Network Card Drivers That Must Load in Conventional Memory

SUMMARY

To operate correctly, certain network card drivers require that you load them into conventional memory. These cards all use bus-mastering direct memory access (DMA) for transferring data, which prevents the drivers from being loaded into the upper memory blocks (UMBs).

Below is a list of these network adapters and the corresponding driver names.

   Network card                                Driver name
   -------------------------------------------------------

   Advanced Micro Devices AM2100/AM1500T        AM2100.DOS
   DLINK DE500 VLB                               DE500.DOS
   Exos 105                                     AM2100.DOS
   Novell/Anthem NE1500T                        AM2100.DOS
   Novell/Anthem NE2100                         AM2100.DOS
   Zenith Data Systems Z-Note                   I82593.DOS
				

For testing, load the network drivers into conventional memory by replacing the NET START line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT with the following line: