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ITIpci

 5232E Four Port Ethernet and

Fast Ethernet PCI Host Adapter

           

Installation and User’s Guide

Order Number 9806-5232M

IntraServer Technology, Inc., Copyright 1998
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Страница 1: ...1 ITIpci 5232E Four Port Ethernet and Fast Ethernet PCI Host Adapter Installation and User s Guide Order Number 9806 5232M IntraServer Technology Inc Copyright 1998 quad_enet doc ...

Страница 2: ... Technology Inc Reasonable efforts have been made to assure the accuracy of this manual IntraServer Technology Inc assumes no liability resulting from errors or omissions in this manual or from the use of the information in the manual IntraServer retains the right to make changes to this manual and the products without prior written notification Readers Comment Card The Reader s Comments form at t...

Страница 3: ...onal suggestions CAUTION Only equipment certified to comply with Class B computer input output devices terminals printers etc should be attached to this equipment and must have shielded interface cables This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interferen...

Страница 4: ...For information regarding drivers installation and support for Linux please visit our World Wide Web site at http intraserver com support faq html 25 Digital UNIX 26 Digital OpenVMS 27 Appendix A 28 Digital s SRM Console Settings 28 Displaying and Setting Ethernet Port Characteristics 28 Appendix B 30 Connector Pin Assignments 30 Cabling Requirements 31 Appendix C Troubleshooting 32 Windows NT Ver...

Страница 5: ..._________28 Table 5 8 Pin MJ Connector Pin Assignments_______________________________________________30 Table 6 Adapter to Network Hub Wiring ___________________________________________________31 Table 7 Adapter to Adapter point to point Wiring___________________________________________31 Table 8 DC21X4 NT driver error codes____________________________________________________33 Figures Figure 1 Co...

Страница 6: ... sec ITI 5232E features include High performance PCI bus master 32 bit direct memory access DMA architecture Four independent 10 100 Digital 21143 PC Ethernet channels for optimal network performance Support for all Alpha and Intel Operating systems including Windows 95 Netware Windows NT OpenVMS Digital UNIX and Linux Direct 10Base T and 100Base TX network connection with full auto negotiation su...

Страница 7: ...ts ITI 5232E O U 4 Channel 0 Interrupt A Channel 1 Interrupt B Channel 2 Interrupt C Channel 3 Interrupt D Four Port Channel FAST Ethernet Adapter for Digital UNIX OpenVMS operating systems that do not support sharing of PCI interrupts Table 1 ITI 5232E Adapter Models ITI 5232E Four Port Ethernet and FAST Ethernet Kit Contents Your ITI 5232E kit includes the items shown below Verify that you have ...

Страница 8: ...or LEDs Reference Component Description Channel 0 8 pin MJ Connector 10 100 Mb s twisted pair network connector for Channel 0 Channel 1 8 pin MJ Connector 10 100 Mb s twisted pair network connector for Channel 1 Channel 2 8 pin MJ Connector 10 100 Mb s twisted pair network connector for Channel 2 Channel 3 8 pin MJ Connector 10 100 Mb s twisted pair network connector for Channel 3 Channel 0 Indica...

Страница 9: ...adapters such as the ITI 5232E it is required that your host system firmware or BIOS support PCI bridging If your host does not support PCI bridging contact your system vendor for a BIOS upgrade If your system can not be brought into compliance with the PCI bridge specification then you will not be able to use multi channel ITIpci host adapters Installing the adapter The following procedure should...

Страница 10: ...ch are longer than the PCI slots 6 Install the adapter in the selected slot The module should fit without forcing and should line up with the I O bulkhead Be certain that the adapter is fully seated in the slot 7 Replace the retaining screw removed in step 5 8 Connect to your Ethernet HUB using uncrossed Twisted Pair cable After installation re assemble the system enclosure and proceed with Softwa...

Страница 11: ...es and directories Operating System Architecture NT only File Name File Description A WINNT ALPHA DC21X4 SYS The Alpha executable driver file for DC21143 Ethernet Chip INTEL DC21X4 SYS The Intel executable driver file for DC21143 Ethernet Chip A WIN95 DC21X4 SYS The Intel executable driver file for DC21143 Ethernet Chip NDIS VXD NDIS Wrapper file A DISK1 Flag file for NT NETPCI INF Win 95 Setup in...

Страница 12: ...raction layer HAL This file can be found on your boot disk at the location os hal dll This is a system file and is hidden You must use the show system and hidden files option under explorer to see this file Certain Alpha systems will hang after installing multi port Ethernet cards unless this file is updated to hal dll dated on or after 26 MAY 1998 If you experience this hang shut down the machine...

Страница 13: ...ROM reader and complete the Windows NT network installation Consult Windows NT documentation if you are unfamiliar with this process Follow the on screen prompts until you are prompted for a Network Adapter Type 3 From the Network dialog select the Adapters tab then select Add 4 From the Select Network Adapter dialogue select Have Disk ...

Страница 14: ...14 5 Insert the ITI 5232E driver diskette in your floppy drive and select OK ...

Страница 15: ...allow you to select the connection type appropriate for your network configuration The default connection type is AutoSense which should be correct for most network connections 8 Should you need to change the media connection type be certain to select the correct connection type for your network If not the adapter port will not be able to link to the network ...

Страница 16: ...mber prefixing the adapter is the adapter port number 10 Select OK to complete the Network Setting initialization Based on the protocols you are running one or more dialog boxes may appear See your network administrator for appropriate settings for your network for each of the dialog boxes A typical dialog TCP IP shown for example ...

Страница 17: ...17 11 Shutdown and reboot the system ...

Страница 18: ... your existing network device 3 Replace the access cover of your machine 4 Replace the AC power line and boot Windows 95 5 When Windows 95 detects the new hardware a message New Hardware Found PCI Ethernet Controller will be displayed 6 Put the Software Installation Floppy in your Floppy drive then select Next 6 Windows 95 will read the installation floppy and will automatically find the ITI 5232E...

Страница 19: ...a disk s to be installed at this time 13 Some files will be copied from your distribution media disk s and some from the OEM distribution floppy disk 14 If Windows prompts you for a file location of the distribution files select the default location A and select OK ...

Страница 20: ...ed for EACH of the four ports detected by Windows 95 You will need to repeat the above procedures until each of the four ports have been added to your configuration 17 Each port on the ITI 5232E Four Port Network adapter will be given an entry in the adapter list in the Network dialogue 18 The Enhanced mode driver should be used and is selected by default ...

Страница 21: ...ed arise to specify the physical media select the Advanced tab then select Connection Type and select the connection type that matches your network 20 Select OK Based on the network protocols running on your system one or more dialogue boxes may appear See your network administrator for the network settings for this machine ...

Страница 22: ...22 21 When prompted allow the machine to restart to allow the new network settings to become active ...

Страница 23: ...utoexec ncf file You must load the device driver once for each port used NetWare 4 x and 4 11 The Novell Netware driver DC21X4 is used with Netware 4 11 servers 1 Type LOAD INSTALL at the server console prompt and press Enter 2 On the Installation Options menu select Driver options load unload disk and network drivers 3 On the Driver Options menu select Configure Network Drivers The system display...

Страница 24: ...24 9 Enter information as prompted You may modify the adapter s default configuration by changing its parameters when prompted The default settings provide best results in most cases ...

Страница 25: ...25 Linux For information regarding drivers installation and support for Linux please visit our World Wide Web site at http intraserver com support faq html ...

Страница 26: ...he ITI 5232E Four 21140 based Ethernet adapters will be identified Create a new kernel with support for the four Ethernet ports identified in genvmunix by using the doconfig command doconfig When doconfig completes backup your existing kernel as follows cp vmunix vmunix sav Then copy the new kernel created by doconfig to vmunix and shutdown and reboot with your new kernel If you are unfamiliar wit...

Страница 27: ...ware you will be running on the adapter for specific configuration information Note Digital OpenVMS relies on the settings for media type and speed set by the SRM console See Appendix A for more information Note If you are connecting Point to Point to another adapter do not select Auto Sense for ewa0_mode Also many hubs do not support Auto Sense it is therefore recommended that the correct media t...

Страница 28: ...users configuration information to stay consistent when the SRM passes control of the system to the operating system Displaying and Setting Ethernet Port Characteristics The Alpha console recognizes the Ethernet device as an EW port There are two commands that are necessary for setting and showing the Ethernet port SET and SHOW Use SHOW to display characteristics of the Ethernet port Show EWn0_MOD...

Страница 29: ...e Typically OpenVMS uses MOP protocol and UNIX uses BOOTP For example to set a port to MOP VMS use set ewa0_protocol MOP Note Port 0 will be the lowest controller letter found by the SRM console A if there are no other Ethernet ports in the system If there is an onboard Ethernet controller it will be assigned port letter A and the ports on your ITI 5232 will be assigned B C D and E for ports 0 1 2...

Страница 30: ...ble 5 Pin Number Signal Name 1 Transmit TX 2 Transmit TX 3 Receive RX 4 No Connection NC 5 No Connection NC 6 Receive RX 7 No Connection NC 8 No Connection NC Table 5 8 Pin MJ Connector Pin Assignments Connection from the ITI 5232 adapter to a network hub must be made as shown in Table 6 Straight Through Adapter Pin Hub Pin TX 1 ÇÈ 1 RX TX 2 ÇÈ 2 RX RX 3 ÇÈ 3 TX 4 4 5 5 RX 6 ÇÈ 6 TX 7 7 8 8 1 2 3 ...

Страница 31: ... Cabling Requirements In order for your network to operate properly you must use a category of network cabling that is appropriate for the data rate of the channel For 10Mb s operation Category 3 4 or 5 cable is appropriate When operating in 100Mb s or 100Mb s Full Duplex a Category 5 cable should be used The maximum cable segment length supported at 100Mb sec speed on Category 5 cable is 100M Any...

Страница 32: ...If you are connected to a 10Mb sec hub the card should be set to AUTO1 Twisted Pair or Twisted Pair Full Duplex depending on the capability of your hub Cables from the ITI 5232E to a hub MUST NOT BE CROSSOVER Cables from the ITI 5232E to another ITI 5232E MUST BE CROSSOVER 1 TIP If you are certain your cable type is correct but you are not seeing LINK setting the port to match the hub port exactly...

Страница 33: ... Registry NDIS_ERROR_CODE_OUT_OF_RESOURCES DC21X4_ERRMSG_ALLOC_MEMORY Not enough memory to allocate space for the Adapter data block NDIS_ERROR_CODE_INVALID_VALUE_FROM_ADAPTER DC21X4_ERRMSG_SROM Invalid data read from the adapter s serial ROM NDIS_ERROR_CODE_NETWORK_ADDRESS No readable burnt_in or software configured station address NDIS_ERROR_CODE_UNSUPPORTED_CONFIGURATION DC21X4_ERRMSG_MEDIA The...

Страница 34: ...l Panel System to display the System Properties Page 2 Select the Device Manager tab from the System properties page in order to view the list of devices in the PC 3 Check in the list of devices for an entry labeled Other Devices If an Other Devices entry exists double click on it to display the list of devices under it 4 Check the list for an entry labeled PCI Ethernet Controller If this exists s...

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Страница 36: ...ast full duplex mode Power Requirements PCI Universal 3 3 or 5 volts at 17 watts Environmental Operating Temperature 0 to 55 C Humidity 5 to 85 non condensing Altitude 3000m maximum Ethernet Standards IEEE 802 3 10 Base T IEEE 802 3u 100 Base T Certifications FCC Class B CE Class B Electrical Connections 4 RJ 45 female Physical Dimensions 9 0 X 4 125 Network Speeds Supported per Ethernet Network S...

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