Abocom Systems FE2KVX User Manual

CardBus 10/100 Fast Ethernet PC Card

User Manual

CAUTION:

Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the grantee of this device could void the user's

authority to operate the equipment.

REGULATORY STATEMENTS

FCC Certification

The United States Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and the Canadian Department of Communications have established certain rules governing the use of modems and other electronic equipment.

FCC Part 68 Registration

The high speed PC card FAX/MODEM is registered with the FCC as compliant with the rules of Part 68, and use of this modem is subject to the following restrictions:

1. The Federal Communication Commission FCC has established rules which permit this device to be directly connected to the telephone network. Standardized jacks are used for these connections. This equipment should not be used on party lines or coin phones.

2. If this device is malfunctioning, it may also be causing harm to he telephone network; this device should be disconnected until the source of the problem can be determined and until repair has been made. If this is not done, the telephone company may temporarily disconnect service.

3. The telephone company may make changes in it’s facilities, equipment, operation and procedures; if such changes affect the compatibility or use of this device, the telephone company is required to give adequate notice of the with the FCC.

4. If the telephone company requests information on what equipment is connected to their lines, inform them of:

a. The telephone number which this unit is connected to

b. The ringer equivalence number.

c. The USOC jack required.

d. The FCC Registration number.

Items (b) and (d) are indicated on the label. The Ringer Equivalence Number (REN) is used to determine how many devices can be connected to your telephone line. In most areas, the sum of the REN’s of all the devices on any one line should not exceed 5.0. If too many devices are attached, they may not ring properly.

FCC Part 15 Registration

This modem complies with Part 15 of FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

1) This device may not cause harmful interface, and

2) this device must accept any interface received,

including interface that may cause undesired operation.

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the distance between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different

from that to which the receiver is connected.

• Consult an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

CTR 21 pan-European Certification

This equipment has been approved in accordance with Council Decision 98/482/EC for pan-European single terminal connection

to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). However, due to differences between the individual PSTNs provided in different countries, the approval does not, of itself, give an unconditional assurance of successful operation on every PSTN network termination point. In the event of problems, you should contact your equipment supplier in the first instance.

This device is designed to work with the notified networks in all EC member states. Nevertheless, some of the network services in invidual countries might not be supported, but they will not affect the normal data and fax applications. For example, the metering charge service in Germany. Besides you may encounter difficulty of using PULSE dialing function in some of the countries, such as Nordic countries. This kind of network compatibility is dependent on the physical and software settings of this device. If the users are desired to use this device on those networks, they should contact the vendor or supplier first.

CTR 21 T

PAN-EUROPEAN CERTIFICATION

ABLE OF CONTENTS

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ABOUT THIS MANUAL .......................................1

System Requirements.........................................1

PERATING ENVIRONMENTS

INTRODUCTION TO CARDBUS........................3

HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...........................5

Inserting the CardBus Dual-Speed PC Card ....5

Removing the CardBus Dual-Speed PC Card...5

Connecting to the Network................................6

LED Indicators..................................................7

SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ............................8

Windows 95 Installation....................................8

ETERMINING THE VERSION OF WINDOWS

Native Windows 95..........................................10

OSR2 Windows 95 and Later ..........................12

Windows 98/ME Installation...........................13

Windows 2000 Installation..............................16

Windows NT 4.0 Installation...........................19

Windows NT 3.5x Installation .........................20

DOS Mode Installation....................................21

ENU INSTALLATION

Novell Client Installation ................................24

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95 ......9

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ................................27

SPECIFICATIONS...............................................30

ABOUT THIS MANUAL

This manual will explain how to install and use your 10/100Mbps dual speeds Fast Ethernet PC Card. The following guideline will help you through the installation process.

Chatper 1 presents you the basic information about the CardBus technology. It also provides some methods to ensure your notebook are CardBus equipped and correctly configured.

After you already make sure your mobile computer is ready to run CardBus 10/100M Ethernet PC Card. You can go on the Chapter 2 to know how to install the PC Card and Connect it to network.

The CardBus 10/100M Ethernet PC Card provides wide range of driver’s software to meet your need. You can pick up the section within Chapter 3 to install and configure the network driver.

The Questions and Answers listed in the Chapter 4 give you some solutions when you encounter problem during installation of the network drivers.

Finally you can find the detail specification of this innovative product in the Appendix A.

System Requirements

 An IBM compatible notebook computer with

486 or faster processor with CardBus supported socket.

 Drivers and utilities provided with this product

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 PCMCIA PC Card compliant Card Services and

Socket Services

 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet or 10BaseT Ethernet

connectivity to your local area network.

Operating Environments

 Windows 95, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows

98/ME

 Windows 2000

 Novell Netware 3.x, 4.x

 Microsoft Windows NT 3.51, NT 4.0

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INTRODUCTION TO CARDBUS

Cardbus is the next generation 32-bit version issued by PCMCIA PC Card standard. In addition to support a wider bus (32 bits instead of 16 bits), CardBus also supports bus mastering and operation speeds up to 33 MHz. The 132MBytes bus transfer rate (compares with legacy 16-bit I/0 PC Card, 20MByte) provides the mobile user to enjoy the high-bandwidth network connection.

A Mobil computer, which equipped with CardBus and properly configured is the fundamental requirement to use the CardBus 10/100M PC Card. To make sure about this point, please follow the guideline listed below:

 Cardbus is designed to support both 16-bit and

Cardbus Card. But the legacy 16-bit PC Card slot couldn't accept the CardBus PC Card. In order to prevent the wrong operation, CardBus is thus developed with particular mechanical consideration to prevent it fit into the legacy 16-bit PC Card Slot. If you can't insert the CardBus 10/100 PC Card into the slot firmly reaching the bottom, your notebook probably hasn’t the capability to support CardBus technology. Please check your notebook manual for detail information.

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 Due to variant design of notebook computers,

some models implement a setting in the Computer’s BIOS to switch between Cardbus and 16-bit PC Card modes. You could consult the User’s Guide of your notebook and properly set on the CardBus or Auto_Detect mode.

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HARDWARE INSTALLATION

This chapter describes how to install the CardBus 10/100M dual-speed PC Card in your notebook computer and connect it to network. It’s referred to “the PC Card” in this manual.

The PC Card could be connected to either 100Mbps Fast Ethernet or 10Mbps Ethernet. The PC Card has the ability of automatic sensing and operating on either speed without manual recofiguration.

After finishing the installation of PC Card into your Notebook, please refer to Chapter.3 Software Installation on how to install network drivers using menu driven installation utility.

Inserting the CardBus Dual-Speed PC Card

1. Hold the CardBus PC Card with wide connector

toward the slot and the brand lable facing upward.

2. Insert the CardBus PC Card and push it firmly

into the bottom. ( Please see the figuer on the next page for reference)

Removing the CardBus Dual-Speed PC Card

It’s quite different for various computer mechanical designs. Please refer to the PC Card removal instruction in the document for your notebook computer.

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Connecting to the Network

Connect RJ-45 port of the CardBus 10/100 Ethernet PC Card Adapter to the Category 5 Network cable before loading any network driver.

 For operation in the 100Mbps (100Base-TX)

Ethernet network, a Category 5 unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable should be used to connect between the RJ-45 port and 100Mbps hub or switch.

 For operation in the 10Mbps (10Base-T) Ethernet

network, Category 3, 4 or 5 unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable could be used to connect between the RJ-45 port and a 10Mbps hub or switch.

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