Device Drivers And Setup/Installation Software; Crystal's Software Licensing Procedures; Contents Of Floppy Disks Included With This Kit - Cirrus Logic CRYSTAL LAN CS890 Technical Reference Manual

4.0 Device Drivers and
Setup/Installation Software
This chapter discusses the software
provided by Crystal for use with the
CS8900. That software includes a broad
family of device drivers, driver-related
data files, and utilities. A single-user,
evaluation copy of that software is in-
cluded with this Kit. The following driv-
ers are included in the Kit:
a) Novell ODI 4.x DOS (for use with
Netware clients)
b) Novell ODI 4.x OS/2 driver (for
use with Netware OS/2 clients)
c) Novell ODI 4.x Server driver
d) Microsoft NDIS 3.X driver (for use
with Windows 95, Windows NT, and
Windows for Workgroups)
e) Microsoft NDIS 2.X DOS driver
(for use with many NOSs including
Microsoft LAN MANAGER, IBM
LAN SERVER, Banyan Vines,
LANtastic, DEC Pathworks)
f) Microsoft NDIS 2.X driver for
OS/2
g) Boot PROM program (for ODI
and NDIS) allowing a diskless PC to
load a simple LAN driver from
PROM and then use the simple driver
to boot DOS from a server over the
network. Also known as RIPL
(Remote Initial Program Load).
h) Packet Driver V1.09 (for use with
TCP/IP protocol stacks, including
PC/TCP, SUN PC-NFS, Wollongong)
i) SCO UNIX driver and installation
script
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Additionally Crystal provides two utility
programs:
a) DOS Setup and Installation Utility
b) EEPROM Programming Utility, for
use in OEM manufacturing environ-
ments.
4.1 Crystal's Software Licensing
Procedures
The CS8900 developer's kit contains a
single-user copy of object code which is
available only for internal testing and
evaluation purposes. This object code
may not be distributed without first
signing a LICENSE FOR DISTRIBU-
TION OF EXECUTABLE SOFTWARE,
which may be obtained by contacting
your sales representative. The LICENSE
FOR DISTRIBUTION OF EXECU-
TABLE SOFTWARE gives you unlim-
ited, royalty-free rights to distribute
Crystal-provided object code.
4.2 Contents of Floppy Disks
Included with this Kit
There are three floppy disks included
with the CS8900 Developer's Kit.
Floppy #1, labeled Setup and Device
Driver Software, contains the DOS
Setup and Installation Utility (see sec-
tion 4.2) ,the EEPROM Programming
Utility (see section 3.2), and all of the
programs and data files needed for all
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