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Information on Keywords Used For All Drivers
Updated February 1997
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Keywords supported by the Microdyne NE10/100 ISA Drivers
Keyword: MEDIATYPE
Description: Specifies which physical medium is attached to the
adapter. The default is automatic configuration.
Legal values: Auto (automatic configuration)
Half10 (10BASE-T)
Full10 (10BASE-T full duplex)
Half100 (100BASE-TX)
Full100 (100BASE-TX full duplex)
Default: Auto
Used By: All drivers
Keyword: NETWORKADDRESS
Type: Any legal Ethernet value
Description: Overrides the NE10/100 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: NDIS3 drivers
Keyword: NODEADDRESS
Type: Any legal Ethernet value
Description: Overrides the NE10/100 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: All ODI drivers
Keyword: 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: OFF
Used By: NDIS, ODI except OS/2
Keyword: SERIAL
Type: 6 hexadecimal digits
Description: Keyword is required when more than one NE10/100 ISA
adapter is in the PC. The last 6 digits of the IEEE
address of the adapter is the parameter for this
keyword. The IEEE address is on a bar-coded 'MAC="
label on the adapter.
Legal Values: XXXXXX - the six hex digits described above.
For NDIS2 and NDIS3 preceed number with # sign.
Used By: All drivers
Keyword: 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
Command Line Operaters for the Packet Driver
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Operator: /?
Description: Displays screen of valid Keywords
Operator: FILENAME
Description: specifies complete path to keyword file
Operator: INTERRUPT
Description: Specifies the software interrupt through which the
packet driver will communicate.
Legal Values: Any valid interrupt (0xnn)
Default: 0x60
Operator: TERMINATE
Description: Attempt to terminate the packet driver at the
interrupt specified (must use Interrupt keyword for
termination of drivers not at default interrupt.
Default: 0x60
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