Sierra Wireless AirCard 710, AirCard 750 manual Installing the Modem Driver

Note: The AirCard will not function with the default settings for the I/O Port , Interrupt, and Com port if any of these resources are allocated to another network card or other device. If you are familiar with the Windows NT Diagnostics window, you can check to see if these resources are available. Otherwise, leave the default settings and if the AirCard does not function following the driver installation, see the instructions on changing the interrupt on page 18.

Chapter 1: Introducing the AirCard 555 Network Card

5.Click the Have Disk... button to open the Insert Disk window.

6.Enter d:\Drivers\WinNT where d is the drive letter for your CD-ROM drive and click OK to open the Select OEM Option window in which Sierra Wireless AirCard GPRS Adapter is selected.

7.Click OK. A window opens showing the settings for the I/O Port (0x800), interrupt (10) and COM port (4).

8.If you are aware that these resources are in use by another device (see the note in the margin), change the settings and click OK. Otherwise, click OK to use the default settings.

Windows then copies the driver files.

9.Click Close to close the Network window and open the Microsoft TCP/IP Properties window.

10.Select Sierra Wireless AirCard GPRS Adapter in the Adapter field and select Obtain an IP address from a DHCP Server radio button.

11.Click Yes to confirm that DHCP is to be used.

12.Click OK to close the TCP/IP Properties window.

13.Click No if prompted to restart your PC. (You must restart your PC after the modem driver installation.)

On completion of this step, the network card driver is installed and you can proceed to install the modem driver. Follow the instructions in the next section.

Installing the Modem Driver

1.In the Control Panel, double click the Modems icon. If the Install New Modem wizard opens, skip to step 3. Otherwise, proceed to step 2.

2.Click the Add button to open the Install New Modem wizard.

3.Select Don’t detect my modem, I will select it from a list and click Next.

4.Select the Have Disk button.

5.Enter d:\Drivers\WinNT\ where d is the drive letter for your CD-ROM drive and click OK.

6.Verify that Sierra Wireless AirCard GPRS Modem is displayed and click Next.

7.Select the Selected Ports radio button and select the same communications port used for the network card driver (COM 4 unless you changed it). Click Next.

8.Click Finish.

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