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Instant EtherFast ® Series EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Card Use this guide to install: LNE100TX ver . 5 User Guide.
COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS Copyright © 2001 Linksys, All Rights Reserved. EtherFast is a register ed trademark of Linksys. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo ar e register ed trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and brand names ar e the property of their respective pr oprietors.
Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards T roubleshooting 49 Common Problems and Solutions 49 Running the Card's Diagnostics 53 Appendix 54 Sharing Y our Files and Printers 54 Installing the Driver in Windows 95 Version A 56 Novell NetWar e 3.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards • One EtherF ast ® 10/100 LAN Card(s) • One 3.5” Driv er Disk • One User Guide and Registration Card • Quick Install for W indo ws Operating Systems 2 Linksys .
Installing the EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Card Overview Each EtherF ast ® 10/100 LAN Card is equipped with an RJ-45 por t that auto- matically adjusts to either 10Mbps or 100Mbps speeds, allo wing your .
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 6. Connect one end of a twisted-pair cable to your PC at the EtherF ast ® 10/100 LAN Card's RJ-45 por t. 7. Plug the other end of the cable into one of y our netw ork’ s 10BaseT or a 100BaseTX hub or switch ports, DSL modem, cable modem, router , etc.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 3. While the Update Device Driver W izard windo w is visible, put the EtherF ast ® 10/100 LAN Card Driv er Disk into your flopp y drive and click the Next button. 4. A screen will appear stating that W indo ws 95 w as unable to locate the driv- er .
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 8. The follo wing screen will prompt you for the dri v er location. In the Cop y Files F rom: f ield , type A:WIN95 . Then, click the OK button. 9. Windo ws 95 will begin cop ying f iles to your PC. When asked if you w ant to restart your PC, remo v e the flopp y disk and click Y es.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 3. Click the File and Print Sharing button. The F ile and Print Sharing window will appear . 4a. If you'd like others to be ab le to access the f iles on your PC's hard dri v e, select I w ant to be ab le to giv e others access to m y f iles .
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 11. Click on the Identif ication tab and the follo wing windo w will appear . T ype the name of y our computer in the Computer Name box. Choose a name that is unique from the other computer names on the netw ork. 12. T ype the name of y our w orkgroup in the W or kgr oup box.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 17. A Logon windo w will appear , requiring you to enter a username and pass- w ord. Make up a username and passw ord and click the OK button. Do not press the ESC key or click the Cancel button, or you w on't be able to lo g onto the netw ork.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 4. Select " Sear ch f or the best driver f or your de vice (Recommended) ” and click the Next button . 5. Select “ Specify a location ” and type “ A:WIN98” in the drop-do wn bo x. Then, click the Next button.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 20 8. W indo ws will f inish installing the softw are onto your PC. Click the Finish button. 9. When asked if y ou w ant to restart your PC, remo v e the Driv er Disk and click the Y es button. If you are using the W indows CD-R OM, leav e it in your PC.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 22 3. Click the File and Print Sharing button. The File and Print Sharing win- do w will appear . 4a. If y ou'd like others to be ab le to access the f iles on y our PC's hard dri ve, select I w ant to be ab le to giv e others access to m y f iles .
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 24 10. Choose the Access Contr ol tab . V erify that Shar ed-lev el access control is selected. 11. Click the OK button. Y our system ma y ask y ou for y our W indo ws 98 CD- R OM or the location of the W indows 98 installation f iles.
Windows Millennium Installation and Setup After ph ysicall y installing the EtherF ast ® 10/100 LAN Card in your computer , follo w these instructions to install the netw ork de vice driv er .
8. If W indo ws asks you to supply an y drivers be ginning with “lne” or “netlne”, re-direct W indo ws to your flopp y driv e ( A:WINME ). 9. W indo ws will f inish installing the softw are onto your PC.
3. Click the File and Print Sharing button. The File and Print Sharing win- do w will appear . 4a. If y ou'd like others to be ab le to access the f iles on y our PC's hard dri ve, select I w ant to be ab le to giv e others access to m y f iles .
9. Enter a description of your computer in the Computer Description box. This box is optional, and can be left b lank. 10. Choose the Access Contr ol tab.
34 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 33 Windows NT 4.0 Installation and Setup The follo wing instructions will set up the EtherF ast ® 10/100 LAN Card in a computer running NT 4.0 ser v- er/w orkstation. Y ou should ha v e your original W indo ws NT CD-ROM a vailable during the installa- tion, as you might be ask ed to suppl y it.
4. At the Select Networ k Adapter screen, click the Ha ve Disk button and insert the EtherF ast ® 10/100 LAN Card Driver Disk into drive A. 5. At the Insert Disk screen, type A: into the f ield on your screen and click the OK button. 36 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 1.
38 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 37 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 7. Make sure there is a check mark beside TCP/IP Pr otocol X(v5) F ast Ethernet Adapter . Uncheck any others that ma y be checked and then click the Ne xt button to continue. 9. Click the Ne xt button to proceed through the subsequent screens.
40 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 39 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 12. When you reach the follo wing screen, choose either W orkgr oup or Domain , depending on the type of netw ork y ou're setting up. (Y our Microsoft documentation explains the dif ference betw een W orkgroups and Domains.
42 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 41 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 3. When the list of a vailab le netw ork adapters appears, click the Ha ve Disk but- ton. 4. Put the “ Linksys LNE100TX (v5) F ast Ethernet Adapter Drivers” diskette into driv e A.
44 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 43 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 10. Remo v e your Dri v er Disk and CD-R OM and click the Ye s button to restart your PC. 11. Once your PC has rebooted , doub le-click the Netw or k Neighborhood icon on your desktop.
3. The Install Har dw ar e Device Driver s dialo g bo x will appear . When Ethernet Contr oller is display ed , select Search f or a suitable driv er f or m y device (Recommended) and click the Next button. 4. The Locate Driver F iles dialo g box will appear .
7. The Completing the F ound New Har dwar e W izar d dialog box will appear . Click the Finish button to complete the installation. 8. Remo v e the flopp y disk from the flopp y dri ve. The Windo ws 2000 driv er installation is complete. If y ou w ant to shar e f iles or printers, refer to y our Windo ws 2000 documentation.
50 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 49 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 5. On the Access Control T ab , User Level Access is selected, but Shared Level Access is grayed out and not accessible . • Y ou previousl y had y our primary netw ork logon set to Client f or NetW ar e Networ ks .
52 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 51 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 11. The workgroup , protocols, cabling and driver are all working properly , but the PC uses an AMD processor and it can only see itself in network neighborhood.
54 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards Appendix Sharing Y our Files and Printers Overview By sharing your f iles and printers, other PCs on y our netw ork will be able to access the resources on your PC. Before sharing your f iles and printers, you should prepare y our computer to be used with any f ile ser vers that ma y be on the network.
56 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 55 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards Installing the Driver in Windows 95 V ersion A 1. W indo ws 95 will detect the EtherF ast card and displa y a Ne w Har dw ar e F ound windo w . 2. Slide the EtherF ast Card Driv er Disk into dri ve A.
58 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 57 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards If you are installing the EtherF ast ® 10/100 Card in a W indows 95, 98 or Millennium PC that you plan on lo gging into a NT domain server , follow the directions belo w . 1. Start up W indows.
60 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 59 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 3. If the Conf iguration box has a component called Dial-Up Adapter , skip for- ward to step 5. If it doesn’ t, continue with step 4. 4. Remo v e an y instance of the name Linksys in the box.
11. Remo v e all devices with the name Linksys in its description. (If at an y point you are ask ed to restart the computer, Click No ). 12. Scroll do wn to the Other De vices listing. Click the plus [+] sign. Remo v e PCI Ethernet Contr oller or PCI Ethernet Adapter .
64 Linksys Instant EtherFast ® Series 63 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 9. The Netw ork Adapters category should be remov ed from the De vice Manager listing. 10. Click the OK button, and restart your computer . There ma y be times w hen you will need to manuall y install missing W indows netw orking components.
66 EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 2. Select Netw ork PC Car d from the list and click the Add button. 3. Highlight Protocol and click the Add button. 4. Select Micr osoft from the list of “Manufacturers” and TCP/IP from the list of “Netw ork Protocols” and click the OK button.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards Here are some general guidelines to follo w w hen installing a PCI card (such as the EtherF ast card) into your computer: 1. The EtherF ast LAN adapter should be used in a 32-bit PCI slot that supports PCI Bus Mastering. It cannot be plugged into a PCI Bus Sla ve slot.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 70 CPU (Central Processing Unit) - The computing par t of the computer . Also called the "processor ," it is made up of the control unit and ALU . CSMA/CD (Car rier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection) - The LAN access method used in Ethernet.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards Mbps (MegaBits P er Second) - One million bits per second; unit of measure- ment for data transmission. Motherboard - A motherboard is the physical arrangement in a computer that contains the computer's basic circuitry and components.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards Softw are - Instructions for the computer . A series of instr uctions that perfor ms a particular task is called a "program." The tw o major categories of softw are are "system software" and "application softw are.
EtherFast ® 10/100 LAN Cards 76 Contact Information F or help with the installation or operation of this product, contact Linksys Customer Support at one of the phone numbers or Inter net addresses below . Sales Information 800-546-5797 (LINKSYS) T ech Suppor t 888-793-4632 RMA Issues 949-261-1288 Fa x 949-261-8868 Email support@linksys.
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