1-2 Bluetooth PC Card from IBM: Installation and User ’s Guide
Before you begin
Before you begin installing and using your Bluetooth PC Card, review the follow-
ing terms that will be used throughout the manual.
•Authentication: A security mechanism that prevents access to critical data
and makes it impossible to falsify the origin of a message.
•Device address: The unique address of a Bluetooth device.
•Device discovery: Before a link can be established, a Bluetooth device needs
to "discover", or find, the other Bluetooth devices that are active and in range.
•Device name: The name that a Bluetooth device presents itself with when
supplying identity information to another device.
•Master device: The device that initiates a connection and, during this connec-
tion, controls all traffic in a piconet.
•Park mode: An economical, low-power "sub-mode" of standby. In park
mode, a slave device does not participate in the piconet but remains synchro-
nized to it. Park mode is used to increase the number of slave devices con-
nected to a master device.
•Piconet: A wireless network formed by two or more Bluetooth devices.
•Profile: An application that a Bluetooth device facilitates. For one device to
communicate with another, the two devices must have a shared profile.
•Slave device: A device in a piconet controlled by another device (the master
device).
System requirements
The Bluetooth Software Suite works with the following operating systems:
•Microsoft
® Window s® 95 OSR/2
• Microsoft Windows 98
• Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Installing the Bluetooth software suite
Follow these directions to install the Bluetooth software suite for the operating
system on your computer.
Note: If you have an older version of the Bluetooth Software Suite on your com-
puter, it must be uninstalled before continuting. For more information,
see “Uninstalling the application software” on page 1-5.
Windows 95 OSR/2
1. Insert the Bluetooth software CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive. In most
cases, the software will begin the installation process without intervention. If
this is not the case, do the following:
a. Click Start, then click Run, and then click Browse.