Turning A Network Connection Off And On; Accessing The Network At Startup; Infrared - Compaq 311245-001 Startup And Reference Manual

Communications

Turning a Network Connection Off and On

To conserve power, turn off a network connection you are not
using.
To turn off a network connection, log off the network, then
disconnect the network cable.
To turn on a network connection, connect the network cable,
then log on to the network.

Accessing the Network at Startup

To connect the notebook to a PXE (Preboot eXecution
Environment) server during startup, you must enable the internal
NIC for startup, then respond to the Network Service Boot
prompt each time you want to connect to the server.
To enable the NIC for startup and set the notebook to display
the Network Service Boot prompt each time the notebook is
started or restarted, set your preferences in the Setup utility.
The Setup utility is not a Windows utility and does not
support the TouchPad. For more information about using the
Setup utility, refer to the "Using the Setup Utility" section in
Chapter 9 of this guide.
To respond to the Network Service Boot prompt, press
while the prompt F12 = Boot from LAN appears very briefly
in the lower left corner of the screen before Windows loads.

Infrared

The notebook is IrDA-compliant and can communicate with
another infrared-equipped device that is also IrDA-compliant.
The IrDA connection speed standard is 4 megabits per second
(Mbps).
The infrared port supports low-speed connections up to
115 kilobits per second (Kbps) as well as high-speed connections
up to 4 Mbps.
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