bridge circuit.
3, has the wireless terminal that the wireless network card state shows according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described wireless network card is the multimode network interface card, have two or more mode of operation, comprise the state indication subelement corresponding in the described wireless network card state indicating member with operating mode of wireless network card.
4, have the wireless terminal that the wireless network card state shows as described in claim 3, it is characterized in that, described state indication subelement comprises light emitting diode and resistance.
5, have the wireless terminal that the wireless network card state shows as described in claim 3, it is characterized in that, described state indication subelement comprises light emitting diode, resistance and electronic switch.
6, as described in claim 5, have the wireless terminal that the wireless network card state shows, it is characterized in that described electronic switch comprises: triode, field effect transistor or relay.
7, as described in claim 4 to 6, have the wireless terminal that the wireless network card state shows, it is characterized in that described led color difference.
8, as having the wireless terminal that the wireless network card state shows in the claim 1 to 6 as described in each, it is characterized in that described wireless terminal comprises: portable computer, desk-top computer or personal digital assistant PDA.
9, as having the wireless terminal that the wireless network card state shows in the claim 1 to 6 as described in each, it is characterized in that described wireless network card state indicating member is integrated on the wireless network card or with wireless network card separates.
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