Installation guide

Wireless Guide 25

Installing the Enterasys

Adapter / Driver

Overview

This chapter describes how to install the Enterasys RoamAbout adapter card

and driver for the Sniffer software. This chapter includes the following sections:

 Installing the Enterasys RoamAbout Adapter for:

 Windows NT 4.0 on page 25

 Windows XP on page 30

 Windows 2000 on page 31

 Using the Enterasys RoamAbout as a Normal Network Adapter on page

 Enterasys RoamAbout Installation Notes and Issues on page 36

Installing the Enterasys RoamAbout Adapter

The following sections provide operating system-specific information for

installing Enterasys RoamAbout Adapters and drivers.

Windows NT 4.0

This section describes how to install the Enterasys RoamAbout adapter on a

Windows NT 4.0 system.

To install the Enterasys RoamAbout adapter and driver in Windows NT

4.0:

1 Ensure the Sniffer software is properly installed.

2 Remove any installed adapter drivers (either a previous version of the

Sniffer driver or another vendor’s driver) for the Enterasys RoamAbout

adapter. Remove drivers in Windows NT from the Adapters tab of the

Network control panel.

3 Restart the computer.

4 Log in to Windows NT as an Administrator.