NetWare Server And Workstation Drivers Installation
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The drivers NWMLID.COM, NW311.LAN, OS2MLID.SYS, ACC40.LAN Can be used for the
following Ethernet adapters:
EtherNet Combo-16
EtherNet Pair-16
EtherNet Coax-16
EtherNet Combo-16
EtherNet Pair-16
EtherNet Coax-16
EtherNet BT-16
The driver installation procedures is discussed in following separate chapters.
Chapter 1 - Driver installation for Novell NetWare V3.11
Chapter 2 - Driver installation for Novell NetWare DOS ODI
Chapter 3 - Driver installation for Novell NetWare OS/2 ODI
Chapter 4 - Driver installation for Novell NetWare V4.0
NOTE :
1. For your convenience, the Hardware Driver Disk is not copy
protected. Before you start with the installation process,
make a backup copy of this diskette. Use the backup as your
working diskette. Keep the original and use it only to make
backup copies.
CHAPTER 1
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│ Novell NetWare Version 3.11 Driver Installation │
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1. Things You Need
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Before you start with the installation process make sure you have
the following :
a) Hardware Driver Disk
b) Novell NetWare Version 3.11 System Diskette
2. How To Install O.S. Driver
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a) Insert the Acc-10 Hardware Driver Disk into drive A
and check the contents of subdirectory \NETWARE\ODI\3.1x
It should contain the following file :
NW311.LAN ─── Novell NetWare V3.11 Server Driver
b) Copy the contents of the Novell NetWare 386 Version
3.11 System Diskette into your NetWare 386 server
station hard disk. Please refer to your Novell
NetWare 386 Installation Manual for details.
c) Copy the NW311.LAN file from the Hardware Driver Disk
into the NetWare server station hard disk.
d) Run SERVER.EXE on the server station. Several NetWare
messages will be shown on-screen.
e) At the NetWare prompt (indicated by a colon), run
the driver program, type :
: LOAD [d:]NW311 <Enter>
(Command Syntax : LOAD [d:]<Driver Name>)
Follow the instructions to select the appropriate
adapter configuration, i.e. io_port, memory address,
memory length, interrupt. Allowable values for these
parameters will also be shown on-screen. When you
load the driver program, your screen will display the
following messages :
Loading module NW311.LAN
Supported I/O port values are : 300, 240, 280, 2C0,
320, 340, 360,
I/O port : 300_
(Enter appropriate I/O port and press <Enter>)
f) Bind IPX with LAN driver, at the Netware server prompt,
type :
:BIND IPX NW311 <Enter>
After pressing <Enter> the computer prompts you for
the Network Number. For details on how to assign this
number, please consult your NetWare 386 Installation
Manual.
If problems occur during the binding process, your
screen will prompt you with error messages. Please
refer to your NetWare 386 manual for details on these
messages. The LAN driver installation is completed
when you see the following message on-screen :
IPX LAN Protocol bound to NE Mode vx.xxRxx (yymmdd).
CHAPTER 2
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│ Novell NetWare DOS ODI Driver Installation │
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1. Things You Need
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Before you start with the installation process make
sure you have the following :
a) Hardware Driver Disk
b) Novell DOS ODI WORKSTATION SERVICES diskette.
If NIC driver, NWMLID executed successfully, it would inform you
the adapter mode and related configurations. Otherwise you would
see some error messages telling you by what reson the driver did
not reside. You can specify the problem and correct it easily.
Here is the list of error messages the driver may display and correction
method we suggested:
"The board cannot be found."
The adapter does not exist or driver does not recognize the adapter.
Correction: Plug adapter into your PC bus slot.
"Board RAM failed the memory test."
The RAM buffer on the adapter failed.
Correction: Change a new adapter to run driver again.
"The board did not respond to the initialization command."
The driver recognized the adapter but the adapter fail to respond.
Correction: Change a new adapter to run driver again.
"Adapter current mode is not supported or card not found."
The current adapter mode is not supported such as NE1000 mode.
Correction: Run setup.exe reset adapter to NE2000 mode.
"There is no cable connecting to adapter."
There is no cable connecting to adapter or the transceiver within
adapter is failed.
Correction: Connect the cable to adapter and run driver again.
Normally, you will not need a NET.CFG file because the established
defaults should be adequate for your network. Besides, the automatic
configuration property can eliminate the necessity of NET.CFG. There
is only one conditions the NET.CFG file must exist. That is when
your workstation plugs more than one adapters. In this situation,
for each adapter, there must exist a MLID section in NET.CFG file.
Note1: ODI driver is always parsing your NET.CFG file first. If the
related adapter's configuration parameters is found, they
will be recognized as perferred setting, even thought it
conflicts with parameters store in EEPROM of adapter. Thus
it will fail to initialize the adapter.
Bellow is a sample NET.CFG file:
LINK DRIVER NWMLID
INT 5
PORT 320
:
:
You can see Netware 386 Installation appendix E for more information
about NET.CFG.
Note2: The NET.CFG file will generate automatically if the Driver
Installation File NWMLID.INS exist during driver instllation.
Novell has already changed the Ethernet default frame type to 802.2
starting with the release of NetWare v4.0. The move has to be made to
enable it to better support future protocol and networking features.
Some of these features are:IPX with checksum, security enhancements,
and protocol independence. Following this change, the default frame
type of DOS ODI driver is Ethernet 802.2 when there is no protocol
binding in NET.CFG file. At this situration if your server is not
NetWate v4.0, please make sure the Ethernet 802.2 frame type has been
bound already before logging in it.
CHAPTER 3
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│ Novell NetWare OS/2 ODI Driver Installation │
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1. Things You Need
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Before you start with the installation process make
sure you have the following :
a) Hardware Driver Disk
b) Novell NetWare OS/2 WORKSTATION SERVICES REQUESTER diskette.
c) Novell NetWare OS/2 WORKSTATION OS/2 Utility - 1
d) Novell NetWare OS/2 WORKSTATION OS/2 Utility - 2
e) Novell NetWare OS/2 WORKSTATION OS/2 Utility - 3
2. How To Install
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You need 1 file to access network service after installing OS/2
Requester and Utilities.
a) OS2MLID.SYS
The directory OS2ODI contains only an OS/2 driver,(OS2MLID.SYS). This
driver must be used with the OS/2 requester to establish
networking operations. Make sure that the workstaion on which you
want to install the Requester is a 286 or 386 machine that
will run OS/2 or Extended Edition OS/2. Please consult 'Novell
NetWare Requester for OS/2' for detailed Requester and Utilities
installation guide. After installation, the only thing you need to do
is to copy OS2MLID.SYS to NETWARE subdirectory and add or replace
OS2MLID.SYS before IPX.SYS in CONFIG.SYS. Such that those commands
sequence following will appear in your CONFIG.SYS file.
DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\LSL.SYS ; OS/2 Requester supported
DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\DDAEMON.SYS ; OS/2 Requester supported
DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\OS2MLID.SYS
DEVICE=C:\NETWARE\IPX.SYS ; OS/2 Requester supported
Reboot your system to get service of network.
Note: There is a suggestion provided by Designers of this driver
to guarantee it work properly. We suggest that frame type
which you want to bind to IPX protocol will be specified by
'FRAME' command in the first line among those supported frame
types. Such a NET.CFG file is as below:
Link Driver OS2MLID
frame Ethernet_802.3
frame Ethernet_802.2
frame Ethernet_ii
frame Ethernet_snap
portocol IPX 00 Ethernet_802.3
For more information on NET.CFG parameters, see "NetWare
Workstation for DOS", "ODI for DOS User's Guide" or "NetWare
Requester for OS/2".
CHAPTER 4
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│ Novell NetWare Version 4.0 Driver Installation │
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1. Things You Need
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Before you start with the installation process make sure you have
the following :
a) Hardware Driver Disk
b) Novell NetWare Version 4.0 System Diskettes or CD ROM
2. How To Install O.S. Driver
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a. Insert the Acc-10 Hardware Driver Disk into drive A
and check the contents of subdirectory \NETWARE\ODI\4.00
It should contain the following file :
ACC40.LAN ─── Novell NetWare V4.0 Server Driver
ACC40.LDI─── Novell NetWare V4.0 Server Driver Installation
Information File.
b. At the NetWare prompt (indicated by the Server name), run
INSTALL.NLM program, by typing :
server name: LOAD INSTALL <Enter>
c. Select 'Maintenance/Selective Install' <Enter>
d. Then select 'LAN Driver Options (Configure/Load/...)'<Enter>
e. Press <Insert> key on your keyboard to specify other driver
will be installed.
f. Press <F3> key on your keyboard to give the driver loading
path A:\NETWARE\ODI\4.00 <Enter>
g. After that you will see ACC40.LAN appear as an item under
'Select a LAN Driver' menu. Select it to start the driver
loading and binding procedure. You will load and bind all
4 frame types supported by NetWare.
h. Next time when you reboot your 4.0 server you will not
need diskette again but just follow procedure b. to d.
to complete installation.
Note1: The architecture of V.40 driver is different
with V3.11. You should load MSM.NLM and
ETHERTSM.NLM modules seperately before loading
ACC40.LAN. When loading ACC40.LAN, it will check
whether these two modules have been loaded, if
not, it will load them automatically. So after
ACC40.LAN is loaded, if you type 'MODULES' command
under prompt, you will see two extra modules
MSM.NLM and ETHERTSM.NLM loaded also.
Note2: The default frame type ACC40.LAN binding is
Ethernet_802.2 not Ethernet_802.3. This is the
difference between V3.11 and V4.0 driver. ACC40.LAN
will support NetWare V3.11 environment also. But
you must load some patch NLMs before loading it.
Under this circumstance,there are some unpreditable
faults. So we do not suggest this solution.
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