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SETUP automatically installs the software (e.g., drivers) required to make the PC Card function properly with the hardware.  SETUP also copies DIAGNOSE and other support programs to the user selected directory.

The following Help Topics are available:

SETUP MODE

Express Setup

Custom Setup

PC CARD INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Installing an Ethernet*Modem Combo Card

SETUP WINDOWS

Create Directory

Network Selection

ODI Network and Frame Type

Combo Card Setup

Select PC Card Type (Custom Mode)

ADDITONAL INFORMATION

Megahertz Point Enabler

NOTE :

System files are backed up to Filename.M00.

Sample: CONFIG.SYS => CONFIG.M00  Restore backup files only immediately following the Megahertz installation. Restoring these files may delete changes made to system files or programs loaded after SETUP was run.  Running the batch file UNINSTAL.BAT from the installation diskette or the installation directory will automatically perform this restoration.

For Help on Help, Press F1


Installing a Modem

If your Card does not function upon insertion, become familiar with the following information before you run SETUP:

•	What version of Card Services are installed on your machine.  If you have C&SS but they are not currently on your machine, install them before running SETUP.  (You can determine whether or not you have Card Services installed by running DIAGNOSE and selecting option C.)

•	Telephone lines with static or noise will cause transmission to be slow, and possibly contain errors.  If your phone has a problem with noise, contact your telephone company to see if they can fix the problem.

•	A single connection from wall to modem will produce the highest transfer speed.

•	If you have call waiting, disable it.  Call waiting generates a tone on the line that causes results similar to static.  It can also cause your modem to disconnect or report NO CARRIER when it is connected to another modem when you receive a call waiting signal.  Call waiting is usually disabled with *70.  Contact your phone company for more details.


Installing an Ethernet*Modem Combo Card

If your Card does not function upon insertion, become familiar with the following information before you run SETUP:

•	What version of Card Services are installed on your machine.  If you have C&SS but they are not currently on your machine, install them before running SETUP.  (You can determine whether or not you have Card Services installed by running DIAGNOSE and selecting option C.)

•	What network operating system you will be accessing with your Card.

•	What your network’s preferred server is, if applicable.  You can get this from your network administrator.

•	If you are installing an ODI driver, know what frame type your network uses.  Get this from your network administrator or manual.

•	Whether you will be using a 10BASE-T or a 10BASE-2 network.  If you do not know, get this information from your network administrator or manual.

•	If you will be using an NDIS client, install the network client software.  The ODI client software is installed during the Megahertz SETUP.

•	Telephone lines with static or noise will cause transmission to be slow, and possibly contain errors.  If your phone has a problem with noise, contact your telephone company to see if they can fix the problem.

•	A single connection from wall to modem will produce the highest transfer speed.

•	If you have call waiting, disable it.  Call waiting generates a tone on the line that causes results similar to static.  It can also cause your modem to disconnect or report NO CARRIER when it is connected to another modem when you receive a call waiting signal.  Call waiting is usually disabled with *70.  Contact your phone company for more details.


Create Directory for PC Card Install

The path C:\MHZ is only a suggested default directory where the PC Card drivers and other support files will be copied.  It is best that this directory does not already exist on your system.  If this directory already exists, enter any unique directory path.

If the directory does not exist, it will automatically be created.


Installing a LAN PC Card

If your Card does not function upon insertion, become familiar with the following information before you run SETUP:

•	What version of Card Services are installed on your machine.  If you have C&SS but they are not currently on your machine, install them before running SETUP.  (You can determine whether or not you have Card Services installed by running DIAGNOSE and selecting option C.)

•	What network operating system you will be accessing with your Card.

•	What your network’s preferred server is, if applicable.  You can get this from your network administrator.

•	If you are installing an ODI driver, know what frame type your network uses.  Get this from your network administrator or manual.

•	Whether you will be using a 10BASE-T or a 10BASE-2 network.  If you do not know, get this information from your network administrator or manual.

•	If you will be using an NDIS client, install the network client software.  The ODI client software is installed during the Megahertz SETUP.


Express Setup

Automatically determines interrupts, memory address, and communication port for the PC Card and sets up the card based on available resources.


Custom Setup

Allows the user to select the interrupts, memory address, and communication port needed to make the PC Card function.


 Megahertz Point Enabler

When a PC Card is reset, information about the card is written to computer memory.  This information is referred to as “tuples.”  These tuples are needed by Card Services or most point enablers to tell the program exactly how to configure the card.

When using the Megahertz point enabler, a 4 kilobyte block of memory needs to be available in upper memory for the PC Card to use when writing out its tuples.  If an extended memory manager, such as EMM386, is loaded before the point enabler is run, then the memory that will be used needs to be excluded from the memory manager’s control.  For example, if you were using the EMM386 extended memory manager, and you wanted to use the block of memory starting at D000:0, then you would add the instruction X=D000-D0FF to the EMM386 command line.

With most PC Cards, this block of memory remains unused until the next time that the point enabler is run.  However, the combo card acts differently.  When both the LAN and the modem portions of the combo card are enabled, the card uses this memory block to give the drivers information about the interrupts.


Select Card Type

If Card Services are installed on your machine, this window will not be displayed to the user because the card type and other setup information can automatically be determined with aid from Card Services.  If you have Card Services but they are not currently on your machine, install them before running SETUP.  Otherwise you will have to select the type of PC Card and other configuration information about that card.


Modem Type

•	14.4 V.32bis Modem  -  International standard of modems operating in asynchronous or synchronous mode up to 14,400 bits per second, full duplex, on public switched telephone networks.

•	28.8 V.34 Modem  - International standard of modems operating in asynchronous or synchronous mode up to 28,800 bits per second, full duplex, on public switched telephone networks.  V.34 technology boosts modem performance by allowing the faster transmission speed of 28,800bps, eliminates transmission slowdowns and data errors, and speeds up the handshaking process.

•	RPI Modem - Modem that uses a special windows communication driver that will do error correction and data compression on the host instead of the PC Card.


Ethernet LAN

A LAN standard that defines a physical medium and the method of placing data on a cable.  It has a 10-megabits-per-second baseband and CSMA/CD.  It is now governed by the IEEE 802.3 committee.


Ethernet*Modem Combo Card

This card allows you to connect to a LAN and an analog telephone line at the same time.  When the card is inserted (or when ENABLE is run if Card Services are not loaded), only the modem portion of the card is enabled.  The LAN functionality is enabled when the LAN drivers are loaded.


Other PC Card

The Megahertz ENABLE program will only recognize Megahertz modem and LAN cards.  This can occasionally cause problems if ENABLE tries to configure a card that it does not handle.  SETUP allows you the option to reserve a slot that ENABLE will ignore.  You can then have other cards use this slot without ENABLE interfering.


Select Network Window

See your Network Administrator to determine the network you are using and the type of wire connection .   If using a Novell Network, you will also need to know the Preferred Server Name and the Frame Type currently being used.

Available Network Selection:

•	Novell Netware

•	Banyan Vines

•	Microsoft Windows for Workgroups

•	Artisoft LANtastic

•	Other NDIS-based network operating system

10BASE-2 : The IEEE standard for a 10-megabit-per-second network on a thinnet (thin coaxial cable).  The maximun segment length is 185 meters for standard Ethernet, or 300 meters if all devices support the Extended Length cabling standard.  Uses a BNC connector.

Sample of 10BASE-2 Connection:

10BASE-T : The IEEE standard for a 10-megabit-per-second network  on twisted pair cable. Uses an RJ45 Connector.

Sample of 10BASE-T Connection:


Combo Card Setup Window

LAN IRQ : The LAN portion of the card needs to have an IRQ assigned to it.  This IRQ is used to notify the LAN drivers that a packet has arrived.  If you are using both the modem and LAN portions of the combo card under DOS, the LAN IRQ needs to be on the same PIC as the modem IRQ.  This means that if the modem IRQ is less than 8, that the LAN IRQ needs to be less than 8 as well.  Likewise, if the modem IRQ is greater than 8, the LAN IRQ needs to be greater than 8.

LAN Port: This is the 16-byte register window on the I/O bus that is used by the LAN driver to talk to the LAN itself.  It is usually set at 300h or 320h, but can be set at any free location evenly divisible by 20h.  (Due to limitations of the ISA bus, the window cannot be set any higher than 3E0h.)

Modem IRQ: The modem portion of the card needs to have an IRQ assigned to it.  This IRQ is used to notify the Communications program that the modem has information to be processed.  Most DOS-based Communications programs require an IRQ that is 7 or less, but Microsoft Windows-based programs can communicate with a modem on any IRQ.

Modem Port: This is the 8-byte register window on the I/O bus that is used by the Communications program to talk to the modem itself.  Most Communications programs recognize 4 windows, which are labeled COM 1 - 4.  Each of these COM port windows maps to standard locations, and this conversion is handled automatically by SETUP and ENABLE.

Memory Address: When ENABLE is used as a point enabler, it requires a 4 kilobyte memory window every time it enables a card.  If you are using a memory manager, such as EMM386, this memory range needs to be excluded by it.  This can be done by adding an exclusion to the line in CONFIG.SYS that calls the memory manager.  For example, to have EMM386 exclude the memory window starting at D000h, you would add the statement X=D000-D0FF after the EMM386 statement (on the same line).  This exclusion is performed automatically by SETUP.


Card Setup

LAN IRQ : The LAN portion of the card needs to have an IRQ assigned to it.  This IRQ is used to notify the LAN drivers that a packet has arrived.  If you are using both the modem and LAN portions of the combo card under DOS, the LAN IRQ needs to be on the same PIC as the modem IRQ.  This means that if the modem IRQ is less than 8, that the LAN IRQ needs to be less than 8 as well.  Likewise, if the modem IRQ is greater than 8, the LAN IRQ needs to be greater than 8.

LAN Port: This is the 16-byte register window on the I/O bus that is used by the LAN driver to talk to the LAN itself.  It is usually set at 300h or 320h, but can be set at any free location evenly divisible by 10h.  (Due to limitations of the ISA bus, the window cannot be set any higher than 3F0h.)

Modem IRQ: The modem portion of the card needs to have an IRQ assigned to it.  This IRQ is used to notify the Communications program that the modem has information to be processed.  Most DOS-based Communications programs require an IRQ that is 7 or less, but Microsoft Windows-based programs can communicate with a modem on any IRQ.

Modem Port: This is the 8-byte register window on the I/O bus that is used by the Communications program to talk to the modem itself.  Most Communications programs recognize 4 windows, which are labeled COM 1 - 4.  Each of these COM port windows maps to standard locations, and this conversion is handled automatically by SETUP and ENABLE.


Network and Frame Type

Preferred Server: Some networks have more than one file server attached.  The Preferred Server is the server chosen if more than one is available.  See your Network Administrator to determine the Preferred Server Name needed as your default.

Frame Type: Networks send information from one computer to another in a block of data called a packet.  A packet is a group of bits (data and control characters) that are transmitted as a whole.  The packet standards are:

•	Ethernet 802.2

•	Ethernet 802.3

•	Ethernet II

•	Ethernet SNAP

See your Network Administrator to determine the frame type to use.


Thinnet

A cabling scheme using RG-58 50-ohm coaxial cable.  Also called Thin Ethernet.


Twisted Pair Cable

Wiring consisting of two insulated wires loosely twisted around each other.  This helps reduce noise on circuits.


Wireless PC Card

A Wireless PC Card is used for remote connection to a network via RF air waves.  No cable connection is required.


Installing a Wireless PC Card

If your Card does not function upon insertion, become familiar with the following information before you run SETUP:

•	What version of Card Services are installed on your machine.  If you have C&SS but they are not currently on your machine, install them before running SETUP.  (You can determine whether or not you have Card Services installed by running DIAGNOSE and selecting option C.)

•	Low signal strength will cause transmission to be slow, and possibly contain errors.  If your network connection has a problem, contact your service provider to see if they can fix the problem.