NDC ND5300 Plug and Play Ethernet Adapter NDIS Driver for Wollongong Pathway Access Installation ====================================================== PRE-INSTALLATION You should setup and diagnose the Instant-Link adapter(s) by applying NDCONF3 before you install and/or run the NOS or network applications. INSTALLATION PROCEDURE A. NDIS driver Installation Procedure 1) Insert your copy of Pathway Drivers into drive A. Enter as follows: C:\>A: 2) To copy the software onto the system, type: A:\>PWINSTAL C: where C: is the disk drive ( you could also use D:, E:, and so on ) that you intend to use for the installation of your Pathway software. The PWINSTAL program automatically installs the driver software in a new directory named, \PATHWAY on the drive you specified. The diskette is finished copying when you receive the following message: "The Pathway Drivers have been copied successfully. Refer to documentation to complete driver installation." 3) Insert "NDC Setup diskette" into A: and copy the NDIS drivers to the directory where you installed the Pathway software : A:\> Copy A:\NDIS2\ND5300.DOS C:\PATHWAY 4) Edit the C:\CONFIG.SYS file, containing the following three entries : DEVICE=C:\PATHWAY\PWTCP.SYS DEVICE=C:\PATHWAY\PROTMAN.EXE/I:C:\PATHWAY DEVICE=C:\PATHWAY\ND5300.DOS 5) Use any text editor to generate a PROTOCOL.INI file in C:\PATHWAY, which must have the following section : [ND5300_NIF] DriverName = ND5300$ 6) The startup batch file - AUTOEXEC.BAT should have the following entries, in the order shown : path=c:\pathway ndis [-d:#] pwbind where the -d option is used when accessing a specific module number within PROTOCOL.INI. In your PROTOCOL.INI file, a line enclosed by square brackets designates the beginning of a new module. Each module is referred to by a hexadecimal number. The first module is module number one. The second module is module two, and so on. B. Pathway Kernel Installation Procedure 1) Insert the Pathway Kernel diskette in drive A. Enter as follows : C:\>A: 2) To copy the software onto the system, enter : A:\> pwinstal C: where C: is the disk drive ( you could also use D:, E:, and so on ) that you intend to use for the installation of your Pathway software. The PWINSTAL program automatically installs the driver software in a new directory named, \PATHWAY on the drive you specified. The copying is complete when you see the following message : "Pathway Kernel files have been copied successfully". Reboot and refer to the documentation to complete kernel installation." 3) Remove the diskette from drive A: and reboot your PC by pressing <Ctrl>, <Alt>, and <Del> at the same time. 4) Change current directory to PATHWAY. 5) Run the CUSTOM program in order to set or change the following settings: * The Internet address * The subnet bits (if your network includes subnetworks) * The gateway address (if you are communicating with hosts outside your local network) 6) Remove the diskette from drive A: and reboot your PC by pressing <Ctrl>, <Alt>, and <Del> at the same time. 7) Enter the following command to load the Kernel : C:\PATHWAY> PWTCP 8) Test your PC Using PING program C:\PATHWAY> PING hostname where hostname is the official name, alias, or Internet address of a host on your network that you expect to able to communicate with.Download Driver Pack
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