3Com WL-305 warranty Installing the Wireless Client, Requirements, Disk Factory

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INSTALLING THE WIRELESS CLIENT

Installing a wireless client consists of inserting the 3Com Wireless LAN PC Card with XJACK® Antenna in your computer and installing the software driver and utilities. If you have 3Com Administrator Utilities installed on a wireless client, you can manage access points or run a site survey.

Requirements	Before you start the installation, make sure that you have the following items:
	Operating System	One of the following:
		■	Windows 95
			The 3Com wireless LAN PC Card runs under Windows 95 version B
			or higher. If you do not know which version of Windows 95 is
			installed on your computer, you can display it as follows:
			In the Control Panel, double-click System to display the System
			Properties dialog box. Click the General Tab to display the
			Windows 95 version information. Version B (also known as OSR 2)
			is identified as 4.00.950b.
		■	Windows 98
		■ Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)
		■ Windows NT with Service Pack 4 or above
		■	Windows 2000
	Web Browser	Internet Explorer version 4 required.
		Internet Explorer version 5.5 recommended.
		You can download Internet Explorer from www.microsoft.com
	PC Card	3Com 11 Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card with XJACK Antenna
	Installation Media	One of the following 3Com CDs:
		■ 3Com End User Utilities CD, which comes with the PC Card and
			contains utilities for users.
		■ 3Com Administrator Utilities CD, which comes with the 3Com
			11 Mbps Wireless LAN Access Point and contains utilities for users
			and tools for administrators.
	Other	■ The installation program may ask for the operating system
	Requirements		installation media (usually a CD supplied with your computer) or for
			a path to the operating system files. If you have other networking
			software installed on your computer, the installation program may
			ask for its installation media.
		■ If you need to install from diskettes, see “Disk Factory”.
Disk Factory	If you are installing the software on a computer that does not have a CD-ROM
	drive, or if you choose to install the drivers manually, you will have to make
	diskettes from the 3Com CD. The setup application includes Disk Factory, a utility
	for creating disks from CD. To use disk factory, you need access to a computer