Sierra Wireless 555 manual AirCard software installation procedures, Windows 95 support

Installation Guide

Subject to feature availability, the AirCard software supports Outlook integration, allowing you to read and send SMS messages from Outlook, and phone people in your Outlook Contacts. To use Outlook integration, you require:

•Windows 2000 or XP, and

•Outlook 2000 or newer (Outlook Express is not supported).

On Windows 2000 and XP, the AirCard software also allows you to monitor connections with a WiFi network adapter.

To install the AirCard, you require these system resources:

Table 3-1: System Resource Requirements

Card Slots	1	Type II PCMCIA (PC Card) Slot
Communications Ports	1	Available
Disk Drive	CD-ROM (for installation only)
I/O Resources	1	IRQ, 40 bytes I/O Space
Memory	10 MB
Disk Space	2 MB

Windows 95 support

Dial-up Networking and Winsock are components of the Windows operating system required by the AirCard. The versions of these components originally shipped with Windows 95 OSR2 do not meet the AirCard requirements. If you are using Windows 95 OSR2 and have not yet upgraded to Winsock2 and Dial-up Networking version 1.2 or later, you must do so before installing the AirCard. The required versions can be downloaded from the Microsoft web site,

www.microsoft.com.

AirCard software installation procedures

This section provides detailed installation instructions. Proceed to the section that corresponds to your operating system.

Operating System	Page
XP	page 20
2000	page 20

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