Novell Del Mar College
CIS 306 - Managing NOVELL® Networks
 Instructor: Michael P. Harris
IntranetWare 4.11

IntranetWare Installation Guide

Appendix A - Manually Selecting Drivers for Hardware Devices

A driver is a collection of commands that run a hardware device, such as a monitor or CD-ROM drive.

The IntranetWareTM for Small Business CD-ROM includes drivers for many common hardware devices. During installation Install surveys the devices attached to the server and automatically loads drivers for the devices. Occasionally, Install is unable to find a device or a driver for a detected device. In such a case, you are prompted to load the device driver manually.

Manually Load the Drivers

Three types of drivers are included with IntranetWare for Small Business: disk drivers, CD-ROM drivers, and local area network (LAN) drivers.

  • Disk drivers allow the computer and the IntranetWare for Small Business CD-ROM to share information needed during the installation process. In addition, disk drivers allow IntranetWare for Small Business to access both internal and external hard disk drives after the server is installed.
  • A CD-ROM driver also enables communication between the CD-ROM drive and the server. In some cases, you must choose a CD-ROM driver as well as a disk driver.
  • A LAN driver must be loaded to establish a network connection (if the server is physically connected to the network cabling). Your choice of LAN drivers depends on the cabling system and the network board you are using.

Load the Device Drivers

Install automatically detects the hardware devices on your machine, including hard disks, CD-ROM drives, network boards, etc. It then scans for and selects applicable drivers for the hardware.

During Install, If
 Then
Drivers are selected automatically
Proceed with "Load the LAN Drivers." After the LAN drivers are loaded, a summary of selected drivers appears. You can then continue with the drivers shown or you can modify the choices that have been made for you.
Drivers are not selected automatically, or if Install found more than one driver for your hardware or was unable to match a hardware device with a driver
Continue without choosing a driver or choose manually which driver to load by following the process below.

Your drivers may not be selected for the following reasons:

  • Install could not recognize the hardware device.
  • Your machine does not have an advanced bus (EISA, PCI, PNPISA, MCA).
  • Your hardware is non-Plug and Play ISA.
  • The drivers you need are not included with this release, or they do not contain information needed by the auto-detection process.

If you need to choose your drivers manually, the "Select a driver "screen appears.

Figure Appendix-A-1.



WARNING: If you are installing from CD-ROM and the CD-ROM drive is connected to a SCSI adapter shared by another internal or external device (hard disk, tape device, etc.), you may experience a keyboard lockup problem while loading drivers or copying files. If this occurs, contact your SCSI adapter manufacturer for updated drivers or mount the CD-ROM as a NetWareŽ volume and restart Install.

Similar to a disk driver, a CD-ROM driver enables communication between the CD-ROM and the server's CPU. In some cases, you must choose a CD-ROM driver as well as a disk driver.

Disk drivers have a description that appears as you highlight the driver. A list of standard NovellŽ drivers is shown in the next table..

Computer Architecture
 Controller
Disk Driver You Must Load
Industry Standard Architecture (ISA)
AT
ISADISK.DSK

IDE (ATA)
IDEATA.HAM
Microchannel
ESDI
PS2ESDI.DSK

IBM SCSI
PS2SCSI.DSK
Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA)
AT class
ISADISK.DSK

IDE (ATA)
IDEATA.HAM

EISA vendor proprietary
See vendor

For example, if you have an ISA computer, load the IDE disk driver.

Besides Novell drivers, additional third-party drivers are included with NetWare 4.11.

IMPORTANT: If you experience problems with third-party drivers, contact the manufacturer listed in the driver description that appears when you select the driver.

Procedure

  1. Choose your disk driver.

    The selected disk driver is then copied to the server boot directory before it is loaded.

    If more than one hard disk of the same type is installed in your computer, and if the disks are both connected to the same disk controller, load only one disk driver for that controller.

    If the disks are connected to different controllers, load the driver multiple times or load additional disk drivers.

    If
    		 Then
    The driver is listed
    		Choose the appropriate disk driver and continue with Step 2.
    The driver is not listed
    		Press <Ins> and follow the prompts. Then continue with "Load the LAN Drivers" below.

  2. Verify that the displayed parameter settings are correct.

    A prompt appears asking you either to choose and modify driver parameters or to save parameters and continue. If you save the displayed parameters and continue, another prompt appears asking if you want to load any additional drivers.

    If You Want To
    		 Then
    Load additional disk drivers, or load separate CD-ROM drivers
    		Choose "Yes" and press <Enter>. Then repeat Step 1 and Step 2.
    Proceed without loading additional disk drivers
    		Continue with "Load the LAN Drivers" below.

Load the LAN Drivers

Install automatically detects the hardware devices on your machine, including hard disks, CD-ROM drives, network boards, etc. It then scans for and selects applicable drivers for the hardware.

During Install, If
Then
Drivers are selected automatically
Go to the summary of selected drivers shown in the previous figure. You can then continue with the drivers shown or you can modify the choices that have been made for you.
Drivers are not selected automatically, or if Install found more than one driver for your hardware or was unable to match a hardware device with a driver
Continue without choosing a driver or choose manually which driver to load by following the process below.

Your drivers might not be selected for the following reasons:

  • Install could not recognize the hardware device.
  • Your machine does not have an advanced bus (EISA, PCI, PNPISA, MCA).
  • Your hardware is non-Plug and Play ISA.
  • The drivers you need are not included with this release, or they do not contain information needed by the auto-detection process.

A LAN driver must be loaded to establish a network connection (if the server is physically connected to the network cabling). Your choice of LAN drivers depends on the cabling system and the network board you are using.

Most NetWare 4.11 LAN drivers have an individual description that appears on the screen when you choose the driver. Refer to "Load the LAN Drivers"the next table and to the on-screen descriptions to determine which LAN driver to load.

IMPORTANT: If you experience problems with third-party drivers, contact the manufacturer listed in the driver description that appears as you highlight the driver.

Table Appendix-A-1.

Cabling System
 Network Board
 LAN Driver You Must Load
ARCnet*
RX-Net
TRXNET.LAN

RX-Net II

RX-Net/2
Ethernet
NE/2
NE/2T
NE2.LAN

NE/2-32
NE2_32.LAN

NE1000 - ASSY 950-054401 NE1000 - ASSY 810-160-001
NE1000.LAN

NE2000 - ASSY 810-149 NE2000T - ASSY 810-000220
NE2000.LAN

NE2100 - ASSY 810-000209
NE2100.LAN

NE1500T - ASSY 810-000214 (twisted-pair version of NE2100)
NE1500T.LAN

NE3200
NE3200.LAN

NE32HUB
NE32HUB.LAN
Token Ring
NTR2000
NTR2000.LAN

For example, if you have a Novell NE2100 network board installed in your computer, you must load the NE2100.LAN driver.

Procedure

  1. Choose your LAN driver from the LAN driver screen shown in the next figure.

    If the LAN drivers are not selected and loaded automatically, the screen appears. The selected LAN driver is then copied and stored temporarily in the server boot directory before it is loaded.

    Figure Appendix-A-2.



    If
    		 Then
    The driver is listed
    		Choose the appropriate LAN driver and continue with Step 2.
    The driver is not listed
    		Press <Ins> and follow the prompts. Then continue with Step 2.

  2. Verify that the displayed LAN driver parameter settings are correct.

    A prompt appears asking you either to select and modify driver parameters or to save parameters and continue. You can modify the driver frame types by pressing <F3>.

    If you continue and save the displayed parameters, another prompt appears asking if you want to load any additional drivers.

    If You Want To
    		 Then
    Load additional LAN drivers
    		Choose Yes and press <Enter> . Then repeat Step 1 and 2.
    Proceed without loading additional LAN drivers
    		Continue with Step 3.

  3. Verify selected disk/LAN drivers.

    If your drivers are not automatically selected, the next screen appears displaying the selected disk and LAN drivers. A prompt asks you to select additional disk/LAN drivers or modify selected disk/LAN drivers.

    Verify that there is at least one disk driver per controller and one LAN driver per LAN adapter. Take into account controllers and adapters that are integrated into the computer's system board and those on the computer's expansion cards.

    Figure Appendix-A-3.



    If You Want to
    		 Then
    Load additional drivers or modify the settings of any previously selected drivers
    		Choose Select Additional or Modify Selected Disk/LAN Drivers, and follow the screen prompts.
    Once all appropriate network drivers have been chosen, continue with Step 4 below.
    Proceed without loading additional drivers
    		Continue with Step 4.

  4. Verify selected LAN driver protocols.

    The screen shown in the next figure appears displaying the selected LAN drivers and their protocols, and a prompt asks you to view or modify the selected protocols settings.

    Figure Appendix-A-4.



    If You Want to
    		 Then
    View or modify LAN driver protocol settings
    		Choose View/Modify Protocol Settings, and continue with conditional Step 5.
    Once all protocol settings have been chosen, continue the installation process.
    Proceed without viewing or modifying protocol settings
    		Continue installation in Step 8.

  5. (Conditional) Choose View/Modify Protocol Settings.

    After you press <Enter> to view or modify protocol settings, you are asked to choose the LAN driver for which you will modify the protocol settings. Choose your LAN driver, and the screen shown in the next figure appears, showing the previously selected protocol settings for that LAN driver.

    Figure Appendix-A-5.



  6. (Conditional) Press <Enter> to select or deselect protocols from the options shown.

  7. (Conditional) If you chose TCP/IP, enter the IP address and IP mask numbers and press <F10> .

    NOTE: If you are installing NetWare/IPTM , make sure that your IP address and netmask are correct. Typically, you enter the netmask in a hexadecimal format.

    For more information on NetWare/IP, see "Install NetWare IP" in Installation of the NetWare 4.11 online documentation set.

    NOTE: Protocols selected here are nonrouting. If you want to configure routing protocols, do so through the "Configure Network Protocols" option, which is available after the server is installed. See "Configure Network Protocols" in Installation of the NetWare 4.11 online documentation set.

  8. Choose Continue Installation.

    At this time, NetWare 4.11 loads the drivers that have been chosen. In the case of LAN drivers, all frame types will be loaded and applicable frames bound to IPX.

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