NETWARE* DOS ODI CLIENT DRIVER INSTALLATION NOTES FOR THE INTEL® ETHEREXPRESS™ PRO/10 PCI LAN ADAPTERS

v1.00

Location of Driver: \NWCLIENT\E10PODI.COM

Note: Be sure to update to version 1.42 of the E10PODI driver. Earlier versions of the driver may hang when loading in faster computers. Check Intel's Support Site for the updated driver.

Quick Installation

Use the Install network drivers option from the SETUP.EXE utility on the Intel® EtherExpress™ PRO/10 PCI disk to quickly and easily install the ODI driver. For workstations using VLM's, see the VLM client section below.

Sample Configuration Files

AUTOEXEC.BAT:

CD\NWCLIENT
LSL
E10PODI
IPXODI
NETX or VLM (VLM's for NetWare 4.x or 3.12)

NET.CFG (for 802.3 clients - generally NetWare 2.x and 3.11 servers) LINK DRIVER E10PODI

FRAME ETHERNET_802.3

FRAME ETHERNET_802.2

FIRST NETWORK DRIVE = F

All the files necessary to connect to the NetWare servers are supplied on the Intel® EtherExpress™ PRO/10 PCI disk. Newer versions of the shell files (LSL.COM, IPXODI.COM, NETX.EXE) may be available from Novell* on CompuServe* in the NetWire forum. To access this forum, type GO NOVFILES and download the files NET33X.EXE and VLMUP2.EXE.

1. From the \NWCLIENT directory on the Intel® EtherExpress™ PRO/10 PCI disk, copy the following files onto your hard drive: LSL.COM, E10PODI.COM, IPXODI.COM, NETX.EXE, and NET.CFG.

2. Add the commands to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file as shown above under the

   Sample Configuration Files section. Make sure you change to the subdirectory where the drivers are loaded before executing the files. In the example above, the drivers are located in the NWCLIENT subdirectory.

3. Edit the NET.CFG file per your requirements (see examples above). If you do not know which frame type to load, type CONFIG from your file server console to see which frame type your file server is loading and load one of these frame types on the workstation. If you list two or more frame types in the NET.CFG, the IPX protocol will bind to the first frame type.

   The NET.CFG file should be in the same directory as the adapter driver.

   If you are running EMM386, make sure you are using v4.49 or later. The Intel® EtherExpress™ PRO/10 PCI disk contains v4.49 in a self-extracting compressed file in the \NWCLIENT directory. Copy EMM_ARCH.EXE to your hard disk or another diskette. Expand the file by typing: EMM_ARCH. The file will be expanded into the current directory.

4. Reboot the computer. The drivers will load and connect you to the network.

General Instructions for NetWare 4.x/3.12 client with VLMs

The installation of the NetWare 4.x client software is much easier than earlier versions. The installation procedure will transfer files to a specific directory on the workstation and create or modify existing configuration files to fit your specific needs. The installation utility, INSTALL.EXE, is located on NetWare's "Workstation for DOS" disk. The install program is also located in \PUBLIC\CLIENT\DOSWIN on the server. NetWare 3.12 does not automatically create this directory on the server during installation.

Installation Procedure for NetWare 4.x/3.12 client with VLMs

1. Run INSTALL.EXE from the NetWare Workstation for DOS Disk.

2. The NetWare Client Install program screen appears. You must complete each of the options as they are specific to your needs.

   Step 1: Specifies the directory on the hard drive that you want to install the client software. The default directory is C:\NWCLIENT. You can specify another directory if you desire.

   Step 2: Gives you the option to automatically update the CONFIG.SYS and the AUTOEXEC.BAT files or modify them at a later time manually.

   Step 3: Will install Windows* software for your system (if your workstation supports Windows*), and will ask you to specify the directory where Windows is located.

   Step 4: Asks you to select a network driver and provide

   configuration options. It uses the specifications you select to create the file NET.CFG. Insert the Intel® EtherExpress™ PRO/10 PCI disk when prompted for the driver disk. Intel® EtherExpress™ PRO/10 PCI is the name of the driver. Once you have chosen the driver, verify the configuration settings for the board if necessary.

   Step 5: This is the final step and the install program will copy the appropriate files to your hard drive.

3. Be sure to add LASTDRIVE=Z to your CONFIG.SYS file and FIRST NETWORK DRIVE = F in the NET.CFG file under the Netware DOS Requestor section.

NET.CFG optional parameters

Slot
Specifies the slot number. This is optional for single adapter installations, but required for multiple adapter installations.

For PCI adapters, SLOT is derived from DEVICE LOCATION and doesn't map to the physical location of the adapter. Currently, the PCI specification doesn't tell you how to determine which adapter corresponds to a device number. You can run the SETUP.EXE utility from the Intel® EtherExpress™ PRO/10 PCI disk; this will display the adapters slot number (and device location in hex). Another way to do this is to load the driver from the command line. You'll be prompted with valid device numbers for the adapter. Select one of them.

Syntax: SLOT=n (n = 1,2,3,4,...15).

Syntax: NODE ADDRESS 00aa12345678 02aa => Locally administered address, 02 is set by MSM 00aa => Typical Intel address (default)

Syntax: FRAME n n = Ethernet_802.2

Ethernet_802.3 Ethernet_II Ethernet_SNAP

Default: Ethernet_802.2

Syntax: Protocol IPX E0 Ethernet_802.2 Values: E0=Ethernet_802.2
0=Ethernet_802.3
8137=Ethernet_II
8137=Ethernet_SNAP

First Network Drive
(Used only with the VLM.EXE). Indicates the first network drive available in the client system.

Note: If you use FIRST NETWORK DRIVE, the last line in the CONFIG.SYS file must read: LASTDRIVE=Z

Detailed example

LINK DRIVER E10PODI
SLOT 1
NODE ADDRESS 00aa00xxxxxx <--(Last six digits are unique for each

adapter) FRAME ETHERNET_802.2
PROTOCOL IPX E0 ETHERNET_802.2

In addition, the NET.CFG file can contain the following optional information:

NETWARE DOS REQUESTER
PB BUFFERS=10
FIRST NETWORK DRIVE=F

This applies to:

EtherExpress™ PRO/10 and PRO/10+ ISA adapters EtherExpress™ PRO/10 PCI Adapter EtherExpress™ PRO/10+ PCI Adapter