Plug And Play; Disabling Plug And Play - 3Com EtherLink III User Manual

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Chapter 3: C o n fig u rin g th e A dapter

Plug and Play

Plug and Play functions only in computers running specific
Plug and Play software, if you are using a system that supports
Plug and Play, three parameters (IRQ, I/O Base, and ROM Base)
will be set by the Plug and Play software. If you set any of
these resources yourself, Plug and Play will ignore these
settings and will override them. (You will still set ROM size to
indicate the presence of a network boot ROM and its size.)
If you are running Plug and Play software, you may still have
to load the adapter drivers located on the EtherDisk diskette.
If you are on a NetWare server, run the AutoLink auto
installation software.To load the NDIS driver, refer to
Chapter 4, "Installing the Network Drivers."
D isabling Plug an d Play
You can disable the Plug and Play feature by changing the
Plug and Play software option setting, as shown in Table 3-1.
You must disable Plug and Play support if any one of the
following conditions exists:
■ The computer you are using supports the Plug and Play
BIOS and you are not using Plug and Play software.
■ The adapter driver does not support Plug and Play.The only
drivers that support Plug and Play are DOS ODI and DOS
NDIS 2.01 drivers.
■ You want to configure the EtherLink III adapter manually.