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vii. Click on “ok.”
viii. You may have to re-boot your computer.
2. Check to see if your computer has a modem and software installed.
a. Click on Start>Settings>Control Panel>Modems. If you have one
installed, then you should see one here. It may look like this:
Figure 2—Laptop with PCMCIA modem card installed.
b. If you do not have one, then you will have to add one. We will walk
through adding an external modem to your computer here.
i. Click on “start>settings>control panel>add new hardware
ii. When the “add new hardware wizard” opens click on “next” twice.
iii. Click on “no, I want to select the hardware from a list.”
iv. Then click on “next.”
v. Select “modem.”
vi. Click on “next.”
vii. Make sure your modem is connected. I used an RS-232 adapter on
the DTE of the modem to a DB-9 connector on my COM1 port.
The RS-232-DB-9 were on the ends of one cord.
viii. Click on “next.” The computer should find your modem on
COM1.
ix. If not, select “next.”
x. Select “have disk” and change to the CD-drive.
xi. Select the modem. I selected Hayes V.90 PCI modem for my
external one.
xii. Select “next.”
xiii. Select “finish.”
3. Make yourself a new connection. You can actually make many different
connections with each one set up to dial a different number. In our lab
diagram above we could make three different connections, one for each
different user, and put icons on the desktop to make it easier to dial. To make
a dial-up connection:
a. Double-click on “my computer”
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