User guide

AirCard 555 Network Card User Guide
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Installing the Network Card Driver When Networking Has
Not Been Installed:
1. Click Yes at the prompt, “Do you want to install it now?”
to launch the wizard that installs Networking.
2. Click the check boxes on the first window of the wizard so
that
Wired to the network: is checked and Remote access to the
network:
is NOT checked. Click Next to proceed.
3. Click the Select from list... button to open the Select
Network Adapter window.
4. Click the Have Disk... button to open the Insert Disk
window.
5. If you have copied the driver from the AirCard installation
CD to your hard drive, enter the path to the driver and
click
OK to open the Select OEM Option window.
6. If you are installing the driver from the AirCard instal-
lation 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.
7. If Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 is highlighted, click OK. The
Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 should appear in the Network
Setup Wizard under Network Adapters. Otherwise click
Cancel and repeat the previous two steps.
8. Click Next to display a list of network protocols.
9. Ensure TCP/IP Protocol is checked (as well as any other
protocols appropriate to your network configuration) and
click
Next to display a list of network services.
10. Select the services appropriate to your network configu-
ration and click
Next. (For the purpose of installing the
AirCard 555, it does not matter what selections you make
in this window.)
11. Click Next.
12. If the Windows NT Setup window appears, system files
are required to install the components you checked. Either
insert the Windows NT CD and enter your CD-ROM drive
letter, or enter the path to the .CAB files. Click
Continue.
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.
13. 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.
14. If the Windows NT Setup window appears again, enter the
path to your CD-ROM drive or the CAB files.
15. Click Yes at the DHCP prompt to proceed to a display of
network bindings. (DHCP or Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol is required by the AirCard 555 regardless of your
network configuration.)