Sierra Wireless AirCard 550, User Manual

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Section 2: Installing the PCS Connection Card
2A: Installation on Notebook PCs 19
To install the PCS Connection Card, you require these system resources:
Tip: A driver is software that forms the interface between a device (such
as the PCS Connection Card) and the operating system on your PC (such as
Windows Me).
Special Note for Windows 98 and 2000 Users: To function properly, the
PCS Connection Card’s IOTA protocol requires support for high-security
128-bit encryption. If the installer does not detect high-security support on
your system, a pop-up window will appear instructing you to update your
Internet Explorer to version 6 (Windows 98) or update your Windows 2000 to
support 128-bit security (Windows 2000). Follow the onscreen instructions to
update your system.
Installing the PCS Connection Manager
SM
Software (Windows 98 SE, Me, and 2000)
Note: Users of Windows 2000 must be logged in with administrative
privileges to install the PCS Connection Manager Software.
Installing the PCS Connection Manager Software and the
PCS Connection Card driver:
1.
If the PCS Connection Manager CD is not already in your CD-ROM
drive, insert it. The CD should auto-start and display a menu.
2.
If the CD does not auto-start, select
Start > Run
and enter
d:\launch.exe
where
d
is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.
Table 1: System Resource Requirements
Card slots 1 Type II PCMCIA (PC Card) slot
Communications ports 1 available
Disk drive CD-ROM
I/O resources 1 IRQ, 40 bytes I/O space
Memory 32 MB
Disk space 7 MB