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With Gigabit technology, PLANET ENW-3700 provides the most convenient way to power up the network speed of notebooks and laptops with the least efforts and costs. Using ENW-3700, you can send and receive data at speeds up to ten times of 100Mbps network and 100 times of 802.11b WLAN throughput.
1.3 Gathering Tools And Documentations To install the adapter, you need the following items: ü Your operating system documentation ü Your system unit documentation, including any service documentation 1.4 Features Ø Supports 32-bit CardBus for high performance and low processor utilization Ø...
Hardware Installation Locate an available CardBus PCMCIA slot with the PCMCIA adapter's 68-pin connector. Let ENW-3700 face to PCMCIA slot and the LEDs facing up. Plug the PC Card completely into the PCMCIA slot. After properly inserting the ENW-3700 into your laptop PC, continue with the ENW-3700...
Make sure the ENW-3700 has been successfully inserted in your computer before you start to install the driver. If this is the first time you are installing the ENW-3700 into your computer, the system will automatically detect it and updates the hardware information database. To install the driver provided, follow these steps: Note: The following installation operates under Window 2000.
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Please select the first option and click “Next” to continue. Select “Specify a location” and click “Next”. Insert the bundled CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and click “Browse” to find the driver location. (Assume "E" is your CD-ROM drive, the driver can be found in E:\Driver\Win2K). Click “OK”...
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Please click “Next” to continue. In Win2000, this “Digital Signature Not Found” dialog box will appear. Please ignore this and press ”Yes” to continue.
(For Win98/Me, Windows will ask you to restart the PC when driver installation finished.) 3.2 Installing Driver To Windows XP After inserting ENW-3700 to your PC and boot up, Windows XP will detect it and ask you to install driver. Please select the second option and click “Next”.
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Please select “Include this location in the search”. Insert the bundled CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and click “Browse” to find out the driver location to install. (Assume "E" is your CD-ROM drive, the driver can be found in E:\Driver\WinXP). Click “Next” to continue. WinXP will show this “Hardware Installation”...
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Click “Finish” to complete the driver installation.
Chapter 4 Diagnostic Utility 4.1 Installation 1. Please find out the diagnostic utility in the bundled CD-ROM, suppose your CD-ROM drive name in Windows is “E”, you can find the two utilities in “E:\Utility\”, Install98Se.exe is used for Windows 98SE and ME and Install2kxp.exe is for Windows 2000 and later version.
4.2.4 Tree View for NIC List: - This window displays all active physical network adapters in this machine. For Windows 2000 and later, it also shows the VLANs on ENW-3700. We call physical networks and VLANs as "network adapters" in the following sections.
(6) "Diagnostics" This page performs hardware tests on selected ENW-3700. (7) "Send and Receive" Two PCs with ENW-3700 in the same LAN can perform send & receive experiment with broadcast packet here. (8) "Cable" This page estimates the length of the plugged cable.
Chapter 5 Specifications 5.1 Cable Specifications Ethernet Type Cable Requirements Maximum Length 10BASE-T Category 3 or better, UTP or STP 328 ft (100M) 100BASE-TX Category 5 or better, UTP or STP 328 ft (100M) 1000BASE-T Category 5e or better, UTP or STP 328 ft (100M) There are two types of cables: Straight Through Cables and Cross-over Cables.