AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter NDIS 3 DRIVER FOR WINDOWS 95 INSTALLATION ========================================================== Contents: --------- A) Remove DECchip 21x40 driver supported by Win95 B) Install NDIS 3.1 driver to the Windows 95 C) Configuration NDIS 3.1 driver to the Windows 95 D) Configuration NDIS 2.0 driver to the Windows 95 A) Remove DECchip 21x40 driver supported by Win95 This adapter, AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter, is based on DEC chip DC21x40. Thus, the 21x40 driver supported by Win95 can NOT WORK WELL on this adapter because of the hardware issue. You should remove the adapter object and driver in Win95 system, then following instruction steps B) & C) to complete installation and configuration for the adapter. A.1) Remove adapter object & driver for DECchip 21x40 ----------------------------------------------------- 1. Click the "My Computer" icon in the Main Program Group. 2. Click the "Control Panel" icon from My Computer window. 3. Click the "System" icon from the Control Panel window. 4. Click the "Network adapter" icon in Device Manager Tag from System window. 5. Click the "PCI Fast Ethernet DECchip 21140 Based Adapter" icon from System window. 6. Click <Remove> button, then click <OK> button. 7. Close the opened windows. A.2) Rename DC21x40 installation information file ------------------------------------------------- 8. Switch to MS-DOS Command Prompt windows. 9. Type the following DOS command: CD \WINDOWS\INF RENAME NETPCI.INF *.IN_ EXIT 10. Shutdown and turn off the machine. ** NOTICE!! 1. Here, \WINDOWS is the directory where your Windows 95 system is located. 2. If you NEVER pluged AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter into your PC,steps 1..7 in A.1) is not necessary. And you just start from step 8 in A.2), because you need not to remove the 21140 adapter object and driver. B) Install NDIS 3.1 driver to the Windows 95 The drivers named ALN310.SYS contained in the directory WIN95. NDIS Driver Installation on Windows 95 -------------------------------------- 1. Plug AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter into one of the Master PCI slots of your PCI platform. 2. Turn power on then boot from Windows 95. 3. Windows 95 will prompt PCI Ethernet Controller in New Hardware Found dialog box. 4. Select "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer" from New Hardware Found dialog box, then click OK button. 5. Insert the Driver Diskette 1 in your floppy drive. 6. Enter the driver pathname, i.e. A:\WIN95 (or B:\WIN95), then click OK button from Install from Disk dialog box. 7. There will show a model name: AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter then click OK button from Select Device dialog box. 8. Follow screen instructions to complete the process. 9. Restart your computer. C) Configuration NDIS 3.1 driver to the Windows 95 1. Click the "My Computer" icon in the Main Program Group. 2. Click the "Control Panel" icon from My Computer window. 3. Click the "Network" icon from the Control Panel window. 4. Select "AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter" item from Network Component Type dialog box,then click "Properties..." button. 5. Click "Advanced" button from Properties for AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter dialog box. 6. Here, you can set the following properties: <1>. Burst Length : 1 Dword ; Default is 16 Dwords. 2 Dwords ; (1 Dword = 4 bytes). 4 Dwords 8 Dwords 16 Dwords 32 Dwords <2>. Connection Type (32-bit driver): <NDIS3 driver> 100Base-TX ; Default is AutoSense 100Base-TX Full_Duplex 10BaseT 10BaseT Full_Duplex AutoSense <3>. Receive Buffers : 8, 16, 32, 48, 64. default is 16. <4>. Map Registers : 4, 8, default is 8. This parameter depends on different machine, for x86, the value is 8. <5>. Store and Forward : Disable , Enable. default is Disable. <6>. Transmit Threshold : 72 bytes ; Default is 160 bytes 96 bytes 128 bytes 160 bytes 256 bytes 512 bytes 1024 bytes 7. Follow screen instructions to complete the process. 8. Restart your computer. D) Configuration NDIS 2.0 driver to the Windows 95 As described in step 1. to 5. in C) procedure You can see three properties are followed by "(RealMode NDIS)" i.e. Data Rate,SIA Mode and Slot Number. These properties are specific for NDIS 2 driver. <1> Data Rate: for AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter. MB10 : speed is 10 Mbps, MB100: speed is 100 Mbps. default is MB100. <2> SIA Mode: the connection type of the LAN board, can be selected from Twisted Pair, TP Full Duplex and AutoSense, default is AutoSense. <3> Slot number: the PCI board index, range is 16..26, default is 16. This parameter is used to distinguish activated board when ALN-310 adapters are enabled by the driver.For two or more ALN-310 cards, this parameters is required and cannot be omitted from PROTOCOL.INI. The slot number. for the first LAN card is 16, for the second is 17, and 18 for the third, etc. Default value is 16. ===End of File===Download Driver Pack
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