User guide

Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Tips
Rev 3.3 May.02 107
Installation and Use
on Notebook PCs
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
your CD-ROM drive. Click
Next to proceed to the next
window.
5. If a warning appears stating that AirCard 555 has not
passed Windows Logo testing, click
Continue Anyway.
6. Click Finish and repeat steps 1 to 6 as prompted.
The correct driver is then installed.