HP 441877-00B Software And Configuration Manual page 11

Set Speed/Duplex on the adapter to Auto/Auto, 10/Half, 10/Full, 100/Half, 100/Full, or
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1000/Full.
Click OK until prompted to restart.
4.
5.
Restart Windows NT® 4.0.
Windows® 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2003 x64
For new installations, Windows® 2000 automatically installs the adapter drivers. Exception: For the
NC150T, NC310F, NC32xx, NC37xx, NC340x, NC1020, NC6136, NC6170, NC71xx and
NC77xx adapters, you must install the appropriate driver components located in the \WIN2000
directory in the HP SoftPaq. Complete the following steps to download the SoftPaq file.
1.
Go to the HP website (http://www.hp.com).
Click Software & Driver Downloads from the left menu bar.
2.
Type the product name in the For product box and press Enter. For example, type NC370T.
3.
4.
Select an operating system.
Click HP ProLiant Networking Software.
5.
Click download and save the HP SoftPaq (sp#####.exe) file to a directory on your hard drive. The
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SoftPaq file is a self-extracting executable with a file name based on the SoftPaq number.
Click the SoftPaq file to extract the files and then open the cmponent.htm file.
7.
NOTE:
If you need to update existing Windows® 2000 drivers, refer to the instructions in
Windows 2000 installation notes
To set the duplex options:
1.
Launch the Network Configuration Utility.
Select an adapter from the list in the NCU Main window and click Properties. The Adapter
2.
Properties window appears.
On the Settings tab, set the Speed/Duplex Setting for the adapter to Auto/Auto, 10/Half, 10/Full,
3.
100/Half, 100/Full, or 1000/Full.
Click OK twice to accept the configuration changes.
4.
NetWare Server
To set the duplex options, use the following syntax for FORCEDUPLEX and SPEED.
NOTE:
The NC340T, NC1020, NC71xx, and NC77xx adapters support full-duplex and half-
duplex. The fiber Gigabit adapters support full-duplex mode only and cannot be changed.
Syntax: FORCEDUPLEX=n
Where n =
0–auto-negotiation (You must have an auto-negotiating switch/hub (an Nway* switch) to get full-
duplex support with the FORCEDUPLEX parameter set to 0 (auto-negotiation).
1–half-duplex
2–full-duplex
NOTE:
To set the adapter to half- or full-duplex, you must set the SPEED parameter to either 10
or 100.
Default = auto-negotiate
("Windows 2000 and Windows NT" on page 15).
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