PRO/100 ISA Driver Keywords The following driver keywords are supported by the EtherExpress(TM) PRO/100 ISA adapter. All keywords are optional. Keywords that apply to Windows NT or Windows 95 can be accessed from the Advanced Properties area. NetWare keywords must be enabled by editing NET.CFG or set on the driver load line when using the server driver. KEYWORDS: DESCRIPTION: --------- ------------------------------------------------------ MEDIATYPE Description: Specifies which physical medium is attached to the adapter. The default is automatic configuration. Legal values: AUTO -- auto-detect speed and duplex of the network HALF10 -- 10 Mbps half duplex connection is required FULL10 -- 10 Mbps full duplex connection is required HALF100 -- 100 Mbps half duplex connection is required FULL100 -- 100 Mbps full duplex connection is required Default: Auto Used By: All drivers NETWORKADDRESS Type: Any legal 12 digit hexidecimal ethernet value Description: Overrides the PRO/100 ISA adapter's unique Ethernet hardware address. Legal values: xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx (an Ethernet hardware address, where xx is a hexadecimal byte value) Used By: NDIS drivers (Windows NT, Windows 95, Workgroups) NODEADDRESS Type: Any legal 12 digit hexidecimal ethernet value Description: Overrides the PRO/100 ISA adapter's unique Ethernet hardware address. Legal values: xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx (an Ethernet hardware address, where x is a hexadecimal byte value) Used By: ODI drivers (Novell Netware server and client) RXEARLY Description: Use the RXEARLY keyword to DISABLE RX EARLY interrupt generation (pipelined processing of receive packets, also called Early Receives). Using RXEARLY ON improves performance by reducing receive latency, but increases the CPU overhead incurred by the driver. Legal Values: ON, OFF Default: ON Used By: All (except OS/2 ODI) USE32BITIO Description: Prevents driver from performing 32-bit I/O operations to the adapter. Some PCI/ISA motherboard chip sets have problems with this 32-bit operation and the results are data corruption. Legal Values: ON, OFF Default: OFF Used By: All SERIAL Description: Specifies the Plug and Play serial number of the adapter; required only when multiple adapters are present in the system. The default value #0 can be used if there is only one adapter in the system. Legal values: #0 or #nnnnnn, where the nnnnnn is the last 6 digits of the IEEE address that can be found on the adapter on a bar-coded label with the legend "MAC=". Default: #0 Used By: All * Third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.Download Driver Pack
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