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Manual Linksys HPN100SK

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  • Linksys HPN100SK - page 1

    HomeLink™ Series HomeLink Phoneline Network Card Use this guide to install these Linksys Products: • HomeLink Phoneline Network Card (HPN100) • HomeLink Phoneline Network In a Box (HPN100SK) User Guide ...

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    COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS Copyright © 2000 Linksys, All rights reserved. HomeLink is a r egistered trademark of Linksys. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo ar e register ed trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and brand names ar e the property of their respective pr oprietors. LIMITED W ARRANTY Linksys guarantees that e ...

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    Introduction Y our Linksys HomeLink Phoneline Network Card Congratulations on purchasing your ne w Linksys HomeLink Phoneline Netw ork Card(s). This exciting ne w technology is being of fered in compli- ance with the standards of the Home Phoneline Netw orking Alliance (HomePN A). The Linksys HomeLink Phoneline Network Card no w offers instant conn ...

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    Phoneline Network Card & Network in a Box 3 How Does HomeLink Networking Work? The Linksys HomeLink Phoneline Netw ork Card utilizes a technolo gy kno wn as Frequenc y Di vision Multiplexing (FDM) w hich di vides the data tra v elling o v er the phone lines into separate frequencies - one for voice, one for high- bandwidth net access such as DS ...

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    Sharing Y our Resources The HomeLink Phoneline Netw ork Card brings the adv antages of inexpensi v e netw orking to y our home or of f ice. Any netw orked de vice, including CD- R OM dri ves, hard dri v es, and printers, can be shared b y an y netw orked PC on a HomeLink netw ork. Sharing Y our Inter net Connection with Y our Network The Linksys Ho ...

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    Installing the HomeLink Card 1. P o wer of f y our PC and disconnect any peri- pheral equipment including the po w er cab le. 2. Remo v e your computer's outside co ver . 3. Locate an open PCI expansion slot on the motherboard , and determine which PCI slot is a Master slot . If y ou ha ve diff iculties locating a PCI Master slot, consult your ...

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    If se veral of y our PCs can onl y access one phone jack, you can connect those PCs to gether using the Daisy Chain method. Just plug the cabling from y our f irst PC with its HomeLink Card into the phone jack, then use the second RJ- 11 port on the same Card to connect to your second PC’ s Card. One phone jack can support up to twenty-f ive PCs ...

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    Installing the Driver Software Preparing to Install the HomeLink Softwar e Setting up the HomeLink Card's softw are in v olves installing a netw or k driv- er onto your computer . The driver will allo w the card to communicate with your Windo ws software package. Before attempting to install a netw ork dri v er for the HomeLink Card , W indows ...

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    4. Select the f irst option, Sear ch f or the best driver f or your device (Recommended) and click Next . 5. Make sure the HomeLink CD is still in the CD-R OM drive, and click CD- RO M d r ive to prompt W indows to search for the dri v ers there. Click Next . Phoneline Network Card & Network in a Box 13 Windows 98 Driver Setup No w that y ou’ ...

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    8. An “Insert Disk” window ma y ask for your W indo ws 98 installation f iles. If so, click OK and insert your W indo ws 98 installation CD into your CD- R OM dri ve. Or , enter the location of those f iles on your hard dri ve, (e.g., D:win98, C:W indo wsoptionscabs). T o do so, enter the hard dri ve location of the W indo ws f iles in the ...

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    Windows 95 Driver Setup No w that y ou’ ve installed the HomeLink hardware in y our PC, follo w these instructions to install the W indows 95 netw ork driver . The installation proce- dure for your netw ork driv er will vary slightl y depending on your system con- f iguration and what v ersion of W indo ws you are running. The type of netw ork bu ...

  • Linksys HPN100SK - page 12

    4. In the “Cop ying Files” windo w , enter the dri ve letter of y our CD-R OM dri ve. In most cases, the CD-R OM drive is either D: or E: . Enter the appro- priate dri ve letter and click OK . Netw ork f iles will be copied onto your PC, which ma y take a few minutes. D D O O N N O O T T hit C C a a n n c c e e l l or S S k k i i p p F F i i ...

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    8. After the setup is complete,choose a user name and passw ord if you ha v e not already done so and enter them in their f ield and click OK to access the netw ork. 9. The Internet LanBridge installation program will r un automatically , but you can use y our netw ork f irst and come back to the LanBridge installation at any time in the future if ...

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    Installing the NT 4.0 Network Driver 1. Lo g on as the netw ork administrator . From the W indows NT Desktop, click Start , Settings , Control P anel . Click on the Networ k icon. If you already ha ve NT Netw orking installed , click Adapter , then click Add, and skip to step 3. Otherwise, a message will ask you, “ W indo ws NT networ king is not ...

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    7. Click the “Protocols” tab under the “Netw ork” windo w and check for all protocols you need for the HomeLink Card. Click Ad d and OK to add proto- cols. 8. Click the “Services” tab under the “Network” windo w and check that you ha ve all necessary services for the HomeLink Card. Click Add and OK to add items, and click Close when ...

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    Internet LanBridge Internet LanBridge Over view Acotec’ s Internet LanBridg e Inter net sharing software allo ws you to share your dial-up or ISP connection across y our entire netw ork using only one modem and one ISP account. Do not install LanBridge before making sure that your HomeLink Card has been successfull y installed. Y ou must also mak ...

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    7. When you are ask ed if you w ant to reboot y our PC, click OK . Y our Internet LanBridge ser ver PC installation is no w complete. Installing Internet LanBridge on Client PC(s) 1. Insert the LanBridge Installation CD into your CD-R OM dri ve. When the pop-up menu appears, click on the Internet LanBridg e button. 2. Y ou will be given the option ...

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    Uninstalling Internet LanBridge T o uninstall the Inter net LanBridge software, follo w these instructions start- ing with your server PC. These instr uctions apply to y our server PC as w ell as your client PCs. Mak e sure that all of your PCs are disconnected from the Internet before you begin. 1. Close do wn Internet LanBridge, your email client ...

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    33 T roubleshooting T roubleshooting Hints for Windows PCs Problem 1 Windows doesn't detect new hardwar e when I plug in my HomeLink Card, or it detects the card each time I restart my PC. Solutions - Check your HomeLink Card to see that it is inserted into the appropriate PCI slot all the w a y , and that all the pins are making full contact ...

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    34 Linksys HomeLink Series Problem 4 In Network Neighborhood, I only see my own PC and no other PCs on the network. Solutions - Make sure y our cable to each PC is connected correctly . - Check your Link/Acti vity LEDs on y our HomeLink Cards (and y our hub, if you are using one) to see if the y are lit. - Switch your cab le out with another cab le ...

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    36 Linksys HomeLink Series Problem 8 A PC with an AMD processor can only see itself in Network Neighborhood, but the workgroup, protocols, cabling and drivers are all working properly . Solutions - Some PCs with AMD processors are assigned an IRQ by the BIOS (as it gets listed on the bootup screens of most PCs) that does not match the IRQ assigned ...

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    38 Linksys HomeLink Series Connecting to an Existing Ethernet Network If you w ant to add y our HomeLink PC to an already existing Ethernet net- w ork, y ou must use the HomeLink Card’ s RJ-45 port to connect your PC to that Ethernet network. It is not possib le to connect the HomeLink Card via the RJ-11 port directly to an Ethernet netw ork. Thi ...

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    41 About Plug-and-Play PCI T echnology Introduction The HomeLink Netw ork Card is designed to run in 32-bit desktop PCs that are PCI V ersion 2.1 compliant or higher . Most bus mastering PCs such as P entium 166 and higher meet this standard. PCI , or P eripheral Component Interconnect , is a technolo gy that allo ws special Plug-and-Pla y expansio ...

  • Linksys HPN100SK - page 24

    Windows 95 V ersion A Driver Setup 1. Start your W indo ws 95 PC, which will detect the HomeLink Phoneline Netw ork Card and displa y a Ne w Hardw are F ound windo w . 2. Make sure the HomeLink CD is in y our CD-R OM dri ve. Select the “ Driver fr om disk pr ovided by har dwar e manufactur er” option on the screen, then click OK. When asked for ...

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    45 44 File and Printer Sharing Preparing to Use File and Printer Sharing These instructions explain ho w to turn on f ile and printer sharing in W indows 95 and W indo ws 98 so that your netw orked PCs can access each other . Start W indows 95. When ask ed to log in, be sure to gi ve your correct user name and passw ord. T o set up f ile sharing fo ...

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    47 46 Enabling File Sharing on Y our Network Upon completing the preparation instructions, double-click on your My Computer icon. A window of a vailab le disk driv es will appear . Using your right mouse button, click once on the dri ve or folder that y ou w ant to make a v ailable to other users. Click on Sharing . Click on Shar e As . In the “S ...

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    49 48 8. The “System Properties” window will appear . Click on the De vice Manager tab . 9. Scroll do wn to the item “Netw ork Adapters” and expand it b y clicking on the plus [+] sign next to it. 10. Remo v e all de vices with the name Linksys in its description. (If at any point you are ask ed to restart the PC, click No ). 11. Scroll do ...

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    Phoneline Network Card and Network in a Box 51 50 Manually Installing Windows Network Components Sometimes you ma y need to manually install missing W indo ws netw orking components. T o do so, follow the instructions belo w: 1. Click on Start , Settings , then Control P anel . 2. Click on the Netw ork icon to bring up the Netw ork window . 3. It i ...

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    Phoneline Network Card and Network in a Box 53 52 Linux, Open Source and Beta Operating Systems Linksys does not pro vide technical support for Linux , F reeBSD , or other freew are or open source operating systems. Many Linksys products ha ve pro v en to perform well under Linux and other free w are operating systems, but technical support for set ...

  • Linksys HPN100SK - page 30

    Straight Through Ether net Cabling Crossover Ethernet Cabling Phoneline Network Card and Network in a Box 55 54 References T ypes of Cabling Ethernet Cabling There are dif ferent grades, or categories, of twisted-pair cabling. The most highly recommended type of netw ork cabling is Cate gory 5 UTP Ether net cabling, since it is the most widel y use ...

  • Linksys HPN100SK - page 31

    HomeLink T elephone (RJ-11) Cabling The telephone cables y ou use should be standard telephone cab les like the ones you use e v ery day in y our home. The RJ-11 cabling has RJ-11 tips and four colored wires. F orcing the HomeLink Card to supply modem data from the Internet to multi- ple computers ma y result in a failed or unstable netw ork connec ...

  • Linksys HPN100SK - page 32

    Phoneline Network Card & Network in a Box 59 Customer Support F or help with the installation or operation of your HomeLink Phoneline Netw ork Card or HomeLink Netw ork In a Box, contact Linksys Customer Support at one of the phone numbers or Inter net addresses below . Customer Support 800-326-7114 949-261-1288 F ax 949-261-8868 Email support@ ...

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    © Cop yright 2000 Linksys, All Rights Reser ved. Printed in the USA. http://www .linksys.com ...

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