Novell NetWare 3 Contents I. Special Considerations II. Files Needed for Installation III. Driver Installation IV. Removing an Existing Driver V. Determining the MAC Address VI. Multiple Adapters I. Special Considerations Configuration of the AT-2400 PCI Ethernet adapter resources are under PCI control. For most applications, no setup other than normal installation of the network software is necessary. To change port settings, to manually view the card's configuration or to run Diagnostics, use the CardAssistant setup program, set2400.exe. The SET2400 utility only runs on DOS. If you do not have a DOS boot partition on your Windows NT drive, boot DOS from floppy. II. Files Needed for Installation The following files are required for installation: \nwserver\at2400.LAN--Server driver III. Driver Installation NOTE: Your version of NetWare may require a patch and driver/NLM update from Novell's web site to load current ODI compliant LAN drivers. The URL is: http://support.novell.com/ 1. Install the NetWare file server support files to the DOS partition as described in the Novell documentation. 2. Copy the at2400.LAN file from :\drivers\at2400\nwserver on the CardAssistant disk to the directory where the Novell server files are located. 3. Load SERVER.EXE to start the file server, and set up hard disk support as directed in the Novell documentation. 4. At the server console, issue the load statement(s) in this order: LOAD :\NBI LOAD :\MSM LOAD :\ETHERTSM LOAD :\at2400 Where and are the drive and directory where you copied the NLMs and the at2400.LAN file. 5. Bind the IPX protocol to the driver by typing: BIND IPX TO at2400 NET=n where n is the node address Novell uses for routing IPX packets. This number is arbitrary if there is the only one server on the network, but if there are multiple servers on the same network, it must match the other servers' external network number. Note: The default frame type for Novell file servers is now Ethernet_802.2. If you require Ethernet_802.3, specify NAME=ETHERNET_802.3 on the command line when loading the driver. To load multiple frame types for a single card, enter a LOAD and BIND statement for each frame type. You need to supply a name on each load line in order to avoid being prompted for which board to bind IPX to. If you do not have the name option in the AUTOEXEC.NCF, it will not execute completely without user intervention. Example: LOAD at2400 FRAME=ETHERNET_802.3 NAME=IEE8023 BIND IPX TO IEE8023 NET=11111 LOAD at2400 FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 NAME=IEE8022 BIND IPX TO LAN8022 NET=22222 Also: If you have a PCI-1 bus in your system, add BUSTYPE=PCI1 to the command line, e.g., LOAD C:\nwserver\at2400 BUSTYPE=PCI1. Otherwise the driver may not find the card. If you don't know which bus you have, try loading without the option. If it loads, you don't need it. 6. Add the load and bind statements you need to the server's AUTOEXEC.NCF file so the adapter driver loads automatically each time the server starts. IV. Removing an Existing Driver To de-install a server driver, type LOAD INSTALL at the server console prompt, and use the EDIT AUTOEXEC.NCF option to remove previous drivers. Refer to your Novell NetWare documentation for further information. V. Determining the MAC Address To determine a MAC address for a card: 1. Boot the computer into DOS with no drivers loaded. 2. Insert the CardAssistant diskette in the floppy drive and launch SET2400: type a:\SET2400. 3. The main screen shows a table listing the network adapters installed in the computer. Write down the address(es) listed in the "MAC" column of the table. VI. Multiple Adapters If you have multiple network adapters installed in the system, the keyword "SLOT" identifies each to the driver at2400.LAN. If you have multiple adapters in a single server, each adapter must have a different network number and SLOT number. Also, you might want to name each adapter. So add the options in LOAD commands to distinguish particular cards. For example: LOAD at2400 FRAME=Ethernet_802.2 NAME=LAN_A SLOT=1 BIND IPX TO LAN_A NET=11 LOAD at2400 FRAME=Ethernet_802.2 NAME=LAN_B SLOT=2 BIND IPX TO LAN_B NET=22 Add the load and bind statements you need to the server's AUTOEXEC.NCF file so that the 2400 adapter drivers load automatically each time the server starts. To implement multiple 2400 cards in a Netware 3.x server, add the following line to your STARTUP.NCF: SET RESERVED CACHE BUFFERS BELOW 16 MEG = 64 In an IPX internal router configuration (a server with two adapters, each connected to a different network), the data transfer rate across the router can be low. This happens if client workstations have CPU speeds equal to or higher than the server. You might be able to increase the data transfer rate by adding the following line to STARTUP.NCF: SET MAXIMUM INTERRUPT EVENTS = 100000 The default setting is 10. If you have problems loading the driver on multiple adapters and the initialization fails due to "Insufficient RCBs," increase the number of buffers allocated to the server. Add the following to STARTUP.NCF: SET MINIMUM PACKET RECEIVE BUFFERS = 100 (or larger) SET MAXIMUM PACKET RECEIVE BUFFERS = 500 (or larger) The MINIMUM value you specify must be at least 30 times the number of 2400 PCI adapters in the computer. Recommended settings: 1-3 adapters: 100 4 adapters: 150 The MAXIMUM you can specify depends on the amount of memory in the server, but it must be greater than the MINIMUM.