User's Manual

Microsoft Wireless Home Networking USB Adapter or PC Card Adapter 7
Chapter 1: Microsoft Wireless Home
Networking Overview
Congratulations on the purchase of your Microsoft
Wireless Home Networking USB or PC Card Adapter! This
chapter provides basic information about your adapter and
on wired and wireless networking.
System Requirements
Please read the regulatory warnings and "About your rights
and obligations" at the beginning of this book.
Check the system requirements that follow to ensure that
your computer has the necessary features to install a
Microsoft Wireless Home Networking adapter.
To run the setup software and the Wireless Network Utility,
computers must have:
υ Windows 98 Gold, Windows 98 SE, Windows
Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
operating system
υ Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later browser
software
υ Pentium class 200 MHz with 32 MB RAM ????/TBD
υ Disk Space: ????/TBD
υ Video System: 640x480 16-bit color, Recommended
800x600 16-bit color
υ 4x CD-ROM drive
υ Microsoft point device recommended
υ 3.5” Floppy disk drive recommended
To connect the Microsoft Wireless Home Networking USB
Adapter, you must have
υ An available 1.0 or higher full-speed USB compliant
high-power port
-or-
To connect the Microsoft Wireless Home Networking PC
Card Adapter, you must have
Note
Each of the required
operating systems provides
Internet Explorer 5.0 or later,
except for Windows 98. If
IE5.0 is not installed on your
computer, the Microsoft
Wireless Home Networking
Setup software will detect this
and will install it automatically
before starting Microsoft
Wireless Home Networking
Setup. You may be prompted
to restart your computer after
the automatic installation.