Gemplus Smart Card Readers & Tools Installer - Version 3.1
August 2003


The package supports the following Gemplus smart card readers:

  Reader       Connector         OS supported

  GemPC400     PCMCIA            95B, 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2000, XP


Installed tools:

  Tool         Main File        Use

  GetStarted   gemstrmw.exe     Completes installation of readers.
                                Manages Smart Card Resource Manager
                                for better support of PnP devices.

  SmartDiag    SmartDiag.exe    Diagnoses the smart card system.



System components installed:

Under Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, and NT4, the operating system is
updated with the Microsoft Smart Card Base Components, other OS
support smart card natively.

MFC42.dll may also be updated on a number of systems.



Pre-requisites:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 installs all the required system
files.



Notes:

If you have connected the reader before running the installer, you
will need to cancel the New Hardware Found wizard.

Uninstalling the reader tools will not remove the driver nor the
smart card base components.

Under NT4 the Microsoft Smart Card Base Components must uninstalled
once the Gemplus Reader Tools is uninstalled otherwise an error
message will be generated at each boot.

Windows 95 and NT4 do not support USB devices.

Multi-reader installation is not supported on 95, 98, 98SE and ME.
That means that if you connect more than one reader under those OS
you may run into problems and possibly only one will be accessible
to application.

Under Windows 98 and ME do not unplug the reader if you with to launch
install program again for driver update.


If you run into another problem, run the SmartDiag tool to know
exactly what it is and how to solve it.
