Sprint Nextel 597E manual Installation Overview, System Requirements Windows

Installation Overview

Before you begin using your card, you must install the card’s software and configure the card for your computer. The installation process consists of:

⬤Ensuring that your computer meets the system requirements.

⬤Inserting the card into your computer and installing the drivers for the card and the Sprint Connection Manager software (for Windows) or Watcher Lite software (for the Mac).

⬤Starting the software.

⬤Activating your Sprint account and configuring the card to use your account (unless the card has been preactivated).

Note:

To install the drivers and software, you do not need an installation CD. Your card uses the Sierra Wireless TRU-Install feature—the drivers and software are installed when you insert the card into your computer. (To get the latest drivers and software, you can always go to www.sprint.com/downloads.)

System Requirements (Windows)

The Sprint Mobile Broadband card is supported on:

⬤Windows Vista.

⬤Windows XP with Service Pack 2.

⬤Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 and high encryption support. (See “High Encryption Requirements (Windows)” on page 10.)

To install and run the card and accompanying Sprint Connection Manager software on a Windows computer, you will need the minimum system resources shown in the following table.

Slots	One ExpressCard/34 or ExpressCard/54 slot; alternatively, a
	Type II PC Card slot (when used with the ExpressCard to
	PC Card adapter [included in your package]).
Memory	32 MB
Disk space	32 MB

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