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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

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