3M VOL-N100VF User manual

N e t w o r k I n t e r f a c e C a r d
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Volition™
Network Solutions
VOL-N100VF
VOL-N100VF
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Installing the 3M VOL-N100VF
Introduction
This manual describes the steps necessary to install the software for the
VOL-N100VF Network Interface Card assuming that you have used the
Quick Install Guide to install your hardware. After installing the card in
your computer,follow the instructions for loading the appropriate
software for your system. Drivers are included in this package to
configure the card for any of the systems listed below.
•NetWare
• Windows NT/98/95
•Solaris
• IRIX
• HP-UX
• Macintosh
•Linux
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Basic instructions for installing the VOL-N100VF are described in this
manual. For further instructions and troubleshooting help, please refer to
the online documentation found in the‘docs’directory. The online
manual is viewable in PDF and HTML formats.
NIC Features
The VOL-N10VF has these features:
•Minimization of host CPU utilization and maximization of
performance with bus mastering capability.
•Easy monitoring with three status LEDs:Link (LNK),Transmit, and
Receive activity.
Windows NT
1. Insert the installation disk into your machine’s disk drive.
2. Open the Control Panel.
3. Double-click ‘Network’. The network configuration window will
appear.
4. Select the ‘Adapters’tab. A list of available adapters will appear in
the list window.
5. Click ‘Add.’
6. Click ‘Have Disk’and enter the letter designation for the drive with
the installation disk, followed by the directory ‘winnt4’. For
example, ‘D:\winnt4’. The OEM Option window will appear. This
window lists the software you can install.
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7. Select ‘3MVOL-N10VF Fiber 10 Mbs Ethernet Controller’. The
software will load, and the newly installed adapters will appear in the
adapter window.
8. Click ‘Close’. At this point, the dialog appears for assigning network
addresses.
Windows 98
The VOL-N100VF is a plug-and-play device and will be automatically
detected upon boot up. Windows 98 will suggest loading its own driver;
however, we recommend loading the driver from the 3M CD. Please
follow the instructions below to load the 3M driver.
1. On bootup, the Windows 98 Wizard will appear and search for
appropriate drivers. Click ‘Next’.
2. Select the option to display a list of drivers in a specific location.
Click ‘Next’.
3. In the ‘Select Device’ window, click ‘Have Disk’.
4. Click ‘Browse’and select the drive with the 3M CD. Find the
‘Win98’directory and select:
‘3M VOL-N100VF 100 Mbps Ethernet Card (NDIS4)’.
Click ‘OK’.
5. Verify that the driver being installed is the ‘M100vf98.sys’driver and
click ‘OK’. Click ‘Next’to continue installation.
6. The machine will begin to copy the files from the CD. When
completed, click ‘Finish’and restart the computer
After restarting Windows 98, you will be able to connect to your network
by double-clicking the ‘Network Neighborhood’ icon.
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Windows 95
The VOL-N100VF is a plug-and-play device and will be automatically
detected upon boot up. Windows 95 will suggest loading its own driver;
however, we recommend loading the driver from the 3M CD. Please
follow the instructions below to load the 3M driver.
1. Upon bootup, the ‘New Hardware Found’window will appear.
Click ‘driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer’.
2. Click ‘Browse’. Find the 3M CD-ROM and open the ‘Win95’
directory. Select:
‘3M VOL-N100VF 100Mbps Ethernet Card (NDIS3)’.
3. Verify that the correct path has been selected. Click ‘OK’.
4. Restart your computer when prompted to do so.
After restarting Windows 95, you should be able to connect to your
network by double-clicking the Network Neighborhood.
Note: If you are using a version of Windows 95 released before Service
Pack 2.x, please follow the instructions found in the online
documentation.
Netware v.4x and v.5x
Use the INSTALL or NWCONFIG programs to install the driver:
1. From the Console enter ‘load cdrom’then enter‘cd volume list’.
Note the volume number.
2. Enter ‘CD mount #’where # represents the volume number. Then
enter ‘volumes’to verify the CD volume is mounted.
3. At the NetWare console screen, type ‘LOAD INSTALL’(for
NetWare 4) or ‘NWCONFIG’(for NetWare 5).
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4. At the ‘Installation Options’menu, click ‘Driver Options’.
5. At the ‘Driver Options’menu, click ‘Configure Network Drivers’.
6. Two windows will appear: ‘Selected Network Drivers’and
‘Additional Driver Actions’. From the menu click ‘Select a driver’.
7. When the window listing the drivers appears, press the Ins or Insert
key to load a driver from disk.
8. At the prompt, press F3 to specify a different path than the default.
Enter the path ‘3M:\nwserver\n4’or ‘3M:\nwserver\n5’.
9. Select ‘M10VF.LAN’from list.
10. When prompted to copy the driver, click ‘Yes’.
11. If asked to save the existing files ‘M10VF.LAN’ and ‘M10VF.LDI’,
click ‘No’to overwrite them with the new version from the CD.
12. A screen will appear containing three windows, labeled “Protocols”,
“Parameters”, and “BoardActions”.
13. Refer to the NetWare manual for information on configuring the
protocols and completing the installation process.
HP-UX
You need to be logged on as a root user to install the software.
1. If the system is already on, enter su [ENTER]. You will be prompted
for the root password.Otherwise, power up the system, and enter the
root password when prompted.
2. Place the CD in the CD-ROM drive. We recommend that you use
HP-UX’s graphical system management interface, sam(1M), to
mount the CD-ROM drive. To start sam(1M), enter:
# /usr/sbin/sam [ENTER]
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3. Click ‘Disks and File Systems’.
4. Click ‘Disk Devices’and select the appropriate CD-ROM entry.
5. Select ‘Add not using the logical volume manager’from the
‘Actions’ menu. We suggest you use ‘/cdrom’as the mount point.
Installing the driver for HP-UX 10.20 or later:
Note: The following examples assume that you mounted the CD-ROM in
the ‘/cdrom’directory. Otherwise,make adjustments to the following
commands as necessary:
1. Run the standard HPUX swinstall program to install the system
software, rebuild the kernel and reboot. Enter:
# swinstall -s /cdrom/HPUX -x software_view=products
[ENTER] (This command should be on one line.)
2. Following standard swinstall practices, install the software product
‘MQFE_1020’.
3. The final stage of the swinstall process will reboot your system with
a new kernel that contains the ‘mfl’ driver. The new network interface
names are ‘mfl’. After the computer has rebooted, login again as a
root user and verify that the new interface is present by using the
‘ifconfig’command. Enter this command:
# ifconfig mfl0 [ENTER]
Which will return:
mfl0: flags=822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS>
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IRIX
You need to be logged on as a root user to install the software.
1. If the system is already on, enter su [ENTER]. You will be
prompted for the root password.Otherwise, power up the system,
and enter the root password when prompted.
2. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive.
3. At the prompt, enter df [ENTER] to verify that ‘mediad’is running.
If ‘mediad’is not running, enter hinv[ENTER] to determine the
SCSI address of your CD-ROM drive.
4. Use the mount command to mount the CD-ROM drive. Enter
mount -r /dev/dsk/dks1d#s7,substituting the SCSI address of the
CD-ROM drive for the“#” character, and press [ENTER].
5. For systems using the IRIXª 6.5 operating system, enter
inst -f /CDROM/IRIX/6.5/dist [ENTER]
6. Enter go [ENTER].
7. Enter quit [ENTER] to complete installation.
8. Reboot the system by entering shutdown -go [ENTER].
Solaris
1. If the system is already on, enter su [ENTER]. You will be
prompted for the root password.Otherwise, power up the system,
and enter the root password when prompted.
2. Place the CD in the CD-ROM drive. We recommended that you use
the command ‘volcheck’to mount the CD-ROM drive. Enter:
# volcheck [ENTER]
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3. Add the driver packages. To install the 3M drivers, add the 3M
packages by entering the appropriate command from those listed
below:
# pkgadd -d /cdrom/3mvol-n100vf/solaris/sparc
or
# pkgadd -d /cdrom/3mvol-n100vf/solaris/sparc64
for 64 Bit sparc systems
or
# pkgadd -d /cdrom/3mvol-n100vf/solaris/x86
for the Solaris x86 systems.
A list of packages is displayed.
mmm100fx 3M VOL-N100FL Driver For PCI 100BaseFL
Adapter (sparc) 1.0
4. Select packages(s) you wish to process (or‘all’ to process
all packages).
5. You can either select the package by number or press:
a- to install all of the packages (recommended)
q- to quit
6. Configure the Hosts File.
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Macintosh
Insert the CD into the Macintosh computer. Open the ‘Mac’directory
and there will be two files:
VOL-N100VF Full-Duplex
VOL-N100VF Half-Duplex
Drag the file that you want onto the System Folder on your startup disk.
When prompted to move the file to the Extensions Folder, click ‘OK’
restart
Linux
You must be logged in as a root user to install the Linux driver. Enter the
following command to mount the CD-ROM:
# mount -o map=off /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
*With map=off no name translation is done
Change directory to /mnt/cdrom/Linux:
# cd /mnt/cdrom/Linux
install_3m
This should install the proper driver and control files into the appropriate
directories. This includes the ‘3Mvf.o file’in the modules directory and
the ‘MFLControl’and ‘mfl_control’files in the ‘/usr/bin directory’.
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Linux 2.0.36, 2.2.1, 2.2.5, 2.2.10 from RedHat 5.2 and 6.0 are
presently supported. Versions 2.2.5 and 2.2.10 also have smp support.
The 3Mvf driver can also be hard linked into the kernel as set forth in
the README_3M.nonmodule file. The necessary .o files are in the
respective ‘nonmodule’directory for the version of Linux. If you do not
have a matching version of Linux, the 3Mvf.o driver closest to your
version of Linux may work. You will need to copy the closest version of
the driver to your modules directory and you may also need to run
‘insmod -f’to load the driver.
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