HP P Class 733/800/866MHz / 1GHz Service manual

Network
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Rev. 6.0
Date: 4/98

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Contents
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How to use this online guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Associated Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1 Setting Up the Network Connection
Setting Up the Network Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
How to find your PC’s MAC Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Configuring the HP Ethernet Family Adapter in SETUP . . . . . . 13
Using SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Controlling the Network Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Controlling the Remote Power Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Network Driver Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Driver Installation - LAN Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
The LAN Activity Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Tips for Setting Up the HP Ethernet Family Adapter . . . . . . . . . 17
Troubleshooting and Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Running HPIEDIAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
What You Can Do With HPIEDIAG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Getting Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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2 Installing Novell NetWare Drivers
Installing Novell NetWare Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
ODI DOS Client Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
ODI Driver with DOS Requester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ODI Driver with DOS Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Starting a NetWare Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
ODI OS/2 Client Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
ODI Driver for Windows for Workgroups Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Windows for Workgroups OEM Information Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Parallel Transferring ODI DOS Client Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Parallel Transferring ODI Driver with DOS Requester . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Parallel Transferring ODI Driver with DOS Shell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Starting a Parallel Transferring NetWare Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
NET.CFG Options for Novell NetWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sample NET.CFG File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3 Installing Microsoft Network Drivers
Installing Microsoft Network Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Network Driver Interface Specifications (NDIS). . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
LAN Manager 2.x DOS and OS/2 Client Driver with
NetBEUI Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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NDIS 2.01 Driver for Windows for Workgroups 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
NDIS 2.01 and 3.0 Drivers for Windows for Workgroups 3.11 . . 52
Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
NDIS 3.0 Driver for Windows NT 3.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Miniport Driver for Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Installing the NDIS 3 Miniport Driver for Windows NT 3.51 . . . . . . . 55
Installing the NDIS 4 Miniport Driver for Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . 56
NDIS 2.01, 3.1 and 4 Drivers for Windows 95 and
Windows 95 OSR2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Installing the NDIS Drivers on Windows 95 Versions not
Preloaded by HP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Installing the NDIS 2.01 and NDIS 3.1 Drivers for Windows 95 . . . . 58
Installing the NDIS 2.01 and NDIS 4 Drivers for Windows 95 OSR2. 59
4 Installing Other Network Drivers
Installing Other Network Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
NDIS 2.01 Driver for Artisoft LANtastic 6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
NDIS 2.01 Driver for Banyan VINES Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
NDIS 2.01 Driver with DEC PATHWORKS 5.0 Client. . . . . . . . . . 68
NDIS 2.01 Driver with FTP PC/TCP 2.x for DOS/Windows. . . . . 69

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NDIS 2.01 Driver for IBM LAN Services 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
NDIS 2.01 Driver with IBM Warp Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
NDIS 2.01 Driver for PC-NFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
NDIS 2.01 Driver with Other Networking Products. . . . . . . . . . . 77
5 Configuring for Remote Boot
Configuring for Remote Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Setting Up a Novell NetWare 3.x and 4.x Server for
Remote Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
How to Create a Boot Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Remote Program Load on NetWare 3.x and 4.x. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Remote Boot on Windows NT 3.5x AS (RPL). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Remote Boot on Windows NT Server 4.0 (RPL). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Remote Boot on Windows NT 4.0 Server with PXE and
DHCP/TFTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Client Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

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6 Driver Options - Software Keywords
PCNET Driver-Specific Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Common Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Operating System Keywords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Novell NetWare DOS & OS/2 ODI Client Keywords. . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
NDIS 2.01 Driver Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
NDIS 3.x Driver Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
NDIS 4.x Driver Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Artisoft LANtastic Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

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