CardBus Gigabit Ethernet Adapter ENW-3700 User’s Manual 1
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Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1 1.1 PACKAGE CONTENT .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 VERIFYING YOUR SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS .......................................................................................... 1 1.3 GATHERING TOOLS AND DOCUMENTATIONS .........................................................
Chapter 1 Introduction With Gigabit technology, PLANET ENW-3700 provides the most convenient way to power up the network speed of notebooks and laptops with the least efforts and costs. Using ENW-3700, you can send and receive data at speeds up to ten times of 100Mbps network and 100 times of 802.11b WLAN throughput. The ENW-3700 is a CardBus Gigabit Ethernet adapter designed to address high-performance system application requirements.
1.3 Gathering Tools And Documentations To install the adapter, you need the following items: ü Your operating system documentation ü Your system unit documentation, including any service documentation 1.
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 1. Locate an available CardBus PCMCIA slot with the PCMCIA adapter's 68-pin connector. 2. Let ENW-3700 face to PCMCIA slot and the LEDs facing up. Plug the PC Card completely into the PCMCIA slot. 3. After properly inserting the ENW-3700 into your laptop PC, continue with the ENW-3700 Driver installation below for different Operation System.
Chapter 3 Driver Installation This chapter describes how to install the driver for various operating systems. Before you begin the driver installation process, make sure you have the installation disks for your computer’s operation system nearby. 3.1 Installing Driver To Windows 98/Me/2000 Make sure the ENW-3700 has been successfully inserted in your computer before you start to install the driver.
2. Please select the first option and click “Next” to continue. 3. Select “Specify a location” and click “Next”. 4. Insert the bundled CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and click “Browse” to find the driver location. (Assume "E" is your CD-ROM drive, the driver can be found in E:\Driver\Win2K). Click “OK” to continue.
5. Please click “Next” to continue. 6. In Win2000, this “Digital Signature Not Found” dialog box will appear. Please ignore this and press ”Yes” to continue.
7. Please click “Finish” to complete the driver installation. (For Win98/Me, Windows will ask you to restart the PC when driver installation finished.) 3.2 Installing Driver To Windows XP 1. After inserting ENW-3700 to your PC and boot up, Windows XP will detect it and ask you to install driver. Please select the second option and click “Next”.
2. Please select “Include this location in the search”. Insert the bundled CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and click “Browse” to find out the driver location to install. (Assume "E" is your CD-ROM drive, the driver can be found in E:\Driver\WinXP). Click “Next” to continue. 3. WinXP will show this “Hardware Installation” dialog box. You can ignore this and click “Continue Anyway” to proceed.
4. Click “Finish” to complete the driver installation.
Chapter 4 Diagnostic Utility 4.1 Installation 1. Please find out the diagnostic utility in the bundled CD-ROM, suppose your CD-ROM drive name in Windows is “E”, you can find the two utilities in “E:\Utility\”, Install98Se.exe is used for Windows 98SE and ME and Install2kxp.exe is for Windows 2000 and later version. Please execute the .exe file and follow the on-screen instructions to install diagnostic utility. 2.
menu with the following items: (1) Refresh NIC List: If one adds, removes, enables, or disables physical network adapters, he has to refresh the list of NICs by selecting this menu item. (2) Show/Remove the Tray Icon: One can show or remove the system tray icon by this menu item. (3) Enable/Disable Start Up Launch: When the menu item shows "Disable Start Up Launch", it means start up launch is enabled, and likewise, "Enable Start Up Launch" means the option is disabled.
4.2.6 Property Page Window: - This window display the property page selected by user. - Functions of each property page: (1) "General" This page displays general information about the selected network adapter. (2) "VLAN" This page shows information about VLANs on current selected ENW-3700. User can add or remove VLAN here. Besides, he can change the VLAN ID of existing VLAN. (3) "Driver" This page displays driver information of the selected ENW-3700.
Chapter 5 Specifications 5.1 Cable Specifications Ethernet Type Cable Requirements Maximum Length 10BASE-T Category 3 or better, UTP or STP 328 ft (100M) 100BASE-TX Category 5 or better, UTP or STP 328 ft (100M) 1000BASE-T Category 5e or better, UTP or STP 328 ft (100M) There are two types of cables: Straight Through Cables and Cross-over Cables. Category 5 UTP/STP cable has eight wires inside the sheath. The wires form four pairs.
