Hardware and software installation (m2)
- 2. This PowerPoint will display my installation, updating and testing of a Wireless NIC, below is my picture of my team who aided this practical task.
- 3. Firstly, for H&S Purposes we set up our anti-static gear to prepare for operating on the computer
- 4. After laying down and equipping anti-static gear, we then started to manually install the wireless NIC
- 5. After that, we then made sure it will installed by checking under network devices (start > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers > Network Devices (CISCOLAB-02) > Linksys Wireless-G PCI Adapter
- 6. After checking the Wireless NIC was installed, we then started to run a scan for updated driver software.
- 7. After a brief period of time, the scan we done but it stated that the best driver software for your device was already installed.
- 8. After installation the NIC and performing a driver update scan, we needed to actually make sure it worked. Firstly, it didn’t work but we had forgot to connect it to the internet.
- 9. Now it was connected, we tried again to see if it was connected but this time we used the command prompt
- 10. Used the command prompt (CMD), we ‘pinged’ a website’. What this did was checked to see if there was connection between that website and the device by sending out a ‘ping’ and hopefully receiving a result, which is what happened!
- 11. The computer we operated on was connected via Ethernet cable (Wired) With the installation of a Wireless NIC and connecting to a network (LTA-Public) via wireless communication, it can now connect to the internet wirelessly. This means if either connection method went down for some reason, the other network would hopefully still work.