================================================================== NOTES ON August 1998 Installing D-Link DE-220 Family 16-Bit ISA PnP Ethernet Adapter For All Users Version 980815 ================================================================== (c) 1997-1998 Copyright D-Link Corporation ALL RIGHTS RESERVED This document contains general information, which is not included in the DE-220 Family Ethernet Adapter USER'S GUIDE or onscreen instructions, for all users regarding DE-220 Family Ethernet Adapter installation. This document contains information on the following topics: 1.0 What's New? 2.0 Overview 2.1 About INSTALL.EXE 3.0 To view installation notes and trouble shooting guide 3.1 Where to find the README file which is specific to your needs 4.0 Version History 5.0 Technical Support Options 5.1 D-Link Worldwide Web Sites 5.2 Regional Headquarters ___________________________________________________________________ 1.0 What's New? --------------- D-Link DE-220 Family Ethernet Adapter Rev. D equipped with Just-In-Time-Interrupt (JITI) on board remarkably boosts its performance and optimizes CPU Utilization. The enhancement in throughput provided by JITI is astonishing. It's the A.I. enabled network interface card in the industry and the best performance card in the market. With JITI, the improved DE-220 Family Ethernet Adapter's performance is sure to benefit most our users. The DE-220 Family Ethernet Adapter Rev. D supports the Full Duplex mode when using the 10BaseT media which provides the 20M Bits bandwidth for data transferring. For the BNC media, it can only be configured to Half Duplex Mode. 2.0 Overview ------------ All drivers will automatically detect the hardware information including I/O base address and IRQ. The network media connector type will also be automatically detected during driver initialization. After inserting the DE-220 Family Ethernet Adapter into a slot, it is strongly recommended to run INSTALL.EXE in the DOS environment. Then follow onscreen instructions to complete the installation process. 2.1 About INSTALL.EXE --------------------- Before running the install.exe, please insert the DE-220 Family Ethernet Adapter into ISA bus slot in your computers. The install.exe program will find the available resource (IO base address and Interrupt number) for the DE-220 Family Ethernet Adapter automatically. For the Netware DOS Client users: --------------------------------- Selecting the "Quick Installation for Netware Client" item of the install.exe, installation program will copy the DE-220 driver to the computer and modified the autoexec.bat file of the computer. After installation, just restart the computer and will connect to the Netware server automatically. For the other users: -------------------- Running install.exe will display the installation instructions. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation process. 3.0 To view installation notes ------------------------------ Each directory contains text files which provides you with detailed installation instructions for drivers in that directory. We hope our new readmes and installations will minimize the users effort to make our products work. Should there be further recommendations please contact the support manager at the local D-Link Office listed bellow. 3.1 Where to find the README file which is specific to your needs ----------------------------------------------------------------- There are one DE-220 3.5" software diskettes. And the following table give you information about the location and contents of the README files that contains information specific to your needs. ------------------------------------------------------------------- File Description/Installation notes ------------------------------------------------------------------- \MSLANMAN.DOS\LMDOS.TXT Installation notes for MS LANMAN users. \MSLANMAN.OS2\LMOS2.TXT Installation notes for MS LANMAN users \NDIS2\BANYAN.TXT Installation notes for Banyan Vines users \NDIS2\IBMLAN.TXT Installation notes for IBM DOS Lan users \NDIS2\LANSRV.TXT Installation notes for IBM Lan Server users \NDIS2\MSCLIENT.TXT Installation notes for MSCLIENT users \NDIS2\PATHWAY.TXT Installation notes for PATHWAY users \NDIS2\PATHWORK.TXT Installation notes for PATHWORK users \NDIS2\PCNFS.TXT Installation notes for PC-NFS V5.0 users \NDIS2\README.TXT Overall installation notes for all NDIS users \NT35\README.TXT Installation notes for Windows NT3.5/NT3.51 users \NT40\README.TXT Installation notes for Windows NT4.0 users \WIN9X\README.TXT Installation notes for Windows 95/98 users \PKTDRV\NCSA.TXT Installation notes for NCSA users \PKTDRV\PCTCP.TXT Installation notes for PCTCP users \PKTDRV\PDIPX.TXT Installation notes for IPX users \PKTDRV\WINSOCK.TXT Installation notes for WINSOCK users \PKTDRV\DLKTCP.TXT Installation notes for D-Link TCP program \PKTDRV\README.TXT Overall installation notes for all Packet Driver users \NETWARE\README.TXT Installation notes for all NetWare Driver users \NETWARE\C32W95.TXT Installation notes for NetWare Client 32 for Windows 95 Driver users \NETWARE\C32NT.TXT Installation notes for NetWare Client 32 for Windows NT Driver users \NETWARE\C32DOS.TXT Installation notes for NetWare Client 32 for MS-DOS/Windows 3.X Driver users \NETWARE\NW312.TXT Installation notes for NetWare Server 3.12 Driver users \NETWARE\NW4XX.TXT Installation notes for NetWare Server 4.XX Driver users \NETWARE\DOSODI.TXT Installation notes for NetWare Client for DOS users \NETWARE\PRSNLNW.TXT Installation notes for Personal Netware users \NETWARE\OS2ODI.TXT Installation notes for NetWare Client for OS/2 users \NETWARE\NWLITE.TXT Installation notes for NetWare Lite users \NETWARE\LANSMART.TXT Installation notes for D-Link LANsmart Driver users 4.0 Revision History ----------------------------- Diskette Revision 980815 ------------------------- - Support Windows 98. Diskette Revision 970801 ------------------------- - Support DE-220PCAT Rev. D1. - Support JITI function to enhance the performance. - Others drivers don't put on this diskette (ex. Windows NT 3.1, Windows for Workgroup 3.11, SCOUNIX, ....) will put on D-Link web server, user can download these drivers from D-Link web server. 5.0 Technical Support Options ----------------------------- For technical support information, you may visit D-Link web sites or contact D-Link authorized dealers, distributors, or the following D-Link regional headquarters: 5.1 D-Link Worldwide Web Sites ------------------------------ Information available for all users: http:\\www.dlink.com U.S.A. http:\\www.dlinknet.com Canada http:\\www.dlink.com.au Australia http:\\www.dlink.com.cn China http:\\www.dlink.com.tw Asia, Taiwan 5.2 Regional Headquarters ------------------------- U.S.A. Web Site: http:\\www.dlink.com Tel: +1(949)788-0805 Fax: +1(949)753-7033 BBS: +1(949)455-1779 BBS: +1(949)455-9616 Canada Web Site: http:\\www.dlinknet.com Tel: +1(905)828-0260 Fax: +1(905)828-5669 BBS: +1(905)828-6673 U.K. & Europe Tel: +44(181)235-5555 Fax: +44(181)235-5500 BBS: +44(181)235-5511 Germany Tel: +49(6192)97110 Fax: +49(6192)971111 Asia, Taiwan Web Site: http:\\www.dlink.com.tw Tel: +886(2)916-1600 Fax: +886(2)914-6299 BBS: +886(2)910-1835 France Tel: +33(1)30238688 Fax: +33(1)30238689 Sweden Tel: +46(8)7006211 Fax: +46(8)219640 Denmark Tel: +45(43)969040 Fax: +45(43)424347 Australia Web Site: http:\\www.dlink.com.au Tel: +61(2)94177100 Fax: +61(2)94171077 BBS: +61(2)94173711 Singapore Tel: +657746233 Fax: +657746322 BBS: +657744787 China Web Site: http:\\www.dlink.com.cn Tel: +86(10)68467106 Fax: +86(10)68467110 Tokyo Tel: +81(3)54349678 Fax: +81(3)54349868 India Tel: +91(22)6172478 Fax: +91(22)6172476 The BBS communication setup information: Speed : 2400-14400 baud - Germany 2400-9600 baud - Asia, Taiwan 14400-16800 baud - Canada 9600-14400 baud V32, V32bis, V42, V42bis - U.S.A. 2400-19200 baud V24, V32, V32bis, V42bis - U.K. & Europe Parity : none Data bits : 8 Stop bit : 1 _______________________________________________________ All trademarks or tradenames mentioned in this document are owned by their respective owners.