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Installation under Windows 2000
Professional:
The card gets installed automatically. To
check if Windows has set up the card
properly, click –> Start –> Settings –>
Control Panel –> System –> Hardware
–> Device Manager –> Network adap-
ters. There must be an entry ”Realtek
RTL8139(A)-based PCI Fast Ethernet Adap-
ter” without a yellow exclamation mark.
Basic confi guration of a new network
After the proper installation of the network
card, you have also to confi gure the LAN
settings. That includes to install and setup
a network protocol. With it, the computers
of a network interchange data. Most
frequently, TCP/IP is used. Also the most
topical multi-player games communicate
via this protocol.
There must be an own address assigned
for each computer when using this proto-
col. The automatical address setting only
functions reliable if there is a DHCP server
available in the network. Normally there
is no such server existent. It is recom-
mended to manually assign an address to
the network card. The following example
shows the basic setup by confi guring the
IP addresses manually. For local networks
there are special number blocks, which
are not routed in the internet. One of
this range, which you can use for your
network is 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254.
The fi rst computer then gets the address
192.168.1.1, the second 192.168.1.2, the
third 192.168.1.3 and so on.
Checking the installed network components
Click –> Start –> Settings –> Control Panel
–> Network and Dial-up Connections.
Click with the right mouse button on Local
Area Connection and then –> Properties.
There must be following components
installed and active
(A tick in the small box left of the item):
• Client for Microsoft Networks
• File and Printer Sharing for
Microsoft Networks
• Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Normally these items are already
installed. When a component is missing,
please click on „Install“ and choose the
corresponding item to add it.
Confi guring the TCP/IP protocol
Mark „Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)“ and
click on –> Properties. Then select „Use
the following IP address“ and enter an IP
address corresponding to the instructions.
For example, the fi rst computer gets
192.168.1.1.
Then enter the correct subnet mask
255.255.255.0. Confi rm with –> OK –> OK.
Set computer name and workgroup
Click –> Start –> Settings –> Control Panel
–> System –> Network identifi cation –>
Properties. Please ensure that each
computer has been given a unique name,
not to confl ict with each other. Make sure
the workgroup name is the same for all
the computers in the network. Furthermo-
re the workgroup name must not be the
same as a computer name. Afterwards
please click on –> OK. The system shows
a notice that you have to reboot the
computer for the changes to take effect.
Click on –> OK. Close the window „System
Properties“ also with –> OK. Answer the
following question about the restart with
„Yes“.
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