Sierra Wireless AirCard 710, AirCard 750 manual Installation on Notebook PCs, System requirements

3: Installation on Notebook PCs

•System requirements

•Setting up your Internet connection

•Installing the AirCard software

Note: Dial-up Networking and Winsock are components of the Windows operating system required by the AirCard 710/750. The versions of these compo- nents shipped with Windows 95 OSR2 do not meet the AirCard 710/750 requirements. If you are using Windows 95 OSR2 and have not yet upgraded to Winsock2 and Dial-up Networking version 1.3 or later, you must do so before installing the AirCard. The required versions can be downloaded from the Microsoft web site, www.microsoft.com.

System requirements

The AirCard 710/750 wireless network card is supported on:

•Windows 95 OSR2 and higher with Winsock2 and Dial-up Networking 1.3 or higher

•Windows 98 SE

•Windows 2000 with Service Pack 1

•Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6a and Networking installed

•Windows Me

•Windows XP (Home and Professional versions)

To install the AirCard, you require these system resources:

Table 3-1: System resource requirements

Card Slots	1	Type II PCMCIA (PC Card) Slot
Disk Drive	CD-ROM
I/O Resources	1	IRQ, 40 bytes I/O Space
Memory	32 MB

Setting your Internet connection to use the AirCard

Most likely, your computer will be set to use a modem to connect to the Internet.

To use the AirCard, you must set your computer to connect to the Internet through a LAN (local area network).

The specific steps to do this will depend on the browser you are using.

Internet Explorer version 5 and 6

1.In Internet Explorer, select Tools > Internet Options.

2.Click the Connections tab.

Notebook PCs

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