Wireless Base Station

6 Jan 2009 5:38 AM

aclark.cps

I have on older router .... MN-500 Base Station.
I no longer have the disk that came with it. I do have the manual.
Can I still install it on an XP PC without that disk. If not. what do I do?
Thanks.

6 Jan 2009 6:30 AM

John Wunderlich

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wrote in news:FB8A276E-9A74-4E12-AD4E-2BA44A1B9822@microsoft.com:

> I have on older router .... MN-500 Base Station.
> I no longer have the disk that came with it. I do have the manual.
> Can I still install it on an XP PC without that disk. If not. what
> do I do? Thanks.
>

You don't _install_ a router on your computer... if anything you
install a wireless Network Interface Card (NIC) on your computer.

The software that came with it is optional. It apparently only checks
for software updates and notifies you when it is available.

See:
"Microsoft MN-500 Wireless Base Station"
<http://www.dougknox.com/hardware/mn-500.htm>

HTH,
John

6 Jan 2009 5:12 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
As said above it is Not a big deal to configure/install any Wireless Router
manually (Actually it is the preferred way).
The hardware is very Old and discontinued long time ago, took me some time
to find this. give it a try.
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:ilMFo-cRueEJ:download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/9/b69c956c-85d9-4641-aa6f-1548391e0967/mn500_base_station_configuration_guide.pdf+microsoft+manual+MN-500&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us#20
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

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"aclark.cps" <aclark.***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have on older router .... MN-500 Base Station.
> I no longer have the disk that came with it. I do have the manual.
> Can I still install it on an XP PC without that disk. If not. what do I
> do?
> Thanks.