Philips CPWNA100/00 Firmware Upgrade Instruction

How to upgrade the Philips connectedplanet Wireless Notebook Adapter

This How-to manual will answer the following questions:

1.Why should I upgrade my wireless notebook adapter firmware?

2.How do I know which software version I have now?

3.How do I know what the latest firmware is?

4.How do I upgrade my Wireless Notebook Adapter software?

1.Why should I upgrade my wireless notebook adapter firmware?

•To fix bugs.

•To add new functionality.

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How to upgrade the Philips connectedplanet Wireless Notebook Adapter

2. How do I know which software version I have now?

Move the mouse cursor on top of the Philips Wireless Networking Utility icon in the system tray and click the right mouse button. In the menu select ‘Show’.

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The ‘Philips Wireless Networking Manager’ will open. Select the ‘Version information’ Tab.

The ‘Application Version’ is the version of the Philips Wireless Networking Manager software, in this example it is 1.0.0.5.

The ‘Driver Version’ is the version of the driver, in this example it is 3.0.0.45.

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How to upgrade the Philips connectedplanet Wireless Notebook Adapter

3. How do I know what the latest firmware is?

The latest firmware can be found on the Philips support site http://www.philips.com/support .

Enter the Wireless Notebook Adapter model number (CPWNA100 in this example) and click with the mouse pointer on the right arrow button. The model number can be found on the bottom of the Wireless Notebook Adapter.

On the left hand side menu select ‘Software’.

On the right hand side the software will be presented for the 4 supported Operating System versions and the supported languages. Select the Operating System you have and your preferred language.

Here you can see the version number of the latest Wireless Notebook Adapter software. (In this example the new version number is 1.0.0.9)

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