CardBus 10/100 Fast Ethernet PC Card User Manual CAUTION: Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the grantee of this device could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
REGULATORY STATEMENTS FCC Certification The United States Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and the Canadian Department of Communications have established certain rules governing the use of modems and other electronic equipment. FCC Part 68 Registration The high speed PC card FAX/MODEM is registered with the FCC as compliant with the rules of Part 68, and use of this modem is subject to the following restrictions: 1.
Items (b) and (d) are indicated on the label. The Ringer Equivalence Number (REN) is used to determine how many devices can be connected to your telephone line. In most areas, the sum of the REN’s of all the devices on any one line should not exceed 5.0. If too many devices are attached, they may not ring properly. FCC Part 15 Registration This modem complies with Part 15 of FCC rules.
to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). However, due to differences between the individual PSTNs provided in different countries, the approval does not, of itself, give an unconditional assurance of successful operation on every PSTN network termination point. In the event of problems, you should contact your equipment supplier in the first instance. This device is designed to work with the notified networks in all EC member states.
Table of Contents CTR 21 PAN-EUROPEAN CERTIFICATION ...............3 TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................1 ABOUT THIS MANUAL .......................................1 System Requirements.........................................1 OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS .................................2 INTRODUCTION TO CARDBUS........................3 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...........................5 Inserting the CardBus Dual-Speed PC Card ....5 Removing the CardBus Dual-Speed PC Card...
ABOUT THIS MANUAL This manual will explain how to install and use your 10/100Mbps dual speeds Fast Ethernet PC Card. The following guideline will help you through the installation process. Chatper 1 presents you the basic information about the CardBus technology. It also provides some methods to ensure your notebook are CardBus equipped and correctly configured. After you already make sure your mobile computer is ready to run CardBus 10/100M Ethernet PC Card.
PCMCIA PC Card compliant Card Services and Socket Services 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet or 10BaseT Ethernet connectivity to your local area network. Operating Environments Windows 95, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98/ME Windows 2000 Novell Netware 3.x, 4.x Microsoft Windows NT 3.51, NT 4.
INTRODUCTION TO CARDBUS Cardbus is the next generation 32-bit version issued by PCMCIA PC Card standard. In addition to support a wider bus (32 bits instead of 16 bits), CardBus also supports bus mastering and operation speeds up to 33 MHz. The 132MBytes bus transfer rate (compares with legacy 16-bit I/0 PC Card, 20MByte) provides the mobile user to enjoy the high-bandwidth network connection.
Due to variant design of notebook computers, some models implement a setting in the Computer’s BIOS to switch between Cardbus and 16-bit PC Card modes. You could consult the User’s Guide of your notebook and properly set on the CardBus or Auto_Detect mode.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION This chapter describes how to install the CardBus 10/100M dual-speed PC Card in your notebook computer and connect it to network. It’s referred to “the PC Card” in this manual. The PC Card could be connected to either 100Mbps Fast Ethernet or 10Mbps Ethernet. The PC Card has the ability of automatic sensing and operating on either speed without manual recofiguration. After finishing the installation of PC Card into your Notebook, please refer to Chapter.
N otebook Po we C rA T NK LI Connecting to the Network Connect RJ-45 port of the CardBus 10/100 Ethernet PC Card Adapter to the Category 5 Network cable before loading any network driver. For operation in the 100Mbps (100Base-TX) Ethernet network, a Category 5 unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable should be used to connect between the RJ-45 port and 100Mbps hub or switch.
LED Indicators P ow 4 AC er T LIN 1 K 2 3 1. RJ-45 port: connects to the Category 5 Ethernet Network Cable. 2. LINK 10 LED indicator: glows green when operated in the 10Mbps Ethernet network. 3. LINK 100 LED indicator: glows green when operated in the 100Mbps Ethernet network. 4. ACT LED indicator: blinks orange when the CardBus 10/100 Ethernet Attached Port PC Card Adapter is transmitting/receiving data.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION Extensive software drivers have been developped for CardBus 10/100M PC Card including DOS-Mode, Microsoft Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT. Some of the Operating Systems and PC Card/Socket Services haven’t been well implemented to support new CardBus technology at the present time. Our unique drivers and utility enable the CardBus 10/100M Ethernet PC Card to run almost all the major environments.
Determining the Version of Windows 95 1. After successfully booting and login the Windows 95. Click on the Start Button. 2. Select the Settings. 3. Select the Control Panel. 4. Within the Control Panel, double-click the System icon. 5. Select the General Tab, this system information will displayed that like the following figure.
4.00.950 or 4.00.950a is first released Windows 95 which doesn’t support CardBus. Refer to Native Windows 95 section for installation. 4.00.950B is Windows 95 with OEM Service Release #2, which supports both PC Card and CardBus PC Card. Refer to OSR2 Windows 95 or Later section for installation. Native Windows 95 Though Non-OSR2 Windows 95 doesn’t support CardBus PC Card, you could use our driver to run the CardBus 10/100M Ethernet PC Card. 1. Insert the Cardbus 10/100M Ethernet PC Card into the socket.
9. Insert the Drives Disk. 10. Enter A:\ in the input box. Click OK. ( Or type the path named wherever you place driver programs) the 11. Select the “CardBus Fast Ethernet 10/100 Adapter manual load” 12. Click OK. A dialog box will appear to adjust the driver's settings. The resources assignment to adapter should be uniqe in the system. 13. The Newwork window reopens. 14. Click OK. 15. Insert your original Windows 95 CD or disk set. Input the drive, which contains the source. Click OK 16.
. For the first time installation, you need to go to the Network in the Control Panel to setup the protocols, clients and services properly according to your need. Note: If you start the computer without the CardBus 10/100 Ethernet PC Card installed in the socket, the native Windows 95 system will prompt you the warning message “Your Network Adapter CardBus Fast Ethernet 10/100 Adapter manual load” [0001] is not working properly. You may need to set it up again.
3. Click The Others Locations button. 4. Insert driver diskette into the floopy disk. 5. Type A:\ .The driver will be installed and you may be asked for the original Windows 95 CD/disks. 6. For the first time installation, please click Network icon in Control Panel to add Protocols, Client and Service if you needed 7. Reboot the machine and the card will function well. Windows 98/ME Installation 1.
2. Select Search for the best driver for your device(recommended) and click Next. 3. Select Floppy disk drives and click Next to proceed searching.
4. Windows has found the appropriate driver for the network device. Click Next to install. If Windows asks you to supply the original Windows 98/ME installation CD-ROM, you’ll need to place it into the CD-ROM drive for the software installation need. 5. Wait for a while until the file copy is finished.
6. Click Finish. The software installation is successfully completed. Windows 2000 Installation 1. When the CardBus 10/100 Ethernet Attached Port PC Card Adapter is well inserted into the PC Card slot of your system, the following dialog box will appear automatically. Click Next to proceed.
2. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device(recommended) and click Next. 3. Insert the network device driver into the disk drive and click Next. Windows will start searching for the appropriate driver for the software installation.
4. Wait for a while until the appropriate driver is found. 5. Click Yes to continue.
6. Click Finish. The software installation is successfully completed. Windows NT 4.0 Installation Assumed that the Network Services already installed in the NT 4.0 system. 1. Insert the CardBus 10/100 Ethernet Attached Port PC Card Adapter into any one of PC Card Slots in the system 2. Power on Windows NT 4.0 3.
4. Open Control Panel icon 5. Double-click the Network icon 6. Select Adapters tab. 7. Press Add to add network adapter 8. Press Have Disk button 9. Insert the driver disk into floppy drive 10. Specify the path to “ A:\” and press OK. ( Or type the path name wherever you place the driver programs) 11. A dialog box will appear to adjust the driver's settings. The resources assignment to the adapter must be unique in the system. 12. Press OK when all setting are completed. 13.
5. Restart now to have the card take effect. DOS Mode Installation The pure DOS mode , not the DOS prompt under the Windows 95 or Windows NT, doesn’t support any PC Card device. Many BIOS vendors develop the Card services and Socket Sevices for DOS. Because the CardBus technology is new to market, all the current shipping versions of Card and Socket Services don’t support CardBus PC Card. We implements the DOS driver sets with this acknowledge in mind.
2. Select Netware 3.x and 4.x Workstation” item from menu. 3. Move cursor to focus on the setting you want to make change and press ” to select a fit value. When the configurations are set completely, press on the OK” field to exit the screen and go back to step 3. 4. Installation program starts copying related files from diskette to the destination directory and modifies AUTOEXEC.BAT and NET.CFG under user’s agreement 5. Now, the installation is completed.
If you wanted to install the ODI driver by manual, you may follow the instruction list below. 1. Copy the files CB103.COM and NET.CFG from the path \NETWARE in the driver diskette into the Netware client directory containing Novell's LSL.COM, IPXODI.COM and NETx.COM files. 2. Using a text editor to edit the NET.CFG for setting the default frame type. In the Netware server the frame type is set to 802.3 for NW3.11 and 802.2 for NW3.12 and NW4.x .
>LSL ;Link Support Layer Module provided by Novell >CB103 ;Hardware Specific Module >IPXODI ;IPX provided by Novell >NETx Novell Protocol Stack Module ;Shell Support Module provided by >LOGIN Novell Client Installation 1. Run the NetWare Client Install V1.21 -Get the 4 Client disks from the network administrator, or -Run the \NWCLIENT\INSTALL.EXE in a previous Installation 2. A message appears on the screen asking you whether or not you want the program to perform modifications on your AUTOEXEC.
6. The program displays the following: -Configure your workstations for backup by a NetWare server running software such as BACKUP? (Y/N): 7. Answer accordingly and provide a path if necessary. 8. Select a driver for your network board. 9. From the driver list, select Other Drivers. 10. Go to the Insert the Driver Disk dialog box and specify the path where the ODI driver and INS files reside. For example: C:\ODI.DOS. 11. Press Enter and select the target ODI driver. 12.
15. An STARTNET.BAT for the workstation performs as the following ODI SET NWLANGUAGE=ENGLISH --Set NetWare 4.X to English language LSL--Link Support Layer Module provided by Novell CB103--Hardware Specific Module IPXODI--IPX Protocol Stack Module provided by Novell VLM--DOS Support Module provided by Novell F:--Change to connected device LOGIN xxx--Login to file server as user xxx 16. Run STARTNET to access the Novell network.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS This chapter provides a number of examples of Questions (Q:), Causes (C:), and Answers (A:). If your LAN is not functioning properly, look up the problem here, or ask your dealer for technical assistance. Q:When I run the DOS real mode driver, it reports that “CardBus PC Card are not present”, but I did install the CardBus PC Card in the slot? A:Currently, there are no PC Card/Socket Service which supports CardBus socket in the DOS mode.
Q:When I run the DOS real mode driver, it reports that “PCI-to-CardBus bridge are not present”, but my notebook is equipped with the CardBus socket? A:Some notebook computer, for example, Toshiba, needs to enable the System’s BIOS setting to support CardBus environment. Pleae check your user manual to find the detail information. Q:How come I see the message “UnKnown PCI-to-CardBus bridge” when I try to load the driver in DOS mode? A:The CardBus controller is rolling out from time to time.
A:The default frame type for NetWare 3.11 and before is 802.3 but it is changed to 802.2 in NetWare 4.x and 3.12. You may check the content of NET.CFG to see if the frame type is acceptable by the server. If the frame type cannot accept by server, please edit NET.CFG to change the frame type at client site or add the frame type can be accepted at sever site driver.
SPECIFICATIONS Network Interface Specifications: 10Mbps Ethernet:IEEE 802.3 standard 10BaseT baseband CSMA/CD local area network. 100Mbps Ethernet:IEEE 802.3u standard 100Base-TX baseband CSMA/CD local area network. 20/200Mbps full duplex support Autonegotiation between all four operation modes. Host Interface and Physical Specifications: Cardbus PC Card Standard compliant. Type II PC Card form factor 3.37” x 2.128” x 0.197” (86mm x 54mm x 5.0mm) 40gw in weight Operating Environments: Novell NetWare 3.x, 4.
Windows 95, 98/ME, 2000 Lantastic 6.0 Power Requirements: Normal Operation:+3.3V DC, 10M: 107mA Max; 100M: 104mA Max Idle Mode:+3.
