E2000plus-series Ethernet Adapters Installation file for \WIN95 directory ============================================================================ ****************************************** * Driver Installation for Windows 95 * ****************************************** The driver for Windows 95 is located in the \WIN95 directory of the E2000plus driver diskette. PnP MODE -- Windows 95 has three versions so far. Version 0, A and B. You can select the "System" icon in "Control Panel" box. On the System dialogue box, the "40.00.950" message is version 0, "40.00.950 A" is version A and "40.00.950 B" is version B. For version 0 and A, please follow the "New Hardware Found" installation procedures. For version B (OSR2), go to "Update Device Driver Wizard" installation procedures. 1. Insert E2000plus PC Card Ethernet adapter into your computer's ISA-bus slot. 2. Connect the network cable to the RJ-45 or BNC connector. 3. Turn on the computer to run Windows 95. "New Hardware Found" installation procedures: 4. When "New Hardware Found" window shows up, move mouse pointer to "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer", and then push "OK". 5. When "Install From Disk" window shows up, type "A:\WIN95" or "B:\WIN95" in the input drive and path box where the driver is stored. 6. After the driver information shows up, select (highlight) the "E2000plus Series PnP Ethernet Adapter" and click "OK". 7. When "Insert disk" window shows up, push "OK" button and then choose a correct path to load *.dll files, i.e. D:\WIN95. 8. After "System Setting Change" window shows up, the installation is done. Remove your installation disk, push "YES" to restart Windows 95, and the driver will function. 9. Installation is completed for Windows 95 version 0 and A. "Update Device Driver Wizard" installation procedures: If your Windows 95 is version B (OSR2), you must CAREFULLY install E2000plus LAN card drivers from the release diskette, due to that this version's "Update Device Driver Wizard" utility has poor error recovery ability. (If you make mistakes during the installation, refer to Appendix A for the error recovery). Please follow the installation steps in details below. 4. When the "Update Device Driver Wizard" dialogue box shows up, and in it, it says "This wizard will complete the installation of "NE2000 Compatible", put this E2000plus LAN card's release diskette to floppy drives and make sure the the drive's door is CLOSED. Then click "Next" button ONE TIME only. (Don't rush to push the "Next" button again. The rush "Next" button clicked would be assumed as "Finished" and may cause error installations (Appendix A for error recovery). It is going to take 30 seconds for Windows 95 to search the card's driver. Then, another message "Windows found the following updated driver for this device: E2000plus Series PnP Ethernet Adapter", shows up, then click "Finish" button to complete the driver installation. (If it shows "Windows was unable to locate a driver for this device.", You may also click "Other Locations" and type A:, A:\WIN95, B:, or B:\WIN95, then click "OK" button). After the "Finish" button id clicked, Windows starts to copy files from Windows 95 CD-ROM to your hard disk. This is going to take around two minutes, please wait. 5. When the "Copying Files" dialogue shows up to request the directory for the "E2000.SYS" file. Type "A:\WIN95" or "B:\WIN95" where A: or B: drive is the place you put the release dskette in, then click "OK". Windows 95 also request Windows95 CD directory to copy network- related files. Please type the your Windows 95 CD directory name. (Traditionally, it is D:\WIN95 or D:\WINDOWS). 6. Restart your PC to complete the installation. Appendix A: (Valid only for WIndows 95 version B installation) No matter what mistakes you made in the version B's installtion procedures above and can not install the card to Windows 95. The "Update Device Driver Wizard" utility still REGISTERS to Windows 95 that the card is installed (with incoomplete error info., of sourse). Even though you carefully follow the installation procudures above for the second time to successfully install the driver, Windows 95 still treats the card as bad because the error data was already REGISTERED. Therefore, you have to remove the REGISTERED errors, before you try to install the driver again. The following describes the details to remove the registered errors. 1. Click "Network" icon in the "Control Panel" box and remove the E2000plus Ethernet card you just successfully installed if any. 2. Select "Start" button (left-down corner) and select "Run" item. Type REGEDIT, the registry edidor utility , then click "OK" button to execute it. 3. In the Registry Editor dialogue, double-click "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" item, double-click "Enum", then double-click ISAPNP item. Select the "JQE9000", then delete it, which is the error registered. Close Register Editor dialogue. 4. Reboot Windows 95 again to carefully follow the installtion procedures above again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUMPERLESS MODE -- 1. From the Windows 95 main screen, click on the "My Computer" icon. Choose the "Control Panel" subwindow, and then the "Network" icon to install the network driver. 2. In the Network box, select the "Add" button. 3. Now, the "Select Network Component Type" window shows four options: "Client", "Adapter", "Protocol", and "Service". Choose "Adapter". The "Select Network Adapter" window appears. 4. In the "Manufacturers" box, highlight "[detect net driver]". Then click the "Have Disk ..." button. 5. There is a box to input the drive and path the driver is located. Key in "A:\WIN95" (assuming this diskette is in drive A). 6. After the driver information appears, select "E2000plus Series PnP Ethernet Adapter". 7. Return to the "Network" window. Highlight the selected driver, and press the "Properties ..." button which includes "Driver Type", "Bindings", and "Resources". Choose "Resources" and enter the correct values for "Interrupt [IRQ]" and "I/O address range". These values can be found from the "Adapter Configuration" feature of the SETUP program. 8. Push the "OK" button in the "Network" window and Windows 95 will construct the driver configuration. When the "Insert disk" window appears, push the OK button and then choose a correct path to restore *.dll files, i.e. C:\WIN95. 9. After the "System settings change" window appears, the installation is done. Select "YES" to restart Windows 95, and the driver will be functional.