WESTERN DIGITAL "PLUS"-FAMILY LAN ADAPTER BOARD DRIVER FOR USE WITH DEC's DECnet-DOS and PCSA/PC INSTALLATION GUIDE Version 2.05 June 22, 1989 Copyright Western Digital 1988, 1989. All Rights Reserved. The DLL.EXE driver contained on this diskette is for use with the "PLUS"-family (*) LAN adapter boards: For Ethernet: EtherCard PLUS (WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003EB) EtherCard PLUS TP (WD8003WT) EtherCard PLUS/A (WD8003ET/A) For StarLAN: StarCard PLUS (WD8003S) StarLink PLUS (WD8003SH) StarCard PLUS/A (WD8003ST/A) This driver operates with DEC's DECnet-DOS (*) or PCSA/PC Software. This document contains the information about how to install a Western Digital "PLUS"-family LAN adapter board and the DLL DECnet driver on DEC's DECnet network. 1. Jumper the adapter according to your system configuration. The DLL Device Driver is installed at PC boot time according to the command line specified in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file (described below). The user must ensure that the software settings given on the device driver command line match the jumper settings on the adapter board. Jumper settings for some adapter boards are described in the JUMPERS.DOC file. For more information, refer to the Western Digital "User Installation Guide" that comes with each adapter board. For Micro Channel (*) adapters, the interrupt, I/O base address, and RAM base address are established by the system configuration procedure when the adapter is installed in the machine. 2. Insert the adapter in your PC. 3. Power up your PC. 4. Install DEC's Software Follow the appropriate instructions for either DECnet-DOS or PCSA/PC from Digital Equipment, selecting the "3COM"* option whenever asked to choose an adapter type. Specifics for the WD hardware are defined below. You may view the options for the WD driver with or without having any DEC software or an adapter installed by typing: dll /? 4A. For DECnet-DOS: Install the DECnet-DOS network software using the DIP.EXE installation program supplied on the DECnet-DOS diskette. Select ETHERNET communications during the installation. Next, copy the Western Digital driver DLL.EXE from this diskette to the \DECNET directory of your system drive. For example, COPY A:\DECNET\DLL.EXE C:\DECNET\DLL.EXE Next, edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to load the DLL driver as described in step 5. 4B. For PCSA/PC: Have your system administrator create a KEY diskette for your system. The KEY diskette should be created with your DECnet address and your personal startup files. Next, copy the Western Digital driver DLL.EXE from this diskette to the appropriate directory of your KEY diskette. For example, with your KEY diskette in drive A: and this diskette in drive B:, type: COPY B:\DECNET\DLL.EXE A:\xxxxxx\DLL.EXE Next, edit file MSNET.INI on your KEY diskette as described in step 5A or 5B. (Make sure to change ALL occurrences of DLL.) 5A. XT/AT(*) Bus adapters: You need to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT or MSNET.INI files to load the DLL.EXE driver and to reflect the jumper selections of step 1. Use the format: C:\DECNET\DLL /IRQ:irq /IO:base /SM:page /SIZE:size (AUTOEXEC.BAT) or DLL /IRQ:irq /IO:base /SM:page /SIZE:size (MSNET.INI) where, irq- IRQ level to receive adapter board interrupts, jumper W2 (3) base- I/O base address in hexadecimal, jumper W1 (280) page- 4-digit memory segment byte address of the 8 Kbyte shared buffer memory (not set by jumpers) (D000) size- size of the shared memory on the adapter board (8) NOTE: Figures in parentheses are factory default values. The DLL.EXE defaults are given in parentheses. Note that the DLL.EXE defaults to IRQ3 to match the "PLUS"-Family boards, shipped with the jumper set to IRQ3. For example, the following statement corresponds to the factory jumper configuration of the adapter and an 8K buffer memory base address of DE000: DLL /IRQ:3 /IO:280 /SM:DE00 /SIZE:8 To change the settings from the command line for version 1 of DECnet-DOS, you may use the version 1 format using "=" instead of the version 2 format using ":" as the delimiter. For example, DLL /IRQ=3 /IO=280 /SM=DE00 /SIZE=8 or DLL /IRQ:3 /IO:280 /SM:DE00 /SIZE:8 Your "irq" options for the /IRQ Interrupt parameter are: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7. Your "base" options for the /IO I/O base address parameter are: 3E0, 3C0, 3A0, 380, 360, 340, 320, 300, 2E0, 2C0, 2A0, 280, 260, 240, 220, or 200. (Be aware that there may be conflicts above 360.) Your "page" options for the /SM shared memory parameter are: 8000 - F000, on 8K-byte boundaries (increments of 200 hex). EGA and VGA can create problems below the D000 and D400 address respectively. (The DLL.EXE driver defaults to D000; there are no jumpers for this on the adapter board.) Your "size" options for the /SIZE shared memory size parameter are: 8, 16, or 32. (This is the size of the shared memory in kilobytes on your adapter board. The default is 8.) 5B. Micro Channel Bus adapters: You need to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT or MSNET.INI files to load the DLL.EXE driver and to make sure the automated installation procedure has not added command line options which are not needed for the Micro Channel version. Use the format: C:\DECNET\DLL (AUTOEXEC.BAT) or DLL (MSNET.INI) For Micro Channel adapters, IRQ, IO, SM, and SIZE should not be specified (and will be ignored, except an error message will be generated). The actual values used are those set by the system configuration procedure for the adapter. If you have more than one Western Digital Micro Channel LAN adapter installed in your system, you must tell DLL which one to use. The board is referenced by the slot in which it is installed, using the /SLOT parameter. For example, if you have an Ethernet adapter in slot 5, and a Starlan adapter in slot 3, and you wish to run DECnet using the Ethernet adapter, use: DLL /SLOT:5 Although you may specify SLOT when only one adapter is installed, you should let SLOT default, so that if you later move the adapter, you will not need to change AUTOEXEC.BAT or MSNET.INI. 6. Reboot the system. (*) EtherCard PLUS, EtherCard PLUS TP, EtherCard PLUS/A, StarCard PLUS, StarLink PLUS, and StarCard PLUS/A are trademarks of Western Digital Corporation. DEC and DECnet are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. AT is a registered trademark and Micro Channel is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 3Com is a registered trademark of 3Com Corporation.