Driver Installation - Novell NetWare 386 v3.11 Server ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Siemens OfficeLAN PCI 10/100 TX Fast Ethernet Adapter Novell NetWare 386 v3.11 Server Driver INSTALLATION GUIDE ============================================================================= CONTENTS ============================================================================= * System Requirements * Files Provided * Hardware Installation Guide * Copying Driver Files * Device Driver Installation Guide * Setting Driver Command Line Parameters * Installing More Than One Adapter ============================================================================= SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ============================================================================= Hardware Requirements: * IBM-compatible personal computer (PC), 80486 or higher with PCI bus supporting bus master mode * This adapter Software Requirements: * Novell NetWare 386 v3.11 ============================================================================= FILES PROVIDED ============================================================================= * L100.LAN Device driver * AUTOEXEC.NCF The AUTOEXEC.NCF file * ETHERTSM.NLM Novell TSM module needed to run driver * LSLENH.NLM Novell module needed in NetWare v3.11 to MSM31X.NLM * MSM31X.NLM Novell MSM module needed to run driver * PATCHMAN.NLM Novell module needed in NetWare v3.11 to MSM31X.NLM * MONITOR.NLM Novell MONITOR module ============================================================================= HARDWARE INSTALLATION GUIDE ============================================================================= * See the User Guide for complete installation instructions. * When installing the adapter in a PCI computer, make sure the slot you select supports bus master operations. * No specialized setup is necessary for motherboards with automatic PCI parameterization (most new PCs support it). * For motherboards with bus master jumpers and interrupt jumpers for PCI slots: 1. Using the appropriate motherboard jumper, enable bus master operations for the selected PCI slot. 2. Using the appropriate motherboard jumper, select the interrupt to the selected PCI slot. 3. Using your computer setup menu: * Enable the bus master on the PCI slot. * Enable I/O on the PCI slot. * Define the interrupt number on the PCI slot. ============================================================================= COPYING DRIVER FILES ============================================================================= First, copy the driver files from the A:\NETWARE\SERVER\3.11 subdirectory to the proper directory of server's hard disk. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NOTE: Failure to copy and use the these NLM files instead of the NLM files that came with the 3.11 version of NetWare may result in network failure or server abends. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ============================================================================= DEVICE DRIVER INSTALLATION GUIDE ============================================================================= The LAN driver is installed during the NetWare installation process. Use the instructions that follow, along with the instructions in the NetWare 386 v3.11 Installation Manual, to install the LAN driver. 1. See "Load LAN Driver Module" in the Novell NetWare 386 v3.11 Installation Manual for NetWare installation instructions. 2. Following the instructions in the manual, start NetWare and configure the server. 3. Load the LAN driver using the LOAD command. If the LAN driver is not located in the default directory, specify the file's path on the command line. The LOAD command prompts you for the configuration parameters if they are not supplied on the command line. You can save the LOAD command line parameters in a file with the name AUTOEXEC.NCF so they execute automatically when the server starts. See the Novell NetWare 386 v3.11 Installation Manual for details on how to create the AUTOEXEC.NCF file. 4. At the server command line, type: LOAD PATCHMAN.NLM [Enter] LOAD LSLENH.NLM [Enter] LOAD MSM31X.NLM [Enter] LOAD ETHERTSM.NLM [Enter] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NOTE: The steps that follow load the L100.LAN file. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 5. Then type the following command to load driver: LOAD L100 FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 [Enter] 6. Bind a protocol to the driver. For example: BIND IPX TO L100 NET=XX where XX is the logical network address for the frame type in your LOAD command. 7. If you want to load the MONITOR.NLM module at the server console, you must use the MONITOR.NLM file provided by the driver diskette. Otherwise, the result is unpredictable. 8. Add the following statement in the STARTUP.NCF file to configure the "Minimum Packet Receive Buffers" of NetWare Server : set Minimum Packet Receive Buffers = 512 ============================================================================= SETTING DRIVER COMMAND-LINE PARAMETERS ============================================================================= This driver provides these parameters specified on the server console or or added in the AUTOEXEC.NCF file. LOAD L100.LAN SLOT=1 FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 [Enter] The parameters are listed as below : SLOT The driver uses the slot number to identify the adapter. That is, the first adapter is considered to be in the slot 1, the next in slot 2, and so on. MEDIA Specify the media type of adapter to use (between 0 to 5). 0 - auto-sense the media, including run-time auto-sense (default) 1 - 100Base-Tx Half-Duplex mode 2 - 100Base-Tx Full-Duplex mode 3 - 10Base-T Half-Duplex mode 4 - 10Base-T Full-Duplex mode 5 - 10Base-2 (BNC) THRESHOLD Specify the Tx Threshold mode of adapter to use (between 0 to 6). 0 - Store and Forward (default) 1 - Threshold 36 Bytes 2 - Threshold 72 Bytes 3 - Threshold 96 Bytes 4 - Threshold 128 Bytes 5 - Threshold 160 Bytes 6 - Threshold 256 Bytes NOTE: The TxThreshold lets you choose the number of bytes read from the host memory into the transmit FIFO before the transmission. If the frame length is less than the threshold value, the adapter will start to transmit after a full frame is in the FIFO. The performance is better, if the smaller value is chosen. But if you have compatible problem, the Store and Forward or the bigger value is recommended. ============================================================================= INSTALLING MORE THAN ONE ADAPTER ============================================================================= If you have only one PCI adapter installed in the server, you do not need to specify the slot number in the LOAD command line. If multiple PCI adapters are installed, the driver detects it and asks you for a slot number, or you can specify the slot number in the LOAD command line.