User Manual

Troubleshooting
Windows Operating Systems
B-4 WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo 11 Mb PC Card
Windows Operating Systems B
Generic Problems B
Windows does not detect my new card B
■ Windows NT operating systems v3.51 and v4.0 do not support
“Plug & Play”. On such systems, you will need to manually
introduce the card to your operating system as described in
Chapter 3 under “Getting Started in Windows NT” on page 3-5
.
■ In some occasions, Windows 95 and/or Windows 98 do not
detect a new card either. This may be the case in one of the
following situations:
■ The laptop computer into which you wish to install the
WaveLAN card is a brand-new “out-of-the-box” computer,
where the Windows 95/98 operating system was already
factory-installed (see “Enabling the PC Card Controller” on
page B-4).
■ A previous installation of the WaveLAN adapter card was
aborted before it was finished.
Enabling the PC Card Controller 2
Today, most brand-new “out-of-the-box” laptop computers come
with the Windows 95/98 operating system factory-installed. On
some of these computers, a number of options like PC Card &
Socket Services have been disabled by default to save on disk and
memory space. In order to use such options you must first finalize
the Windows 95/98 installation in order to enable such options.
If a Windows 95/98 computer does not detect your WaveLAN PC
Card, proceed as described below, to enable the PC Card socket
interface, or to verify that it has been enabled, proceed as follows: