Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 User Manual
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Uninstalling the Existing Driver
1.
Open the Control Panel by selecting
Start > Control Panel
.
2.
If “Pick a category” is displayed, select
Switch to Classic
View
.
3.
Double click the
System
icon.
4.
Click the
Hardware
tab.
5.
Click the
Device Manager
button.
6.
Locate the AirCard entries by using the “+” signs to
expand the listings. (I.e. to see all the installed modems,
click the “+” sign to the left of
Modems
.) The AirCard
should have 3 entries:
1
The AirCard should display under
Multifunction adapters
as
Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 PC Card Parent
.
2
The AirCard should display under
Modems
as
Sierra
Wireless AirCard 555 Modem
.
3
The AirCard should display under
Network adapters
as
Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 Adapter
.
If the listings above do not appear, identify the listing for
the AirCard by ejecting the AirCard. This causes the driver
listing for the AirCard to disappear from the list. Reinsert
the AirCard again to cause the driver listing to reappear.
You can identify the entries for the AirCard by observing
which entries are affected when you eject and reinsert the
AirCard. Right click
Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 PC Card
Parent
(or the AirCard listing under
Multifunction adapters
) to
display a pop up menu.
7.
Select
Uninstall
in the pop up menu.
8.
Confirm that you want to uninstall the device by clicking
OK
.
The AirCard listings should be removed.
Installing the Windows XP AirCard Driver
1.
If the installation CD is not already in your CD-ROM
drive, insert it. If the CD start-up menu appears, use the
exit
option in the lower left corner of the screen to exit the
menu.
2.
Eject and reinsert the AirCard to launch the Found New
Hardware Wizard.
3.
Select
Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)
on the
first window of the Found New Hardware Wizard and
click
Next
to proceed.
4.
Select the
Search for the best driver in these locations
radio
button, and the
Include this location in the search
check box,
then enter
d:\Drivers\WinXP
where
d
is the drive letter of