Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards Use this guide to install these Linksys Products: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card (PCMPC200 v2) Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Integrated CardBus PC Card (PCM200 v2) User Guide
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Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Table of Contents EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards Introduction The Linksys EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Cards Introduction 1 Getting to Know the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Cards 5 Installing the EtherFast 10/100 Cardbus PC Cards 6 Windows 98 Installation and Setup 11 Windows 95 Installation and Setup 16 Windows 2000 Installation and Setup 22 Windows NT 4.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards About Fast Ethernet About CardBus In recent years, Fast Ethernet has emerged as the fastest growing network topology around. Operating at an incredible 100 million bits per second (100Mbps), and sometimes referred to as 100BaseTX, Fast Ethernet is more than fast enough to handle the latest speed-dependent applications like video, multimedia, and Internet connectivity.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards Getting to Know the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Cards LEDs Package Contents for the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Cards • EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card (PCM200 v2 shown) • One Driver Disk • One User Guide and Registration Card Link The LED will illuminate when the card is sucessfully connected to a network. Act The Activity LED will flicker when data is being transmit ted or received over the network.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards Installing the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Cards About the Software Getting the Right Cable Socket and card services are special software drivers that allow a PC card to communicate with your computer. Your computer might have services that were installed by the manufacturer, making your PC compatible with a wide range of CardBus and PCMCIA cards.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Note: Plug-and-Play operating systems like Windows 98, Windows 95 OSR2, (also known as Windows 95 Version B), will usually assign available I/O and IRQ values to the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card automatically, making the card's installation quick and easy. If you can't seem to find an I/O address or interrupt value to use, contact your PC's manufacturer to determine which values are currently available for use with the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Network Driver Setup Follow these instructions carefully. You can view or print the setup directions from your favorite word processor. For the operating systems not covered in this user guide, insert the program disk into your PC. The supported OSes not covered in this User Guide have subdirectories that contain “read me” instructions. These DOS-based OSes are listed below.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series 2. While the Update Device Driver Wizard window is visible, put the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card Driver Disk into the floppy drive and click on Next. A window will appear and ask you What would you like Windows to do? EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards If Windows cannot find the driver for the card, skip to Troubleshooting problem 2 on page 34. Note: DO NOT press Skip or Cancel at any time during the installation.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards 14. Optional: Click on the Access Control tab. Make sure that Shared-level access control is selected. If the setting is on User-Level access control and you can’t change it, skip to Troubleshooting problem 5 on page 35. 15. Click on the OK button. Your system may or may not ask you for your Windows 98 CD-ROM or the location of the 98 installation files. Direct Windows to the appropriate location, (e.g.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Windows 95 Installation and Setup Overview Follow the instructions below to install your EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card on Microsoft Windows 95. After installing the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card hardware in your computer, follow the instructions below to install the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card's Windows 95 network driver from the card's driver disk. EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards To install the network driver, Start up your computer. 1.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series If Windows asks you to supply a file containing the letters “cb102.sys” or “pc200” , type “a:\” in the box that pops up as shown below. Click OK. EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards There may be other components listed, this is fine. However, if any components listed above are missing, you'll need to install them manually. Refer to Manually Installing the Network Components section on page 46.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series 12. Optional: Click on the Access Control tab. Make sure that Shared-level access control is selected. If the setting is on User-Level access control and you can’t change it, skip to Troubleshooting problem 5 on page 35. EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards 15. Once the computer has restarted and Windows is up, a Logon window will appear. Make up a username and password and click OK. Do not click the Cancel of Esc button, or you won't be able to log onto the network.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Windows 2000 Installation and Setup EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards 4. The Locate Driver Files dialog box will appear. Overview After physically installing the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card in your computer, follow these instructions to install the network driver. Note: Screen shots used in this Installation and Setup section are from installation of the standard EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card (PCMPC200 v2).
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Windows NT 4.0 Installation and Setup EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards 3. Click on the Select from list... button to select a network adapter. Overview The following instructions will set up an NT 4.0 server/workstation on your PC. You should have your original Windows NT CD-ROM handy during the installation, as you might be asked to supply it.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series 6. The adapter will be added to the list of installed Network Adapters. Click Next. 7. Place check marks beside each listed network protocol that you wish to install. See your Microsoft Windows NT user guide or talk to your network administrator for more information about network protocols. When you're finished, click Next.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series 11. NT will copy the necessary network drivers to your PC. When the copying is complete, you will see a list of installed bindings. Change the bindings settings if needed and click Next. Click Next again. Note: For information and help on choosing your bindings, services and protocols, ask your network administrator, or check your Windows NT documentation. EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards 13. Click Finish.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Installing the EtherFast Network Driver if Networking is Already Installed EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards 3. When the list of available network adapters appears, select Linksys EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card II. Click the Have Disk button. The following steps will install the EtherFast Card’s driver software on your PC, enabling your PC to properly communicate with the card. Remember that you must be logged on as a network administrator to continue. 1.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series 6. EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards NT will then display a window containing several setting types. Keep the default settings unless you know that you need to change them. After you have made the appropriate settings, click OK. 7. NT will probably ask you to supply your original Windows NT CD-ROM or setup disks. Direct Windows NT to the proper location (e.g., D:\i386). Click Continue. 11.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Hints for Windows 95 and 98 1. Windows doesn’t detect new hardware with the EtherFast Card hardware installed, or it continues to detect the card each time you restart your PC. • You might not have inserted the PC card correctly or securely into the appropriate slot of your computer. Check that the card is securely inserted into the appropriate slot. • Try inserting your card into an alternate PC slot.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series 10. In Network Neighborhood you can only see computers running the same operating system as your computer (i.e., your PC is running Windows 95 and it can only see other Windows 95 computers and not any computer running Windows 98). • Choose Start, Find, Computer and type the name of the computer in the window that comes up and click Find Now. • Now make sure that the you are using the same protocol(s) and workgroup name on the 95 and 98 computers.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series 6. If you want to assign access passwords, type the passwords into the Password boxes. 7. When you're done, click on the Apply button, followed by OK. Repeat steps 1-7 for any drive or folder you desire to share on the network. You have successfully enabled File Sharing on your PC. Your selected drives can now be accessed by other network users.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards Windows 98 or 95 Client for windows NT Starting Over in Windows 95 and 98 If you are installing the EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card in a Windows 95 or 98 PC that you plan on logging into a NT domain server, follow the directions below. If you experience installation difficulties, you may need to re-install all of the Windows networking components from scratch.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards 8. Scroll down to the Network Adapters item and expand it by clicking on the open [+] sign. In some cases, removing one of these components may in turn automatically remove other components as well. If this happens, skip ahead to step 6. 5. For PCs with Dial-Up Networking and/or an AOL adapter, remove any instance of the name Linksys, all IPX/SPX protocols, all NetBEUI, all Clients, and File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Starting Over in Windows 2000 EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards 5. Right-click on Linksys EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card vII. A menu box should open (below). 1. Click the Start button, choose Settings, choose Control Panel, then double-click the System icon.The System Properties window will open. 2. Choose the Hardware tab. 6. First, choose Disable. 7. When asked if you want to Disable the device, click Yes. 3. Click the Device Manager button.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Manually Installing Network Components in Windows 95 and 98 There may be times when you might need to manually install missing Windows networking components. 1. Click on Start, Settings, then Control Panel. 2. Double-click the Network icon. The Network window appears. 3. Click on the Configuration tab. Make sure that the following network components are installed.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Twisted-Pair Cabling EtherFast® 10/100 CardBus PC Cards Crimping Your Own Network Cables There are different grades, or categories, of twisted-pair cabling. Category 5 is the most reliable and is highly recommended. Category 3 is a good second choice. Straight-through cables are used for connecting computers to a hub.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series 10/100 CardBus PC Card Specifications 10/100 Integrated CardBus PC Card Specifications Model Number: System: Standards: Ports: Speed Half Duplex: Full Duplex: Cabling: Topology: LED Status Lights: Model Number: System: Standards: Ports: Speed Half Duplex: Full Duplex: Cabling: Topology: LED Status Lights: PCMPC200 v2 CardBus-compliant PC IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Customer Support For help with the installation or operation of your EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card, contact Linksys Customer Support at one of the phone numbers or Internet addresses below. Customer Support Information Fax E-mail Web FTP Site (800) 326-7114 (949) 261-1288 (800) 546-5797 (949) 261-8868 support@linksys.com http://www.linksys.com ftp.linksys.
