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Alternative Driver Installation Options for the PXI-8211
The installation instructions illustrated for each operating system in this document are appropriate for most users.
However, if your PXI chassis does not contain a CD-ROM drive, try one of the following alternatives to load the Ethernet driver.
• If your PXI chassis contains a National Instruments PXI-8170 controller, the Ethernet driver is already loaded
on the hard drive. When the installer prompts you for the location of the driver, you can select
c:\images\ethernet
instead of the CD-ROM. In fact, you may choose this option even if you do have an internal or external CD-ROM.
• If you have an existing Ethernet connection in your PXI chassis, download the Intel Ethernet driver from the
National Instruments web site. Access the
Drivers and Downloads
page at
ni.com/download/.
• Connect an external CD-ROM, such as a USB CD-ROM, and load the Ethernet driver directly from the PCI/PXI Ethernet
Drivers CD.
• Use another computer that has a CD-ROM to copy the Ethernet driver onto a 3.5 in. floppy disk.
1. Open a DOS command window.
2. Change to the
\MAKEDISK
directory on the CD-ROM.
3. Type:
MAKEDISK
[
operating system
] [
destination
(optional;
A:
if not specified)] where
[
operating system
] is the OS family you want to use with the diskette.
W2K
= Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
NT
= Microsoft Windows NT
W9X
= Microsoft Windows Me/98/95
NW
= Novell NetWare servers and clients
DOS
= Microsoft DOS and IBM OS/2
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