Jan. 1996 DE-620 Ethernet Card Packet Driver Program ============================= ***************************** * General Installation Tips * ***************************** Packet drivers are general drivers used by many operating systems, specially TCP/IP software packages. If the network system you are installing specifically mentions support for packet drivers, then it is most likely that you will be able to use our provided packet driver without any problems. The most important thing to remember when installing packet drivers is the software interrupt vector. The default interrupt vector for packet drivers is 0x62 hexadecimal. Most softwares supporting packet drivers will try to automatically search for any packet drivers already loaded in the computer's memory. However, some software packages will require you to provide the interrupt vector of the packet driver. Furthermore, some software packages can only work with certain interrupt vectors. With these software packages, you have to add a software interrupt vector parameter when loading the packet driver. Please see the section at the end of this document for description on packet driver parameters. Since the adapters included in the DE-620 Ethernet adapter are all software configurable, the packet driver will automatically detect the hardware parameters. If the packet driver can properly read the adapter's MAC address during loading, then chances are the hardware is working properly. This driver diskette contains specific installation instructions for the following software packages: File Description ------------ ---------------------------------------------------------- 3SHARE.TXT 3Com 3+ Share installation text file DLKTCP.TXT D-Link TCPIP installation text file PCNFS.TXT Sun PC-NFS installation text file PCTCP.TXT FTP PC/TCP installation text file PDIPX.TXT IPX SHELL installation test file Packet Driver Parameters: is the software interrupt vector number used by the packet driver program. This can be from 96 to 128.