                                                                Dec. 1995

                           Ether PCI Ethernet Card
                         NetWare Drivers Installation
                         ============================

The NetWare driver programs in this disk support all Ether 10/100M PCI Ethernet
cards.

Please refer to the following installation documents included in the same
directory:

File            Description
------------    -------------------------------------------------------------
DOSODI.TXT      NetWare DOS Client installation document
OS2ODI.TXT      NetWare OS/2 Client installation document
NW311.TXT       NetWare 3.11 Server installation document
NW312.TXT       NetWare 3.12 Server installation document
NW4X.TXT        NetWare 4.x Server installation document
NWLITE.TXT      NetWare Lite installation document



***********************
*  PARAMETER OPTIONS  *
***********************

The following parameters can be specified on the servers command line, in
the LOAD line inside the AUTOEXEC.NCF or in NET.CFG:

for SERVER:
                LOAD <driver name> <PARAMETER NAME>... <PARAMETER NAME[=VALUE]>

      Example:  LOAD ETHPCI.LAN  TURBO SLOT=16 FRAME=Ethernet_802.2

for CLIENT:
                Link Driver ETHPCI
                        SLOT 16
                        Frame Ethernet_802.2
                        .
                        .
                        .
                        .
;----------------------------------------------------------------------------

           TP              select twist pair line (RJ-45 phone jack)

           BNC             select thin cable (RG-58/AU)


   (*)     AUTODETECT      enables autodetection of media type when driver
                           is loading. Note that this ONLY! works at
                           initialization time, i.e. when the driver first
                           loads for a specific network card.


           TP_NO_LINK_TEST selects twisted pair connection, but disables
                           the LINK test for specific HUBs that do not
                           support LINK.

           TP_FULL_DUPLEX  selects twisted pair connection to work in
                           full duplex mode.

           TURBO           Fixes the problem of multiple transmit
                           underflows and receive overflows (i.e lose of
                           packets) in certain PCI chipsets.

   (***)   BIOS16          instructs the driver to access the PCI BIOS
                           using 16-bit real mode calls, instead of the
                           PCI32 mechanism.
                           This is not recommended, and should be used
                           ONLY on motherboards that have a known problem
                           in the PCI BIOS implementation.

   (**)    LINE_SPEED      selects line speed between 10MPBs and 100MBPs
                           on network cards based on DC21140.

                           Format: LINE_SPEED=<value>

                           Allowed values are: 10,100

   (**)    GENERAL_PURPOSE_CONTROL user override of the control value in
                                   the GENERAL_PURPOSE register in DC21140
                                   based network cards.
                                   Normally, this value should not be
                                   changed.

                   Format: GENERAL_PURPOSE_CONTROL=<Hexadecimal Value>

                   Allowed values: in the range 1FF-0 hex.

   (**)    GENERAL_PURPOSE_DATA    user override of the data value in the
                                   GENERAL_PURPOSE register. in DC21140
                                   based network cards.
                                   Normally, this value should not be
                                   changed.

                   Format: GENERAL_PURPOSE_DATA=<Hexadecimal Value>

                   Allowed values: in the range 1FF-0 hex.

    (***)  SBASE   User specified slot base number, i.e. if the user
                   would like the first PCI slot that has a DC21X4X device
                   to be numbered 37 decimal they should write 'SBASE=37'.
                   This way the first DC21X4X device would have a slot number
                   of 37 and the other device would be numbered in increments
                   of 1. A value under 16 would be treated as if the user wrote
                   SBASE=16.

                   Format: SBASE=<decimal value>

                   Allowed values: 16-65535 decimal.


    Notes:
    ------
    (*)   Those keywords affect ONLY DC21040 based network interface cards.
    (**)  Those keywords affect ONLY DC21140 based network interface cards.
    (***) Those keywords affect ONLY for SERVER drivers only.

    The DC21040, DC21140 are DEC NIC Chip
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