Boca Systems BEN1PI, Installation Manual

Page 1: ...1 Boca s Family of Ethernet Products BOCALANcard PCI Installation Guide PRODUCT CODE BEN1PI ...

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Page 3: ...DIT you should check your DOS manual or seek assistance from you local computer dealer to install the product How to get Technical Assistance The dealer that you purchased this product or your computer from is the first place you should go for technical assistance The dealer is usually the most qualified source of help and is most familiar with your system and how this product should be installed ...

Page 4: ...the product you purchased is of the highest caliber Sometimes however a component may be missing from the box or is damaged or corrupt in some way If this happens immediately return the entire package to your place of purchase so you may exchange it for a new one Your dealer should be able to provide you with an exchange far more quickly than by contacting us directly If for some reason you are un...

Page 5: ...etWare Drivers 21 3 1 1 DOS ODI Client Driver 21 3 1 2 OS 2 ODI Client Driver 24 3 1 3 NetWare Server 4 x Driver 26 3 1 4 NetWare Server 3 11 Driver 31 3 1 5 NetWare Server 3 12 Driver 33 3 2 Microsoft Windows NT NDIS 3 0 36 3 2 1 Microsoft LAN Manager 38 3 2 2 Windows for Workgroups 3 1 3 11 40 3 3 Banyan Vines 44 3 4 Artisoft LANtastic AI 47 3 5 Packet Drivers 50 Section Four Troubleshooting 52 ...

Page 6: ...that cause the LED to flash Use the BENCFG program see p 16 to specify these events Additional Items You May Need to Complete the Installation Suitable tools to install the BOCALANcard PCI Adapter in your computer Some network operating systems require some of their original installation diskettes See your network installation manuals BNC RJ 45 GREEN LED LNK RED LED programmable default is RCV BNC...

Page 7: ...I expansion slots depending on your system PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect is a new standard in motherboard configurations Using a 32 64 bit bus and BIOS configurable adapter cards a PCI motherboard promotes conflict free expansion NOTE If your particular PCI motherboard comes with a slave PCI slot do NOT insert the board into that slot It will not work The board must be inserted into a mast...

Page 8: ...E file in the root directory as well as one in each product specific directory Review these files for the latest information about drivers and installation instructions Novell Compatibility Boca Research Ethernet adapters are hardware compatible with the NE2100 and NE1500T Check if your network operating system has drivers for the NE2100 or NE1500T included with it and use these drivers if they ar...

Page 9: ...air network 10BASE T and a BNC connector to attach to thin coax Features of the Boca Ethernet Adapter Compliant with ISO ANSI IEEE 802 3 specifications Compliant with the PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect 2 0 standard High performance highly integrated one chip solution On board support for connecting to a 10BASE T and 10BASE2 network Employs bus mastering technology Designed to work with PCI ...

Page 10: ...ANcard PCI does not use DMA Easy installation and maintenance Extensive software driver support for popular network operating systems NE2100 and NE1500T driver compatible Low cost solution for networks requiring 10BASE T and 10BASE2 connection One programmable diagnostic LED indicator and one link status LED indicator ...

Page 11: ...ration RJ 45 Introduction Concentrator 10BASE T cable BOCALANcard PCI Sample Configuration BNC BEN1PI LNK GREEN RCV RED RJ 45 BNC 12 12 12 12 BNC Terminator BNC T Connector BOCALANcard PCI Trunk Segment Cable To Server ...

Page 12: ...power cord and unplug the keyboard cable 2 Use a screwdriver to remove the screws which hold the cover in place Obviously locations and types of screws as well as type of case cover will vary based on your particular system Refer to your computer system documentation for assistance 3 Carefully slide the cover forward away from the rear panel Be careful not to let the cover catch on internal cables...

Page 13: ...d so that the edge connector on the bottom rear of the board mates with the PCI socket on the motherboard Secure the board with the mounting screw you just removed Unlike other Ethernet adapter boards the bracket and connectors are on the left side of the board component side up 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 123 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ISA SL...

Page 14: ...twork outlet hub or concentrator as shown below b If attaching to thin coax cable 1 Attach a BNC T Connector to the BNC port on the board Align the notches on the card s BNC connector with those on the T Connector Twist clockwise approximately one quarter turn 2 Is the workstation at the end of the cable segment RJ 45 Connector RJ 45 Cable Wall Jack Hub or Concentrator 123456789 123456789 Punch do...

Page 15: ...the open end of the T connector as shown below 8 Re attach all other external cables and power cords to their original position Installation of the hardware is now complete Go to section 2 3 Adapter Configuration 123 123 123 123 1234 1234 1234 Network cable to adjacent workstation BNC T connector 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 Network cable to adjacent workstation BNC T connector BNC Terminator 50 ...

Page 16: ... your system A INSTALL or B INSTALL ENTER After an introductory screen you are asked which drivers you wish to install Follow all on screen instructions Please note that for some applications such as Windows For Workgroups you will use the setup utilities provided with those applications to load the drivers from the driver diskette Review the README TXT file for additional drivers and information ...

Page 17: ... installed when you select Boca Ethernet Utilities from the installation program 2 3 2 Loading Multiple Boards To load more than one BOCALANcard Ethernet Adapter in your machine you must configure each one separately The network driver must be loaded again for each new adapter board installed in the system For example to load three boards in a NetWare server environment the following must be enter...

Page 18: ...apter s is configured it is no longer necessary to run BENCFG EXE The LED options however reset to their default values whenever your computer is powered down For more information see Appendix F Programmable LED Options To start the configuration utility go to the directory where you installed the Boca Ethernet utilities and type BENCFG ENTER You will see a Main Menu and a settings window The sett...

Page 19: ...BOCALANcard Ethernet Adapter is receiving data from the network 3 Turn on this indicator to view polarity status When ON the Boca Ethernet card is cabled correctly When OFF the negative and positive signals for the receive pair have been swapped The Boca Ethernet card automatically adjusts for this condition This is used for troubleshooting purposes only NOTE these conditions apply ONLY when the n...

Page 20: ...y to determine the value for your LED function is by running BENCFG as described earlier in this section When selecting Save and Exit BENCFG tells you the register number Configuration is complete Go to Section Three Driver Installation 1 Jabber occurs when there are excessively long data packets being transmitted from the node i e workstation server At that point the hub or concentrator partition...

Page 21: ...h IPXODI client and server drivers The ODI Client drivers included on the driver diskette can be used for workstations running on NetWare v 3 x and 4 x Be sure to check your distribution diskettes for current drivers We recommend that the latest available drivers be used 3 1 1 NetWare DOS ODI Client Driver You can load the NetWare BOCANW COM DOS ODI driver through the DOS command line or through a...

Page 22: ... client file BOCANW COM from the driver diskette to the DOSODI directory on your hard drive 2 To change the FRAME type or any other operating characteristics when the driver is loaded you must create a NET CFG file See Appendix E for more details 3 To manually load these files from the DOS prompt each time the system is restarted type the following commands in the given order to initialize DOS ODI...

Page 23: ...IVERS LOCATION LSL COM BOCANW COM IPXODI COM NETX EXE or VLM EXE NOTE use VLM EXE instead of NETX for NDS options 5 If necessary reboot the workstation After NETX is executed and if a server is present it will attach to the server At this point you can log into the network using your NetWare utilities Logging in can be accomplished by typing F ENTER then LOGIN ENTER Refer to the NetWare ODI DOS in...

Page 24: ... 2 requestor for a network supported LAN adapter board If the NetWare supported LAN adapter contains the PCNET BOCALANcard adapter option then select that option otherwise select any other LAN adapter 2 Install the OS 2 ODI Driver BOCANW OS2 from the Boca diskette to the C NETWARE directory of the boot drive See Section 2 2 3 Edit the CONFIG SYS file and replace the NetWare supported LAN adapter d...

Page 25: ...Refer to the NetWare Requestor for OS 2 installation documentation for more information on using protocol other stacks or frame types You can change any default settings when the driver loads by creating the file NET CFG Refer to the NetWare Requestor for OS 2 installation documentation for more information on configuring the NET CFG file NOTE You cannot change the DMA IRQ or I O Port address usin...

Page 26: ...er Disk is the version 4 x server driver labeled BOCANW LAN Two methods to loading this driver are to use the server command line prompted by or to edit AUTOEXEC NCF If you use the server command line you will need to load the driver each time the system is booted If you edit AUTOEXEC it will automatically load the driver each time your system is booted To install the NetWare Server 4 x follow the...

Page 27: ...oot directory on the DOS partition Do not use INT keywords The BOCALANcard PCI requires no keywords to be specified for interrupt channel Make sure that MSM and ETHERTSM files are present in the same directory as BOCANW The BOCANW driver will autoload these files These files should be copied from the diskette from the 4 x subdirectory under the Novell directory Then bind the driver to the IPX prot...

Page 28: ...hannel BIND IPX TO BOCANW NET xxxx Bind to ipx or any other protocol stack Multiple FRAME type support The FRAME keyword should be used with the LOAD command to designate the desired frame type In addition the BOARD keyword must be used in conjunction with the FRAME keyword if no IO Address is specified to support multiple FRAME types The available frame values are the following Ethernet_802 2 Eth...

Page 29: ... memory is low to support multiple frames the buffer size must be increased in the STARTUP NCF in NetWare For example the SET RESERVED BUFFERS should be set to below 32 from the default setting of below 16 The correct syntax is the following Set ReservedBuffersbelow16Meg 32 Single FRAME type support The FRAME keyword should be used with the LOAD command to designate the desired frame type For sing...

Page 30: ...rd LOAD BOCANW For third adapter board LOAD BOCANW ENTER Using BOARD keyword The BOARD keyword may be used with the LOAD command to specify the board number to the selected adapter board This keyword is used to load a different frame type to the same board See the Multiple FRAME support section above for examples using the BOARD keyword Note If IOP IO Port Address is specified then BOARD keyword s...

Page 31: ...1 LAN driver installation documentation Located on the Driver Disk is the version 3 11 server driver labeled BOCANW LAN Two methods for loading this driver are to use the server command line prompted by or to edit AUTOEXEC NCF If you use the server command line you will need to load the driver each time the system is booted If you edit AUTOEXEC it will automatically load the driver each time your ...

Page 32: ...D LSLENH NLM LOAD MSM31X NLM LOAD ETHERTSM NLM LOAD BOCANW LOAD MONITOR only needed for NetWare 3 11 and must use version included on disk ENTER You will need to specify DOS path if the driver is located in a DOS partition No keywords need to be specified for interrupt channel Make sure that LSLENH MSM and ETHERTSM files are present in the same directory as BOCANW The BOCANW driver will autoload t...

Page 33: ...d with NetWare 3 11 has a bug and will crash the system 5 To load the driver using AUTOEXEC you must edit AUTOEXEC NCF First type LOAD INSTALL at the server prompt to access the install utility Open the SYSTEM OPTIONS menu to access EDIT AUTOEXEC Add the following command lines in AUTOEXEC NCF file LOAD LSLENH NLM LOAD MSM31X NLM LOAD ETHERTSM NLM LOAD BOCANW LOAD MONITOR only needed for NetWare 3...

Page 34: ...r installation documentation Located on the Driver Disk is the version 3 12 server driver labeled BOCANW LAN Two methods for loading this driver are to use the server command line prompted by or to edit AUTOEXEC NCF If you use the server command line you will need to load the driver each time the system is booted If you edit AUTOEXEC it will automatically load the driver each time your system is b...

Page 35: ...rver console LOAD BOCANW ENTER This file should be installed from the Boca diskette You will need to specify DOS path if the driver is located in a DOS partition Then bind the driver to the IPX protocol stack by typing BIND IPX TO BOCANW NET xxxx enter Bind to ipx or any other protocol stack 5 You may also add the following two lines to the AUTOEXEC NCF LOAD BOCANW BIND IPX TO BOCANW NET xxxx Driv...

Page 36: ... simply follow the instructions given below to navigate through the menu driven functions in Windows NT 1 Insert the Boca diskette into the system s floppy drive 2 From the Control Panel in the Windows NT Main window double click on the Network icon 3 In the Network Settings dialog box choose Add Adapter 4 In the Add Network Adapter dialog box pull the adapter card list menu and select Other Requi...

Page 37: ...quire IRQ or DMA channel values to be specified 8 Finally close the Setup dialog box and exit from the Add Network adapter dialog box to complete the installation Follow any remaining instructions from Windows NT to reboot your system if required For additional guidelines please refer to the Microsoft Windows NT documentation In addition you may review the README TXT file in the WINNT directory of...

Page 38: ...etter to pull down the Configuration menu ALT C 4 From the Network Adapter Drivers dialog box select the Boca Ethernet driver from the menu if shown Otherwise select Other Driver to import the driver from the Boca diskette 5 Then enter the disk drive letter for the Boca diskette No path is required because the Boca diskette is structured for the Microsoft LAN Manager OEM setup 6 Select the Boca Et...

Page 39: ... complete installation NOTE There are two keywords for changing the transmit and receive buffers via the PROTOCOL INI driver entry These keywords are RXBUFFERS 4 TXBUFFERS 4 If you insert these keywords in the PROTOCOL INI file in the BOCAND driver section it will change the number of transmit and receive buffers Driver Configuration and Installation ...

Page 40: ...d on the driver diskette has been setup for automatic installation Follow the guidelines in the Microsoft Windows for Workgroups User s Guide for more details to install the BOCALANcard PCI driver from the driver diskettes To install the NDIS 2 0 1 driver follow the instructions given below 1 Insert the Boca driver diskette in the system s floppy drive 2 From the Main group in Windows choose the C...

Page 41: ...ose OK 8 A setup dialog box appears displaying the default settings For BOCALANcard PCI adapters no settings need to be specified for one installed adapter 9 Then in the Network Adapters dialog box choose the Close button Then choose the OK button in the Network Settings dialog box 11 Follow the remaining Window instructions to restart the computer to have the driver to take effect Driver Configur...

Page 42: ... has been set up for automatic installation Follow the guidelines in the Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3 11 User s Guide for more details to install the BOCALANcard PCI driver from the driver diskettes To install the NDIS 2 0 1 and or NDIS 3 0 drivers simply follow the instructions given below NOTE During this installation you will need some files from your Windows for Workgroups diskettes 1 In...

Page 43: ...with the Boca driver diskette and specify the WFW311 path to install the drivers For example A WFW311 Then select OK 8 The Boca Ethernet selection will appear under the Network Adapters list Simply select OK to continue No values need to be specified for the Interrupt channel since the BOCALANcard PCI is software configurable 9 Select Close 10 Then select OK to exit Windows for Workgroups 3 11 wil...

Page 44: ...NES For ease of use all of these files were placed in one subdirectory C NDIS 2 Create PROTOCOL INI CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT see below as an example a Modify the PROTOCOL INI to reflect the changes necessary for the appropriate LAN card section b Modify the AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS to reflect changes in the DIRECTORY of where the files are to be placed 3 Run the VINES PCCONFIG to configure t...

Page 45: ... 12 92 6 07p PCCONFIG EXE 61155 02 12 92 6 07p PCCONFIG MSB 5785 02 12 92 6 07p NDISBAN COM 35356 02 12 92 6 07p NETBIND EXE 15639 02 12 92 6 07p NDISBAN DOC 3072 02 12 92 6 07p NDISBAN OVL 15639 02 12 92 6 07p PROTMAN DOS 10649 02 12 92 6 07p User Must Create PROTOCOL INI 3510 05 28 92 11 07a CONFIG SYS 226 05 29 92 10 05a AUTOEXEC BAT 112 05 28 92 05 25p User Must Find BOCAND DOS Driver Configur...

Page 46: ...ications to CONFIG SYS AUTOEXEC BAT and PROTOCOL INI are shown below as an example CONFIG SYS FILES 20 BUFFERS 20 DEVICE C NDIS PROTMAN DOS I C NDIS DEVICE C NDIS BOCAND DOS AUTOEXEC BAT PATH C DOS PROMPT P G C CD NDIS BAN PROTOCOL INI PROTOCOL INI DRIVENAME PROTMAN BOCAND_NIF DRIVENAME BOCAND VINES_XIF DRIVENAME NDISBAN DOS BINDINGS BOCAND_NIF ...

Page 47: ...e LAN You will not be able to run any network software until the Boca driver and the AILANBIO EXE are run Refer to the LANtastic documentation for additional details 1 Copy the Boca driver to the LANTASTI directory Make sure that AILANBIO EXE is also resident The command line for installing the driver is as follows BOCALC EXE AILANBIO EXE must be obtained from Artisoft s LANtastic AI package You c...

Page 48: ...r DOS use therefore you must use a multiplex number between C0h and FFh 2 Using command line switches you can assign different values for the Boca Ethernet adapter driver Example BOCALC EXE MPX D7 AILANBIO EXE MPX D7 ADAPTER 1 The command line switches instruct the NETBIOS to load the BOCALANcard PCI as Adapter number 1 DOS MPX number D7 3 If the driver is installed successfully the BOCALC EXE dri...

Page 49: ...OSE Display verbose information HELP instructs BOCALC EXE to display information about the configuration of the BOCALC EXE driver to be displayed See message section of the LANtastic manual for a detailed description of the VERBOSE output REMOVE command removes the BOCALC EXE driver from memory You must remove TSR terminate and stay resident programs in the opposite order in which they were loaded...

Page 50: ...et Driver BOCAPK COM and associated files to the appropriate directory The packet driver can be loaded from the DOS prompt or through an AUTOEXEC BAT file The command line format for the Packet Driver is BOCAPK n d w int packet_int_no n The n option converts Ethernet type 8137 and Novell PSO like packets This is required if you use a standard boot ROM from Boca and use the Packet Driver and IPX in...

Page 51: ...s not prevent Windows from swapping the network application out of memory it simply detects when this occurs and drops the packet int packet_int_no This is the software interrupt used to communicate with the packet driver The range of this parameter is between 0x60 and 0x80 Refer to Appendix A of INSTALL TXT for more details ...

Page 52: ... The Boca Ethernet adapters have two LEDs that are visible from the rear of the board These status indicators show whether or not the cable is connected along with a programmable LED GREEN Link RED Receive Power on the system connect the network cable and observe the LEDs The green LED shows that it is connected with another 10Base transceiver If the green light is ON then the system is connected ...

Page 53: ...irectory If you are using another type of network NDIS etc read the driver installation instructions again to be sure that all settings are correct Review the installation again and check software setup Also make sure that any of the setting selections you have made do not conflict with devices that are currently in your system You may want to vary the settings on your board to see if it makes a d...

Page 54: ...PUTER MAKE SURE THE ADAPTER HAS BEEN INSERTED IN A PCI BUS CONNECTOR SLOT MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT USING DRIVERS MADE FOR NE2000 COMPATIBILITY THE BOCLANCARD PCI IS NE2100 NOT NE2000 COMPATIBLE REFER TO THE README FILE FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF POSSIBLE ERROR MESSAGES AND SUGGESTED REMEDIES If none of the above isolates and solves the problem refer to Appendix C Servicing Your Boca Product ...

Page 55: ...BASE T twisted pair transceiver with RJ 45 connector 10BASE T operating distance 100 meters 328 maximum hub to node length 10BASE2 thin coax with BNC connector 10BASE2 operating distance 185 meters 607 Diagnostic LEDs link integrity and receive selectable default ...

Page 56: ...use harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case users will be required to correct the interference at their own expense CHANGES OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS EQUIPMENT NOT EXPRESSLY APPROVED BY THE MANUFACTURER COULD VOID YOUR AUTHORITY TO OPERATE THE EQUIPMENT VDE Class B Compliance We hereby certi...

Page 57: ...UT COMPLETE AND ACCURATE INFORMATION CONCERNING YOUR PROBLEM MAY BE BOTH TIME CONSUMING AND FRUSTRATING FOR YOU 1 When calling Boca Research Technical Support have the following information available Board name and part located on the board Computer manufacturer Computer model Peripherals in system Operating system and version 2 Call Boca Research Technical Support Department between the hours of ...

Page 58: ...be billed to you C O D 5 When returning the product to Boca Research Inc for repairs please be sure to include the Boca Research product board only copy of the original invoice your return street address for UPS purposes your phone number and the RMA number mentioned above Package the product securely in a container equivalent to the original packaging and insure the package to protect against los...

Page 59: ...59 Appendix D Pin Out Assignments Pin out assignments for the 10BASE T connector are as follows Pin Out Assignments 8 pin RJ45 Connector Pin 1 Pin 8 Bottom of plug ...

Page 60: ...e NET CFG file to change DMA IRQ or I O port addresses This is done automatically by the PCI BIOS You may also need to see the documentation specific to your protocol for additional NET CFG information Use any DOS text editor to modify the file Conventions Main section headings must be left justified and are not case sensitive The heading must precede the options you want to include in that sectio...

Page 61: ... The following is a sample of the structure of any given NET CFG file LINK DRIVER BOCANW FRAME ETHERNET_802 3 PROTOCOL IPX 00 ETHERNET_802 3 NET CFG Options Link Driver BOCANW DMA 1 2 channel_number PORT 1 2 hex_starting_address hex_number_of_ports NODE ADDRESS hex_address SLOT number FRAME frame_type PROTOCOL name hex_protocol_IDframe_type SAPS number LINKS STATIONS number ALTERNATE MAX FRAME SIZ...

Page 62: ...n The hexadecimal value can be found by running the BENCFG EXE program and choosing the LED options you desire You can also compute the value manually by adding the values of each function you desire to program Listed below are the functions their assigned value and some examples of different configurations Activity Value to be Added COLLISION add 0x01 JABBER add 0x02 RECEIVE add 0x04 NORMAL POLAR...

Page 63: ...ou installed For Novell DOS and OS 2 ODI client drivers use any text editor to edit the NET CFG file Sample NET CFG for DOS ODI Link Driver BOCANW FRAME ETHERNET_802 2 LED1 88 Novell Server driver LOAD BOCANW LAN LED1 88 Artisoft LANtastic AI BOCALC EXE MPX D7 LED1 0x88 NDIS 2 0 1 Windows for Workgroups 3 1 MS LAN Manager Specify the LED1 value in the PROTOCOL INI file under the BOCAND_NIF heading...

Page 64: ...t the address in the Appendix Servicing Your Boca Product with proof of purchase copy of canceled check if any and the Return Merchandise Authorization RMA number provided by BRI Technical Support Refer to the Appendix in this manual Replacement parts or complete products will be furnished on an exchange basis only Replaced parts and or products become the property of BRI If the returned product i...

Page 65: ...d you may also have other rights which vary from state to state Copyright 1994 Boca Research Inc All rights reserved No reproduction of this document in any form is allowed without permission in writing from Boca Research Inc Boca Research is not liable for any damages resulting from technical or editorial errors or omissions contained in this document The information in this manual is subject to ...

Page 66: ...to the licensee are those which have been provided for under this agreement 6 UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL BRI BE HELD LIABLE IN ANY WAY TO ANY PURCHASER FOR DAMAGES LOST REVENUE LOST WAGES OR FOR ANY OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHETHER COVERED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE THE BRI SOFTWARE IS NOT WARRANTED IN ANY WAY AND ITS USE IS THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE LICEN...

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