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Your PC: Installing a PC Network Card

If your PC does not already support Ethernet or USB, you must install a network interface card.

Following is an example setup procedure:

1.

Install an Ethernet card on your motherboard, following the card’s directions.

2.

Power up your PC and follow the

Add New Hardware Wizard

’s instructions to install the

driver. When asked to restart your computer at the end of the installation, click

Yes

.

3.

After restarting the system, right-click

My Computer

on the desktop, select

Properties

,

click the

Device Manager

tab, and then double-click

Network adapters

to confirm that the

Ethernet driver is properly installed.

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Your PC: Installing a TCP/IP Stack

Follow these instructions to install the TCP/IP protocol stack on one of your PCs

only

after a

network card has been successfully installed inside the PC. These instructions are for Windows Me.

For TCP/IP setup under Windows NT, 2000, and XP, refer to your Windows documentation.

1. Click the

Start

button. Choose

Settings

and then

Control Panel

.

Fig. 2

2. Double-click on the

Network

icon to bring up your

Network window. Select the

Configuration

tab.

3. Click the

Add

button.

4. Double-click on

Protocol

.

Fig. 3

5. Highlight

Microsoft

under the list of manufacturers.

6. Find and double-click

TCP/IP

in the list to the right (see

Figure 3).

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7.

After a few seconds, the main Network window will appear.

The TCP/IP Protocol should now be listed.

8. Click the

OK

button again. Windows may ask you for the

original Windows installation disk or additional files. Supply

them by pointing to the correct file location, e.g., D:\win9x,

c:\windows\options\cabs, etc. (if “D” is the letter of your

CD-ROM drive).

9.

Windows will ask you to restart the PC. Click the

Yes

button.

The TCP/IP installation is now complete.

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Your PC: Configuring DHCP on a TCP/IP Stack on a PC

These instructions will help you configure each of your computers to be able to communicate

with the gateway to obtain an IP (or TCP/IP) address automatically (called DHCP, Dynamic Host

Configuration Protocol).

Find out which operating system your computer is running by clicking the

Start

button and then

going to the

Settings

option. Then click

Control Panel

and double-click the

System

icon. If your

Start menu doesn’t have a Settings option, you’re running Windows XP. Click the Cancel button

when done.

You may need to do this for each computer you are connecting to the gateway.

Important:

These instructions apply only to Windows Me, 2000, or XP machines. For TCP/IP setup

under Windows NT, see your Windows manual. By default Windows 2000, Me, and XP have TCP/IP

installed and set to obtain an IP address automatically.

The next few pages tell you, step by step, how to configure your network settings, based on the

type of Windows operating system you are using. Make sure that an Ethernet card or adapter has

been successfully installed in each PC you want to configure.

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Configuring Windows Me PCs

1.

Go to the Network screen by clicking the

Start

button. Click

Settings

and then

Control Panel

. From there, double-click

the

Network

icon.

2.

On the Configuration tab, select the

TCP/IP line

for the

applicable Ethernet adapter. Do not choose a TCP/IP entry

whose name mentions DUN, PPPoE, VPN, or AOL. If

TCP/IP

appears by itself, select that line. (If there is no TCP/IP line

listed, you need to install a TCP/IP stack). Refer to

Your PC:

Installing a TCP/IP Stack.

Click the

Properties

button.

3. Click the

IP Address

tab. Select

Obtain an IP address

automatically

.

4. Now click the

Gateway

tab to ensure that the Installed

gateway field is left blank. Click the

OK

button.

5. Click the

OK

button again. Windows may ask you for the

original Windows installation disk or additional files. Supply

them by pointing to the correct file location, e.g., D:\win9x,

c:\windows\options\cabs, etc. (if “D” is the letter of your

CD-ROM drive).

6.

Windows may ask you to restart your PC. Click the

Yes

button. If Windows does not ask you to restart, restart your

computer anyway.