PLANET Wire Free
Family
11Mbps IEEE802.11 Products
WL-8300
Wireless LAN PCI Adapter
Chapter 3. Software Installation
3.1 Setup WireFree for
Windows 95 / 98
Power on the PC and Install the PCI Utility from the directory "Utilities/RicohPCI"
Restart the PC and the Windows will prompt found PCMCIA
Adaper.

Windows 95/98 will automatically detect the new hardware and
will prompt you to install the driver needed.
Select Search for the best driver for your device.
Select the location of driver from Floppy disk devices, insert the diskette labeled WireFree WL-3550 Driver & Utility Diskette 3 1/2 floppy drive or location of
"CD-ROM drive" in your computer, then click Next.

- Windows 95/98 will find 11Mbps WLAN PCMCIA Adapter, now click Next.
Set parameters for WL-3550. Please refer to 4-2, part B. for the definition of each parameter.
Click Finish to complete the hardware installation.

Restart the computer.

- Open the Control Panel folder, double-click System
and Adapters to see if any error message appears. If no, that means your WL-3550 is
working well.

Fig. Chick OK if WL-3550 works
properly.
3.2 Setup
WireFree for Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0
Login as Administrator.
Install the PCI
Utility from the "Utilities/RicohPCI"
directory
After the Installation, please check the property of PCMCIA
from your Control Panel.
From the desktop, select Control Panel,
double-click Network, go to the Interface Card tab, and then click the Add
button.

- Windows NT will present a list of all its supported
adapters. Select OTHERS, or click Have Disk to continue.

Windows NT will ask for the drive/path containing
the WireFree WL-3550 Windows NT drivers. Insert the WL-3550 Driver and Utility diskette
into the floppy drive, and then type A:\, or CD-ROM driver like E:\
- Windows NT will attempt to locate an INF file in the
specified path. If you have entered the path name correctly, Windows NT should copy the
appropriate drivers to the Windows NT system. You need to recognize the selection.

Fig. Choose device model.
- A 11Mbps Wireless LAN Adapter Setup dialog box will show up. Please select the Default Channel -> Network Type and ESSID manually according to the setting in
the following fig. Your WL-3550 adapter will thereafter work on this configuration under
Windows NT. Press OK to continue.

- Now, the drivers would have been properly copied and the
installation would proceed to the next step --- Network Setup. Please specify each parameter required the network to work on.

- Restart the system.

- To ensure whether the
WL-3550 adapter works fine or not, go to Control Panel and double-click Devices.

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