3Com 3CR990 Network Card User Manual


 
30 CHAPTER 4: WINDOWS DRIVERS
New Hardware Found If the New Hardware Found screen appears, follow this procedure to install the
NIC driver:
1 Select the Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer option, and
then click OK.
The Install From Disk screen appears.
2 Insert the EtherCD in the CD-ROM drive, enter the path to the CD-ROM drive, and
click OK.
If networking has already been installed on your PC, go to step 4.
If this is the first time that networking is being installed on your PC,
the Identification tab of the Network screen appears. Go to step 3.
3 In the specified fields of the Identification tab screen, enter the following
information, and then click Close.
Computer Name—Identifies the PC on the network for other users. This entry
must be a unique name of 15 characters or fewer, containing no spaces.
Workgroup—Identifies the group (for example, your department name)
to which your PC belongs. If your computer is connected to a peer-to-peer
network, this entry must be exactly the same for all the PCs in your network.
Computer Description—Displays additional details to other users on the
network about this PC. For example, you could specify that the PC is connected
to a printer. Filling in this field is optional.
4 The Insert Disk screen appears, prompting you for the Windows 95 CD-ROM.
Click OK.
The Copying Files screen appears.
5 Do one of the following:
If the Windows 95 files were not copied to your hard drive, remove the
EtherCD from the CD-ROM drive, insert the Windows 95 CD, enter the path to
the CD-ROM drive, and then click OK.
If the Windows 95 files were copied to your hard drive, enter the path to the
directory containing these files, and then click OK.
Files are copied. The Systems Settings Change screen appears, prompting you to
restart your computer.
6 Click Yes.
The installation is complete. To verify that the installation was successful
Go to: V
erifying Successful Installation.
NOTE: You must restart your computer to complete the installation.
NOTE: After Windows restarts, double-click the Network icon in the Windows
Control Panel and make sure that the configuration settings are properly set for
your network environment. Contact your system manager for assistance.