User's Manual

Chapter 3: Installation on Notebook PCs
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Installation and Use
on Notebook PCs
Note: Use the Windows NT
Diagnostics window to locate an
available IRQ and I/O space.
13. Use the drop down menus to select an I/O Port, Interrupt,
Memory, and Com Port, noting that the AirCard 555
requires 1 IRQ and 40 bytes of I/O Space. Click
Continue.
14. If the Windows NT Setup window displays again, enter
the path to your CD-ROM drive or the .CAB files.
15. Click
Yes at the DHCP prompt to proceed to a display of
network bindings. (DHCP or Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol is required by the AirCard 555 regardless of your
network configuration.)
16. Click
Next to start the Network component.
17. Click
Next to proceed to the window in which you enter a
Computer Name and Workgroup or Domain.
18. Enter the information appropriate to your network config-
uration and click
Next.
19. Click
Finish on the final window of the wizard.
20. Click
Yes at the prompt to restart your PC. (You must
restart your PC to complete the driver installation.)
21. When the PC restarts, re-install your Service Pack.
22. On completion of this step, the driver is installed and you
can proceed to configure the AirCard to use your account
(if it was not pre-activated).
Installing the Network Card Driver When Networking Is
Already Installed
1. Click the
Adapters tab in the Network window.
2. Click the
Add... button to open the Select Network Adapter
window.
3. Click the
Have Disk... button to open the Insert Disk
window.
4. If you have copied the driver from the AirCard CD to your
hard drive, enter the path to the driver and click
OK to
open the Select OEM Option window.
5. If you are installing the driver from the AirCard CD, enter
d:\Drivers\WinNT where d is the drive letter for your CD-
ROM drive and click
OK to open the Select OEM Option
window.
6. If Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 is highlighted, click
OK. The
Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 should appear under Network
Adapters in the Network Setup Wizard. Otherwise, click
Cancel and repeat the previous two steps.