================================================================== NOTES ON April 1998 Installing D-Link DFE-660 Fast Ethernet PC Card For Packet Driver Users ================================================================== (c) 1998 Copyright D-Link Corporation ALL RIGHTS RESERVED This document contains installation notes, which is not included in the DFE-660 Fast Ethernet PC Card USER'S GUIDE or onscreen instructions for Packet Driver users regarding DFE-660 Fast Ethernet PC Card installation. This document contains information on the following topics: 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Installation Notes for Packet drivers 3.0 Explanation Of The Required Setup Commands and Parameters 3.1 Two commands available to install Packet driver. 3.2 Explanation Of The Required Setup Parameters and Options ___________________________________________________________________ 1.0 Introduction ---------------- Packet drivers are general drivers used by many operating systems especially TCP/IP software packages. If the network system that is installed specifically mentions support for packet drivers then it is likely that it will be able to install the provided packet driver without problems. The DFE-660 Fast Ethernet PC Card Installation diskette contains Packet drivers and installation notes for some of the most popular operating systems which support Packet drivers. The most important thing to remember when installing the packet driver is the software interrupt vector. The default interrupt vector for packet drivers is 0x62 hexadecimal. Most network operating system supporting packet drivers will try to automatically search for packet drivers already loaded in the computer's memory. However, some packages will require a provided interrupt vector for the packet driver. Furthermore, some packages can only work with certain interrupt vectors. which require a software interrupt vector parameter when loading. Please see section 2.2, "Explanation Of The Required Setup Parameters and Options", for information on packet driver parameters. Since the DFE-660 Fast Ethernet PC Card is software configurable, the packet driver will automatically detect the hardware parameters. If the packet driver can properly read the adapter's MAC address during loading, then the hardware should normally working properly. 2.0 Installation Notes for Packet drivers ----------------------------------------- To view these installation notes, please refer to the following files: ------------------------------------------------------------------- File Description/Installation notes ------------------------------------------------------------------- \PKTDRV\README.TXT For all Packet driver users \PKTDRV\PCTCP.TXT For PCTCP users \PKTDRV\WINSOCK.TXT For WINSOCK users \PKTDRV\PDIPX.TXT For IPX users \PKTDRV\PCNFS.TXT For PC-NFS V5.0 users \PKTDRV\NCSA.TXT For NCSA users 3.0 Explanation Of The Required Setup Commands and Parameters ------------------------------------------------------------- 3.1.Two methods available to install Packet driver ------------------------------------------------------------ Method 1. In your CONFIG.SYS file, include the DEVICE command. Format: DEVICE = DFE660PD.SYS [/option] Method 2. Install Packet driver by typing DFE660PD at the DOS command prompt. Format: DFE660PD.COM [/option] 3.2 Explanation Of The Required Setup Parameters and Options ------------------------------------------------------------ Packet Driver Parameters and Options Description The software interrupt vector number used by the packet driver program. This can be from 96 to 128. [/option] Includes the following: /h Show available parameters /d Delay Initial - The driver program will not initialize the network interface card until the packet driver program is accessed by its upper layer program. /w This parameter is only to be used in the Windows environment. /u Unload the packet driver. /n NetWare conversion. Convert 802.3 packets to 8137 packets /autosense This is the default setting, Auto detect the speed and duplex mode. /line_speed=10/100 Set speed to 10M/100M bps. /slot=[1~f] Select the slot to work with. /turbo Disable PCI post write on Intel PCI chipset which gives the PCI bus higher priority over the other bus (EISA or ISA) /tp Force the driver to select Twisted Pair interface. /tp_full_duplex Select Twisted Pair interface running in full duplex mode. /io=[0xd000~0xef80] Select the IO base address. /int=[1~f] Select the adapter hardware INT number. Note: 'line_speed' parameter must be used with media selection(/tp or /tp_full_duplex).Otherwise the driver will work as default setting '/autosense' enable .