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LevelOne

10/100M 32bit Fast Ethernet

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Page 3: ... harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the parties responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment About this manual This user s ...

Page 4: ...Fast Ethernet PC Card 9 CHAPTER 3 11 Driver installation for Win 95 98 2000 ME NT 11 Driver installation for Windows 95 12 Driver installation for Windows 98 14 Driver installation for Windows 2000 17 Driver installation for Windows ME 21 Driver installation for Windows NT 4 0 24 CHAPTER 4 28 Driver installation for DOS environments 28 System Requirements 28 Driver installation 28 Driver installat...

Page 5: ... X client 39 Microsoft LAN Manager 39 Artisoft LANtastic version 6 0 40 CHAPTER 5 41 Installation for Linux 41 Before Installation 41 Install Driver 42 APPENDIX A 45 Troubleshooting 45 Q A for Windows environments 45 Windows 95 98 45 Windows NT 4 0 46 Windows 2000 46 ...

Page 6: ...e and ease of operation LAN RJ 45 connector is built onto the card Features Extended PC Card design that integrates RJ 45 connector onto the PC card No moving parts to break and no media coupler to lose Complies with IEEE 802 3u 100Base TX and IEEE 802 3 10Base T Complies to PCMCIA 1995 PC Card standard PC Card standard 68 pin 32 bit PCMCIA interface Support all popular Network Operating Systems S...

Page 7: ...luded in your package If any items are missing contact your dealer LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card CD ROM diskettes includes device drivers and this user s manual Quick Installation Guide Hardware description The LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card is encased in a stainless compact frame and has a 68 pin connector for attaching to the notebook s CardBus slot and an RJ 4...

Page 8: ...tect the 3 3V CardBus card from mis insertion to 5V 16 bit PCMCIA slot Hardkey of 5 3 3V Traditional PCMCIA Card left and 3 3V CardBus Card right Inserting the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card Note These instructions apply to most notebook computers For detailed information on inserting PC cards into your notebook consult the notebook user s manual RJ 45 Status LEDs ...

Page 9: ...the card all the way into an empty slot Do not force the connection 2 Connect to a network See Connecting to a LAN that follow Connecting to a LAN To use the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card s Ethernet capability you can connect to a port on a hub or to an RJ 45 phone jack with another male to male RJ 45 line or connector Connecting to an RJ 45 phone jack Connecting to a hub ...

Page 10: ... LED MEANING 10 100M Indicates the connection speed When off the connection speed is 10 Mbps When on the connection speed is 100 Mbps LINK ACT Indicates link status and transmit receive activity It is normally off When off indicates that the link is inactive When lit indicates that the link is active When there is packet transmit or receive activity this LED is blinking RJ 45 LINK ACT LED 10 100M ...

Page 11: ...recommends that you stop the card Refer to your Windows 95 98 2000 ME online help for information on stopping the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card Most notebooks have an eject lever or button for ejecting PC cards from the PC slots Consult your notebook s user s manual for details Warning To prevent data loss do not eject the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card when a da...

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Page 13: ...ems Before Installation To identify the version of Windows 95 you can check the General system properties To get the general system properties double click the System icon from the Control Panel The version of Windows 95 OSR2 is 4 00 950 B Make sure the version of your Windows 95 is correct Next check whether your notebook PCMCIA controller supports CardBus You can check it from Device Manager If ...

Page 14: ...Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card is just the same as for any normal Windows 95 Plug Play device Follow the steps below to install the driver in Windows 95 1 Insert the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card into an available CardBus slot in your notebook refer to page 6 Inserting the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card 2 After Windows 95 detects the card the Update Device Driv...

Page 15: ...ME NT 13 3 Insert the driver disk and click Next to continue the installation Windows searches for the driver and the following screen appears 4 Click Finishto continue Windows 95 copies driver files to the hard disk ...

Page 16: ...t PC Card drivers for Windows 98 6 Insert the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card into an available CardBus slot on your notebook refer to page 6 Inserting the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card 7 After Windows 98 detects the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card the Add New Hardware Wizard window appears 8 Click Next to continue the installation A screen appears...

Page 17: ...Win 95 98 2000 ME NT 15 9 Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended and click Next The following screen appears 10 Ensure that the CD ROM drive box is checked ...

Page 18: ... Card user s manual 16 11 Insert the driver disk into your floppy drive and click Next The following screen appears 12 Click Next Windows 98 copies files to your hard disk drive and you see the following screen 13 Click Finish ...

Page 19: ...ver installation for Windows 2000 Follow the steps below to install the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card drivers for Windows 2000 1 Insert the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card into an available CardBus slot on your notebook refer to page 6 Inserting the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card 2 After Windows 2000 detects the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethe...

Page 20: ... user s manual 18 3 Click Next to continue the installation A screen appears prompting you to select an installation method 4 Select Search for a suitable driver for my device recommended and click Next The following screen appears ...

Page 21: ...NT 19 5 Ensure that the Specify a location box is checked and click Next The following screen appears 6 Type E Win2000 where E is your floppy drive letter Insert the driver disk and click OK The following screen appears ...

Page 22: ...LevelOne Fast Ethernet PC Card user s manual 20 7 Click Next to continue The following screen appears 8 Click Yes to continue the installation 9 Windows copies files and the following screen appears ...

Page 23: ... to install the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card drivers for Windows ME 1 Insert the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card into an available CardBus slot on your notebook refer to page 6 Inserting the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card 2 After Windows ME detects the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card the Add New Hardware Wizard window appears ...

Page 24: ...l 22 3 Select Specify the location of the driver Advanced and click Next The following screen appears 4 Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended and choose Specify a location Type E WinME where E is your CD ROM driver letter ...

Page 25: ...Win 95 98 2000 ME NT 23 Insert the driver disk and click Next The following screen appears 5 Click Next Windows ME copies files to your hard disk drive and you see the following screen 6 Click Finish ...

Page 26: ... manual 24 Note Windows ME may need to copy required system files and will prompt you to input the path to the files Follow the instructions on your screen then click OK to continue You should reboot your system to finish the installation ...

Page 27: ...een installed refer to the Windows NT 4 0 installation guide for instructions on installing the component Follow the steps below to install the driver 1 Insert the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card into an available CardBus slot on your notebook refer to page 6 Inserting the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card 2 Log in to NT 4 0 as Administrator 3 Double click the Network...

Page 28: ...LevelOne Fast Ethernet PC Card user s manual 26 4 Click Add to add a new adapter The following screen appears 5 Click Have Disk The following screen appears ...

Page 29: ...ere E is your CD ROM drive letter Insert the driver disk and click OK After finding the installation file the Select OEM Option window is displayed 7 Click OK A screens appears prompting you to input the IRQ I O port address and connection type ...

Page 30: ...t select resources that are not being used by another device otherwise you will have a system conflict error In case of a system conflict error try another setting and continue 9 Click OK to continue Windows will configure the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card You are returned to the Network window ...

Page 31: ...ow Windows NT 4 0 will bind the adapter with the network component and you will be prompted to restart the system When Windows NT is finished binding the adapter to the network component you are prompted to restart the system 11 Click Yes to finish the installation ...

Page 32: ...5 PC Card Standard or higher Software Requirements The Card Socket service drivers should comply with PCMCIA 1995 PC Card Standard or higher Driver installation You must install the CardBus 10 100Mbps Ethernet Card drivers before your computer system can recognize your Ethernet Card The following sections cover client driver installation Driver installation program INSTALL is the CardBus 10 100Mbp...

Page 33: ...itself While the system is on available system resources and insertion or removal of the card will automatically be detected 2 Run the INSTALL EXE program found on your driver disk The install program guides you through the installation process and will install the network drivers needed to run the card on your network operating system If you successfully completed the installation go to step 5 If...

Page 34: ...twork refer to Appendix A The Install program Before you can use your LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card you need to install and modify some files in your computer system You can make these changes manually or you can let the INSTALL EXE program make them for you This section explains how you can use the INSTALL EXE program to install the enablers and the files needed by the network o...

Page 35: ... 33 Press Enter to continue the installation The program prompts you for the directory where you want to install the driver files You can choose the default directory name or enter a new name Then press Enter to continue with the installation ...

Page 36: ...stallation and use the default configuration settings If you wish to individually set any of the settings then select Custom Configuration Auto configuration If you selected Auto Configuration the program auto detects which IRQ and I O Port the LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card can use After successfully auto detecting the configuration the program shows the following screen ...

Page 37: ... prompted to select the type of network that you are installing Select a network operating system from the list by moving the cursor to your selection and pressing Enter After selecting the network operating system the INSTALL program will copy and modify files on your boot drive Your ...

Page 38: ...you need to select the Custom Configuration Menu after you begin the INSTALL program After selecting the Custom Installation Menu you see a series of submenus prompting you to select an IRQ and I O address Interrupt select The first submenu is the Interrupt submenu Move the cursor to the interrupt of your choice and select it by pressing Enter Interrupts available for your LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bi...

Page 39: ...Driver installation for DOS environments 37 IO port select Move the cursor to the desired I O address and press Enter Available I O Ports are D000H D400H D800H E000H E400H and E800H ...

Page 40: ...n some cases you may wish to make changes manually This section explains how to manually make driver and file modifications to enable your card Enablers You can use RTPCI EXE to enable the CardBus 10 100Mbps Ethernet Card The RTPCI program The program RTPCI EXE communicates with the PC Card controller of your computer This program is needed only for DOS environment network operating systems You ma...

Page 41: ...TPCI h l r d s d i dd p xxxx m xxxx where Display this message h Display this message l List PCI config space r IRQ routing 1 PCI 2 ISA s Socket number dec 0 1 I IRQ line number dec 00 15 p I o base address hex 1000 FF80 m Mem base address hex C000 FFC0 After you executed RTPCI EXE you will see a display similar to the following indicating that the installation was successful I o hole 1000 Mem hol...

Page 42: ...hese instructions to install the Windows for Workgroups 3 11 client for your Ethernet Card 1 Run INSTALL EXE and choose Windows for Workgroups 2 Run Windows by typing WIN at the DOS prompt 3 Click the Network icon in the Main Program Group 4 Click the Network Setup icon from the Network window 5 Select the Drivers item from the Network Setup dialog box 6 Select the Add Adapters item in the Option ...

Page 43: ...ast Ethernet PC Card 1 Run the INSTALL program and select the Netware ODI Driver 2 Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation 3 Reboot the computer 4 When the computer reboots log on to the network Microsoft LAN Manager Follow these instructions to install the Microsoft LAN Manager client for your Fast Ethernet PC Card 1 Run the INSTALL program and choose LAN Manager 2 Type...

Page 44: ...xit Artisoft LANtastic version 6 0 Follow these instructions to install the Artisoft LANtastic Version 6 0 client for your Fast Ethernet PC Card 1 Run the INSTALL program and choose LANtastic 2 Select Artisoft LANtastic and specify C LANTASTI as the destination directory 3 When the Select network adapter screen appears choose NDIS Support for Network Adapters 4 When the install program prompts you...

Page 45: ...at 5 2 Redhat 6 0 Redhat 6 2 The complete file list is as follows README makefile rtl8139 c en0100r o Before Installation Before you start rebuilding the driver you must have PCMCIA binaries and source installed in your system PCMCIA module version 3 0 9 or later are quaranteed to work well with this driver Latest version of PCMCIA module is available at ftp sourceforge com Also if you ...

Page 46: ... encounter some problems with when module version is set Install Driver 1 To login as the root 2 To copy the driver code from the floppy diskette simply do mcopy a Linux en0100r v1 0 tgz gzip cd en0100r v1 0 tgz tar xvf cd en0100r v1 0 3 To generate the driver Modify the PCMCIASRC variable in your makefile to the location of your PCMCIA source Modify the KERN_VER variable in your makefile After yo...

Page 47: ... add the following text into the config file The mode of the config file must be the write mode vi config device FPC 0106TX class network module cb_enabler FPC 0106TX card LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card manfid 0x018a 0x0106 bind FPC 0106TX To configure the PCMCIA NIC interface vi network opts 6 To reboot the Linux shutdown r now ...

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Page 49: ...omputer Solution To prevent this phenomenon from occurring stop the card by using the PC Card tool in the Control Panel or the PC Card icon on the taskbar before you remove the card Problem The card cannot be detected when reinserted Cause This is caused by certain unstable CardBus status lines when the card is removed and reinserted The Windows 95 98 drivers may read an incorrect status during th...

Page 50: ...want to remove the card shut down the computer and remove it Windows 2000 Question What is the Microsoft digital signature Answer Drivers that pass Microsoft Windows 2000 certification receive a digital signature file from Microsoft The LevelOne 10 100Mbps 32bit Fast Ethernet PC Card does not have such a digital signature however it is fully compatible with Windows 2000 ...

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