3Com 3C319 manual Driver for Windows NT

6	INSTALLING A NETWORK
	DRIVER FOR WINDOWS NT

This chapter describes how to install the NDIS 4 driver for the TokenLink Velocity ISA (3C319) NIC in Windows NT environments. The NDIS 4 driver conforms to Microsoft’s latest NDIS 4.0 miniport specification and provides the following features:

■DynamicAccess Class of Service

■Auto ring speed detection

■Promiscuous mode

The 3C319 NIC NDIS 3 full MAC driver, which is compatible with Microsoft’s earlier NDIS 3.x specification, is available on TokenDisk diskette #1 in the \WINNT subdirectory. However, the features listed above are available only with the NDIS 4 driver.

Explicit instructions for installing the NDIS 3 driver are no longer provided in this guide because that driver has been superseded by the NDIS 4 driver, which provides additional features such as DynamicAccess Class

of Service.

If you still want to load the NDIS 3 driver, follow the instructions provided in this guide for the NDIS 4 driver. When directed to insert TokenDisk diskette #2 (containing the NDIS 4 driver), you should instead insert TokenDisk diskette #1, which contains the NDIS 3 driver. In all other respects, the instructions for installing the NDIS 4 driver and NDIS 3 driver are nearly identical.