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Installation

ASF Administrator's Guide for Dell™ Portable Computers

 Overview

Installing the Broadcom® ASF Management Application

Installing the Broadcom ASF Management Application Silently

Modifying, Repairing, or Uninstalling the Broadcom ASF Management Application

Overview

NOTICE: Broadcom utilities are for use only with Broadcom NICs.

Dell installs the Broadcom ASF Management Application on computers that support ASF, with ASF functionality disabled by default. This section describes methods that you can use (if reinstallation is necessary) to deploy ASF to multiple computers on your network. You can use the VBScript to enable and configure ASF on your client computers.

Components

Table 1 describes the software provided with Dell's ASF solution for portable computers.

Table 1. Included Software

For information on installing and using other recommended Dell software, see the Dell OpenManage™ Client Instrumentation and Dell OpenManage IT Assistant User's Guides.

Installing the Broadcom® ASF Management Application

Dell installs the Broadcom ASF Management Application on portable computers that support ASF. This software is available on the Dell ResourceCD in case you need to reinstall the Broadcom ASF Management application.

The setup.exe file automatically installs the following software components:

• ASFCFG — A control panel program that installs the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the Broadcom ASF Management Application (an ASFCFG icon is added to the Control Panel). This component allows for the local configuration of ASF support.
  
  
• BRCMGroup — A WMI provider that allows WMI applications to configure ASF via CIM methods. 
  
  
• ASFIpMon — A Windows Service utility that detects changes to the NIC's IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway and updates this information in the ASF-enabled NIC.  This utility synchronizes the operating system IP address with the Broadcom ASF Management Application and is useful for DHCP environments.
  

	NOTE: The WMI Provider Core Version 1.5+ must be present on the client computer in order for the Broadcom ASF Management Application to be installed.
	NOTE: Once the WMI Provider Core has been installed in a system, you cannot remove the WMI Provider Core. Its presence should not adversely affect any other software or hardware.
	NOTE: The WMI Core Provider is included with Windows XP and Windows 2000.

To reinstall the Broadcom ASF Management Application:

1. Install the Broadcom ASF Management Application using the Dell ResourceCD. 
   
   
2. Double-click the setup.exe file.
   
   
3. Select the desired software components, and click Next.
   
   

   NOTE: ASFConfig and BASFIpM are selected by default.

The setup program installs and registers several individual software components that make up the Broadcom ASF Management Application and the ASF WMI layer, and compiles an ASF managed object format (.mof) file. 

Installing the Broadcom ASF Management Application Silently

You can run silent installations (no dialog boxes appear) for complete and custom installations.

NOTE: When typing commands, enter spaces exactly as shown in the examples in this section.

Performing a Silent Complete Installation

The following command line runs a silent, unattended installation of the ASF Management Application with all components to the default directory: 

setup.exe /s  

where setup.exe is the installation executable file for ASF Management Application.

Modifying, Repairing, or Uninstalling the Broadcom ASF Management Application

You can modify, repair, or remove the Broadcom ASF Management Application using the installation file. You can also remove the Broadcom ASF Management Application using the Add/Remove Programs icon on the Control Panel.

To modify, repair, or remove the Broadcom ASF Management Application using the installation file:

1. Open My Computer or Windows Explorer, navigate to the directory to which you downloaded the installation file, and double-click the setup.exe file.
   
   The setup program begins.
   
   
2. When the InstallShield Wizard window displays the Welcome message, click Next.
   
   
3. Select the action to perform:
   
   
   • Modify — Allows you to add or remove selected components. Click Next and select the components you want to add or remove from the installation. 
     
     
   • Repair — Checks components previously installed by the user. If a damaged component is detected, the program reinstalls it. If a required registry key has been deleted, the program re-creates it.
     
     
   • Remove — Uninstalls all installed components.
     
     
4. Click Next.
   
   
5. Follow the screen prompts to modify, repair, or remove the Broadcom ASF Management Application.
   
   
6. Click Finish.
   

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