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Avaya Inc. January 2002
OR Client Software for Windows 2000 Version 2.00
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This README.TXT covers information that was not yet known
or available when the user documentation shipped with this
release was written. This text file includes update
information, additional installation instructions,
limitations to the current version of the product, and
suggestions to solve known issues or problems.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
1. SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION
2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
3. NEW IN THIS RELEASE
4. INSTALLATION NOTES
5. TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS
6. KNOWN ISSUES
7. TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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1. SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION
1.1 Description
This software is officially released and supported
software of Avaya Inc.
The Outdoor Router Client software consists of:
1. Communications Quality Indicator (CQI)
This is a diagnostic tool that you can use to
verify the quality of your wireless radio connection
to the Avaya Wireless Outdoor Router network.
The CQI tool can be installed on any computer
running the MS-Windows 2000 (SP1) operating system.
2. A set of PC Card drivers, for use on any computer
running the MS-Windows 2000 (SP1) operating system.
The software supports the Avaya Wireless IEEE 11 Mbit PC
Cards.
Note 1: This software does NOT support the following PC
Cards:
* WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo 8 Mbit PC Cards
* WaveLAN/IEEE 2 Mbit PC Cards
* pre-IEEE WaveLAN PC Cards
* External Antenna Module 915 MHz and 2.4 GHz
Note 2: Check the website HTTP://support.AVAYA.COM for
new releases.
1.2 Software Components
The software for Avaya Wireless Outdoor Router Client
comprises the following components:
* Communication Quality Indicator (CQI);
* PC Card Drivers.
The Avaya Wireless Outdoor Router Client software is
described in the on-line Help files (see also
Section 4 of this readme file 'Installation
Notes').
1.3 Software Versions
The following software will be installed in the
directory specified during setup:
Name: CQI variant 3, version 1.67
Name: Drivers variant 1, version 6.00
1.4 Other Files in this release:
Readme file (this file): README.TXT (Plain text)
End-User License Agreement: LICENSE.TXT (Plain text)
Problem Report Form: REPORT.TXT (Plain text)
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2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
2.1 Operating System
The software and/or drivers provided with this release
can be installed on the operating systems Windows 2000.
2.2 Free Disk Space
To install and run the software you will need 4 MByte
of free disk space.
2.3 RAM
8 MByte of RAM is required (16 MByte or more
recommended).
2.4 Processor
A Pentium or faster processor is required.
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3. NEW IN THIS RELEASE
3.1 Version 2.10
Initial version of the Avaya Wireless Outdoor Router Client
software for Windows 2000.
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4. INSTALLATION NOTES
4.1 Installation procedure Installing (Avaya Wireless) PC Card
adapter for Microsoft© Windows2000:
IMPORTANT:
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Do NOT Upgrade from Windows98 or WindowsNT4 with an
existing CQI and ORC-client, it will not work.
You will have to REMOVE the (Avaya Wireless) PC Card
Hardware out of the PC system motherboard and de-install
the Avaya Wireless software with the existing CQI.
Otherwise Windows2000 will crash or never startup (or
shutdown) again. The Win2k Partition will be dismounted.
WORKAROUND:
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Use the Windows2000 bootable CD, recover the installation
with the recovery-console and type at the Command Prompt,
where (C:) is the system - partition of your existing
Windows2000 installation:
C:\CHKDSK C: /F/X /R /I /C and press [ENTER]
C:\FIXBOOT and press [ENTER]
C:\FIXMBR and press [ENTER]
C:\EXIT
Press [F3] (reboot)
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Laptop Systems:
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DO NOT PAY ATTENTION AT POINT 5), This is for Desktop
Systems.
1. Install or when you have already installed MS©
Windows2000
2. Finish the installation (with or) without the
PC Card and Reboot!
REMARK: This is for the PC-card holder for Desktop
systems, NOT the Avaya Wireless PC Card for Laptop systems
3. Now you will have to install Microsoft© Windows2000
ServicePack1 or ServicePack2, Reboot! & startup again.
4. Install the Avaya Wireless CQI (Communications Quality
Indicator) and install directly after CQI the drivers
ORC_2000, confirm both,
and for the best results; reboot your PC.
5. For Desktop systems:
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Open your PC-housing and remove a PCI-screw to install
a Avaya Wireless PCI-card (PC-card holder) without a Avaya
Wireless PC-card (pcmcia-card) in a PCI-bridge on your
PC motherboard, reboot, when started up, the Microsoft©
Hardware Management Console will now contain the PCMCIA
Controller.
6. For Laptop AND Desktop systems:
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Insert your PC-card into the PC-card Holder (PCMCIA-slot),
when inserted, startup your PC.
7. When Microsoft© Windows2000 Graphical User Interface
will start up, the system will detect new hardware and
the drivers will automatically load, a window with...
[ "Avaya Wireless PC-Card" ]
when this will appear,
wait a few seconds and a window with:
[ "Avaya Wireless PC-card" ]
will pop up. Press [ENTER] or [YES] to agree,
and the PC-card drivers will load.
9. In the next window choose the 5Volt Card,
if you have a intergrated card (in i.e. Laptop systems),
choose the button [Other Devices] and you can choose an
other option PC-card version, like i.e. NEC 3,5 - 5Volt
or a Avaya Wireless 3,5 - 5Volt, within the Avaya Wireless-group.
10. If confirmed the driver want you to fill in a
appropriate:
a) Avaya Wireless License key, ->
(Fill this in like: 2E-47-96-2D-8B-04-F2-17-32-A6 )
b) Pass phrase (default=public),
c) Encryption key (if needed!),
d) Transfer Rate (0=highest).
You can configure this also by clicking the "OR Client",
a PC-card icon in the Control Panel.
11. For the best result you will have to Reboot the Computer.
(Do not to forget to configure an appropriate IP-address
and Subnet-Mask binded to the Avaya Wireless
PC-card, otherwise you won't have an "Network Neighborhood"
/ "My Network Places" environment.)
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4.2 Additional Installation Notes
The OR Client NDIS 5 Miniport Driver in this package
has been proven to work with Windows 2000 Build 2195
(RTM). The software in this package can be installed
either before or after the uninstall of an already
present driver.
Note: When this driver has been installed an update
to the latest firmware version becomes mandatory.
You can find the latest firmware on the Avaya Wireless
Web Site.
If you have the Avaya Wireless driver installed that came
with the first official Windows 2000 release, you
need to do a uninstall and re-install.
Uninstalling an installed Avaya Wireless driver.
Note: In order to be able to do the Uninstall,
the Avaya Wireless card must be inserted in the machine.
To uninstall an already installed Avaya Wireless driver,
do the following:
1. on the Desktop, go to My Computer and click
the right mouse button,
2. select properties
3. in the next screen, select the Hardware tab,
4. on the next screen, press the Device Manager
button,
5. in the next screen, go to Network adapters and
select the '+',
6. then select the Avaya Wireless and press the right
mouse button,
7. finally select Uninstall...
After completion of the uninstall, remove the Avaya Wireless
PC-Card,and any Windows 2000 CD's that may be in your CD-ROM
drive.
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** REMOVING THE WINDOWS 2000 CD FROM THE CD-ROM DRIVE IS **
** CRITICAL FOR PROPER INSTALLATION OF THE OR CLIENT **
** DRIVER **
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If you have installed version 7.x of the Avaya Wireless driver,
you should also delete the 'WNLUC48.CPL' file from your
%SYSTEMROOT%\system23\ directory.
After removing the radio card and Windows 2000 CD, run the
W2k_ORC_Drivers.exe program. After running the setup program,
re-insert the radio card. The new driver will now be
installed.
To configure the card, go to the control panel. There you
will see a new icon, called "OR Client". Double clicking on
this icon will bring up the configuration screen.
Note: When installing on Desktop PC's make sure to first
install support for the ISA-PCMCIA swap box (without
the Avaya Wireless card inserted). After successful
installation of support for the swap box, inserting
the Avaya Wireless card will start the installation process
for it. In order to install the system supplied
drivers for the ISA-PCMCIA swapbox, you need to
manually run the hardware wizard and select "Add
a new device", select "from hardware list" and then
choose PCMCIA adapters, then finally select the
"Intel PCIC or Compatible PCMCIA controller".
4.3 Files Installed
The CQI installation wizard will automatically install the
program files in the following directory on the hard
disk of your computer:
C:\Program Files\Avaya_Wireless\CQI\CQI
Optionally you may choose to select another folder or
hard disk drive for installation of the CQI software.
The following files will be installed in the specified
directory:
* CQI.EXE
* M_PHONE.ICL
* MODEM.ICL
* S_DISC.ICL
* S_SMILEY.ICL
* STATUS.ICL
* README.TXT
Together with the Avaya Wireless CQI software, the
installation wizard will install the Avaya Wireless CQI help
system that provides context-sensitive and task
-oriented help for the CQI.
The help files will be installed in the following
directory:
C:\WINNT\Help\Avaya_Wireless\CQI
The Avaya Wireless CQI help system is in HTML format.
To view the help screens you will need to have an
internet browser installed, such as:
* The Microsoft Internet Explorer (v4.0 or higher)
* The Netscape Navigator (v4.0 or higher)
Alternatively, you may choose to use another type of
browser, but it will depend on the supported features
of such browsers whether the help files will display
correctly.
The ORC Driver Installation wizard will install the
following files:
NDIS 5 Miniport driver for Windows 2000
NETWV48.INF
WVLAN48.SYS
WVLAN.CPL
5. TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS
At the time of release of this software, the following
problems remain to be solved:
5.1 None.
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6. KNOWN ISSUES
At the time of release of this software, the following
problems remain to be solved:
6.1 Support for Network IDs 8 to 15.
Description: The PC Card Driver setting "Network ID"
has a valid range of 0 to 15. However,
this release only supports Network IDs
in the range 0 to 7.
Impact: Minor.
Action: Next release will support Network IDs in
the full range of 0 to 15.
6.2 License key not valid
Description: The license key is entered correctly, the
tools still indicate that License
Key that was entered is not valid.
Impact: Minor.
Action: Make sure that the dashed (the '-'
characters) are entered as part of the
license key.
6.3 Unexpected termination of the CQI tool
Description: When the CQI tool is active (indicated by
the satellite icon in the Windows menu),
the application can be ended by pressing
the ESC key.
Impact: Minor.
Action: Make sure not to press the ESC key, when
the last application window that was shown
belonged to the CQI.
6.4 Unable to upgrade firmware
Desription: It is not possible to upgrade the firmware
with these drivers installed.
Impact: Minor
Action: Use a station(laptop/PC) which has either
version 1.4 of the ORC software installed
or which has 802.11 station drivers
installed, to upgrade the firmware.
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7. TECHNICAL SUPPORT
7.1 Finding Information
On the Avaya Wireless Web Site you can find the most recent
device drivers, bridge firmware, software updates and
user documentation.
World Wide Web: HTTP://support.AVAYA.COM
7.2 TECHNICAL SUPPORT
If you encounter problems when installaing or using this
product, or would like information about our other Avaya
Wireless products, please contact your local authorized
Avaya Wireless Reseller or Avaya Wireless Sales Office.
Addresses and telephone numbers of the Avaya Wireless
Sales office are listed on our Avaya Wireless Web Site.
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Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.