Adding A New Board Driver Or Nlm File To Your System; Enabling Or Disabling A Lan Board - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Adding a New Board Driver or NLM File to Your System

Enabling or Disabling a LAN Board

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NetWare TCP/IP Administration Guide
LAN boards with a single network interface need no further
configuration; however, an enabled driver is not loaded unless a protocol
is bound to it.
After a data-link protocol has been associated with the board, select
Reinitialize System or restart the router to make the changes take effect.
If there are any conflicts with the hardware parameters of other boards,
one or more messages describe them. You must determine whether the
conflicts are acceptable or whether they interfere with the operation of the
router and, if necessary, resolve them.
1
Load INETCFG and then click Boards.
2
Press Ins to display the list of available drivers.
3
Press Ins again.
All the available Novell certified drivers will appear on the screen.
4
Select the driver and then press Enter.
NOTE:
You can also use this screen for copying drivers and NLM files from a
floppy diskette to the SYS:/SYSTEM directory.
To add a driver to the list of available drivers, insert the diskette containing the
driver in one of the disk drives, specify the complete path and filename of the driver
(for example, A:\NEWDRV\DRIVER) and then press Enter. The driver and its
description file, if any, are copied into the SYS:SYSTEM directory. (Note that the
file extension is not required.)
5
Configure the new board as described in
page 48.
1
Load INETCFG and then click Boards.
2
Select the board you want to enable or disable and press Tab.
The screen displays the board's new status (Enabled or Disabled).
IMPORTANT:
If you disable a board that uses an AIO or CAPI driver and you
reinitialize the system, then all other boards that use the same driver will also be
disabled. If this happens, you must restart the server to reload all instances of the
driver that were loaded for another product in AUTOEXEC.NCF (without
INETCFG). However, the board loaded in AUTOEXEC.NCF will remain inoperable
until you restart the server or until you enter the LOAD command at the console
"Configuring a LAN Board" on