PLANET Support Publishing TURBODRV.TXT January 1996
PLANET ENW-3500-2T PCMCIA Ethernet Card Installation
for Turbo Drivers
Contents
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Introduction
Requirements
Minimum Skill Level
Getting Started
Introduction
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The PLANET Turbo driver is a re-tuned set of drivers that allows
throughput up 80% higher than normal. This driver takes advantage of
a special feature in most PLANET cards and the Netware 3.11 network
operating system. This implementation does require all workstations
and servers to use PLANET adapters that have "Turbo" drivers.
Furthermore only Netware 3.11 or 3.12 file servers that have their
workstations using NETX for the shell should be used.
Do not use these drivers with VLMs or Netware 4.x because of
instabilities will develop. ENW-3500-2T recommends that a site test
this driver before production LAN use was implemented.
This installation assumes that the PCMCIA drivers are working properly.
Please consult INST_DOS.TXT for help with PCMCIA Drivers.
Getting Started will describe the installation instructions.
Requirements
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A PCMCIA compatible Laptop
A PCMCIA chipset that is PCIC compatible (Intel, Cirrus, Vadem, and
VLSI) or Databook compatible.
Netware 3.11 network operating system
A ENW-3500-2T
A knowledge of basic DOS commands and editing text files
Minimum Skill Level
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A knowledge of basic DOS commands
A knowledge of editing text files
A knowledge of DOS basic file structure (CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT)
A knowledge of the network driver configuration being used
Please see Support Options if you are not comfortable will this
skill level
Getting Started
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The Turbo Driver (that is, ENW35.COM) implements the same format
used by ODI drivers, thus it is also considered as an ODI driver.
Manual Installation
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Copy the ENW35.COM file from this diskette into the Netware client
directory containing Novell's LSL.COM, IPXODI.COM and NETx.COM files.
Follow Novell's instructions on using ODI programs. You can substitute
the ENW35.COM whenever a reference is made to the Hardware Specific
Module.
A typical ODI workstation startup batch file includes:
>LSL ; Link Support Layer Module provided by Novell
>ENW35 ; Hardware Specific Turbo Module
>IPXODI ; IPX Protocol Stack Module provided by Novell
>NETX ; DOS Shell Support Module provided by Novell
>LOGIN
NOTE: You also need to load DE22XPRO.LAN on the NetWare server to
ÄÄÄÄ effectively use the Turbo Driver!
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
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.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
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.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.