3.5 Manual driver installation
If your operating system installed its own driver for the Beckhoff Intel PCI/Ethernet card, you have to
install the TwinCAT driver for real-time Ethernet manually in order to be able to take advantage of its real-
time capability.
First install Software
Install the Beckhoff TwinCAT automation software before installing the Beckhoff
Note
Ethernet card.
Installation under Windows 2000 and Windows XP
All screen shots of this documentation are made under Windows 2000.
Note
Under Windows XP, the TwinCAT driver is installed in the same way.
Click on Network and Dial-up Connections under Start/Settings/Control Panel.
Click on an unused LAN connection (LAN connection 2).
The properties of LAN connection 2 are displayed.
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