Basic Setup; What You Need Before You Begin; Verifying System Requirements - NETGEAR GA511 User Manual

This chapter describes how to install your NETGEAR 10/100/1000 Mbps Gigabit CardBus
Adapter GA511 and set up basic connectivity on your Local Area Network (LAN) using the
setup.exe utility.

What You Need Before You Begin

You need to verify your computer meets the minimum system requirements and identify the
network configuration settings of the LAN where you will connect before you can configure your
gigabit Ethernet adapter and connect.

Verifying System Requirements

Before installing the NETGEAR 10/100/1000 Mbps Gigabit CardBus Adapter GA511, please
make sure that these minimum requirements have been met:
• You must have a notebook PC with a Pentium
an available CardBus slot.
• A CD-ROM drive
• 64 MB of memory
• At least 5 MB of disk space
• Windows Vista, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, 2000, Me, 98SE (2nd
edition), Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows 2000 Advanced
Server
Note: Some versions of Windows may ask for the original Windows operating
system installation files to complete the installation of the GA511 driver software.
®
300 MHz or higher compatible processor with
v2.0, March 2007
Chapter 2

Basic Setup

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