Installing the NetWare Driver

Installing and Conﬁguring the NetWare Driver

Slot Numbers for Multiple NICs

If you are installing more than one NIC on a server, you must know which NIC corresponds to a given PCI slot to connect a cable from the NIC to the appropriate port on the hub or switch. You can correlate slots with physical NICs by the NIC MAC addresses. (The MAC address is written on a bar code label on the top component side of the NIC.)

Obtaining Slot Numbers

The NetWare driver installation program requires you to enter a PCI slot number for each NIC. In older versions of NetWare software, the term slot number referred to the physical slot in which the NIC was installed in the server. Now, the slot number is a combination of the bus number, bus type, and physical slot number. The value of a slot number can be 10001 or larger.

Follow this procedure to obtain slot numbers for a multi-NIC installation:

1Install only one 3CR990-FX-97 NIC, as described in “Installing and Connecting the NIC” on page 14.

2Follow the installation instructions in this chapter to load the EtherCD, copy the driver, and load the driver.

3In the NetWare Console, issue a CONFIG command.

4Record the slot number listed for the installed NIC.

5Install the second 3CR990-FX-97 NIC.

6Follow the installation instructions in this chapter to install the driver on the second NIC.

Each time you load the driver, the CONFIG command displays the slot numbers for all the 3CR990-FX-97 NICs in the system.

To install the NetWare driver:

1Copy the MSM.NLM, ETHERTSM.NLM, and NBINLM ﬁles from the \NWSERVER directory on the EtherCD to the directory on your hard drive where other NLM ﬁles are located; or use the latest service pack from Novell.

NOTE: Copy the NLM ﬁles only if the versions existing on the server are older than the versions supplied on the EtherCD.

The NLM ﬁle location is typically in the SYS:SYSTEM directory. You need a NetWare client system to copy the NLM ﬁles to the server.

2Copy the LAN driver ﬁle (3C99X.LAN) from the EtherCD to the same directory.

3Add the following two lines to the AUTOEXEC.NCF ﬁle:

load sys:\system\3c99x.lan slot=<slot> NAME=<name> FRAME=<frametype>

bind ipx to <name> net=<number>

NOTE: If you copy the NLM ﬁles to a different directory, you must specify the path in the preceding LOAD statement.

4Save and exit the ﬁle, and then reboot the server.