Removing The Roamabout Miniport Driver; Deleting The Roamabout Driver Files - Cabletron Systems RoamAbout Access Point Manual

Removing the RoamAbout Miniport Driver

Removing the RoamAbout Miniport Driver
If you have Version 1.0 of the RoamAbout Miniport driver, you need to perform extra
steps. Check the driver version number as described in the "Checking RoamAbout Product
Version Numbers" section on page 6-12, before performing this procedure.
1. Remove the PC Card from the PC Card slot.
2. Close all open applications.
3. From the Taskbar on the Windows desktop, click Start then select Settings → Control
Panel.
4. In the Control Panel window, double-click the Network icon.
5. Select the RoamAbout PC Card and click the Remove button. Then click OK.
The Windows operating system disables the Miniport driver and updates the driver
configuration files.
6. Do NOT restart the computer if you have V1.0 of the miniport driver. Instead, perform
the procedure in next section to delete the driver and its information and configuration
files from your hard disk.
7. If the driver version is later than V1.0, restart the computer.

Deleting the RoamAbout Driver Files

The procedure to remove the RoamAbout Miniport Driver files from the hard disk is similar
for all Windows operating systems.
1. If not already done, remove the RoamAbout driver as described in the previous section.
Otherwise, the Windows Registry is not "cleaned", which can lead to complications
when installing the RoamAbout driver in the future.
2. Open Windows Explorer.
3. In the Explorer menu, click on View and select Options.
4. From the View tab, select Show all files and clear the Hide MS-DOS file extensions
check box.
5. Click the Apply button to return to the Explorer window.
6. In Explorer, open the Windows operating system folder:
— C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM for Windows 95 and 98
— C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS for Windows NT
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