Asante Technologies 10/100 manual Power Macintosh Open Transport Driver

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Installing Network Drivers

A:\WIN_NT35 (if you’re using Windows NT version 3.5)

8 Press Enter.

The Select OEM Option window appears with AsantéFAST 10/100 Adapter or AsantéNIC-PCI Adapter as options.

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Select the appropriate PCI adapter.

Click the OK button.

The AsantéFAST 10/100 Adapter Setup window or AsantéNIC-PCI Adapter Setup window appears with Connection Type high- lighted.

11 Select the appropriate Connection Type from the dropdown list box.

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Click the OK button.

The files are copied to the hard drive and then the Network Set- tings window reappears.

Click the OK button to complete the installation.

Restart the computer.

Power Macintosh Open Transport Driver

The Driver Disk includes Asanté’s Open Transport PCI device driver for the Power Macintosh.Asanté’s Open Transport driver supports AppleTalk and TCP/IP protocols simultaneously.

This section shows you how to install the Open Transport driver for the adapter on your PCI-based Power Macintosh.

Important: To use the Driver Disk on your Power Macin- tosh, make sure that you do not disable the System Extensions during power-up and that PC Exchange is enabled in the Extensions Manager.

1Insert the Asanté Driver Disk into the floppy drive and double- click the Driver Disk icon.

2Double-click on the Power Macintosh folder.

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Asante Technologies 10/100 manual Power Macintosh Open Transport Driver

10/100 specifications

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