Gigafast EE102-AEX, User Manual

Page 1: ...CardBus 10 100M Ethernet card User Manual Version 1 2 ...

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Page 3: ...l may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interfer ence in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the parties respon sible for compliance could void the user s au t hority to operate t he equipment About this man...

Page 4: ...NT 11 Driver installation for Windows 95 12 Driver installation for Windows 98 14 Driver installation for Windows 2000 17 Driver installation for Windows ME 21 Driver installation for Windows NT 4 0 24 CHAPTER 4 28 Driver installation for DOS environments 28 System Requirements 28 Driver installation 28 Driver installation program 28 Quick installation 29 The Install program 30 Using the Install p...

Page 5: ...oft LANtastic version 6 0 40 CHAPTER 5 41 Installation for Linux 41 Before Installation 41 Install Driver 42 APPENDIX A 45 Troubleshooting 45 Q A for Windows environments 45 Windows 95 98 45 Windows NT 4 0 46 Windows 2000 46 ...

Page 6: ...service drivers for the CardBus controller installed you will still be able to use the card by running the enabler program Features 5 0 mm Type II credit card size Complies to IEEE 802 3 10Base T and IEEE 802 3u 100Base TX Complies to PCMCIA 1995 PC Card Standard PC Card standard 68 pin 32 bit CardBus Interface 10 100Mbps auto sensing capability Full Half duplex auto negotiation supported for both...

Page 7: ...t connector at one end and female RJ 45 connector at the other end Quick installation guide Driver and this user s manual Hardware description The CardBus 10 100Mbps Ethernet Card is encased in a stainless compact frame that is easily transportable It has a 68 pin connector and a 15 pin flat connector for attach ing to the Notebook and Ethernet adapter cable respectively Please take note that the ...

Page 8: ... the CardBus Ethernet Card Follow the procedure below to install the Ethernet Card 1 With the card s 68 pin connector facing the notebook s CardBus slots slide the card all the way into an empty slot Do not force the connection Figure 2 3 Inserting the Ethernet Card 2 Plug the RJ 45 adapter into the Ethernet Card s 15 pin connector ...

Page 9: ...k Connecting to a hub Figure 2 5 Connecting to the network After you have inserted the Ethernet Card you must install the drivers If your oper ating system is Windows 98 Window 95 Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 2000 refer to Chapter 3 If your operating system is DOS environment network operating sys tem refer to Chapter 4 If your operating system is Linux refer to Chapter 5 Ethernet Card RJ 45 connecto...

Page 10: ...tes the connection speed When off the connection speed is 10 Mbps When on the connection speed is 100 Mbps LNK Indicates whether the link is active or not When lit indicates that the link is active When off indicates that the link is inactive Disconnecting the Ethernet Card The Ethernet Card RJ 45 connector is designed to lock in place when connected to the Ethernet Card The following illustration...

Page 11: ...he notebook to remove the card The card is hot swappable mdash you can remove the card when the notebook is powered on However Microsoft recommends that you stop the card Refer to your Win 95 98 2000 online help for information on stopping the Ethernet Card Most notebooks have an eject lever or button for ejecting PC cards from the PC ports Consult your notebook s user s manual for details NOTE Do...

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Page 13: ... can check the General system properties To get the general system properties double click the System icon from the Control Panel The version of Windows 95 OSR2 is 4 00 950 B Make sure the version of your Windows 95 is correct Next check whether your notebook PCMCIA controller supports CardBus You can check it from Device Manager If the PCMCIA socket is shown to be PCIC or TCIC compatible Controll...

Page 14: ...Ethernet card is just the same as for any normal Windows 95 Plug Play device Follow the steps below to install the driver in Windows 95 1 Insert the CardBus Ethernet card into an available CardBus slot in your notebook 2 After Windows 95 detects the card the Update Device Driver Wizard window appears ...

Page 15: ...E NT 13 3 Insert the driver disk and click Next to continue the installa tion Windows searches for the driver and the following screen appears 4 Click Finish to continue Windows 95 copies driver files to the hard disk ...

Page 16: ...ow the steps below to install the CardBus Ethernet card drivers for Windows 98 1 Insert the CardBus Ethernet card into an available CardBus slot on your notebook 2 After Windows 98 detects the CardBus Ethernet card the Add New Hardware Wizard window appears 3 Click Next to continue the installation A screen appears prompting you to select an installation method ...

Page 17: ...ch for the best driver for your device Recom mended and click Next The following screen appears 5 Ensure that the floppy disk drive box is checked 6 Insert the driver disk into your floppy drive and click Next The following screen appears ...

Page 18: ...hernet card user manual 16 7 Click Next Windows 98 copies files to your hard disk drive and you see the following screen 8 Click Finish Note Windows 98 may need to copy re quired system files and will prompt you ...

Page 19: ...ion for Windows 2000 Follow the steps below to install the CardBus Ethernet card drivers for Windows 2000 1 Insert the CardBus Ethernet card into an available CardBus slot on your notebook 2 After Windows 2000 detects the CardBus Ethernet card the Found New Hardware Wizard window appears 3 Click Next to continue the installation A screen appears prompting you to select an installation method ...

Page 20: ...d user manual 18 4 Select Search for a suitable driver for my device rec ommended and click Next The following screen appears 5 Ensure that the Specify a location box is checked and click Next The following screen appears ...

Page 21: ...Win 95 98 2000 ME NT 19 6 Type A Win2000 w here A Insert the driver disk and click OK The following screen appears 7 Click Next to continue The following screen appears ...

Page 22: ...user manual 20 8 Click Yes to continue the installation 9 Windows copies files and the following screen appears 10 Click Finish to complete the installation You should reboot the computer to insure a successful installation ...

Page 23: ...ernet card drivers for Windows ME 1 Insert the CardBus Ethernet card into an available CardBus slot on your notebook 2 After Windows ME detects the CardBus Ethernet card the Add New Hardware Wizard window appears 3 Select Specify the location of the driver Advanced and click Next The following screen appears ...

Page 24: ...er manual 22 4 Select Search for the best driver for your device Recom mended and choose Specify a location Type A WinME where A is your floppy driver letter In sert the driver disk and click Next The following screen appears ...

Page 25: ...rive and you see the following screen 6 Click Finish Note Windows ME may need to copy re quired system files and will prompt you to input the path to the files Follow the instructions on your screen then click OK to continue You should reboot your system to finish the installation ...

Page 26: ...click the Network icon in the Control Panel If it has not been in stalled refer to the Windows NT 4 0 installation guide for instructions on installing the component Follow the steps below to install the driver 1 Insert the CardBus Ethernet card into an available CardBus slot on your notebook 2 Log in to NT 4 0 as Administrator 3 Double click the Network icon in the Control Panel and select the Ad...

Page 27: ...to add a new adapter The following screen ap pears 5 Click Have Disk The following screen appears 6 Type A WinNT40 w here A Insert the driver disk and click OK After finding the installation file the Select OEM Option window is displayed ...

Page 28: ...the desired resources and connection type Note You must select resources that are not being used by another device other wise you will have a system conflict error In case of a system conflict er ror try another setting and continue 9 Click OK to continue Windows will configure the Card Bus Ethernet card You are returned to the Network window ...

Page 29: ...ow Windows NT 4 0 will bind the adapter with the network component and you will be prompted to restart the system When Windows NT is finished binding the adapter to the network component you are prompted to restart the system 11 Click Yes to finish the installation ...

Page 30: ... PC Card Standard or higher Software Requirements The Card Socket service drivers should comply with PCMCIA 1995 PC Card Standard or higher Driver installation You must install the CardBus 10 100Mbps Ethernet Card drivers before your computer system can recognize your Ethernet Card The following sections cover client driver installation Driver installation program INSTALL is the CardBus 10 100Mbps...

Page 31: ...o automatically configure itself While the system is on available system resources and insertion or removal of the card will automatically be detected 2 Run the INSTALL EXE program found on your driver disk The install program guides you through the installation process and will install the network drivers needed to run the card on your network operating system If you successfully completed the in...

Page 32: ... not connect to the network refer to Appendix A The Install program Before you can use your CardBus 10 100Mbps Ethernet Card you need to install and modify some files in your computer system You can make these changes manually or you can let the INSTALL EXE program make them for you This section explains how you can use the INSTALL EXE program to install the enablers and the files needed by the ne...

Page 33: ...31 Press Enter to continue the installation The program prompts you for the directory where you want to in stall the driver files You can choose the default directory name or enter a new name Then press Enter to continue with the instal lation ...

Page 34: ...installation and use the default configuration settings If you wish to individually set any of the settings then select Custom Configuration Auto configuration If you selected Auto Configuration the program auto detects which IRQ and I O Port the CardBus 10 100Mbps Ethernet Card can use After successfully auto detecting the configuration the program shows the following screen ...

Page 35: ...network that you are installing Select a network operating sys tem from the list by moving the cursor to your selection and pressing Enter After selecting the network operating system the INSTALL pro gram will copy and modify files on your boot drive Your CONFIG SYS file will also be modified to include the Enabler ...

Page 36: ... Configuration Menu after you begin the INSTALL program After selecting the Custom Installation Menu you see a series of submenus prompting you to select an IRQ and I O address Interrupt select The first submenu is the Interrupt submenu Move the cursor to the interrupt of your choice and select it by pressing Enter Inter rupts available for your CardBus 10 100Mbps Ethernet Card include 9 10 11 12 ...

Page 37: ...Driver installation for DOS environments 35 IO port select Move the cursor to the desired I O address and press Enter Available I O Ports are D000H D400H D800H E000H E400H and E800H ...

Page 38: ...This section explains how to manually make driver and file modifi cations to enable your card Enablers You can use RTPCI EXE to enable the CardBus 10 100Mbps Eth ernet Card The RTPCI program The program RTPCI EXE communicates with the PC Card control ler of your computer This program is needed only for DOS environment network operating systems You may install the Socket and Card Services to your n...

Page 39: ...where Display this message h Display this message l List PCI config space r IRQ routing 1 PCI 2 ISA s Socket number dec 0 1 I IRQ line number dec 00 15 p I o base address hex 1000 FF80 m Mem base address hex C000 FFC0 After you executed RTPCI EXE you will see a display similar to the following indicating that the installation was successful I o hole 1000 Mem hole CC00 IRQ 1 I O 100h MEM CC00h SOCK...

Page 40: ...ur Ethernet Card 1 Run INSTALL EXE and choose Windows for Workgroups 2 Run Windows by typing WIN at the DOS prompt 3 Click the Network icon in the Main Program Group 4 Click the Network Setup icon from the Network window 5 Select the Drivers item from the Network Setup dialog box 6 Select the Add Adapters item in the Option dialog box 7 Select Unlisted or Updated Network Adapter when the Install d...

Page 41: ...allation 3 Reboot the computer 4 When the computer reboots log on to the network Microsoft LAN Manager Follow these instructions to install the Microsoft LAN Manager cli ent for your Ethernet Card 1 Run the INSTALL program and choose LAN Manager 2 Type lmsetup in the LAN Manager Directory Press Enter 3 Select Network Drivers in Configuration Press Enter 4 Select Add New Configs and then press Ente...

Page 42: ...he Artisoft LANtastic Version 6 0 client for your Ethernet Card 1 Run the INSTALL program and choose LANtastic 2 Select Artisoft LANtastic and specify C LANTASTI as the destination directory 3 When the Select network adapter screen appears choose NDIS Support for Network Adapters 4 When the install program prompts you for the manufacturer s driver disk in the Enter NDIS driver directory screen ins...

Page 43: ... 5 2 Redhat 6 0 Redhat 6 2 The complete file list is as follows README makefile rtl8139 c en0100r o Before Installation Before you start rebuilding the driver you must have PCMCIA binaries and source installed in your system PCMCIA module version 3 0 9 or later are quaranteed to work well with this driver Latest version of PCMCIA module is available at ftp sourceforge com Also if you have ...

Page 44: ...lems with when module ver sion is set Install Driver 1 To login as the root 2 To copy the driver code from the floppy diskette simply do mcopy a Linux en0100r v1 0 tgz gzip cd en0100r v1 0 tgz tar xvf cd en0100r v1 0 3 To generate the driver Modify the PCMCIASRC variable in your makefile to the location of your PCMCIA source Modify the KERN_VER variable in your makefile After you finish the modifi...

Page 45: ...lowing text into the config file The mode of the config file must be the write mode vi config device en0100r_cb class network module cb_enabler en0100r_cb card CardBus 10 100Mbps Ethernet Card manfid 0x018a 0x0106 bind en0100r_cb To configure the PCMCIA NIC interface vi network opts 6 To reboot the Linux shutdown r now ...

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Page 47: ...ion To prevent this phenomenon from occurring stop the card by using the PC Card tool in the Control Panel or the PC Card icon on the taskbar before you remove the card Problem The card cannot be detected when reinserted Cause This is caused by certain unstable CardBus status lines when the card is removed and reinserted The Windows 95 98 drivers may read an incorrect status during this period of ...

Page 48: ...If you want to remove the card shut down the computer and remove it Windows 2000 Question What is the Microsoft digital signature Answer Drivers that pass Microsoft Windows 2000 certifi cation receive a digital signature file from Microsoft The CardBus Ethernet card does not have such a digital signa ture however it is fully compatible with Windows 2000 ...

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