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Fast Ethernet Controller Provider Inc.
PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
NetWare ODI Driver Installation
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Copyright (C) 1999 Fast Ethernet Controller Provider Inc.
All rights reserved.
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Contents of the file:
A. File Description
B. Driver Installation for NetWare Server 4.11, 5.0
C. Driver Installation for DOS32
D. Driver Installation for Microsoft Windows 3.x
E. Driver Installation for Microsoft Windows 95
F. Parameters Description for FastNIC.LAN
G. Driver Installation for OS/2 Workstation
A. File Description
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Filename Description
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NetWare.TXT This file. Presents a summary of the contents for NetWare
Client32 driver installation.
FastNIC.LAN Fast Ethernet Controller Provider Client32 ODI driver for
Fast Ethernet Controller Provider FastNIC Adapter. This
driver complies with NetWare ODI Server driver SPEC 3.31.
FastNIC.LDI The driver (FastNIC.LAN) installation information file for
NetWare Server 5.0(Moab), 4.11, NeDOS32, Microsoft Windows
3.x.
FastNIC.INF The driver (FastNIC.LAN) installation information file for
Microsoft Windows 95.
B. Driver Installation for NetWare Server 4.11, 5.0
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1. Change directory to NetWare Server directory (for example: CD\NWSERVER)
2. Load NetWare Server System by typing "SERVER", then press <Enter>.
3. When the Server prompt appears, load the NetWare Server Installation
Utility. That is,
:LOAD INSTALL <- If you use NetWare 4.11
:LOAD NWCONFIG <- If you use Netware 5
4. Select "Driver options" from "Installtion Options" menu, then press
<Enter>.
5. Select "Configure network drivers" from "Driver Options" menu, then
press <Enter>.
6. Choose "Select a driver" from "Additional Driver Actions" menu, then
press <Enter>.
7. Press <Ins> to install an unlisted driver, then press <F3> to specify a
different path.
8. Insert Fast Ethernet Controller Provider FastNIC Adapter Driver
Diskette to your PC's floppy drive and specify the drive (A: or B:),
then press <Enter>.
9. Choose "PC I10/100 Fast Ethernet Driver" from "Select a driver to
installed:" menu, then press <Enter>.
10. If necessary, choose "Select/Modify driver parameters and protocols"
from "Board FastNIC_1 (Driver FastNIC) Actions" menu, then press
<Enter> to set up the driver parameters. (Please refer to content F.)
Otherwise, select "Save parameters and load driver", then press <Enter>
11. Then, follow instructions to complete the driver installation.
12. Sample AUTOEXEC.NCF for NetWare Server
AUTOEXEC.NCF (one board)
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LOAD C:FastNIC FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=E_8022
LOAD C:FastNIC FRAME=ETHERNET_802.3 NAME=E_8023
LOAD C:FastNIC FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=E_II
LOAD C:FastNIC FRAME=ETHERNET_SNAP NAME=E_SNAP
BIND IPX E_8022 NET=10
BIND IPX E_8023 NET=20
BIND IPX E_II NET=30
BIND IPX E_SNAP NET=40
AUTOEXEC.NCF (two boards)
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LOAD C:FastNIC SLOT=10001 FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=E_8022_1
LOAD C:FastNIC SLOT=10001 FRAME=ETHERNET_802.3 NAME=E_8023_1
LOAD C:FastNIC SLOT=10001 FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=E_II_1
LOAD C:FastNIC SLOT=10001 FRAME=ETHERNET_SNAP NAME=E_SNAP_1
LOAD C:FastNIC SLOT=10002 FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=E_8022_2
LOAD C:FastNIC SLOT=10002 FRAME=ETHERNET_802.3 NAME=E_8023_2
LOAD C:FastNIC SLOT=10002 FRAME=ETHERNET_II NAME=E_II_2
LOAD C:FastNIC SLOT=10002 FRAME=ETHERNET_SNAP NAME=E_SNAP_2
BIND IPX E_8022_1 NET=10
BIND IPX E_8023_1 NET=20
BIND IPX E_II_1 NET=30
BIND IPX E_SNAP_1 NET=40
BIND IPX E_8022_2 NET=50
BIND IPX E_8023_2 NET=60
BIND IPX E_II_2 NET=70
BIND IPX E_SNAP_2 NET=80
C. Driver Installation for DOS32
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1. If you have completed installation the NetWare Client 32 for DOS, all
you have to modify STARTNET.BAT. Please see the sample STARTNET.BAT
below these installation instructions.
2. In DOS environment, run "INSTALL" from Netware 4.11 CD root directory.
Follow the installation steps of Novell NetWare Client 32.
- When "Select the type of installation desired" window appears, select
"Client Installation".
- When "Select Client to be installed" window appears, select "NetWare
Client 32 for DOS and Windows 3.1x"
- When the product manual appears, mark the "Netware Client 32 for DOS"
item, then press <Enter>.
- When the "Select a LAN Driver Type" windows appears, select "32-bit
LAN Drivers", then press <Enter>.
3. In "32-Bit Network Board Drivers" window, select "USER SPECIFIED 32 BIT
DRIVER", then press <Enter>.
4. Insert PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Driver Diskette into your floppy
diskette drive, then specify the driver path like A:\NETWARE, then
press <Enter>.
5. Select "PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter", then press <Enter>.
6. Refer to Content F) and set the correct driver parameters to comply
with your network environment, then press <F10> to continue.
7. Follow instructions to complete the Client32 for DOS software
installation.
8. Reboot your machine.
Sample STARTNET.BAT for DOS32.
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SET NWLANGUAGE=ENGLISH
C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\NIOS.EXE
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\LSLC32.NLM
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\CMSM.NLM
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\ETHERTSM.NLM
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\FastNIC.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\FastNIC.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_802.3
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\FastNIC.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_II
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\FastNIC.LAN FRAME=ETHERNET_SNAP
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\IPX.NLM
LOAD C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32\CLIENT32.NLM
D. Driver Installation for Microsoft Windows 3.x
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Please refer to Content C), in step 2, mark "Netware Client 32 for DOS"
and "NetWare Client 32 for Windows", then follow step 3 until step 8 to
complete the installation.
E. Driver Installation for Microsoft Windows 95
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If you have installed the Microsoft Client in your Windows 95 system, you
should remove the adapter object and NDIS3 driver of the
PCI 10/100 Fast Eternet Adapter from the Windows 95 system and delete
C:\WINDOWS\INF\FASTNIC.INF file.
Install Novell NetWare Client 32 for Windows 95
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1. Plug PCI 10/100 adapter into one of the Master PCI slots of your PC.
2. Turn the PC power ON and then boot from Windows 95.
3. Windows 95 will prompt "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "New Hardware
Found" dialog box. Please click on "Cancel" and do not install driver
now.
4. In WIN95 environment, run "SETUP.EXE" in the \PRODUCTS\WIN95\IBM_ENU
directory of Netware 4.11 CD. Follow the installation steps of Novell
NetWare Client 32.
5. In "Select Device" window, please select "[detected net drivers]" and
click on "OK" button to follow the installation steps of Client 32.
(Please do not click "Have Disk..." to install adapter driver now.)
6. After following the instructions to complete the Client32 for WIN95
software installation, reboot your machine.
Install Driver After Novell NetWare Client 32 for Windows 95 is Installed
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1. Make sure Novell NetWare Client 32 is installed OK and then install
PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter Driver again. When the PC is powered
on, Windows 95 will prompt "PCI Ethernet Controller" in "New Hardware
Found" dialog box. (If your adapter is not detected by Windows 95,
refer to TroubleShooting below.)
2. Remove the PCI 10/100 adapter Driver Diskette from your floppy drive.
Click on "Next" button and do not let WIN95 search adapter driver.
3. Insert the PCI 10/100 adapter Driver Diskette in your floppy drive.
Click "Other Locations" and type "A:\NETWARE", then click "OK" button.
The message "PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter for Novell Netware
Client 32" will appear.
4. After the "Finish" button is clicked, Windows starts to copy files
from Windows 95 CD-ROM to your hard disk. When the "Copying Files"
dialogue shows up to request the directory for the "FASTNIC.LAN" file,
type "A:\NETWARE" and click on the "OK" button.
5. Follow the screen prompt to insert "NetWare Client 32 for Windows 95"
disk and click the OK button in the "Insert Disk" dialog box.
6. Otherwise enter the full pathname (ex. D:\PRODUCTS\WIN95\IBM_ENU) of
the "NetWare Client 32 for Windows95" installation files in the
"Copying Files....." dialog box, then click the OK button.
7. Follow the screen's prompt to insert the "Windows 95 CD-ROM" and click
the OK button in the "Insert Disk" dialog box.
8. Otherwise enter the full pathname of the "Windows 95 CD-ROM"
installation files in the "Copying Files..." dialog box, then click
the OK button.
9. Windows 95 will copy the driver (FASTNIC.LAN) from A:\NETWARE to
C:\NOVELL\CLIENT32 directory.
10. Remove the PCI 10/100 adapter Driver Diskette from your floppy drive.
11. Restart your computer to initialize the network function.
** NOTE **
- C:\NOVELL is the directory where your Novell Client 32 files are
located.
- C:\WINDOWS is the directory where your Windows 95 O.S. is located.
- Do not remove "Novell ODINSUP" from the Network control panel. Removing
Novell ODINSUP also removes NetWare Client 32 for Windows 95 if there
is only one adapter in use.
TroubleShooting in Windows 95
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If your adapter is not detected by Windows 95 "New Hardware Found", your
adapter may be already REGISTERED. Therefore, you have to remove the
REGISTERED label before you install adapter driver again.
Method:
1. Click "Network" icon in the "Control Panel" box to make sure your
adapter driver not installed. If your adapter driver was installed,
remove it.
2. Select "Start" button (left-down corner) and select "Run" item.
Type REGEDIT, the registry edidor utility , then click "OK" button to
execute it.
3. In the Registry Editor dialogue, double-click "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
item, double-click "Enum", then double-click PCI item. Select the
"VEN_1317&DEV_0981", then delete it. Close Register Editor dialogue.
4. Reboot Windows 95 again to carefully follow the installtion
procedures above again.
F. Parameter Description for FastNIC.LAN
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The following parameters are used in FastNIC.LAN.
1. SLOT: specifies which adapter is enabled when multiple FastNIC
adapters are found in your computer.
Ex: LOAD FastNIC SLOT=1 FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2
LOAD FastNIC SLOT=1 FRAME=ETHERNET_II
2. FRAME: specifies which frame type is used by the driver. Accepted
values are Ethernet_802.2, Ethernet_802.3, Ethernet_II and
Ethernet_SNAP. Multiple frame types can be enabled by the
driver by loading the same driver with different FRAME types
Ex: LOAD FastNIC FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2
LOAD FastNIC FRAME=ETHERNET_802.3
LOAD FastNIC FRAME=ETHERNET_II
LOAD FastNIC FRAME=ETHERNET_SNAP
3. NODE: Use a different address to replace the node address burned
in EEPROM.
Ex: LOAD FastNIC NODE=0200E8001122
4. There are five parameters provided for specifying adapter's speed and
duplex mode : AUTO, 10-HD, 10-FD, 100-HD and 100-FD.
Ex: LOAD FastNIC 100-HD FRAME=Ethernet_802.2 NAME=LAN_A
BIND IPX TO LAN_A NET=11
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G. NetWare OS/2 ODI Workstation Driver Installation
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This section describes the procedure to install the NetWare OS/2 ODI
workstation driver for your adapter. You can use the following methods
to install the driver.
G.1 Install method
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Requirements
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Fast Ethernet Controller Provider FastNIC 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Driver Diskette (FastNIC.SYS)
Driver Location: \NetWare\OS2ODI
Installation Procedure
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1. Run INSTALL utility for Netware OS/2 requester and follow its
instructions.
2. Assign FastNIC.SYS as the network interface driver name and specify
the path as A:\NETWARE\OS2ODI.
3. Insert Fast Ethernet Controller Provider PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Diskette into driver A. then wait for file copy completion.
4. Choose the session support you need. For more information, please see
Netware OS/2 Requester Manual.
5. Save configuration.
6. Run CONFIGURATION UTILITY and select "THIS WORKSTATION" to modify the
NET.CFG file. (This file is located in the root directoy of OS/2
system, you can use any text editor to modify it.)
7. Shutdown and restart the machine.
** NOTE **
If your OS/2 version is 2.0 or later, you must have the Netware OS/2
Requester version 2.01 or later.
G.2 Manual method
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PREREQUISITES:
You will need the following diskettes:
Fast Ethernet Controller Provider FastNIC 10/100 Fast Ethernet Driver
Diskette (FastNIC.SYS); Driver Location: \NetWare\OS2ODI
Novell NetWare OS/2 WORKSTATION SERVICES REQUESTER diskette
Novell NetWare OS/2 WORKSTATION OS/2 Utility - 1
Novell NetWare OS/2 WORKSTATION OS/2 Utility - 2
Novell NetWare OS/2 WORKSTATION OS/2 Utility - 3
2. Make sure that the computer is at least a 286 or 386 machine that will
run OS/2 or Extended Edition OS/2.
3. Install the OS/2 Requester, referring to Novell's documentation for
NetWare Requester for OS/2 installation.
4. Copy the \NetWare\OS2ODI\FastNIC.SYS file from the support disk into
the NETWARE subdirectory on your hard disk.
5. Add or replace the FastNIC.SYS command line in the CONFIG.SYS file.
Make sure it precedes the IPX.SYS command line. An example:
DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\LSL.SYS ; OS/2 Requester supported
DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\DDAEMON.SYS ; OS/2 Requester supported
DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\FastNIC.SYS ; Fast Ethernet Controller Provider FastNIC
; supported
DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\IPX.SYS ; OS/2 Requester supported
6. Reboot the computer and log onto your network.
** INSTALLATION NOTE **
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You can bind several frame types to the IPX protocol to support various
configurations -- in the Link Driver FastNIC section of the NET.CFG file.
SAMPLE:
Link Driver FastNIC
frame Ethernet_802.2
frame Ethernet_802.3
frame Ethernet_II
frame Ethernet_snap
protocol IPX 00 Ethernet_802.3
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