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Abstract

   LANDR9 contains Novell LAN Drivers and Support Modules written to the v3.30 ODI Assembly Specification. It also contains a set of Novell LAN Drivers and Support Modules written to the v3.20 ODI Assembly Specification.

Installation Instructions

With NetWare 4.10 LANDR9 can be installed using INSTALL.NLM as described in INSTALL.TXT.

To install the 3.20 Assembly ODI Spec. LAN Drivers and Support Modules, refer to 32SPEC.DOC in the 32SPEC subdirectory.

The 3.30 Assembly ODI Spec. LAN Drivers and Support Modules are for NetWare versions 3.12 and 4.1x only. To manulaly install the 3.30 spec. LAN Drivers and Support Modules, rename the old LAN drivers and support modules. Copy the LAN drivers and support modules from the 33SPEC subdirectory into the same area where the Lan Driver files reside and are loaded from on the file server. The support modules are auto-loaded when the LAN Driver is loaded.

The following NetWare 3.12 patch file must be installed on NetWare v3.12 prior to installing LANDR9.EXE:

        312PTx.EXE Where "x" is 8 or higher (312PT8.EXE or higher). This file can be obtained from the following places: Novell's ftp server at ftp.novell.com/pub/updates/nwos/nw312/, from the web at http://support.novell.com/search, and on compuserve.

        (When NBI31X.NLM is loaded on NetWare v3.12 and the message "Warning: This version of NetWare does not support protectedmode BIOS accesses. Without a loader patch some PCI drivers may fail." is displayed, the loader in 312PTx.EXE needs to be applied.)

The following NetWare 4.10 patch files must be installed on NetWare v4.1 file servers prior to installing LANDR9.EXE:

        410PTx.EXE Where "x" is 6 or higher (410PT6.EXE or higher). This file can be obtained from the following places: Novell's ftp server at ftp.novell.com/pub/updates/nwos/nw410/, from the web at http://support.novell.com/search, and on compuserve.

Issue

   LANDR9 contains Novell LAN Drivers and Support Modules written to the v3.30 ODI Assembly Specification (files in the 33SPEC subdirectory). It also contains a set of Novell LAN Drivers and Support Modules written to the v3.20 ODI Assembly Specification (files in the 32SPEC subdirectory). LAN Drivers written to the v3.30 ODI Specification will not run with the Support Modules written to the 3.20 ODI Specification. In general, the v3.30 Support Modules should work with LAN Drivers written to the 3.20 ODI Specification. However, some LAN Drivers written to the 3.20 ODI Specification may have problems with the support modules written to the v3.30 ODI Specification. In those cases the support modules written to the v3.20 Specification will need to be used.

The LAN Drivers and support modules (NBI, MSM, and TSM) in the 33SPEC subdirectory are written to the v3.30 Assembly Specification. To use them you must also use NBI.NLM (NetWare Bus Interface Module) for NetWare v4.1 and NBI31x.NLM for NetWare v3.12. The v3.3 Assembly Specification supports only Ethernet, Token-Ring, and FDDI Topologies. The v3.3 Assembly Specification will not run on NetWare versions prior to NetWare v3.12 or prior to NetWare v4.10. For earlier versions of NetWare use the LAN Drivers and Support modules in the 32SPEC subdirectory. The 32SPEC subdirectory contains Novell's LAN Drivers and support modules written to the 3.20 ODI Assembly Specification.

Note: Only MSM31X.NLM and NBI31X.NLM (and not MSM.NLM nor NBI.NLM) are needed for NetWare v3.12 servers (and vice versa on NetWare v4.1). Also, NBI.NLM (for NetWare v4.1) or NBI31X.NLM (for NetWare v3.12) should be copied to the server startup directory (where the file SERVER.EXE exists) on servers that use NetWare Peripheral Architecture (NWPA) disk drivers (these have a file extension .HAM instead of .DSK) which require NBI.NLM. Not all NWPA disk drivers require NBI.NLM.

The files in the 32SPEC subdirectory did not have any updates. The following is a list of files that were updated in the 33SPEC subdirectory:

MSM.NLM was changed to provide improved performance on SMP servers.

NBI.NLM and NBI31X.NLM were changed to fix a posible hang in an infinite loop (SPD #132737). They were also changed to enable pre-scan on NEC PC-98 machines, including the creation and maintenance of the NBIHW.CFG file (SPD #133158).

NE2100.LAN and NE1500t.LAN were changed to fix a problem with the driver abending the server when two cards were used. If one card loaded and the the other failed to load because of bad parameters (i.e. wrong port or interrupt) it would abend the server.

CNE2100.LAN and CNE2100.LDI were changed to add an additional range of PORT addresses and Interrupts.

NTR2000.LAN was changed to correct a timing problem on 486 machines. This was causing driver failures when the driver was loaded and unloaded or when the card was reset.

With the 3.2 ODI specification, adapters that did not use a slot number would list their slot as 0. With new buss architecture slot 0 is a valid slot. With the 3.3 ODI specification, adapters that do not use a slot number list their slot as -1 (0xFFFF). Because of this, MONITOR.NLM and the console "config" command will display these adapters as using slot 65,535. This will not cause any problems.

File Contents

Self-Extracting File Name:  landr9.exe

Files Included       Size   Date         Time    Version   Checksum

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   INSTALL.TXT       5507   16Oct1996    01:56PM
    LANDR9.IPS      11462   21Oct1996    02:31PM
    LANDR9.TXT      10909   21Oct1996    04:35PM
   PI_ICMD.NLM      18259   28Jun1996    08:55AM
   PI_INIT.NLM       1735   28Jun1996    08:25AM
  PI_IOCON.NLM        802   28Jun1996    09:27AM
  PI_IOMKD.NLM       1250   28Jun1996    09:04AM
\32SPEC
    32SPEC.DOC       6734   16Oct1996    01:38PM
  ETHERTSM.NLM       9425   18Apr1995    11:04AM
   FDDITSM.NLM       8914   14Mar1995    02:39PM
  FIRMLOAD.COM       1628   04Jan1991    08:57AM
   HISTORY.DOC      15771   28Aug1996    10:32AM
    NE1000.LAN       4472   28Mar1994    08:28AM
   NE1500T.LAN       7500   23Nov1994    03:59PM
       NE2.LAN       5034   23Nov1994    03:53PM
    NE2_32.LAN       5090   28Mar1994    08:48AM
    NE2000.LAN       7382   23Nov1994    03:56PM
    NE2100.LAN       7498   23Nov1994    04:00PM
    NE3200.LAN      14237   30Jun1994    08:04AM
   NE32HUB.LAN      12266   27Jan1993    09:11AM
   NTR2000.LAN      11399   23Nov1994    01:49PM
     PCN2L.LAN       4726   29Jan1993    08:45PM
  PCN2LTSM.NLM       5691   30Jan1993    11:32AM
  RXNETTSM.NLM       6321   26Sep1994    10:46AM
     STATS.DOC      63446   06Oct1993    03:55PM
  TOKENDMA.DOC       6203   11Apr1996    11:20AM
  TOKENDMA.LAN      10861   26May1993    03:16PM
  TOKENTSM.NLM       9457   14Mar1995    02:39PM
    TRXNET.LAN       3075   07Jan1993    01:23PM
\32SPEC\31X
    MSM31X.NLM      21308   23Nov1994    11:41AM
\32SPEC\31X\311
    LSLENH.NLM      11645   21Dec1994    12:17AM
  PATCHMAN.NLM      15591   22Jan1996    11:22AM
\32SPEC\410
       MSM.NLM      20252   23Nov1994    11:41AM
\32SPEC\CONFIG
  !NVL0701.CFG       2745   02Sep1992    01:25PM
  !NVL0901.CFG       8293   04Oct1990    10:42AM
  !NVL1201.CFG       7378   26Mar1992    09:08AM
  !NVL1301.CFG       1169   12Mar1992    02:28PM
  !NVL1401.CFG        986   10Jun1992    04:02PM
  !NVL1501.CFG      11994   11Jan1993    03:24PM
     @7151.ADF       2346   26Jul1989    05:08PM
     @7154.ADF       2657   27Apr1992    01:54PM
\33SPEC
   CNE2100.LAN      17820   09Sep1996    03:47PM
   CNE2100.LDI      11557   27Sep1996    04:41PM
  ETHERTSM.NLM      11926   03Jul1996    07:53AM
   FDDITSM.NLM      11625   03Jul1996    07:57AM
   NE1500T.LAN       7614   09Sep1996    04:19PM
   NE1500T.LDI       2657   14Feb1996    11:15AM
       NE2.LAN       5225   01Apr1996    09:31AM
       NE2.LDI       3396   14Feb1996    11:25AM
    NE2_32.LAN       5275   01Apr1996    09:38AM
    NE2_32.LDI       3518   14Feb1996    11:26AM
    NE2000.LAN       8007   05Jun1996    03:07PM
    NE2000.LDI      12206   03May1996    09:54AM
    NE2100.LAN       7612   09Sep1996    04:00PM
    NE2100.LDI       2627   14Feb1996    11:15AM
    NE3200.LAN      15281   13Jun1996    02:56PM
    NE3200.LDI       5724   01Feb1996    12:24AM
   NE3200P.LAN      15792   13Jun1996    02:57PM
   NE3200P.LDI       5750   07May1996    12:04AM
   NTR2000.LAN      11548   09Sep1996    03:20PM
   NTR2000.LDI      11182   25Jun1996    02:27PM
  TOKENTSM.NLM      12140   03Jul1996    07:56AM
\33SPEC\312
    MSM31X.NLM      52877   22Aug1996    06:12PM
    NBI31X.NLM      31954   30Aug1996    01:31PM
\33SPEC\41X
       MSM.NLM      56649   22Aug1996    06:12PM
       NBI.NLM      17028   30Aug1996    01:31PM

document

Document Title: Readme for LANDR9.EXE
Document ID: 2915398
Creation Date: 21Oct1996
Modified Date: 02Feb1999
Revision: 1
Novell Product Class:NetWare

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