Chapter 1 Introduction PLANET ENW-9701 PCI Express Gigabit Fiber adapter can provide the best solution for one of the major issues of Local Area Networks - communication speed. Ten times as fast as the existing 100Base-TX solutions, using the PLANET ENW-9701 to connect your servers and workstations guarantees extremely high throughput and excellent signal quality.
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2.1 LED Definition The faceplate of ENW-9701 has one LED: Link / ACT. The pictures below have showed the faceplate of ENW-9701. Table 2-1 explains the function and state of the LED. Link / ACT LED...
2.2 Hardware Installation Step 1: Please turn off your PC. Step 2: Remove any metal decorations from your hands and wrists. Step 3: Remove the cover from your PC. Step 4: Locate an empty PCI Express slot and remove the corresponding back plate. Save the screw for use in Step 6.
Chapter 3 Driver Installation A device driver must be installed before your ENW-9701 can be used with your computer. This chapter describes how to install the driver for various operating systems. Before you begin the driver installation process, make sure you have the installation disks for your computer’s operation system.
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Please click “Browse” to find the driver location. (Assume "E" is your CD-ROM drive, the driver can be found in E:\Drivers\Win2K). After find out the driver, please click “OK” to continue.
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Please click “Next” to continue. You can see the device name in this dialog box. If the device name is correct, please press”Yes” to continue.
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Please click “Finish” to complete the driver installation.
3.2 Installing Driver to Windows XP After installing ENW-9701 to your PC and boot up, Windows XP will detect it and ask you to install driver. Please select the second option and click “Next”. Please select “Include this location in the search” and then click “Browse” to specify the driver location to install.
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WinXP will show this dialog box to prompt you the driver has not passed Windows logo testing, please click “Continue Anyway”, then WinXP will start to install the driver. Click “Finish” to complete the driver installation.
The following installation uses ENW-9701 and operates under Window2008 Procedures will be similar to the Windows Vista 32/64 Operating Systems. After installing ENW-9701 to your PC and boot up, move the mouse to the Computer icon and right click the mouse button and select the “Manage”...
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On the Realtek RTL8168xxxx window, please click “Update Driver…” button. Click “Browse my computer for driver software” button.
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Click “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer” button. Click “Have Disk…” button.
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Click “Browse…” button to specify the driver location to install. (Assume "D" is your CD-ROM drive, the driver can be found in D:\) then click “OK” to continue. On the Update Driver Software window, the Network Adapter column will show the PLANET ENW-9701 Gigabit Fiber Adapter, just click “Next” button...
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During the Driver installation, it will pop up one Windows Security message. Please Click “Install this driver software anyway” button for continue installation. 10. Click “Close” button to complete the driver installation.
3.4 Installing Driver to Linux Requirements: - Kernel source tree (supported Linux kernel 2.6.x and 2.4.x) - For linux kernel 2.4.x, this driver supports 2.4.20 and latter. - Compiler / binutils for kernel compilation Quick install with proper kernel settings: Unpack the tarball : # tar vjxf r8168-8.aaa.bb.tar.bz2 Change to the directory:...
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2. Set by doing configurations in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX for Redhat and Fedora /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ethX for SuSE. There are two examples to set network configurations. a. Fixed IP address: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static ONBOOT=yes TYPE=ethernet NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=192.168.1.1 GATEWAY=192.168.1.254 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 b. DHCP: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes Modify the MAC address: There are two ways to modify the MAC address of the NIC.
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*Model Number : ENW-9701 * Produced by: Manufacturer‘s Name : Planet Technology Corp. Manufacturer‘s Address : 10F., No.96, Minquan Rd., Xindian Dist., New Taipei City 231, Taiwan (R.O.C.) is herewith confirmed to comply with the requirements set out in the Council Directive on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive on (89/336/EEC).