Asante Technologies 10/100 manual Installing Network Specific Drivers, Novell NetWare 3.x Client

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Insert the Asanté Driver Disk into floppy drive A.

Installing Network Drivers

Installing Network Specific Drivers

Novell NetWare 3.x Client

This section shows you how to install Novell NetWare version 3.x ODI client software.

1

Create a directory named NETWARE on your C drive.

 

To do this, type the following command at the DOS command

 

line prompt:

 

MD

C:\NETWARE

2

Insert either the NetWare WSGEN disk that came with NetWare

 

3.x or your master workstation disk into drive A.

3

Copy the following three files to the NETWARE directory on your

 

C drive.

 

LSL.COM

 

IPXODI.COM

 

NETX.COM

Important:The AsantéNIC-PCI adapter requires LSL.COM version 2.10 or later. Please check the version number of your LSL.COM file.

4 Remove the NetWare WSGEN or master workstation disk from the floppy drive.

5

6 Copy the NET.CFG and the ODI driver files to the NETWARE directory on your C drive.To do this, type:

COPY A:\NETWARE\NW3.X\CLIENT\NET.CFG C:\NETWARE COPY A:\NETWARE\NW3.X\CLIENT\ASANTPCI.COM C:\NETWARE

7 Check your CONFIG.SYS file to make sure that this line appears:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE

If you don’t see it there, type it in, then save the file.

ΔNote:The SETVER.EXE file must be in the C:\DOS directory.

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Asante Technologies 10/100 manual Installing Network Specific Drivers, Novell NetWare 3.x Client

10/100 specifications

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