Linksys HPN200 User Manual

HomeLink®Series

Phoneline10M

Network

Use this guide to install these Linksys products:

HPN200

HomeLink

Phoneline 10M Network Card

HPN200SK

HomeLink® Phoneline 10M Network In a Box

User Guide

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Phoneline 10M Network Card will be free from physical defects in material and workmanship for one year from the date of purchase, when used within the limits set forth in the Specification section of this User Guide. If the product proves defective during this warranty period, call Linksys Customer Support in order to obtain a Return Authorization number. BE SURE TO HAVE YOUR PROOF OF PURCHASE ON HAND WHEN CALLING. When returning a product, mark the Return Authorization number clearly on the outside of the package and include your original proof of purchase. RETURN REQUESTS CANNOT BE PROCESSED WITHOUT PROOF OF PURCHASE. All customers located outside of the United States of America and Canada shall be held responsible for shipping and handling charges.

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The HomeLink

Phoneline 10M Network Card has been tested and complies with the specifications 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 according to 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 is found by turning the equipment 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 separation between the equipment or device

• Connect the equipment to an outlet other than the receiver’s

• Consult a dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for assistance

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Introduction

The Linksys HomeLink®Phoneline Network Card

Congratulations on your purchase of the Linksys HomeLink

Phoneline Network Card (or Network in a Box)–the second generation Network Card of the Linksys HomeLink®series! Now able to transfer data at the same speed as a standard Ethernet network, the HomeLink

Phoneline 10M Network Card is the simplest way to build a network in your home or small office. Connect directly to your first-generation HomeLink®or home phoneline network, print from any PC to any printer, and play multi-player games at top speeds without installing a switch, a hub, or even network cables.

By allocating certain frequencies for certain types of data transfer, the Linksys HomeLink®Network 10M Card allows your phone line to simultaneously carry computer data along with your voice. You can talk on the telephone, download files from the Internet, and share data between PCs all at the same time (assuming that you are using a cable or DSL modem). Every standard telephone jack in the home is capable of hosting a PC. You can transform your telephone wiring into an easily expandable network.

Features

• Build a network using your existing telephone line

• Up to 10Mbps transfer rate

• Play multi-player games at top speeds

• Enable file, data and printer sharing between your PCs

• Connect up to 30 PCs with up to 1000 feet of telephone cabling

• Data transfer rate is over 30 times faster than a 56K modem

• Compatible with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, and 2000

• Frequency division multiplexing for uninterrupted simultaneous voice serv-

ice and network data transmissions

• Free technical—24 hours a day, 7 days a week for North America only

Phoneline 10M Network Card

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

The Linksys HomeLink®Phoneline Network Card 1 Features 1 Package Contents 2 System Requirements 3

Hardware Setup 4

Installing the 10M Phoneline Network Card 4 Installing the RJ-11 (Telephone) Cabling 4 Software Pre-install 5

Windows 95 Installation and Setup 6

Installing the Driver in Windows 95 6 Preparing Windows 95 For Use on a Network 7 Setting Up File and Printer Sharing 9 Enabling File Sharing 9

Windows 98 & ME Installation and Setup 11

Installing the Driver in Windows 98 & ME 11

Windows NT 4.0 Installation and Setup 15

Installing Windows NT Networking and the HomeLink

Card’s Driver 16 Installing the HomeLink® Network Driver if Networking is Already Installaed 22

Windows 2000 Installation and Setup 23

Installing the Driver in Windows 2000 23

Troubleshooting 26 Appendix 29

Manually Installing the Network Components in Windows 29 Windows 95 Version A Setup 30 Removing Installed Components 33 The Driver Interface 34

Glossary 35 Specifications 40

Environmental Specifications 41

Warranty Information 42 Contact Information 43

Network in a Box Package Contents

• Tw o HomeLink®Phoneline 10M Network Cards

• Two Standard Modular Telephone Cables

• One User Guide and Registration Card

• One Installation CD-ROM

System Requirements

• PCI 2.2 compliant PC

• Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000

• CD-ROM drive

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Network Card Package Contents

• One HomeLink®Phoneline 10M Network Card

• One Standard Modular Telephone Cable

• One User Guide and Registration Card

• One Installation CD-ROM

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in the wall, then plug the other phone cable port on the card to your second PC with a standard phone cable. You can connect up to thirty PCs on one chain. If you want to use your telephone or fax machine, add a two-way splitter on your wall’s phone jack or connect the device to the open telephone port on the last card in your daisy chain. If you are daisy chaining more than 2 PCs, you should connect your modem to a different wall phone jack, or obtain a 2-way splitter.

Software Pre-install

Setting up the HomeLink

card's software involves installing a network driv-

er onto your PC, which will allow your card to communicate with Windows. Windo ws 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000 must be installed on all of your PCs in order to install the software. The HomeLink®Phoneline 10M Network Card driver setup program will not work properly under any other operating systems.

You will need a CD-ROM drive installed on each PC you wish to network. Because there are several important questions about your PC that you must answer during the installation, we recommend that you read through the User Guide.

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A Typical HomeLink Network

Hardware Setup

Installing the 10M Phoneline Network Card

1. Tur n off your PC and any peripheral equipment attached to it.

2. Remove your PC's outside cover.

3. Open up your computer and locate the PCI expansion slot(s). Next, deter-

mine which of your PC's PCI slots is the master slot (In newer PCs, the PCI slots are usually all master slots. Older PCs may have both master and slave slots. The HomeLink card must be inserted into a master slot). Your PC vendor can help you determine which slots are designed for 32-bit cards.

4. Carefully slide the HomeLink®card into the PCI slot. Make sure that all of its pins are touching the slot's contacts. After the card is firmly in place, secure its fastening tab to your PC's chassis with a mounting screw.

5. Replace your PC's cover and turn on your PC. If your computer has a plugand-play BIOS and a Plug-and-Play operating system such as Windows 95, 98, ME, or 2000, it will automatically reco gnize the card and assign a unique IRQ ("interrupt") and I/O address to it. If not, refer to the apropriate installation section.

Installing the RJ-11 (Telephone) Cabling

Attach one end of the telephone wire to the HomeLink

card's RJ-11 telephone port. There are two RJ-11 ports. Connect the other end of the cable into a telephone jack in your wall.

If you are using an analog telephone, you can either connect the de vice to a second phone jack (recommended), or you can connect your telephone directly to the second port on your HomeLink card.

If you hav e onl y one phone jack in y our room and you want to use your modem or fax, it is recommended that you purchase a two-way adapter that can tur n your single phone jack into a double phone jack. Plug your telephone or fax into one phone jack, and your HomeLink®card into the other.

If you hav e tw o or three PCs in one room with onl y one telephone jack, y ou can connect several of the PC together using the Daisy Chain method. To daisy chain your PCs, plug your first PC with a Phoneline card into the phone jack

Windows 95 Installation and Setup

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After installing the HomeLink

hardware in your computer, follow these instructions for installing the network driver in Windows 95 version B, the more common version of Windows 95. If you have Windows 95 version A, go to the version A installation section in the Appendixnow. The installation procedure for the network driver will vary slightly depending on the version of Windows 95 you are using and your current system configuration.

1. With the Card installed, start up your PC.

After Windows 95 is loaded, Windows will display an "Update Device Driver" window. Click the Next button.

2. Windows will try to find the software driver for your HomeLink®card. If

Windows locates the driver, click the Finish button. If Windows fails to find the driver, insert your CD-ROM and click on Other Locations. Direct the setup to your CD-ROM drive. If the correct file is found, click the Finish button when you return to the Update Device Driver Wizard. If your PC fails to f ind the cor rect file, go to the Troubleshooting section.

3. Windows may now prompt you to insert your Phoneline 10M Network

Card Installation CD-ROM. Make sure the CD is in the drive if you haven’t already inserted it. Click the OK button. Windows will begin copying files onto your PC.

4. Windows 95 will copy the appropriate network drivers onto your com-

puter. If Windows 95 asks you to supply your original Windows 95 installation CD-ROM or setup files, enter the appropriate path for those f iles (i.e., a:\, d:\win95, c:\windows\options\cabs, etc.). Linksys only provides two types of files on the Installation: CD-ROM—PCM200HA.inf and bcm**.* (or mfc*.*, in certain circumstances). All other files are pro- vided by Microsoft.

5. Next,you will be asked to restart your PC. Click on the Yes button. If you

do not restart your PC, the installation will be incomplete.

Preparing Windows 95 For Use on a Network

Make sure that the following network components are installed by clicking on your Windows taskbar’s Start button, click on Settings, and then Control Panel. When the Control Panel appears, click the Netw or kicon. The Netw ork window will appear. Click on the Configuration tab. The following components must be listed.

• Client for Microsoft Networks

• Linksys Phoneline 10M Network Card

• TCP/IP

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Overview

Note: If you receive any "Version Conflict" or similar messages during the driver installation, and you are given a choice of over-writing any of your existing files, it is recommended that you keep the existing files. You may receive these messages many times, or you may not receive them at all depending on your system configuration and software.

Note: If the window that pops up says New Hardware Found, and it asks for Driver from disk provided by manufacturer, then you are using Version A of Windows 95. Go to the Appendix for version A installation instructions.

Preparing Windows 95 For Use on a Network

1. Start up Windows 95. If you are asked to log in, be sure to give your correct username and password.

2. To set up sharing for the first time on a computer, click on Start and select Settings and Control Panel. Then, double-click on Network.

3. Select the Configuration tab, followed by the File and Printer Sharing button. The File and Printer Sharing window will appear.

4. Decide what types of resources you’d like to make available on the network.

• If you'd like others to be able to access the files on your PC's hard drive,

select I want to be able to give others access to my files.

• If you'd like to share your printer with other users on the network, select I

want to be able to allow others to print to my printer.

5. Click on the OK button. File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks should now appear in the list of installed components. Click on the OK button. When asked to restart your PC, click on the Yes button.

Enabling File Sharing

After following the steps on the previous page, double-click on your My Computer icon. A window of available disk drives will appear. Using your

right mouse button, click once on the drive that you want to make available to other users. Click on Sharing, follow ed b y the Sharingtab. Click on Share As.

In the Share Name box, give your computer a name (you can call it whatever you want as long as there are no spaces—MaryComputer, Tardis, etc.). Next, decide on the type of access that you want to give other users.

• Read-Only access lets other users view the f iles on your PC.

• Full access lets users create, change, or delete files on your PC.

• Depends on P ass w or dlets users have Read-Only and/or Full access, depend-

ing on the password that you decide to give them.

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There may be other components listed in addition to the ones shown above, which is fine. If any of the components shown above are missing, however, you’ll need to manually install them. For instructions on how to do this, skip to the section titled Manually Installing Network Components.

When you're finished, restart your computer. The instructions on the next page explain how to enab le file and printer sharing in W indows 95 so that your computer can be accessed by others and vice-versa.

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Setting Up File and Printer Sharing

Enabling File Sharing

Windows 98 & ME Installation and Setup

Overview

After physically installing the HomeLink®card in your notebook computer, follow these instructions to install the device driver. The installation procedure for the device driver will vary slightly depending on which version of Windows 98 or ME you are using, and on your current system configuration. Please have your Windows 98 or ME Installation CD or diskettes available during installation. If at any time during the installation you encounter problems, consult the Troubleshooting section.

Installing the Device Driver

1. If you haven’t already, star t up your computer.

2. Windows 98 or ME will automatically detect the presence of the Phoneline 10M Network Card in your computer.

3. When the Add New Hardwar e W izardwindow appears, insert the Phoneline 10M Network Card Driver CD into your CD-ROM drive. Click the Next button.

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Select the type of file sharing access that you want other users to have. If you want to assign access password(s), type them into the Password box(es). When you're done, click on the Apply button, followed by the OK button. Your drive(s) can now be accessed from other users whenever they click on their Windows Network Neighborhood icons. If a user tries to access one of your drives that's password-protected, he or she will be asked for the appropriate Read-Only or Full Access password.

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Installing the Driver in Windows 98 & ME

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