Network Drivers and the Apricot On-Board
Ethernet Adapter
The purpose of this bulletin is to provide information on the version of
Network Driver(s)/Ethernet PALs required for a multitude of Network Operating Systems
running on Apricot Qi 600 series or FT Server machines using the Apricot on-board Ethernet
adapter.
The first table will describe those machines which are commonly used as
Network File Servers, and the Ethernet PALs required to be installed to avoid the
possibility of various errors occurring on the servers under high network traffic
situations.
Typically, these errors will be either 'Abend: NMI parity error' for
NetWare 286, or 'The system detected an interrupt that cannot be masked: TRAP 0002' for
LAN Manager.
| Machine Type |
Motherboard Rev. |
PAL Serial Number Used |
| VX FT 486 / 386 |
G |
NGGL 185F |
Part No. 12165031 |
| VX FT 386 |
E |
D592 AG1VI |
Part No. 12160431 |
| Qi 600 series |
G |
NGGL 185F |
Part No. 12165031 |
| Qi 600 series |
E |
D592 AG1VI |
Part No. 12160431 |
The PAL for a Rev E motherboard is located on a daughterboard module
that can be found at the rear of the board near the keyboard and mouse sockets.
The PAL for a Rev G motherboard is located at IC185 at the rear of the
board approximately 4cm to the left of the VGA socket. Note however that on an FT, this is
underneath the expansion backplane, and as such should only be checked by an FT trained
engineer.
To correctly support the above PAL and machine combinations, both the
Server and Workstation on-board Ethernet device drivers have had to be re-designed. The
table below lists the version numbers of these new drivers along with the Network
Operating System used.
| Network O/S |
File Server Drivers |
Revision Level |
Workstation Drivers |
Revision Level |
| Novell |
82592.LAN |
V1.02EC |
82592.LAN |
V1.02EC |
| NetWare |
82592AD.OBJ |
Version 1.02 |
82592SH.OBJ |
Version 1.05 |
|
82592BD.OBJ |
Version 1.02 |
|
82592CD.OBJ |
Version 1.02 |
|
82592DD.OBJ |
Version 1.02 |
| LAN Manager |
ETH592.OS2 |
Version 1.03 |
ETH592.DOS |
Version 1.03 |
| VX-NET |
ETHER592.SYS |
Version 3.16 |
ETHER592.SYS |
Version 3.16 |
| PC-NFS |
|
|
PCNFS592.SYS |
Vr 1.0 |
| DEC-NET |
|
|
DLL.EXE |
Vr 1.02 |
All the above network drivers are available for download from the
Apricot Technical Support Bulletin Board. Note however that drivers that are a part of a
chargeable Server Environment Pack (the Novell Server Drivers) will require a password
before the updated drivers can be downloaded, and that password will only be issued on
proof of purchase of an existing Server Environment Pack.
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