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NDIS Driver Notes

Ndis Driver Notes

EtherExpress™ 16 family

The EtherExpress(TM) NDIS driver conforms to Microsoft's 2.0.1 NDIS specification and is fully certified by Microsoft. The NDIS driver uses a Protocol.ini file as an initialization file.

THE PROTOCOL.INI FILE:

Supported keywords in the Protocol.ini file are:
DRIVERNAME, IOADDRESS, TRANCEIVER, IOCHRDY, and IRQ.

Keywords TRANSCEIVER, IOCHRDY, and IRQ were added in the 2.21 version of the driver. They were added to support Windows for Workgroups.

If either TRANSCEIVER or IRQ is in the Protocol.ini file, all the keyword value will be written to the EEPROM on the EtherExpress 16. If a keyword is not in the Protocol.ini file, the default value will be used.

The EtherExpress section of the Protocol.ini file should begin with the name of the driver enclosed in square brackets (example: [EXP16]). If EXP16 is not used, then the name should be defined somewhere earlier in the Protocol.ini file.

PROTOCOL.INI Keywords:

DRIVERNAME = EXP16$

Valid values: EXP16$

The dollar sign is a delimiter. If there is more than one EtherExpress 16 card referenced in the Protocol.ini, include the board number in the drivername. (2nd board: EXP162$, 3rd board: EXP163$, etc.)

Note: Old versions of the NDIS driver require you to put EXP17$ instead of EXP162$ when loading the NDSI driver more than once.

IOADDRESS = 0x300 DEFAULT is 0x300

Valid values: 0x300, 0x310, 0x320, 0x330, 0x340, 0x350, 0x360, 0x370, 0x200, 0x210, 0x220, 0x230, 0x240, 0x250, 0x260, 0x270

TRANSCEIVER = value DEFAULT is Thin Net (BNC/COAX)

Valid values: Thick Net (AUI connector), Thin Net (BNC/COAX), Twisted-pair (RJ45 connector) IOCHRDY = value DEFAULT is Late

Valid values: Early, Late, Never

Note: IOCHRDY should be set to Late unless the EtherExpress board is in 8-bit mode. If this is the case, set IOCHRDY to Never. DO NOT SET IOCHRDY TO EARLY OR YOU MAY DAMAGE THE ETHEREXPRESS CARD.

IRQ = value DEFAULT is 3

Valid values: EE16 ISA bus 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 E16 MCA bus 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15

The default IRQ for the EE MCA in the IBM SC program is 11. The POS register is not rewritten so verify the IRQ value in SC matches Protocol.ini.

Note: The NDIS driver only looks at the valid value until the first space. For example Thick is a valid entry for Thick Net (AUI connector).

NOTE: EXP16.DOS does not support the NODEADDRESS parameter. The ethernet node address of the EtherExpress16 cannot be changed in the protocol.ini

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