Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 User Manual

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Uninstalling the Existing Driver

1.

Open the Control Panel by selecting

Start > Control Panel

.

2.

If “Pick a category” is displayed, select

Switch to Classic

View

.

3.

Double click the

System

icon.

4.

Click the

Hardware

tab.

5.

Click the

Device Manager

button.

6.

Locate the AirCard entries by using the “+” signs to
expand the listings. (I.e. to see all the installed modems,
click the “+” sign to the left of

Modems

.) The AirCard

should have 3 entries:

1

The AirCard should display under

Multifunction adapters

as

Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 PC Card Parent

.

2

The AirCard should display under

Modems

as

Sierra

Wireless AirCard 555 Modem

.

3

The AirCard should display under

Network adapters

as

Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 Adapter

.

If the listings above do not appear, identify the listing for
the AirCard by ejecting the AirCard. This causes the driver
listing for the AirCard to disappear from the list. Reinsert
the AirCard again to cause the driver listing to reappear.
You can identify the entries for the AirCard by observing
which entries are affected when you eject and reinsert the
AirCard. Right click

Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 PC Card

Parent

(or the AirCard listing under

Multifunction adapters

) to

display a pop up menu.

7.

Select

Uninstall

in the pop up menu.

8.

Confirm that you want to uninstall the device by clicking

OK

.

The AirCard listings should be removed.

Installing the Windows XP AirCard Driver

1.

If the installation CD is not already in your CD-ROM
drive, insert it. If the CD start-up menu appears, use the

exit

option in the lower left corner of the screen to exit the

menu.

2.

Eject and reinsert the AirCard to launch the Found New
Hardware Wizard.

3.

Select

Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)

on the

first window of the Found New Hardware Wizard and
click

Next

to proceed.

4.

Select the

Search for the best driver in these locations

radio

button, and the

Include this location in the search

check box,

then enter

d:\Drivers\WinXP

where

d

is the drive letter of

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