Installation guide

Wireless Guide 13

Installing the ORiNOCO

Gold Adapter / Driver

Overview

This chapter describes how to install the ORiNOCO Gold Card and drivers:

 Installing the ORiNOCO Gold Adapter for:

 Windows NT 4.0 on page 13

 Windows XP on page 17

 Windows 2000 on page 19

 Using the ORiNOCO Gold as a Normal Network Adapter on page 22

 ORiNOCO Gold Installation Notes and Issues on page 23

Installing the ORiNOCO Gold Adapter

The following sections provide operating system-specific information for

installing ORiNOCO Gold adapters and drivers.

Windows NT 4.0

This section describes how to install the ORiNOCO Gold adapter on a

Windows NT 4.0 system.

To install the ORiNOCO Gold adapter and driver in Windows NT 4.0:

1 After installing the Sniffer software, remove any installed adapter

drivers (either a previous version of the Sniffer driver or another

vendor’s driver) for the ORiNOCO Gold adapter from the Adapters tab

of the Network control panel.

2 Restart the computer.

3 Log into Windows NT as an Administrator.

4 Insert the ORiNOCO Gold wireless adapter in an available Type II PC

card slot on the target machine.

5 Locate an available I/O Port and interrupt number.