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Installation and Operation Guide
Revislon 3.0
P/N: 771002-DO3

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  • Page 1 Installation and Operation Guide Revislon 3.0 P/N: 771002-DO3...
  • Page 2 This Installation and Operation Guide will guide you In the lnstalletion process. The inform&on conMned Mylex Corporation shall nat be held liable for technical or editorial omissions or errors made herein; nor for incidental or consequential damages re&dting from the furni8hin~, performance, or use of this...
  • Page 3 FCC NOl’lFlCATlON This device has been tested and found to comply within the limits of a Class 6 device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC regulations. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: This devke may not cause harmful interference, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Content l - l scope of thls Document Chapter 2: Hardware Installation and Conflguration Overview ..........Adapter lnstaUation Media Type for the LNE3908 Shared SRAM Address...
  • Page 5 Chapter 6: Software Installation for NDIS ..6- 1 ..........Overview.. Procedure ..........Generic implementation Notes ......

  • Page 6: Basic Descriptbn

    Introduction Chapter 1: -Introduction Basic Description The Mylex LNE390 series Ethernet Adapters provide a high performance, cost-effective interface for EISA host systems to any IEEE 802.3 compliant Local Area Network. There are two products in the LNE390 series. October 1989 1 OBas& (‘Thick” Ethernet) or...
  • Page 7 Host Bus Interface Logic...

  • Page 8: Theory Of Operation

    Introduction Novell Certified Support for Novell Netware as both server and workstation ISC UNIX Driver Theory of Operation The LNE390 may be added to any EISA host system in any the unit is connected to an 802.3 compatible Local Area Net- work.

  • Page 9: Scope Of Thls Document

    2. Sixteen bytes in I/O address space (EISA slot specific) 3. 64KB in memory address space, non-cached. (Note that although the LNE390 provides 32KB of shared SRAM, 64KB memory addresses are used by each board.) The software driver communicates to the LNE396 by loading and storing data packets to and from the 32KB shared mem- ory.

  • Page 10: Chapter 2: Hardware Installation And Conflguration

    Chapter 2: Hardware Installation and Configuration An LNE390 may be installed in any available EISA hardware installation are: 1. Install the adapter hardware in the system. 2. Connect the adapters to the LAN. 3. Configure the LNE390 using the host system’s This chapter covers these procedures.

  • Page 11: Adapter Installation

    The possible media selections are: 1 OBaseS (lhich Ethernet) All pins in JB4 set to ‘E’ position - _ - - 1 OBaseP (Thin Ethernet) All pins in JB4 set to ‘C’ position Change the jumpers as appropriate. The factory Adapter Installation Referring to your host system’s documentation, re- move the system cover and choose the slot to be...

  • Page 12: Eisa Contiguration Utilii

    When the board is in place, the notch in the top of the bracket should line up with the screw hole for the mounting screw. If it does not, check the atign- ment of the LNE390 and the depth of the connector insertion.
  • Page 13 Hardware ImtaUatbn and Con(iguratlon advisable to make a manual note of the configura- tion options selected. This information will be re- quired during the installation of various operating system drivers described in the following chapters. In order to perform this function, the EISA Configu- ration Utility refers to a special data base file that describes the LNE390 and the possible options it supports.

  • Page 14: Shared Sram Address

    ing the LAN Media type to be used on the board. The possibte options are: 1 OBase5 Thick Ethernet 1 OBase2 Thin Ethernet 1 OBaseT Twisted-Pair Ethernet Shared SRAM Address The LNE390 may be configured for any one of seven memory addresses. The memory address selected must be unique within the system, and not used by any other device or by memory on the motherboard.
  • Page 15 OODFFFF for DOS OOEFFFF DOS Workdatiorm, me Note as ‘OF’ wlthin the tirst 16MB of physkzal memory a&8ss space. If your system board has 16AtlB of memory or more, using these options will caus8 a contlict which will CBUS~ th8 installation to lose the us8 of figuration Utility may condition.

  • Page 16: Conclusion

    not conflict with any other device in the system. The LNE390 does not support shared interrupts. The various supported interrupts are 3,5,7,9, A, 6, C, and F. Conclusion Once the configuration optlons have been selected, the EISA Configuration Utility can be instructed to save the configuration data.

  • Page 17: Overview

    chapter 3: Software Installation for NetWare Overvlew Included with the LNE390 is a software driver ferred to as NetWare 386). In addition, the LNE390 drivers for DOS. These software modules are found on the LNE390 Driver Diskette (DOS format). This chapter provides the procedures for using these drivers.
  • Page 18 For example, if NOWU NetWare is installed on hard disk drive ‘C’ in directory SERVER, and the drive ‘A’, the following commands may be used to load the LNE390 Netware 3.1 x Server driver on the diskette at me DOS prompt. CD \SERVER COPY A: \*.LAN Once this has been done, the NetWare server may...
  • Page 19 LNE390 EISA Ethernet IAN Adapter An arbitrary name assigned to <name> the LNE39O/Frame type combination. Note that this eymbol appears both in the LOAD and the BIND commande, and tiee them together. The ElSA slot number of the board. <frame type> The frame type to be supported by this copy of the driver.

  • Page 20: Netware Ipx Workstation Driver

    As an example, the commands shown bti might be used in an installation with three network adapters, each network adapter supporting two different frame types. After the ready to respond to requests on the network. LOAD LNEJI NAME@2 SLOTIS FRAME=ETHERNET_II LOAD LNE31 NAME&J SLOTIS FRAME.ETHERNET_802.3 BIND IPX W NET=&...
  • Page 21 Soltwate Inotdlalm foe NdWate The SEISA.OBJ, SEISA.LAN files for LNE390 and LNE390B.OBJ, SEISAB.LAN files for ette (DOS format). The .tAN files contain the driver configuration infor- mation. To run the WSGEN program, refer to the appropri- ate Novell documentation. The SEISA.OBJ and SEISAB.OBJ files are expected in the Once the IPX.COM program has been generated by the WSGEN program, lt is run as a TSR (Termi-...
  • Page 22 instead of requiring compilation, the ODI driver is re-configuredby editing a text file, NET.CFG, which is read by the program when it is started. For complete information on how to install the ODI driver, refer to the Novell NetWare ODI Shell for DOS reference manual.

  • Page 23: Netware 266 Sewer Driver

    will normally appear in the workstation’s AUTO- lpxodl These lines load, respectMy, the Link Support Layer, the LNE399 001 interface module, the IPX protocol driver for 001, and the NetWare Shell. Once these programs are installed, the workstation will have network access. Note: The valid MEM options ior NElICFG Netware 286 Server Driver For Netware 266 Server, the driver files of the...

  • Page 24: Procedure

    Chapter Software Installation ior SC0 UNIX The LNE390 product includes an SC0 UNIX driver diskette to allow the LNE390 to be used in the SC0 UNIX environment. The driver is a software object module which must be linked into the UNIX kernel before it can be used.
  • Page 25 the option to install a driver diskette. The system will then read the LNE390 driver diskette, and pro- ceed to execute the installation programs. The installation programs will prompt for the memory address and interrupt line of the LNE390 to be installed.

  • Page 26: Chapter 5: Software Installation For Isc Unix

    Chapter 5: Software Installation for ISC UNIX The LNE390 includes an ISC UNIX driver diskette to allow the LNE390 to be used in the interactive Systems UNIX environment. the driver is a soft- ware object module which must be linked into the kernel before it can be used.
  • Page 27 Choose the appropriate option to list the packages installed on the system. If the LNE driver is already installed, use the REMOVE package option to re- move the LNE driver. Then proceed to install the LNE driver, using the INSTALL package option. The system will read the driver diskette and initiate the shell script for installation.

  • Page 28: Chapter 6: Software Installation For Ndis

    Chapter 6: Softwzire Installation For NDIS Overvlew munication speciflcatlon that was origianlly created by Microsoft for the OS/2 Operating System. An Driver Diskette (DOS format) which can be installed in any OS/2 Vi .3 orVl.2 system. The WE390 also provides an NDIS drlver that provides the same support on DOS systems.

  • Page 29: Ianman Implementation Notes

    prompt for informalion as appropriate, including the dress used by the LNE390 to be installed. After installation. it will be necessary to reboot-strap the system. When the system is next loaded. Iht, service. The LNE390 NDIS device driver. as Installed by LANMAN SETUP program, is located rn a specrfl directory for the LANMAN installation IS In this directory there are two files, PROTOCOL.INI...
  • Page 30 If the LNE399 is being used with a non-LAN Man- ager operating system, requiring the NDIS driver, then the NOIS driver LNE399.DOS found in the subdirectory of the LNE driver disk for DOS is to be used. Also, the ftle PROTOCOLINI is available in the same directory and may be used with the appro- priate changes, as required by the target operating system.

  • Page 31: Appendix A: Testing The Lne390

    Appendix A: Testing the LNE390 A diagnostic utility is pro&led to aid in installation and configuration of your Mylex LAN adapter. For the LNE390A the program file is Is TESTLNEBEXE. Testing the LNE3SOA Configure the board according to the user’s manual for a thin ethernet (also known as 1 OBase2).
  • Page 32 Configure the board using the EISA configuration for thin ethernet (also known as lOBASE2). Make up a thin ethernet cable such as B&ten RG58/U (at least 15 feet or 5 meters in length) with a BNC tee at each end, and a 50 ohm terminator on one port of each tee.
  • Page 33 Configurin the ada ter for Twisted pair enables the RJ45 connector for connec 9. ion to t e network. On1 one configuration at a time is possible and is selected through E SA configuration. DP8390 REGISTER ACCESSES 1.0 OVERVIEW PC until the NIC leaves master mode. 3.1 REGISTER ACCESS DESCRIPTION All NIC internal r isters are 8bits wide.
  • Page 34 Base + CBOh EISA Configuration IO Byte 0 Read Only I/O Base + C81h EISA Configuration ID Byte 1 Read Only I/O Base + C82h EISA Configuration IO Byte 2 Read Only int2 intl into I/O Base + C83h Read Only EISA Configuration ID Byte 3 OOFFOOOOh I/O Base + C84h...
  • Page 35 Data Book. - TRANSMITTING THE PACKET: Get the packet buffer to be transmitted. Get the number of bytes to be transmitted. Set the Shared Hemory address for cop ing data. Copy the data from packet buffer to Program the TransmitByteCount register of NIC with number of bytes to be transmitted.
  • Page 36 Thereafter, select the “Mylex LNE390 Ethernet Adapter” from the box, specify its EISA slot number and the frame types to be loaded. Proceed with the NetWare server installation. Mylex Corporation 34551 Ardenwood Blvd., PO. Box 5035, Fremont, CA 94537-5035 . Tel. 510-796-6100 Outside Colrfomro: 800-77-MYLEX Numbers. Finance: Domestic Sales:...
  • Page 37 ENTER. Insert this LNE390 driver diskette and specify the From the window displayed, select the “Mylex LNE390 Ethernet Adapter” option. Then select the required media types and the EISA slot number of the LNE390 card. Complete the installation and reboot to connect to the Server.
  • Page 38 C:\LANTASTI Edit the CONFIG.SYS file to include the commands to load the protocol manager and NDIS MAC driver. The sample CONFIG.SYS below loads the protocol manager, PROTMAN.DOS and the NDIS MAC driver, LNE390.DOS, for a Mylex LNE390 adapter: FILES=50 BUFFERS=32 LASTDRIVE=Z In the LANTASTI directory, create a PROTOCOL.INI file to store the settings for the...
  • Page 39 bytes 2816 dated 10-23-92 is the document file that explains how TESTLNE DOC: to run the TESTLNE and TESTLNEB programs. bytes 8782 dated 08-29-91 SEISA OBJ: bytes 603 dated 08-29-91 These two files are used for generating the NetWare workstation IPX shells for and follow the normal NetWare third party shell generation procedures.
  • Page 40 The server driver for NetWare 4.0x The installation file required by the workstation driver installation program of NetWare 4.0x. The ODI workstation driver for NetWare 4.0x. MSLANMAN.DOS: is the directory having the NDIS DOS driver LNE390,DOS, PROTOCOL.INI and the LNE390.NIF file under various subdirectories.
  • Page 41 bytes 18167 dated 11-05-92. This is the OS/2 NDIS driver, used with LANl@AN 2.X, and other similar OS. bytes 129 dated 12-10-92 required for IANMAN NDIS driver installation. P/N 772103-DO2 RELEASE NOTES...

  • Page 42: Release Notes

    If present, then delete them immcdiatcly. # rm -rf /ctc/conI’/p;lck.d/lnc* # rm /ctc/conf/sdc~~i~c.d/lnc* 3 4 5 5 1 A r d e n w o o d , PO. Box 5035. Fremont. C A 94537-5035 Tel 510-796-6100 OutsIde Colrforn~o 800.77-MYLEX fox Numbers Corporate. 510-745-7654 510-745-7521...
  • Page 43 Also, edit /etc/conf/cf.d/mdcvicc file using “vi” and remove any line containing any “lne” entry. Use “custom” to install the Vcr 2.05 LNE390 drivers. This will install the driver for using upto four LNE390 cards on this system. During installation the following mcssagcs arc displayed: Installing Mylcx 390 driver package V 2.05 Installing Lnc driver IncO Installing Lnc driver lncl...
  • Page 44 Then the Internet address (IP address), Netmask, broadcast address, host name etc. of the “lne0” driver is specified. Now, the main menu of “netconfig” is displayed. If more LNE390 cards are to be configured, repeat the procedure by selecting “add a chain” option and “lnel” driver.
  • Page 45 LanManager 2.1 Server. Also, has been tested as LanManager client connecting to a multiple LNE390 card configuration has been tested. The LNE390 A/B must be EISA configured to have the same shared memory address and IRQ as spccificd at the “nctconfig” time. If using 16MB or less memory on the system, and the LNE390 is EISA configured for a shared memory address or FFFOOOO, FFEOOOO or FFCOOOO, the system may panic when an ethcrnct packet is rcccivcd.

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