                                                               Dec. 1995

                          Ether PCI Ethernet Card
                           Packet Driver Program
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* General Installation Tips *
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Packet drivers are general drivers used by many operating systems specially
TCP/IP software packages.  If the network system that you are installing
specifically mentions support for packet drivers, then it is most likely that
you will be able to use our provided packet driver without any problems.

The most important thing to remember when installing packet drivers is the
software interrupt vector.  The default interrupt vector for Ether packet
drivers is 0x62 hexadecimal.  Most softwares supporting packet drivers will
try to automatically search for any packet drivers already loaded into the
computer's memory.  However, some software packages will require you to
provide the interrupt vector of the packet driver.  Futhermore, some software
packages can only work with certain interrupt vectors.  With these software
packages, you have to add a software interrupt vector parameter when loading
the packet driver.  Please look towards the end of this document for
explanation on packet driver parameters.

Since the Ether PCI Ethernet adapters are all software configurable, the
packet driver will automatically detect the hardware parameters.  If the
packet driver can properly read the Ethernet card's MAC address during
loading, then chances are the hardware is working properly.

This driver diskette contains specific installation instructions for the
following software packages:

File            Description
------------    ----------------------------------------------------------
3SHARE.TXT      3Comfx 3+ Share installation document
PCNFS.TXT       Sun PC-NFS installation document
PCTCP.TXT       FTP PC/TCP installation document


Notes:  Packet Driver Parameters:


</int:##>       is the software interrupt vector number used by the packet
                driver program, which can be from 96 to 128.
                Note: '##' can be hex or decimal number.
                      hex - start with '0x'.            ex: -int:0x62
                      dec - start with nonzero digit.   ex: -int:98

</slot:##>      is the number of assigned slot,which is from 16 to 26.
                (only supports PCI bus).
                Note: '##' can be hex or decimal number.
                      hex - start with '0x'.            ex: -slot:0x10
                      dec - start with nonzero digit.   ex: -slot:16

</d>            Delay Initial - The driver program will not initialize
                the network interface card until the packet driver program
                is accessed by its upper layer program first time.

</w>            the -w parameter is for use with the Windows environment only.

</u>            is to unload the driver program from memory. The program will
                automatically search for Packet driver to unload.

To select media type, you can use :
</autodetect>   The driver program will automatically detect between AUI, TP
                and BNC according to the active line.
                Note: If you have no parameter about media selection,
                      the dirver will perform autodetection as default.

</tp>           Force the driver to select Twisted Pair interface.

</bnc>          Force the driver to select BNC interface.

</aui>          Force the driver to select AUI interface.

</tp_full_duplex>
                Selects Twisted Pair interface running in FullDuplex mode.

</tp_no_link_test>
                Selects Twisted Pair interface. Transmit does not perform
                link pulses test.

</ls:###>       Selects Line Speed. Which can be 10 or 100 (10MB or 100MB).

You can use LS option to select line speed, or just use AUTODETECT option, driver 
will select 10MB/100MB for you.



