Installing the 10M Phoneline Network Card

Linksys HomeLink® Series

Hardware Setup

Installing the 10M Phoneline Network Card

1.Turn off your PC and any peripheral equipment attached to it.

2.Remove your PC's outside cover.

3.Open up your computer and locate the PCI expansion slot(s). Next, deter- mine which of your PC's PCI slots is the master slot (In newer PCs, the PCI slots are usually all master slots. Older PCs may have both master and slave slots. The HomeLink card must be inserted into a master slot). Your PC ven- dor can help you determine which slots are designed for 32-bit cards.

4.Carefully slide the HomeLink® card into the PCI slot. Make sure that all of its pins are touching the slot's contacts. After the card is firmly in place, secure its fastening tab to your PC's chassis with a mounting screw.

5.Replace your PC's cover and turn on your PC. If your computer has a plug- and-play BIOS and a Plug-and-Play operating system such as Windows 95, 98, ME, or 2000, it will automatically recognize the card and assign a unique IRQ ("interrupt") and I/O address to it. If not, refer to the apropriate instal- lation section.

Installing the RJ-11 (Telephone) Cabling

Attach one end of the telephone wire to the HomeLink® card's RJ-11 telephone port. There are two RJ-11 ports. Connect the other end of the cable into a tele- phone jack in your wall.

If you are using an analog telephone, you can either connect the device to a sec- ond phone jack (recommended), or you can connect your telephone directly to the second port on your HomeLink card.

If you have only one phone jack in your room and you want to use your modem or fax, it is recommended that you purchase a two-way adapter that can turn your single phone jack into a double phone jack. Plug your telephone or fax into one phone jack, and your HomeLink® card into the other.

If you have two or three PCs in one room with only one telephone jack, you can connect several of the PC together using the Daisy Chain method. To daisy chain your PCs, plug your first PC with a Phoneline card into the phone jack

Phoneline 10M Network Card

A Typical HomeLink Network

in the wall, then plug the other phone cable port on the card to your second PC with a standard phone cable. You can connect up to thirty PCs on one chain. If you want to use your telephone or fax machine, add a two-way splitter on your wall’s phone jack or connect the device to the open telephone port on the last card in your daisy chain. If you are daisy chaining more than 2 PCs, you should connect your modem to a different wall phone jack, or obtain a 2-way splitter.

Software Pre-install

Setting up the HomeLink® card's software involves installing a network driv- er onto your PC, which will allow your card to communicate with Windows. Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000 must be installed on all of your PCs in order to install the software. The HomeLink® Phoneline 10M Network Card driver setup program will not work properly under any other operating systems.

You will need a CD-ROM drive installed on each PC you wish to network. Because there are several important questions about your PC that you must answer during the installation, we recommend that you read through the User Guide.

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