NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT TITLE: Readme for LANDR9.EXE README FOR: LANDR9.EXE NOVELL PRODUCTS and VERSIONS: NetWare 4.1 NetWare 3.12 NetWare SFT III 4.1 NetWare 3.11 NetWare SFT III 3.11 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL TO NOVELL. NOVELL MAKES EVERY EFFORT WITHIN ITS MEANS TO VERIFY THIS INFORMATION. HOWEVER, THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION ONLY. NOVELL MAKES NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED CLAIMS TO THE VALIDITY OF THIS INFORMATION. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Self-Extracting File Name: landr9.exe Files Included Size Date Time ..\ LANDR9.TXT (This file) INSTALL.TXT 5507 10-16-96 1:56:26 pm LANDR9.IPS 11462 10-21-96 2:31:22 pm PI_ICMD.NLM 18259 6-28-96 8:55:08 am PI_INIT.NLM 1735 6-28-96 8:25:12 am PI_IOCON.NLM 802 6-28-96 9:27:28 am PI_IOMKD.NLM 1250 6-28-96 9:04:58 am ..\32SPEC\ 32SPEC.DOC 6734 10-16-96 1:38:54 pm ETHERTSM.NLM 9425 4-18-95 11:04:26 am FDDITSM.NLM 8914 3-14-95 2:39:12 pm FIRMLOAD.COM 1628 1-4-91 8:57:38 am HISTORY.DOC 15771 8-28-96 10:32:58 am NE1000.LAN 4472 3-28-94 8:28:04 am NE1500T.LAN 7500 11-23-94 3:59:52 pm NE2.LAN 5034 11-23-94 3:53:52 pm NE2000.LAN 7382 11-23-94 3:56:28 pm NE2100.LAN 7498 11-23-94 4:00:00 pm NE2_32.LAN 5090 3-28-94 8:48:10 am NE3200.LAN 14237 6-30-94 8:04:40 am NE32HUB.LAN 12266 1-27-93 9:11:10 am NTR2000.LAN 11399 11-23-94 1:49:44 pm PCN2L.LAN 4726 1-29-93 8:45:04 pm PCN2LTSM.NLM 5691 1-30-93 11:32:22 am RXNETTSM.NLM 6321 9-26-94 10:46:54 am STATS.DOC 63446 10-6-93 3:55:10 pm TOKENDMA.DOC 6203 4-11-96 11:20:34 am TOKENDMA.LAN 10861 5-26-93 3:16:54 pm TOKENTSM.NLM 9457 3-14-95 2:39:44 pm TRXNET.LAN 3075 1-7-93 1:23:28 pm ..\32SPEC\31X\ MSM31X.NLM 21308 11-23-94 11:41:38 am ..\32SPEC\31X\311\ LSLENH.NLM 11645 12-21-94 12:17:28 pm PATCHMAN.NLM 15591 1-22-96 11:22:52 am ..\32SPEC\410\ MSM.NLM 20252 11-23-94 11:41:26 am ..\32SPEC\CONFIG\ !NVL0701.CFG 2745 9-2-92 1:25:30 pm !NVL0901.CFG 8293 10-4-90 10:42:34 am !NVL1201.CFG 7378 3-26-92 9:08:46 am !NVL1301.CFG 1169 3-12-92 2:28:50 pm !NVL1401.CFG 986 6-10-92 4:02:08 pm !NVL1501.CFG 11994 1-11-93 3:24:22 pm @7151.ADF 2346 7-26-89 5:08:06 pm @7154.ADF 2657 4-27-92 1:54:54 pm ..\33SPEC\ CNE2100.LAN 17820 9-9-96 3:47:44 pm CNE2100.LDI 11557 9-27-96 4:41:46 pm ETHERTSM.NLM 11926 7-3-96 7:53:56 am FDDITSM.NLM 11625 7-3-96 7:57:54 am NE1500T.LAN 7614 9-9-96 4:19:24 pm NE1500T.LDI 2657 2-14-96 11:15:04 am NE2.LAN 5225 4-1-96 9:31:32 am NE2.LDI 3396 2-14-96 11:25:24 am NE2000.LAN 8007 6-5-96 3:07:42 pm NE2000.LDI 12206 5-3-96 9:54:26 am NE2100.LAN 7612 9-9-96 4:00:00 pm NE2100.LDI 2627 2-14-96 11:15:06 am NE2_32.LAN 5275 4-1-96 9:38:32 am NE2_32.LDI 3518 2-14-96 11:26:32 am NE3200.LAN 15281 6-13-96 2:56:54 pm NE3200.LDI 5724 2-1-96 12:24:22 pm NE3200P.LAN 15792 6-13-96 2:57:10 pm NE3200P.LDI 5750 5-7-96 12:04:30 pm NTR2000.LAN 11548 9-9-96 3:20:20 pm NTR2000.LDI 11182 6-25-96 2:27:08 pm TOKENTSM.NLM 12140 7-3-96 7:56:40 am ..\33SPEC\312\ MSM31X.NLM 52877 8-22-96 6:12:56 pm NBI31X.NLM 31954 8-30-96 1:31:32 pm ..\33SPEC\41X\ MSM.NLM 56649 8-22-96 6:12:38 pm NBI.NLM 17028 8-30-96 1:31:12 pm 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Any trademarks referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners. Consult your product manuals for complete trademark information. -----------------------------------------------------------------