AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter
NDIS 4 DRIVER FOR WINDOWS 98 INSTALLATION
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Contents:
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A) Install NDIS 4.0 driver to the Windows 98
B) Configuration NDIS 4.0 driver to the Windows 98
C) Configuration NDIS 2.0 driver to the Windows 98
A) Install NDIS 4.0 driver to the Windows 98
This adapter, AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter,is based
on DEC chip 21140.Thus,when you plug the ALN-310 in the mother board and
power on the Windows 98,the 'Add New Hardware Wizard' window will prompt
and says that
The wizard search for new driver for:
PCI Fast Ethernet DEC 21140 Based Adapter
The 21140 driver supported by Win98 can NOT WORK WELL on this adapter because
of the hardware issue. So you should use supported driver in the driver
diskette.
In the 'Add New Hardware Wizard' window,click 'Next' then it will ask you
'What do you want Windows to do?'.
Choose the item that
Display a list of all the drivers in a specific
location,so you can select the driver you want.
Click 'Next'.It will prompt a 'Select device' window.
Click 'Have Disk' button.
In the 'Install From Disk' window,put the driver disk in the floppy drive
and enter the driver path i.e. 'a:\win98' in combo list and click 'OK'.
It will show 'AcerLAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter' in the
Models field of 'Select Device' window.Click 'OK'.
There will show 'A:\WIN98\ALN310.INF' in the Location of driver field for
the device 'AcerlAN ALN-310 10/100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Adapter' in the 'Add
New Hardware Wizard' window.Click 'Next'.
Specify the path of the driver files i.e a:\win98,then the Windows will
copy the necessary files for the driver and system files.Click 'Finish'.
If this is your first time to install the Ethernet adapter and have not
installed the protocols and clients for Microsoft and Netware,please do NOT
restart the computer.Go to the Start\Settings\Control and double-click
the Network icon to install the other necessary files for the network
operation.
Windows 98 will ask you Do you want to restart your computer now?,
Click 'Yes' to restart the Windows 98.
B) Configuration NDIS 4.0 driver to the Windows 98
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 "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>. 100Mbps Transmit Threshold :
128 bytes ;Default is 128 bytes
256 bytes
512 bytes
1024 bytes
<2>. 10Mbps Transmit Threshold :
72 bytes ;Default is 96 bytes
96 bytes
128 bytes
160 bytes
<3>. Burst Length : 1 Dword ; Default is 16 Dwords.
2 Dwords ; (1 Dword = 4 bytes).
4 Dwords
8 Dwords
16 Dwords
32 Dwords
<4>. Connection Type :
100Base-TX ; Default is AutoSense
100Base-TX Full_Duplex
10BaseT
10BaseT Full_Duplex
AutoSense
AutoSense No_Nway
<5>. Extra Receive Buffers :
0 ;Default is 16
16
32
64
128
<6>. Extra Receive Packets :
16 ;Default is 100
32
64
100
200
<7>. Interrupt Mitigation : Disable , Enable ;Default is Disable
<8>. Memory Read Multiple : Disable , Enable ;Default is Disable
<9>. Receive Buffers : 8, 16, 32, 48, 64.
default is 16.
<10>. Store and Forward : Disable , Enable. ;Default is Disable.
<11>. Underrun Max Retries :
2 ;Default is 10
4
6
8
<12>. Underrun Threshold :
10 ;Default is 10
20
50
100
7. Follow screen instructions to complete the process.
8. Restart your computer.
C) Configuration NDIS 2.0 driver to the Windows 98
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.
<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 multiple 32-bit PCI LAN boards 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.
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Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
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Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
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