Asante GigaNIC 1064SX, Installation Manual

Page 1: ...Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX PCI Ethernet Adapter Installation Guide ...

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Page 3: ...Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX PCI Ethernet Adapter Installation Guide Asanté Technologies Inc 821 Fox Lane San Jose CA 95131 February 1999 Part Number 06 00503 00 Rev A Printed in USA ...

Page 4: ...irective 89 336 EEC EN 55022 Class B 1994 EN50082 1 1992 IEC 801 2 IEC 801 3 IEC801 4 1988 Asanté Warranty AsantéTechnologies Inc warrants that this product will be free from defects in title materials and manufac turing workmanship If the product is found to be defective then as your sole remedy and as the manufac turer s only obligation AsantéTechnologies Inc will repair or replace the product T...

Page 5: ...cting the Asanté GigaNIC to the Network 7 Connecting a Duplex SC connector 7 Testing the Adapter 8 Installing Network Drivers 9 Power Macintosh Networks minimum requirements 9 Power Macintosh Open Transport Driver 9 Troubleshooting 13 LED Indicators 13 Overview 13 LED Indicators 14 Using the Diagnostic Program 15 Power Macintosh Diagnostic Program 15 Asanté Driver Local Statistics ADLS Program 16 ...

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Page 7: ...igher 8 5 Recommended The Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI is the ideal solution for band width hungry Web or intranet servers graphic systems engineering worksta tions and imaging systems supporting the Macintosh platform Install the Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI in your existing 100Mbps 100BASE T network to take advantage of the high performance design and high speed 32 64bit PCI bu...

Page 8: ...r PCI supports IEEE 802 3x flow con trol and the IEEE 802 3z Gigabit Ethernet standard The Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI is designed for optimum performance by employing the following features Plug and Play operation for PCI adapters 64 bit PCI bus master at 33 MHz provides 2 Gbps burst throughput to the host computer also supports 32 bit PCI bus master On board independent RX receive andT...

Page 9: ...includes the following software for Power Macintosh computers Asanté GiGaNIC Installer diskette Diagnostic utility software Installation and Setup Overview This section provides a general overview of the steps necessary to install and configure the Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI 1 Install the Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI into your com puter The Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI...

Page 10: ...2 Install the Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI driver soft ware See Installing Network Drivers on page 3 9 for direc tions on configuring the Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI ...

Page 11: ...s or switches on the adapter 1 Turn the power off and remove the computer cover Important A network adapter is sensitive to static elec tricity and must be handled carefully If you do not han dle the adapter properly you can damage it and or your system 2 Align the adapter s edge connector with a PCI bus slot Important The PCI bus slot used must support bus mastering operations ...

Page 12: ... below Important If you are using a Macintosh that has a 32 bit slot i e Power Macintosh 9600 non tower G3 a port tion of the Asanté GigaNIC card will extend outside of the PCI slot This is due to the fact that the bus length is 32 bit and the card length is 64 bit This will not impede performance 3 Replace the computer cover ...

Page 13: ... before connecting it to the network Connecting a Duplex SC connector To connect your Duplex SC connector to the network follow the instructions below 1 Remove the rubber cap or caps if present from the transceiver located on the back plate of the Asanté GigaNIC adapter for PCI card as shown in the following figure Figure 2 1 2 Remove both rubber caps from the ends of the Duplex SC connector that ...

Page 14: ...ing directly into the transceiver should be avoided 4 You are now ready to install the software provided with your Asanté GigaNIC adapter for PCI network interface card as described in Installing Network Drivers on page 3 9 Testing the Adapter Conducting a test is recommended after performing a first time installation of the Asanté GigaNIC adapter for PCI A successful test ensures that the Asanté ...

Page 15: ...ct the performance of the Asanté GigaNIC adapter for PCI Macintosh G3 266 MHz or higher highly recommended Power Macintosh Open Transport Driver The Driver Disk includes Asanté s OpenTransport PCI device driver for the Power Macintosh Asanté s OpenTransport driver supports the AppleTalk and TCP IP protocols simultaneously This section explains how to install the OpenTransport driver for the adapte...

Page 16: ...stating that your Macintosh may need to be restarted after installation is com plete 6 Click the Restart button when the message appears stating that the installation was successful After successfully installing the adapter and the driver you need to configure the AppleTalk control panels on the Macintosh 7 Select Control Panels from the Apple Menu ...

Page 17: ...he AppleTalk control panel then click Save Note To verify the Ethernet connection use the Chooser This displays the availability of network print ers file servers and or shared disks verifying that you are connected to the network If you do not see net work devices in the Chooser check that at least one of the other network devices is powered on before assum ing there s a problem with your Etherne...

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Page 19: ...4 Troubleshooting LED Indicators Overview The figure below shows the LED indicators for the Asanté GigaNIC Asanté GigaNIC RX TX LINK Link Transmit Receive ...

Page 20: ...ition Link Blinking Green Power on 32 bit 1 blink sec 64 bit 2 blinks sec Blinking Yellow Driver has loaded cor rectly but no link exists Solid Green Link established Solid Yellow Link conflict Transmit TX Green Transmitting frames Yellow Transmitting flow control frames Receive RX Green Receiving frames Yellow Receiving flow control frames ...

Page 21: ...ck the diskette icon to open it 6 Double click the Asanté GigaNIC Troubleshooter icon to start the program 7 Click OK in theTroubleshooter start up screen TheTroubleshooter loads and displays the main window with the following tests LoopbackTest verifies the operation of the network interface circuitry and the adapter by transmitting and receiving special packets Ping Pong Test verifies communicat...

Page 22: ...er where the adapter is installed 16 Close the AppleTalk control panel 17 Click Save to save changes Asanté Driver Local Statistics ADLS Program To run the Asanté Driver Local Statistics ADLS program on your Power Macintosh to display the configuration information on the adapter follow the procedure below This software works with the 10 10 100 and Asanté GigaNIC PCI versions of Asanté PCI adapter ...

Page 23: ... the Diagnostic Program Technical Support ForTechnical Support for the MacOS contact AsantéTechnologies Inc 821 Fox Lane San Jose CA 95131 USA http www asante com email support asante com 800 622 7464 or 408 435 8401 ...

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