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	 		The SMC3032 Family of Cards

There are two variations of the SMC 3032/EISA card: the 3032TP/EISA-2, and the
3032/EISA-2.

The 3032TP/EISA-2 card has two twisted pair ports and one AUI port. The bottom
twisted pair port and the AUI port correspond to Channel A and the top twisted
pair port corresponds to Channel B. Twisted pair is the default port for 
Channel A. If AUI is desired, it must be selected through your machine's EISA
Configuration Utility. 

There are six LED's located on the back edge of the 3032TP/EISA-2 card. The 
three LED's on the right are for Channel A, and the three on the left are for
Channel B. The top row is Link, the middle row is Receive, and the bottom row
is Transmit.

The 3032/EISA-2 card is a Two-Channel coax adapter. On this card, the top coax
port and the AUI port correspond to Channel A and the bottom coax port 
corresponds to Channel B. The 3032/EISA-2 card has four LED's corresponding to
Receive and Transmit.

Note that it is important to have cables hooked up to channels that are 
initialized. That is, if you load the driver for Channel B, you must have a
properly terminated cable segment attached to the Channel B Port.


		Novell NetWare 3.1x Installation Instructions

The SMC Ethernet 3032/EISA Driver Diskette contains the following files in the
root directory:
                              !SMC0110.CFG
                              SMC3032.LAN
                              README.EXE

The !SMC0110.CFG file is required to configure your EISA system with one or 
more SMC 3032/EISA cards. It should be copied to the diskette or hard disk 
sub-directory containing the other configuration files for your EISA machine.

The SMC3032.LAN file is the NetWare 3.1x ODI server driver.


                        The SMC3032 Server Driver

The SMC Ethernet 3032/EISA cards feature dual-channel bus-mastering. The 
current implementation of the server driver uses the two channels 
independently. This is similar to having two single channel cards in one 
machine.

The SMC3032 server driver can be loaded once, to utilize Channel A only, or 
can be loaded twice to utilize both channels -- A and B. Note that if only one
channel is going to be used, it MUST be Channel A. Attempting to load the 
driver for Channel B before Channel A will result in an error.

  
	      	      Configuring Your EISA Machine

When selecting a slot for the SMC 3032/EISA card, make sure that the slot 
supports bus-mastering. The EISA Configuration Utility supplied with your
machine should warn you if you attempt to install a bus-mastering card in a 
non-bus-mastering slot.

Suppose that you have an SMC 3032/EISA card installed in Slot 3. When you 
initially power up your EISA machine, it will detect the presence of a new 
EISA card and indicate that you should run the EISA Configuration Utility. 

When you run the EISA Configuration Utility (generally called CF.EXE), you 
will see that the SMC 3032/EISA card has been "auto-added" for Slot 3. 
Although the IRQ is automatically selected, it may be overridden. Note that 
Channel A defaults to the non-AUI port (twisted pair or coax). Therefore, if 
you prefer to use the AUI port for Channel A, you must select that option. If
you make any changes, be sure to choose the "Save Changes" option before
exiting the Configuration Utility.


	            Auto-Loading the SMC3032 Server Driver

To Auto-Load the driver from your hard disk, you must copy the SMC3032 server
driver from the diskette supplied with the SMC 3032/EISA card onto your hard 
disk. Be sure to copy the driver to the sub-directory on your hard disk that 
contains your other NetWare files. For example, if your NetWare files are 
located in a sub-directory called "NetWare", you would use the following 
command:

		COPY A:SMC3032.LAN C:\NETWARE\SMC3032.LAN

Now that your EISA machine has been configured for the SMC 3032/EISA card and
the SMC3032 server driver is located on your hard disk, you are ready to bring
up the 3.1x server. This is done by running SERVER.EXE from the sub-directory
containing the NetWare files.

Once your server is "up", you will need to add a command to the AUTOEXEC.NCF
file to auto-load the driver from your hard disk. When loading the SMC3032
server driver, you must specify the port address as well as the frame type if
you do not want to default to the 802.3 frame type. The syntax follows:

	     LOAD C:SMC3032 PORT=<port address> FRAME=<frame type>

A port address is comprised of the slot where the card is installed followed
by a fixed offset. The port offsets are 810 and 820 for Channel A and Channel
B, respectively. For example, if the SMC 3032/EISA card is installed in Slot
6, the driver would be loaded with a port address of 6810 for Channel A and a
port address of 6820 for Channel B.

Valid Ethernet Frame Types are:

			    ETHERNET_802.3 (default)
			    ETHERNET_802.2
			    ETHERNET_II
			    ETHERNET_SNAP

To load the driver for a card in Slot 3 using Channel A when the ETHERNET_SNAP
frame type is desired, you would put the following command in the AUTOEXEC.NCF
file:

		 LOAD C:SMC3032 PORT=3810 FRAME=ETHERNET_SNAP

It would result in the initialization of the 3032 card located in Slot 3 and 
assign this initial 'copy' of the driver to use Channel A and frame type
ETHERNET_SNAP. The card is completely functional with the driver loaded once 
to use Channel A only.

If using both channels is desired, you would put a second command in the 
AUTOEXEC.NCF file to load the driver for Channel B: 

                 LOAD C:SMC3032 PORT=3820 FRAME=<frame type>

This would result in the first copy of the driver being used reentrantly, and
would assign the second 'copy' of the driver to use Channel B. The frame type
selected for Channel B does not have to match the frame type selected for 
Channel A. If the default frame type of ETHERNET_802.3 is desired, FRAME=
<frame type> need not be specified.

Note that all Ethernet frame types may be loaded concurrently for each 
channel.

Once loaded, each 'copy' of the driver must be bound to a protocol stack and
assigned a unique network address. The following command in the AUTOEXEC.NCF
will bind the SMC3032 server driver to the IPX protocol stack:

		      BIND IPX SMC3032 [PORT=3810] NET=xx

An additional bind command is required when the driver is loaded a second time
for Channel B:

		      BIND IPX SMC3032 [PORT=3820] NET=xx

If you wish to load the driver from the diskette, simply substitute the 
desired floppy drive (A: or B:) for C: in the AUTOEXEC.NCF file. When auto-
loading a driver from a diskette, you need to be sure that the diskette is in
the specified drive when the NetWare 3.1x server is initially brought up.


	            Manually Loading the SMC3032 Server Driver

If you do not set up the AUTOEXEC.NCF file to auto-load the driver, you will
need to load the SMC3032 server driver manually. You can use the same commands
described above, except that they need to be manually entered at the server 
console prompt. 

Another option is to load the driver without any parameters. This method 
results in the server prompting for a port address. Note that when a FRAME=
<frame type> parameter is not specified, the driver defaults to the 802.3 
frame type. 


			    For Additional Help

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