3Com 3CR990-TX-97, 3CR990-TX-95 Installing the NetWare 3.12 Server Driver, Obtaining Slot Numbers

92CHAPTER 5: INSTALLING NETWARE CLIENT AND SERVER DRIVERS

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 the 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 NIC, as described in Installing and Connecting the NIC on page 34.

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

You need not specify a slot number when only one NIC is installed.

3In the NetWare Console, issue a CONFIG command.

4Write down the slot number that is listed for the installed NIC.

5Install the second 3CR990 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 NICs in the system.

Installing the NetWare 3.12 Server Driver

To install the driver in a NetWare 3.12 server:

1Copy the MSM31X.NLM, ETHERTSM.NLM, and NBI31.NLM files from the \NWSERVER directory on the EtherCD to the directory on your hard drive where other NLM files are located.

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