3Com 3C319 manual Before Installing the Driver, Viewing the Driver Installation Instructions

Installing a Driver for Windows for Workgroups 8-7

Before Installing the Driver

Before installing the driver, make sure that the following procedures have been completed:

■The 3C319 NIC has been installed as described in Chapter 2.

■Plug and Play (PnP) has been manually disabled as described in Chapter 5, “Configuring the NIC Manually.”

Windows for Workgroups is not a PnP-enabled operating system.

■The NIC has been manually configured as described in Chapter 5, “Configuring the NIC Manually.”

Viewing the Driver Installation Instructions

Follow these steps to view the instructions:

1Exit to the DOS prompt.

2Insert TokenDisk diskette #1 in drive A and type at the prompt:

a:\help [Enter]

3From the main Help menu, select Windows and press [Enter].

4From the Windows Help menu, select one of the following and press [Enter]:

■NDIS 3 (protected-mode driver)

■NDIS 2 (real-mode driver)

■NetWare (real-mode driver)

When using non-Novell protocol stacks (for example, Microsoft IPX protocol stacks with the NetWare client driver), you must disable the Parallel Tasking feature of the 3C319 NIC. The procedure is described in the NetWare (real-mode driver) Help file.

To complete the installation, follow the directions on the screen.