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