Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 User Manual

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Chapter 3: Installation on Notebook PCs

Rev 3.0 Dec.01

31

Installat

ion and Use

o

n

Note

book

PCs

16.

Click

Next

to start the Network component.

17.

Click

Next

to proceed to the window in which you enter a

Computer Name and Workgroup or Domain.

18.

Enter the information appropriate to your network config-
uration and click

Next

.

19.

Click

Finish

on the final window of the wizard.

20.

Click

Yes

at the prompt to restart your PC. (You must

restart your PC to complete the driver installation.)

21.

When the PC restarts, reinstall your Service Pack.

On completion of this step, the network card driver is installed
and you can proceed to install the modem driver. Follow the
instructions in the section, “Installing the Modem Driver” on
page 31.

Installing the Network Card Driver When Networking Is
Already Installed:

1.

Click the

Adapters

tab in the Network window.

2.

Click the

Add...

button to open the Select Network Adapter

window.

3.

Click the

Have Disk...

button to open the Insert Disk

window.

4.

If you have copied the driver from the AirCard CD to your
hard drive, enter the path to the driver and click

OK

to

open the Select OEM Option window.

5.

If you are installing the driver from the AirCard CD, enter

d:\Drivers\WinNT

where

d

is the drive letter for your CD-

ROM drive and click

OK

to open the Select OEM Option

window.

6.

If Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 is highlighted, click

OK

. The

Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 should appear under Network
Adapters in the Network Setup Wizard. Otherwise, click

Cancel

and repeat the previous two steps.

Note: Use the Windows NT
Diagnostics window to locate an
available IRQ and I/O space.
Make note of the Com Port that
you use to install the network
card driver. You must enter the
same Com Port when installing
the modem driver.

7.

Use the drop-down menus to select an I/O Port, Interrupt,
Memory, and Com Port, noting that the AirCard 555
requires 1 IRQ and 40 bytes of I/O Space. Click

Continue

.

8.

Select the

Obtain an IP address from a DHCP Server

radio

button and click the

Close

button.

9.

Click

Yes

to confirm that you want to use DHCP.

10.

Click

No

if prompted to restart your PC. (You must restart

your PC after the modem driver installation.)

On completion of this step, the network card driver is installed
and you can proceed to install the modem driver. Follow the
instructions in the next section.

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