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LAN Adapter Support, Universal Serial Bus (USB) Ethernet Support Device Driver. 

©2003, Jonas Buys. 

JBHWIS00001. 

 

 

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a.

 

Double-clicking the USBETHER.EXE file object, when you’re nor 

working in command-line interface (CLI). The three files will be 

created in the same directory or folder the USBETHER.EXE file is in. 

b.

 

Or you can open an OS/2 windows, change the active directory to the 

directory where the USBETHER.EXE file is stored, and the typing 

usbether

 at the OS/2 command prompt, followed by pressing the 

ENTER

 button on your keyboard. 

 

 Once the USBETHER.EXE file is expanded, please continue with the USB     

 Installation Instructions. 

 

3.

 

Open MPTS - Network Adapters and Protocol Services (click right mouse 
button on desktop, select 

System Setup 

menu, double click on MPTS icon 

in System Setup window).  Next, press the 

Configure

 button. 

Select 

LAN adapter and protocols

 and press 

Configure

 button. 

Press 

Other adapters

 button.  Specify a path to the USB Ethernet adapter 

driver files (use default path A: if the files were copied to floppy disk in 

drive A:).  Finally, press 

OK

.  If the path was correct, and the files were 

found, they will now be copied to your hard disk automatically. 

 

4.

 

After the driver and configuration file(s) have been copied to your hard 

disk, you must add the driver to your configuration in MPTS. 

 

5.

 

See FIGURE1.  In the 

Network Adapters

 field, select the 

USB ETHeRnet 

Adapter

.  Click the 

Add

 button below the field.  Now the driver will appear I 

the 

Current Configuration

 field. 

 

6.

 

Now the most important part: you must specify the Vendor ID and the 

Device ID for your network card.  These hexadecimal specifications can be 

found in the section 

Listing of tested USB Ethernet Adapters

, to be 

found later in this document.  If you are using the 3COM USB Network 

Interface 3C19250, then you shouldn’t change these IDs, and you should 

skip this step of installation.  
How should you do this?  Select 

USB ETHeRnet Adapter

 listed in the 

Current Configuration

 field, and click the 

Edit

 button.  That causes a 

Summary of Contents for 3C19250 - USB Ethernet Network Interface...

Page 1: ...eters d USB Ethernet Uninstall Instructions 3 Listing of Tested USB Ethernet Adapters 4 Appendix A Code Discussion 5 Appendix B Linux Driver 6 Appendix D USB Terminology 7 Appendix C Copyright Informa...

Page 2: ...Compatible Hardware List www os2warp be The basic USB support USBBASIC OS 2 Warp device drivers must be installed and loaded OS 2 Warp 3 OS 2 Warp 4 Merlin OS 2 Warp Server for e business Aurora OS 2...

Page 3: ...s Other adapters button Specify a path to the USB Ethernet adapter driver files use default path A if the files were copied to floppy disk in drive A Finally press OK If the path was correct and the f...

Page 4: ...front when entering the IDs Figure 1 The Adapter and Protocol Configuration dialog box 7 Add the required protocols from the Protocols list to the USB Ethernet adapter You can do this by selecting th...

Page 5: ...rp be 9 Press Close button to close Configure dialog box 10 Press Exit button to close MPTS utility 11 Reboot the system This completes the installation procedure You can install any other USB device...

Page 6: ...ven more powerfull installer which was developped in co peration with IBM using OS 2 s unique CID technology eCS 1 1 is a very complete and up to date product and it includes all drivers available via...

Page 7: ...ted entries Product ID and USB Vendor ID to enter respectively the device and munfacturer IDs Where can you enter the hexadecimal numbers In the image above you see the field Product ID will change au...

Page 8: ...USBETHR in case USBETHR is already used M maxNetworkAdapters Specifies the number of network adapters accepted for service 2 4 USB Ethernet Uninstall Instructions 1 Open MPTS Network Adapters and Pro...

Page 9: ...Hardware List Project You can get support for the three devices tested by IBM directly with IBM Costumer Support but they will refuse to help you for other devices Should you have any hardware trouble...

Page 10: ...001 0x0008 Entrega E45 Ethernet adapter USB 0x1645 0x0005 I O DATA USB ET T USB network adapter 0x04bb 0x0901 Jaton USB to Ethernet adapter XpressNET 10Base T 0x087d 0x5704 Linksys USB10T Ethernet net...

Page 11: ...ew Device Report A small windows now opens and lists all technical information From here you can also see the IDs You will soon find out whether the device works or not If the manufacturer assured you...

Page 12: ...er for service At present the driver supports adapters with embedded Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101 chip The default vendor is 3Com Sets the default help text to appear on screen when the user requests help...

Page 13: ...also work with other Linux distributions Since the driver was already present in the Linux kernel and it should be in many major distributions installation was rather simple To install you need the Ke...

Page 14: ...install the kernel image and reboot Note that when you compiled the driver as a module you can load it now by executing the insmod command 6 Appendix C USB Terminology There often seems to be some mis...

Page 15: ...USB devices Increases the data transfer rates from 12Mbps to 480Mbps 60MBps on Hi Speed USB controllers Backwards compatible with the original USB uses the same wires Firewire New port for branching...

Page 16: ...IMPLIED INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION JONAS BUYS CAN UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA NOR TO POSSIBLE DAMAGE OF YOUR COMPUTING SYSTEM This document is also subjected to t...

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