Installing a Smart Card Reader
Smart card readers generally come with instructions on how to connect any necessary cables. If you do not have instructions, use the following general procedure. The smart card reader should be installed on the Windows 2000 Professional workstation.
To connect a smart card reader
- Shut down and turn off your computer.
- Attach the reader to an available serial port, or insert the PC Card reader into an available PCMCIA Type II slot.
- If your serial reader has a supplementary PS/2 cable/connector, attach your keyboard or mouse connector to it, and plug it into your computer's keyboard or mouse port. Many new smart card readers take power from keyboard or mouse ports because it is not always provided by RS-232 ports and it is both expensive and cumbersome to require a separate power supply.
- Boot your machine and log on as a user with administrative privileges.If the smart card reader has been detected and installed, the Welcome to Windows logon screen will acknowledge this. If not:
- Follow the onscreen directions for installing the device driver software. This will require either the Windows 2000 CD or media that contains the appropriate device driver from the manufacturer of the smart card reader . (Alternatively, your system administrator may provide you with a network share from which to obtain the driver.)
- Right-click the My Computer icon on your desktop, and click Manage on the submenu.
- Expand the Services and Applications node, and click Services.
- In the right pane, right-click Smart Card. Click Properties on the submenu.
- On the General tab, select Automatic in the Startup Type drop-down list. Click OK.
- Reboot your machine if the Hardware wizard instructs you to do so.
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