Hardware Installation; Windows 98 - Siemens SIMATIC NET CP 5511 Installationsanleitung

C79000-Z8974-C70-02CP 5511 Communications Card under Windows 98, NT 4.0, 2000 Professional

6 Hardware Installation

6.1 Windows 98

• The parallel operation of PROFIBUS SOFTNET cards with other
Important
PROFIBUS SOFTNET cards or with a CP 5412(A2) or a CP 5613
is not supported.
• The parallel operation of protocols via SOFTNET cards is not
supported.
• The PCMCIA slot in your computer is of type II or III.
Requirements
• The PCMCIA slot is enabled in the BIOS and is functioning.
• The PCMCIA interface of the computer is installed and operational.
You can check this in the Device Manager in the Control Panel.
• The CP 5511 must always be connected to the bus adapter.
• The following resources must be available on the computer (in the
device manager):
• The CP 5511 requires one of the following interrupts:
IRQ5; IRQ10, IRQ11, IRQ12, IRQ15.
• The CP 5511 requires a free memory area in the first megabyte as
follows: At least 20 Kbytes (16 Kbytes for its DPRAM + 4 Kbytes for
the Windows 98 PCMCIA driver) in the D segment of memory.
• The SOFTNET software package is installed.
In Windows 98, a second interrupt may be required by the PCMCIA
Note
controller.
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