Updating

Updating the Belcarra USBLAN for Windows Driver

Overview

This document will illustrate how to re-install the Belcarra USBLAN for Windows Driver for a specific device that is using the driver. Once you have completed this procedure plugging the device back into your system should use the version of the driver.

This documents the procedure for Windows 7. Older versions of Windows have a similar process but the dialogs and menu choices will be slightly different.

Note: The driver name used in this example is “CDemo USB LAN Adapter”, your installation may use a differently-named driver, but the procedure is identical.

Procedure

In order to manually update the USBLAN driver on your system, perform the following steps:

For this example a device called an “Ethernet Gadget” was used. The Vendor ID and Product ID numbers were set to simulate a “real world” device.

CAUTION: You must be the Administrator or have administrative privileges to perform this operation!

Plug in the device. After a few seconds you should see this balloon at the bottom right corner of your screen:

Click on the “Start” button and then click on “Control Panel” (outlined in red in this screenshot).

Depending on how you have Control Panel set up to display items (Icon or Category view). Examples of both are shown in the following screenshots.

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