Asante Technologies 10/100 manual Installing Network Drivers, Network Operating Systems Supported

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Installing Network Drivers

Network Operating Systems Supported

After installing, configuring and testing the Asanté PCI adapter, you are ready to install network drivers and work with your network operating system.

Network operating systems that are supported are:

❏PC Networks: Novell NetWare, Microsoft Windows for Workgroups, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft LAN Manager, Banyan VINES, NDIS- and ODI-compliant operating systems.

❏Power Macintosh Networks: Apple System 7.5 or higher,AppleShare, Novell NetWare for Macintosh, DEC Pathworks,AppleTalk, and MacTCP.

This chapter describes driver installation in the following environments:

❏PC Networks:

❏Novell NetWare 3.x Client

❏Novell NetWare 4.x Client

❏Microsoft Windows 95

❏Microsoft Windows for Workgroups

❏Microsoft Windows NT Workstation

❏Power Macintosh Networks:

❏Power Macintosh Open Transport Driver

In general, the adapter will support a network operating system (NOS) that works with NDIS and ODI drivers. For details about installing your NOS and its drivers refer to the INSTALL.DOC files in each specific NOS subdirectory on the Driver Disk and/or the manuals provided by your NOS.

ΔNote:The same installed driver can be used for 10Mbps or 100Mbps operation with the AsantéFAST10/100 adapter.