SMC Ethernet 3032/EISA Diskette Readme PgUp : Previous Page Home : Top  : Scroll PgDn : Next Page End : Bottom Esc: Exit 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= FRAME= 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= 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= 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= parameter is not specified, the driver defaults to the 802.3 frame type. For Additional Help For Technical Support, please contact your place of purchase. Then, if further assistance is required, call our Tech Support Department, toll-free, between 8:30 am and 6:00 pm, E.S.T., Monday through Friday at: 1-800-992-4762 (U.S.A.) 1-800-433-5345 (Canada) 1-516-273-3100 x-5323 (elsewhere)