EtherLink 10/100 PCI Network Interface Card with 3XP processor
3CR990 Family of EtherLink NICs
User Guide
Published August
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3Com Corporation
Clara, California
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LEGEND
 3 NIC INSTALLATION
CONTENTS
2 3CR990 NICS
1 BEFORE YOU BEGIN
 5 NETWARE DRIVERS
4 WINDOWS DRIVERS
6 IP SECURITY
Multiple NICs
 9 TROUBLESHOOTING
8 CONFIGURATION
7 UPGRADING DRIVERS
Accessing the 3Com KnowledgeBase
 A SPECIFICATIONS
E MBA BOOT ROM
D UNINSTALLING NIC SOFTWARE
B TECHNICAL SUPPORT
 INDEX WARRANTY AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE INFORMATION
F DYNAMICACCESS TECHNOLOGY
DynamicAccess Features
Configuring DynamicAccess Technology
Page
 2 Click Register Product, and then Register Online
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
 Go to Auto Insert Go to Root Subdirectories
 1 Right-click the My Computer icon, and then select Properties
 NIC Installation with Windows 2000, and then Done
click NIC Software, Drivers and Diagnostics, NIC Preinstallation
Go to NIC Installation
Minimum System
 Diskette Installation
DOS-Bootable
to install these drivers
about installation diskettes
 Installations \ Diskette.pdf To make installation diskettes
 NIC Overview
3CR990 NICS
 Encryption chip Remote Wake-Up RWU connector 3XP processor
NIC Features
3CR990 NICs support up to
168-bit 3DES encryption
 NOTE The 3CR990 NICs provide a network connection with or without the
Remote Wake-Up cable installed
Upgrading software Scanning for viruses
 DynamicAccess Technology, and Install 3Com DMI Agent now
Offload Features
Offline Diagnostics
Windows
 2 Click the Local Area Connection icon
NOTE The default hex value is F all offloads enabled
3 Click Configure
 20 CHAPTER 2 3CR990 NICS
 Installing the NIC
NIC INSTALLATION
your system
For more information
 22 CHAPTER 3 NIC INSTALLATION
 Remote Wake-Up Cable
Installing the NIC
 DATA
24 CHAPTER 3 NIC INSTALLATION
TX ACT
L N K
 Go to Windows Go to Windows Go to Windows NT Go to Windows NT
What do you want to do?
Go to NetWare Drivers
Go to Multiple NICs
Page
 3 Click Drivers and Diagnostics
Windows 2000 and installed the NIC, go to step 7 in this procedure
4 Click NIC Preinstallation
5 Click NIC Installation with Windows 2000, and then click Done
 Go to 3Com DOS Configuration Program
 To verify that the installation was successful
NOTE You must restart your computer to complete the installation
Go to Verifying Successful Installation
Go to New Hardware Found Go to Update Device Driver Wizard
 Go to Verifying Successful Installation
 Update Device
Driver Wizard
 Windows NT
Windows NT
PC or server running Windows NT
 4 Click Add Adapter
a Select the Enable Automatic DHCP Configuration check box
6 Click Continue
 Verifying Successful
Installation
34 CHAPTER 4 WINDOWS DRIVERS
 Multiple NICs
5 Click NIC Installation with Windows 2000, and then Done
operating system
 36 CHAPTER 4 WINDOWS DRIVERS
Windows 95 and
 5 Click Have Disk
Page
 NOTE 3CR990 NICs do not support NetWare 3.11 and 4.0x servers
NETWARE DRIVERS
 Go to Verifying the PCI Slot Number
4.11, and
 a Select Reinitialize System
For NetWare
 load c\nwserver\3c99x.lan
Verifying the PCI Slot Number
 Overview Creating a Security Policy
IP SECURITY
 5 Select IP Security Policy Management, and then click Add
7 Clear the Activate the default response rule check box
1 In the left pane, click IP Security Policies on Local Machine
 Creating a Security Policy
Filter Action
 46 CHAPTER 6 IP SECURITY
2 Select Un-assign
 8 Click Have Disk
UPGRADING DRIVERS
 Go to Windows 98 and Windows
Go to Windows 95 Version A Build
 6 Click Close
7 Click Have Disk
Windows NT 4.0
 50 CHAPTER 7 UPGRADING DRIVERS
6 Click Restart Now
 Provides the ability to boot a PC
CONFIGURATION
100BASE-TX 100 Mb/s
 Go to Making a DOS-Bootable Diskette
If you do not have a DOS-bootable diskette
3Com DOS
Configuration
 Diagnostics Program
Diagnostics Program
3Com NIC
Go to To Run the Network Test
 5 Repeat the process for each setting that you want to change
 Accessing the
TROUBLESHOOTING
Troubleshooting
the Installation
 Programs
Running Diagnostics
Go to 10BASE-T Description Go to 100BASE-TX Description
Go to Technical Support
 4 Click 3Com NIC Doctor
For more information about how to make a DOS-bootable diskette
General Tab
Configuration Tab
 Diagnostics Tab
Diagnostics Tests
Flash Update Tab
Accessing the 3Com
 To run the NIC test, Network test, or Remote Wake-Up test
 2 Click Perform NIC Test
 Support Services
Accessing 3Com
Go to Troubleshooting Remote Wake-Up
Go to 3Com NIC Diagnostics Program
 Remote Wake-Up
3Com Tray Icon
connection between the NIC and the network
 Network Connection
Troubleshooting a
NOTE For more information on PCI specifications and Remote Wake-Up
 2 Connect a straight-through cable from the PC to the hub
 NIC Specifications
SPECIFICATIONS
PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision
Hardware
 Connection Criteria
Network
Network Cable
 1 TD+ 2 TD 3 RD+ 6 RD
Assignments
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
 Pause Frames
Flow Control
Link Negotiation
 TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Services
Register this Product
Online Technical
 1 408 727
1 847
day, 7 days a week
 Country
Support from 3Com
Telephone Number
 To obtain an RMA number, call or fax
 SUPPORTED DRIVERS
over-the-network installations
Additional Drivers
NOTE DOS drivers are not supported for 3CR990 NICs. However, they are
Page
 Windows 98 and
UNINSTALLING NIC SOFTWARE
or Windows
 76 APPENDIX D UNINSTALLING NIC SOFTWARE
 the Boot ROM Setting
MBA BOOT ROM
Booting with the
MBA Boot ROM
 Non-BBS
MBA boot ROM, see the documentation that came with MBA on the EtherCD
 DynamicAccess
DYNAMICACCESS TECHNOLOGY
Features
Failure to install the patch will result in system failure
 Technology
Installing
you install the NIC software
To install DynamicAccess technology
 Configuring
NOTE You must restart your PC to complete the installation
management tools for an Ethernet network
 1 Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon in the Control Panel
Removing
 2 Select the DAPassThru Driver Transport protocol
Page
 Numbers
INDEX
 uninstalling NIC software 76 unshielded twisted pair UTP
 WARRANTY AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE INFORMATION
3Com Corporation Limited Warranty
YEAR 2000 WARRANTY
OBTAINING WARRANTY SERVICE
 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Regulatory Compliance Information
DISCLAIMER
GOVERNING LAW
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