******************************************************************** SCO Installation Notes for the Microdyne NE10/100 ISA Adapter Updated February 1997 ******************************************************************** If your system is not Plug and Play compatible, you must run the CONFIG program before starting operating system setup of the adapter. For more information, type GENERAL.TXT in \GENERAL or view the Plug and Play Notes section of README - General Introduction. CONFIG must be run under DOS. NE10/100 ISA Driver Installation ================================== The README file describes how to install the Microdyne NE10/100 ISA Ethernet MDI driver (Version 1.2.0b) for SCO OpenServer Release 5. The installation process consists of two major steps: Install the NE10/100 ISA MDI driver software Install and configure the adapter and the driver Install the Driver ------------------ To install the driver software, you'll need to create an installation image for use by SCO OpenServer's Software Manager. The file NE100I.SCO in the SCOUNIX directory contains a compressed image. Follow the steps below to create the installation image that can be used by SCO's Software Manager: 1. Insert the NE10/100 ISA driver disk into Drive A: 2. Run the command below to copy the NE100I.SCO file from the Disk to the SCO OpenServer. #doscp A:\SCOUNIX\NE100I.SCO /tmp/VOL.000.000 NOTE that the name of the media file on the SCO OpenServer must be VOL.000.000 for the Software Manager to find it correctly. 3. Start the Software Manager either by double clicking the Software Manager icon on the desktop screen or by entering the following command after the UNIX prompt. #custom 4. From the Software Manager window, select Software from the main menu, then: * Select the Install New option. * Select "From your_machine_name" to the question "What host do you want to install from?" * Select "Media Images" in the Media Device menu. * Enter /tmp for the Image Directory. * Select the Full option to fully install the driver software * Exit Software Manager. 5. At this time you may delete the /tmp/VOL.000.000 file. After running the Software Manager, the device driver and associated files should be properly installed, but not yet actively configured for use. To configure the device driver and attach the adapter to one or more protocols, use the SCO's Network Configuration Manager (see details in the next section). Configure the Adapter and Driver ------------------------------------- To configure the driver and adapter, and to bind them to one or more protocols, invoke the SCO OpenServer Network Configuration Manager. You may start the Network Configuration Manager by double clicking the: System Administration, Networks, and Network Configuration Manager icons in succession. You may instead enter the following command after the UNIX prompt. #netconfig Then follow these steps: 1. Select the Hardware option from the main menu. 2. Select the "Add new LAN adapter" from the Hardware menu. 3. Highlight the Microdyne NE10/100 ISA Adapter from the adapter list, then select the Continue option. 4. Answer Yes to the question: Do you wish to search for a Microdyne NE10/100 ISA Adapter? You may answer Yes or No to the question, but it is strongly recommended answering Yes. (1) It will be help to find a hardware malfunction of the adapter. (2) The Serial number of the adapter will be read during the search. (3) It will display all installed NE10/100 ISA adapters, with their Serial numbers. If you answer No to the question you will see the following Serial number: 0 I/O Address: 200 Interrupt Vector: 3 Media: AUTO If you answer Yes to the question, then you will see a list of all installed NE10/100 ISA adapters with their serial numbers displayed. 5. Select the one you want to configure. Note: don't select the adapter that has a driver actively loaded. Reconfiguring the base I/O address and the interrupt number of an adapter with the driver successfully loaded in the UNIX kernel might hang up your system. 6. If the adapter is already activated by the supplied CONFIG program by a Plug and Play BIOS, the next window will display the base I/O address and interrupt number assigned to the adapter. Although you may change them by selecting any values from the list that are not conflicting with other installed devices, it is strongly recommended that you use values assigned by the Config program or Plug and Play BIOS. If the adapter has not been activated for some reason, you will see BASE_IO: FFF Interrupt Vector: Both BASE_IO and Interrupt Vector need to be assigned You must select a base I/O address and an interrupt number values for the adapter, that are not used by any other device in the system. Note that the NE10/100 ISA adapter uses 32 contiguous I/O addresses starting from the base I/O address. You should make sure that no device will use any addresses in that range( base address + 0x20). For example, if 0x300 is selected for the NE10/100 ISA adapter, no other device can use any address between 0x300 and 0x31f. 7. In addition to the I/O address and IRQ number, netconfig will ask you to configure the media type. The default type [AUTO] will configure the adapter and device driver to automatically detect the media speed and duplex type (that is, 10Mbps vs. 100Mbps and half-duplex vs. full-duplex). For most environments this is the best choice. You can also force the adapter to operate in one particular mode. A list of the MEDIA keywords that netconfig uses follows: MEDIA DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------- AUTO Auto detection of speed and duplex type [default] HALF10 10BaseT mode (10Mbps, half-duplex) only FULL10 10Mbps, full-duplex only HALF100 100BaseT mode (100Mbps, half-duplex) only FULL100 100Mbps, full-duplex only 8. You may select the Advanced Options to change the values for the following parameters: Use 32-bit I/O Receive Early Network Address The possible values for those parameters are listed below: Use 32-bit I/O: NO, YES. Default to NO Receive Early: OFF, ON. Default to OFF Network Address: Default, or any other legal 12-hex-digit Ethernet address 9. After you finish configuring the adapter and the driver, select OK to continue the protocol configuration. See SCO's Manuals for details. 10. After configuring the driver and binding the desired protocols, exit from the Network Configuration Manager, relink the UNIX kernel, and rebuild the kernel environment. 11. Reboot your system to make the device driver active. If the driver can be successfully loaded for the adapter, a similar message to that below will be displayed: F ne100iinit ne100i: Link Detected: 100Mb Half Duplex %ne100i 0x02A0-0x02BF 10 - NE100I v1.2.0b ea=00:A0:C9:0B:39:2D Installation Tips ====================== How to Re-configure an Installed Adapter ----------------------------------------- Don't try to re-configure the base I/O port and the interrupt number for an adapter if the driver has been successfully loaded. Writing the new base I/O address and/or interrupt Number to a working adapter may hang up your system. To reconfigure the base I/O address and interrupt number for a working adapter follow these procedures: 1. Start Network Configuration Manager 2. Highlight the adapter to be reconfigured. 3. Select the Remove Network Device option in the Hardware menu 4. Answer Yes to the question: Do you wish to remove the networking products highlighted above? 5. Exit the Network Configuration Manager, rebuild the kernel and Reboot the system. After the system is rebooted, then follow the procedures in the Configure the Adapter and Driver section to reinstall the adapter and the driver. How to Install Multiple NE10/100 ISA Aapters ------------------------------------------------- Up to four NE10/100 ISA adapters can be installed in one system. You may plug all adapters to be installed to the system at one time, then follow the procedures in the Configure the Adapter and Driver section to configure them one by one. You may exit from the Network Configuration Manager, rebuild the UNIX kernel and reboot the system after all adapters are properly configured. It is strongly recommended that you run the CONFIG program on the NE10/100 ISA disk with the adapter on a machine running DOS to check the resource and test the adapter. See details in Chapter 4 of the User Guide. Updating Previous Driver Versions ------------------------------------- If you have previous versions (v1.1.0a and v1.1.1a) of the NE10/100 ISA MDI driver installed in your system, please follow these steps: 1. Start Software Manager 2. Highlight the previous version of the NE10/100 ISA MDI driver. 3. Select the Remove option from the Software option in the Main menu to remove it. 4. Follow the procedures in the Installation Section to install the new driver software. 5. Start Network Configuration Manager. 6. Highlight the NE10/100 ISA adapter. 7. Select the Remove option from the Hardware menu. 8. Exit the Network Configuration Manager, rebuild the kernel, and reboot the system. 9. Follow the procedures in the Configure the Adapter and Driver section to reinstall the adapter and the driver. Troubleshooting Hints ----------------------- If everything is configured properly the driver will display the Ethernet address of the adapter during system initialization. It should look something like this: ne100i 0x0300-0x031F 5 - type=NE100I addr=08:00:17:6A:F2:8A If the adapter configuration (done by CONFIG) and the configuration of the device driver (done by netconfig) don't match, then you will instead see something like this: ne100i 0x0300-0x031F 5 - adapter misconfigured or missing! If you get the "adapter misconfigured or missing" message, then verify that that adapter configuration and the driver configuration match. Note that if your system uses a Plug and Play BIOS, it might enable the NE10/100 ISA adapter with the I/O address and IRQ number that do not match those you selected in the netconfig utility. To avoid this issue, run the CONFIG program from DOS and check the values set in Custom. Then to set the I/O address and IRQ to the same values in the netconfig utility. If configurations match and an error occurs during system initialization you will see something like this: ne100i 0x0300-0x031F 5 - adapter initialization failure! The message is displayed when the driver detects a serious error during initialization. It is suggested that you run the CONFIG program on a DOS machine to test your adapter. See details in the Chapter 4 of the User Guide. If you see the following message: ne100i: Warning! Cable appears to be disconnected. You should check the cable connection first. If cable connection is OK, check your hub or switch that the adapter is connected. If you are not using the AUTO mode for the Media parameter, please make sure your Media selection matches that of the connected hub and switch. Note: To view the available keywords supported by the Microdyne NE10/100 ISA Adapter, go back to the main menu in README (DOS only) and select Keywords or type the KEYWORDS.TXT file in the GENERAL directory.Download Driver Pack
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