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Thanks you for purchasing our 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter. This guide is to
provide the installation and usage of this adapter for network installers and users.
The 10/100 network adapter complies to PCI 2.1 and PCI 2.2 specification and
supports half/full duplex feature which can double network speed.
This adapter supports both 10Mbps and 100Mbps network speed, 100BaseTX
operates on two pairs of category 5 UTP cable and 10BaseT operates on Category
3,4,5 UTP cable.
With the Auto-Negotiation technology, network speed is auto detected. When you
connect the adapter to 10BaseT hub via UTP cable, the network speed becomes
10Mbps. Similarly, if you connect the adapter to 100BaseTX hub, the network speed
is 100Mbps. If the hub is a switching hub which supports full duplex function, then
the speed will be doubled to 20Mbps/200Mbps.
Real hassle free installation is achieved by conforming to PCI bus. Just plug in the
card and all setup is done automatically. No more software to run !
Furthermore, this adapter support the Wake On LAN (WOL) feature allows users to
configure network adapters that are capable of “listening to” network packets even
when the computer is turned off.
This adapter supplies many drivers including NetWare Server 3.x/4.x/5.x, NetWare
ODI for DOS, NetWare ODI Client 32, NDIS driver for Windows
95/98/98SE/Me/NT/2000/XP, Windows for Workgroup 3.11, Linux, Unix, MAC and
Packet Driver for TCP/IP software. Whatever your requirements are ease of
installation, superior performance or responsive support backed up by unlimited
technical support, this adapter is the superior choice.
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