Describe the installation of a modem

1. Unpack the modem and its accessories. You should have the modem, cable, phone cord, power adapter, installation diskette or CD, and instruction manual.

2. Turn off the computer and any attached devices.

3. Attach one end of the modem cable to the serial port (wide, 25-pin connector) on the computer and the other end to the modem. The serial port on the Macintosh is a small, round port marked with a telephone icon.

4. Connect one end of the phone cord to the modem port marked "wall" or "line" and the other end to the wall jack of your phone line. If the modem will be sharing the line with a telephone, connect the cord of the telephone to the modem port marked "phone."

5. Attach the power adapter plug to the modem and the power transformer plug to the power outlet, if this is required for your modem.

6. Turn on the computer and the modem, if it has an on/off switch.

7. When your computer starts up, follow the software installation instructions if prompted by your computer system (e.g., Windows Plug 'n Play feature).

8. Insert the installation diskette or CD (if you do not receive prompts for installing the modem), click the drive, and click (or double-click) the installation program on the diskette or CD.

9. Run any test program that comes with the installation software to ensure that the modem is working correctly.

How Install or update a NIC driver

                                To verify and install NIC driver

         ·   Click Start and click Control Panel.

         ·    In Category view, click Hardware and Sound, and then, under Devices and Printers, click the Device Manager link.

• From the Device Manager window displayed, double-click on Network Adapters to display the network adapter in your computer.
• If you see the NIC and it doesn't have a problem icon (an exclamation mark), Windows thinks that the NIC driver is installed and running properly. If you double-click the device, you should see the device status - This device is working properly.
• If you see your NIC with a problem icon, double-click the NIC. You will most likely see a device status message telling you that a driver was not installed.
• If you don't see your NIC in the Device Manager window, click the Action menu, and click the Add legacy hardware option.
• From the Add Hardware Wizard window displayed. Click Next button to continue.
• Select the option Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced) and click Next button.
• From the window displayed, scroll down and double-click on Network adapters in the Common hardware types list. A list of network adapters appears. If your NIC had been on the list, Windows would have found and install the driver for it.
• So click on Have Disk button. Then, click Browse button to locate the appropriate drive or folder for the NIC driver, and click Open.
• You will see the driver path is displayed on the Install From Disk window, click OK, and click Next button to continue. When told that the device will be installed, click Next again.
• You may see a message stating that the driver you are about to install does not have a Microsoft digital signature. Click Yes to continue install it.
• When finish, click Finish.

If you saw your NIC in the Device Manager window, with or without a problem icon, you can install or reinstall a driver from there.