Intel(R) PRO/100 Server Adapter and Desktop Adapter Supplemental Information May 02, 2001 ============================================================================ Browser-Viewable Online User's Guide ==================================== The PRO/100 adapter User's Guide is viewable with any recent web browser. You can view the guide by inserting the CD in your computer and waiting for the Autorun menu to appear. Click the User's Guide button on the Autorun screen. Another way to view the guide is to start the Windows Explorer, go to the \INFO folder on the Intel CD and double-click the file called INDEX.HTM. To install the online User's Guide on your hard disk, view the Help file, GUIDE.HLP, in the root directory. Installing PROSet II and Other Advanced Features ================================================ The Intel(R) CD includes an installation utility for installing the following Advanced Features: - Intel(R) PROSet II - Desktop Management Interface - Intel(R) PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider - Intel(R) PRO Quality of Service WMI Provider - Intel(R) Priority Packet II - Intel(R) PRO/100 Mobile Modem Utilities NOTE: The Intel PROSet II option does not appear in Windows NT 4.0, since it's automatically pre-installed when you install the adapter drivers. For Windows 95, only Intel(R) PROSet is available. The option "Intel(R) PRO/100 Mobile Modem Utilities" only appears if the installer detects a mobile adapter. When you insert the Intel CD in the CD-ROM drive, the Intel Product Information autorun screen appears. Select the Install Advanced Features button to start the installer. Alternately, you can start the installer by double clicking the SETUP.EXE file in the Setup folder on the Intel CD. Introducing the new Intel(R) PRO/100 S Dual Port Server Adapter =============================================================== Intel has combined security features with the ability to have two distinct adapter ports in one PCI slot. The PRO/100 S Dual Port Adapter has a 64-bit PCI connector, allowing the two 32-bit ports to operate with a 64-bit bridge at 33 Mhz. When installing a PRO/100 S Dual Port adapter, upgrade all Intel 10/100 adapters in the computer to the latest software. If the computer has trouble detecting both ports, consider the following: 1. Your operating system may need to re-enumerate the bus. To force the re- numeration, uninstall or unload the drivers for all PCI devices installed and shutdown the computer. Then restart the computer and reinstall or reload all drivers. 2. Some computers may need BIOS upgrades to properly detect the adapter's bridge chip and both ports. 3. The "Plug and Play OS" setting in the BIOS should be set to "Yes" for Windows and set to "No" for most other operating systems. Adding this adapter through hot plug may present some difficulties. If your second port is not detected, a restart may be required. When installing this adapter in NetWare with hot plug, include the keyword "persist=1" in the load line. For more information, visit http:\\support.intel.com. Server Adapter Teaming Features =============================== Server adapters support advanced teaming features: Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) Fast EtherChannel* (FEC) Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC) 802.3ad For more information on these teaming features and how to set up teaming on specific adapters, see the Online User's Guide. Removing Virtual Adapters in Windows 2000 ========================================= IMPORTANT: When you use PROSet II to create a team in Windows 2000, a virtual adapter instance is displayed in both the Device Manager and Network and Dial-up Connections. Each virtual adapter instance is listed as "Intel(R) Advanced Network Services Virtual Adapter." Do not attempt to modify (except to change protocol configuration), disable or remove these virtual adapter instances using Device Manager or Network and Dial-up Connections. Instead, you must only use PROSet II. Doing otherwise may result in system anomalies, including bluescreens. VLANS on PRO/100 Adapters ========================= A VLAN is a logical grouping of network devices put together as a LAN regardless of their physical grouping. VLANs let a user see and access only specified network segments and limit broadcast domains. This optimizes network efficiency and maintains security access restriction. VLANs require VLAN capable switches, either implicit (switch only) or explicit (IEEE 802). IEEE VLANs allow multiple VLANs per adapter or team since both the switch and adapter use a tag in the packet header to sort VLANs. The Intel PRO/100 VE and VM Desktop Adapters and Network Connections can be used in a switch based VLAN but does not support IEEE Tagging. The Intel PRO/10 VE, VM adapter has to be placed in an untagged port on that switch, in a single domain. All other PRO/100+ and PRO/100 S PCI adapters and the PRO/1000 family of server adapters fully support IEEE 802 based VLANs when attached to an explicit VLAN enabled switch. (NetWare OS require PRO/100 +/S Server adapters). A VLAN offers you the ability to group users and client PCs together into logical workgroups. This is a critical consideration when connecting clients to servers that are geographically dispersed across the building, campuses, or enterprise network. Typically, VLANs consist of a common set of co-workers within the same department but in different locations, a cross-functional team working on a joint project or, a diverse set of users sharing the same network application. Joining workers across the network forms logical working groups. By using VLANs on your network, you can: - Improve network performance - Limit broadcast storms - Improve adds, moves, and changes - Minimize security problems - Ease your management task For overview information on Intel VLANs, visit the Intel Networking Web site: http://www.intel.com/network For more specific information, read the white paper on VLANs: http://www.intel.com/network/tech_brief/virtual_lans.htm Making Floppy Disks for NetWare and Windows Installation ======================================================== If you need to use a floppy disk to install the adapter drivers, you have two options: You can click the Create Install Disk button on the Intel CD autorun screen. The Create Install Disk utility appears, and you can follow on-screen prompts for creating the installation disk of your choice. (Make sure you have a blank 1.44 MB formatted, non-bootable diskette in the floppy drive when using this utility.) Or You can use the MAKEDISK.BAT utility located in the \MAKEDISK directory on this CD. MAKEDISK [operating system] [destination] where [operating system] is the OS for which you are creating the diskette, and [destination] is the drive letter and path (such as A:). If no destination is specified, the A: drive will be used. The possible [operating system] options are: NT = Microsoft Windows NT W2K = Microsoft Windows* 2000 W9X = Microsoft Windows* 95 and Windows 98 and Windows* ME NW = Novell NetWare servers and clients DOS = Microsoft DOS and IBM OS2 MODEM = Modem drivers for the PRO/100 Mobile Combo adapters for all Microsoft operating systems. Make sure you have a 1.44 MB formatted, non-bootable diskette in the floppy drive when using this utility. NOTE: Due to size limitations, PROSet and other advanced features cannot be installed from the floppy disk. NOTE: This utility MUST be run from the \MAKEDISK directory. Alternately, you can use the following .BAT files (located in the \MAKEDISK directory on this CD) to simplify this process: MAKEW9X.BAT -- Creates a drivers disk for Windows 95 and Windows 98. MAKENT.BAT -- Creates drivers disks for Windows NT. MAKEW2K.BAT -- Creates a drivers disk for Windows 2000. MAKENW.BAT -- Creates a drivers disk for Novell NetWare servers and clients. Management Adapters =================== For more information on the Management adapters, see the MANAGEMENT Topic in the Online User's Guide. DMI and SNMP Software Support ============================= This adapter provides Desktop Management Interface 2.0 and SNMP capability for your Management applications. Software for DMI and SNMP is located in the \dmi-snmp directory on this CD. For DMI-SNMP information for NetWare, see the dminet.txt file in the \dmi-snmp\snmp\nwserver directory. For DMI-SNMP information for Windows NT, see the dmiwin.txt file in the \dmi-snmp\snmp\win32 directory. Push Installations ================== If you are a network administrator interested in unattended installation of the adapter drivers (push installation), see the Online User's Guide. Updating Software and Drivers in Windows 98 =========================================== If you're using Windows 98 and have updated or added an adapter, you may experience a problem with device driver update files not being copied. (This is a known problem, for which Microsoft has published a Knowledge Base article, Q242150.) To resolve this problem, perform the following: 1. Reboot the computer. 2. Remove the adapter via Device Manager and reboot the computer again. 3. When prompted for the adapter driver, choose the option "Display a list of all the drivers...". Then choose the adapter from the list and click Have Disk to update the drivers from the Intel CD. 4. Reboot the computer. Removing Adapter Drivers in Windows 98 and Windows 2000 ======================================================= If you use the Add/Remove Programs icon in the Windows Control Panel to remove an Intel adapter, and then try to install drivers from a later Intel CD, you may see a prompt asking for the following files: "Prodd.vxd" "Prokddp.vxd" This is because Windows is attempting to install the files associated with the earlier driver, which are not present on the later Intel CD. To resolve this problem, finish the installation and choose "Skip" when prompted for a missing file. Then, instead of removing the driver, update it with the later Intel CD. For instructions on updating the adapter driver, see the "Install the Network Drivers" section in the online guide on the Intel CD. (For instructions on viewing the online guide, see the section "Browser-Viewable Online User's Guide," earlier in this readme. For instructions on installing PROSet II, see the section "Installing PROSet II and Other Advanced Features," earlier in this readme. Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Applications and Windows 98 ================================================================== On Windows 98 operating systems you must carefully configure client systems to allow remote access of Intel network adapters WMI provider properties. To do this, you will need to edit the Windows 98 registry to remotely access the adapters WMI provider properties on Windows 98 systems from Windows NT. Refer to the Readme.txt file in \WBEM\WMI\NIC or \WBEM\WMI\QOS on the Intel CD. Known Limitations and Compatibility Notes ========================================= This section contains a list of notes that are not documented in the online guides or otherwise described. Network Adapter Flash Memory Information Not Accessible ------------------------------------------------------- Normally Intel PROSet can read the flash memory of each Intel adapter in your computer. This functionality will not be available if you install any dual port adapter in the same computer, such as the Intel PRO/100 Dual Port Server Adapter. The Boot Agent tab in PROSet will not be visible when a dual port adapter is installed. There is no workaround for this condition at this time. Windows Millennium Edition -------------------------- If you plan to install a new Intel adapter in a computer while also installing Windows Me, see the special installation notes in the Online User's Guide. Go to the "Installing the Network Drivers" section and click the Windows Me link. * Third party trademarks or brand names are the property of their owners.