Packet Driver installation with NE2000 Compatible NDIS driver ------------------------------------------------------------- for NIC-2002/UK series LAN Adapter 1. Installation Introductions for the Packet Driver --------------------------------------------------- a. Copy NWPD.COM from the \PKTDRV subdir on the driver disk to the subdirectory where you want to load the driver. NWPD syntax: To load the packet driver use the following syntax: NWPD [-cTYPE] [-d] [-n] [-w] [-u] [-h] [IRQ] [IO_BASE] where: [-cTYPE] The Packet Driver will detect card type automatically. Options are: NE1000, NE2000, NE2. [-d] The "-d" option does not start the LAN card until this driver is called by the higher layer programs first. [-n] Your NOVELL server uses NOVELL ISO-like packets. Your NOVELL workstation uses NOVELL 8137 packets. You can use this option to convert NOVELL 8137 packets into NOVELL ISO-like packets. In your workstation, whatever the packets are, they can com- mmunicate with each other. [-w] Using this option will allow the packet driver to run under Windows. [-u] Using this option will unload the Packet Driver. [-h] Using this option can display the on-line help. This specifies the software interrupt (IRQ) where you will load the packet driver. It must be in the range 0x60 to 0x80. The PC/TCP kernel, by default, is loaded at interrupt 0x61 (so don't load the packet driver there!) [IRQ] This specifies the hardware interrupt (IRQ) of the NIC-2002. [IO_BASE] This specifies the Base I/O address of the NIC-2002. Example: The following command line loads the NE1000 & NE2000 series Packet Driver at software interrupt 60h, at I/O address 300, at hardware interrupt 3: NWPD 0x60 3 0x300 Note: The default I/O address is 300. Note: The default hardware interrupt is 3 Note: You must place '0x' prior to I/O address and interrupt parameters. The following command line loads the NE1000 & NE2000 series Packet Driver at software interrupt 63h, at I/O address 320, at hardware interrupt 5, running under windows: NWPD 0x63 5 0x320 -w After the Packet Driver is loaded, you can run the PC/TCP kernel ETHDRV.EXE. The PC is then ready for PC/TCP communications. To run PC/TCP applications, load PC/TCP Kernel ("ETHDRV.EXE"). a) Refer to PC/TCP manual, Command Reference section, Chapter 2.3. b) The following example will load the Kernel and allocate 8 packet buffers. Increasing the # of packet buffers (from the default of 5) prevents dropping packets due to a buffer shortage. ETHDRV -p 8 c) At this point, you are ready to run PC/TCP applications Example: ftp 192.72.24.202 where '192.72.24.202' is the host address. Note: You must know the host address. For information regarding the "FTP's PC/TCP Network Software for DOS" packages, please contact: FTP Software, Inc. 26 Princess Street Wakefield, MA 01880 (617) 246-0900 How to Communicate with NCSA TelNet. 1. Make sure you have NCSA Telnet V2.3 or later to support the packet driver interface. 2. Install the NCSA software onto your system. Please refer to the NCSA documention for detailed instructions. 3. Load Packet Driver (nwpd 0x60): a) Refer to "Packet Driver Syntax" section above. b) To view the hint screen, type nwpd -h c) The following example will load the packet driver using interrupt vector 60 (hex). The iobase and irq will be read from the software configured adapter: nwpd 0x60 4. At this point you are ready to run NCSA applications Example: ftp 192.72.24.202 where '192.72.24.202' is host address. Note: You must know the host address. For information regarding NCSA's products please contact: National Center for Supercomputing Applications 264 Computing Applications Building 605 E. Springfield Ave. Champaign, Ill. 61820 (217) 244-0638 telbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu