Netgear AirCard 595 (Sprint) User's Guide download pdf (Page 16)

8 Section 1B: Getting Started With Your Sprint Mobile Broadband Card

Getting Started

Before you begin using your AirCard 595 Sprint Mobile Broadband Card, you must:

1. Check that your notebook has the system requirements listed below (“System

Requirements”).

2. Install the Sprint PCS Connection Manager software, located on the

installation CD, onto your Notebook PC. See page 14.

3. After you restart your computer, start Sprint PCS Connection Manager.

4. Insert the Sprint Mobile Broadband Card; this installs the drivers for the card.

See page 18.

5. Activate your Sprint PCS account and configure the Sprint Mobile Broadband

Card to use your account (unless the card has been preactivated). See page 22.

System Requirements

The AirCard 595 Sprint Mobile Broadband Card is supported on:

䢇 Windows XP (Home and Professional versions).

䢇 Windows 2000 with Service Pack 1 or later (Service Pack 4 is recommended),

with high encryption support. (See “High Encryption Requirements” on page 9.)

To install and run the Sprint Mobile Broadband Card and accompanying

Sprint PCS Connection Manager software, you will need the minimum system

resources shown in the following table.

CAUTION:

Do not insert the Sprint Mobile Broadband Card into the PC Card slot

until you have installed and run Sprint PCS Connection Manager

software, and the software displays “No device.”

Card slots One Type II PCMCIA (PC Card) slot

Disk drive CD-ROM

Memory 32 MB

Disk space 32 MB

1 2 ... 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ... 128 129

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