Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 User Manual page 60

C H A P T E R 3
Power Management Guidelines
HotSwap and suspend/resume operations are subject to limitations
dictated by the network operating system. See the documentation for
your network operating system to determine how long the network
will wait for activity before dropping a connection, and whether this
time period is user configurable.
Full-Duplex Transmission (10Mbps Only)
The Intel PRO/100 PC Card hardware and network drivers are
designed to support full-duplex operation, or the ability to transmit
and receive on the network at the same time, on 10Mbps networks.
This feature is only available when the PRO/100 PC Card is connected
to a full-duplex 10Mbps switch. It is not available on 100Mbps
networks.
If your network supports full-duplex operation, activate the PRO/100
feature by including the keyword FULLDUPLEX in the configuration
file or on the command line for your network driver.
Note
To use full-duplex capabilities, your network must run at
10Mbps and have full-duplex hardware in place and
enabled. If you use the FULLDUPLEX keyword without full-
duplex hardware, the network may become unusable due to
excessive collisions.
Advanced Look-Ahead Pipelining
The PRO/100 PC Card also uses pipelining technology to improve
performance. Advanced Look-Ahead Pipelining allows for processing
and transmission of packets before the entire packet has been loaded
into memory, resulting in significant gains in performance. This
feature is enabled automatically, without user intervention.
M16ACFG.EXE Configuration Utility (Windows 3.x)
A configuration utility (or "resource manager") is required to support
the functions of Card and Socket Services on PC Card systems (except
under Microsoft Windows 95, Windows NT, and IBM OS/2). This
utility is called M16ACFG.EXE and is supplied on the Network
Drivers Disk. The utility can be run from the DOS command line or
included in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file or the CONFIG.SYS file.
M16ACFG.EXE allows the Intel PRO/100 PC Card to become a client
of Card Services. It must be run prior to loading a network driver on a
PC Card computer using Card and Socket Services.
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