Keyword Alphabetical Reference. Intel ETHEREXPRESS PRO/100

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Parameters for the M16ATEST.EXE utility must be specified on the

DOS command line with the command M16ATEST. The parameters are as follows:

M16ATEST.EXE Keywords

KEYWORD

FULLDUPLEX

DEFAULT VALID VALUES

(NO KEYWORD = FULL-DUPLEX DISABLED)

INTERRUPT=

IOADDRESS=

IOWAITSTATES=

LINESPEED=

LINKDISABLE

ABLED)

MEMORY=

MEMWAITSTATES=

MODE=

NOCHECK

NOEARLYRX

NOEARLYTX

NOLED

5

320

0

AUTO

(3 - 15)

(240 - 380)

(1 - 3)

(10 OR 100)

(NO KEYWORD = LINK INTEGRITY EN-

D2000

0

(C0000 - E8000)

(1 - 3)

MEM (MEM OR IO)

(NO KEYWORD = ADAPTER RESOURCE VERI

FICATION ENABLED)

(NO KEYWORD = EARLYRX ENABLED)

(NO KEYWORD = EARLYTX ENABLED)

(NO KEYWORD = LEDS ENABLED)

SILENT NOT USED (SUPPRESSES DISPLAY

DURING TEST AND RETURNS DOS ERROR CODES)

SOCKET=

WORDSIZE=

AUTO

16

(1 - 4)

(8 OR 16)

Keyword Alphabetical Reference

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CABLETYPE

DRIVERNAME

(MS-DOS) displays command summary for driver

(NDIS 3) sets the driver to autodetect the cable type or set unshielded twisted pair.

DRIVERNAME=INTEL$ required as first item in the INTEL section of the

PROTOCOL.INI file for the M16ANDIS driver.

EARLYTRANSMIT

(NDIS 3) when set to OFF functions like the keyword NOEARLYTX.

FULLDUPLEX

(10 Mbps only) enables the PRO/100 PC

Card to send and receive data simultaneously when connected to a full-duplex hub. Default is keyword not used, and therefore full-duplex “disabled.” This parameter is ignored in 100Mbps mode.

INT

see INTERRUPT

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INTERRUPT

IOADDRESS

I/O PORT

IOWAITSTATES

specifies a PC Card port hardware

interrupt. Use 10 or 11 on most PCs.

Default (if parameter not specified) is 5.

Use 0 (zero) to force the adapter into a polled mode.

specifies the base I/O address of the Intel adapter I/O ports, in hexadecimal notation.

Default address is 320.

see IOADDRESS.

specifies the number of wait states to use for accesses to the Intel adapter.

LINESPEED

LINKDISABLE

LINKINTEGRITY

LINK DRIVER

MEM

MEMORY

forces operation at 10 or 100Mbps. If the keyword is not stated, the line speed will be automatically detected.

disables link integrity for non-IEEE

10BASE-T networks such as StarLAN 10.

Without this keyword in the driver command line, the driver defaults to link integrity ENABLED.

(NDIS 3) when set to OFF, operates like the

LINKDISABLE parameter.

LINK DRIVER M16AODI required as first item in the NET.CFG file listing configuration parameters for the M16AODI driver. This must be the first keyword in the section of the NET.CFG file for the Intel adapter.

see MEMORY.

specifies the host PC memory location for the Intel adapter in hexadecimal notation, when. MODE MEMORY (memory-mapped

I/O) is being used (see MODE). The memory block occupies 4Kbytes of host memory.

MEMWAITSTATES

specifies the number of waitstates to use for memory accesses to the Intel adapter.

Values are decimal 1 to 3. The keyword is provided as a troubleshooting aid.

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MODE

set this keyword to IO to disable requests for memory-mapped mode on systems that only support an I/O-driven card. The

MEMORY setting provides increased performance on computers that allow simultaneous availability of memory and

I/O resources.

NETWORKADDRESS allows user to override adapter’s unique network node address by specifying a different node address. Network node

address can be displayed with the

M16ATEST utility (MS-DOS).

NODEADDRESS

NOCHECK

see NETWORKADDRESS.

disables verification of adapter resources, for troubleshooting purposes.

NOEARLYRX

NOEARLYTX

disables Advanced Look-ahead Pipelining features of the Intel PRO/100 PC Card. This parameter should be used in the NET.CFG

file when the ODI driver is used with

Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11.

disables early transmit features of the Intel

PRO/100 PC Card. Try using this keyword if you are experiencing a large number of transmit underruns (in which hardware reports not finding expected data in the transmit buffer).

NOLED

PORT

S

SILENT

SINT

turns off LED indicators on LAN adapter module to conserve power.

(ODI) see IOADDRESS.

(ODI)(MS-DOS command line only) displays LAN drivers resident in memory.

(M16ATEST) disables display of information on the screen and returns DOS error code when tests are complete.

(Packet Driver) is number from hexadecimal 60 to 80 designating a software interrupt. Default is 60.

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SOCKET

U

WORDSIZE

Configuration Reference the number of the host computer’s PC Card slot or socket into which the Intel PRO/100 adapter is inserted. If a socket number is specified, the only the specified socket is checked for the Intel adapter. If no socket is specified, the all sockets are searched until the Intel adapter is found.

(ODI)(MS-DOS command line only) unloads driver from memory this parameter specifies the network data path size. Values are 8 or 16 for 8- or 16-bit transfers. Default is 16.

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