General
EP-4101A
Q. How to get the latest
driver for Edimax's network products?
Answer: You can connect to Edimax's WEB site.
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Q: Where and how to find this FAQ
installation instruction in the driver diskette?
Answer: Run the README.EXE file in the driver diskette to find the FAQ
installation instruction.
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Q. How to install Windows 2000 driver for
EP-4101 LAN adapter?
Location of Windows 2000 Driver in
the CD disk: Suppose drive E is the CD ROM drive.
E:\EP4101\Win2000\AX88190.SYS
or
E:\EP4101\Win2000\AX88190.SYS
Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows2000 :
Before you start with the installation
process, make sure that your adapter should
be properly installed in your PCMCIA slot. Boot up Windows 2000, it will auto-detect the new hardware, ie. the EP-4101. ( If Windows2000 does not
prompt that it detects the PCMCIA Fast
Ethernet adapter, there must be something wrong with the your system environment. Most
likely the problem is on the PCMCIA socket
services controllers, please check with your system vendors for help on the PCMCIA socket controllers.)
- Windows ask you to select which driver you
want to install, select "Driver from disk provided by
hardware manufacturer" or "Specify location"
- Insert the PCMCIA 10/100 Fast Ethernet
driver disk into CD ROM drive and specify the setup file
pathname :
E:\EP4101\Win2000\AX88190.SYS
- Windows2000 might appear messages to
request you insert the Windows 2000 OS system CD disk to
complete setup.
- Windows2000 will finish the other
installation procedure automatically, then you restart the
system to finish the installation.
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Q. How to install Windows 98 driver for
EP-4101 LAN adapter?
Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 98 :
Before you start with the installation
process, make sure that your adapter should
be properly installed in your PCMCIA slot. Executing Windows 98, it will auto-detect your system configuration and find the adapter hardware. ( If
Win98 does not prompt that it detects
the PCMICIA Ethernet adapter, there must be something wrong with the PCMICA Ethernet adapter or your
system environment.)
- Press Next button while Add New
Hardware wizard appear.
- Please select "Search for the best driver
for your device", Then
press Next button;
- Select "Specify a location", then insert
the driver disk into CD-ROM
driver and specify the setup file pathname E:\EP4101\WIN98 Windows 98 will appear some messages to
insert Windows 98 system disk to complete setup step.
- Windows 98 will finish
the other installation procedure automatically, then ask you
restart the system.
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Q. How to install Windows 95 driver for
EP-4101 LAN adapter?
Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows 95 :
Windows 95 is an operating system with
the so-called Super-Client driver for
PCMCIA cards. This means Windows 95 is with the features supported by Socket/Card services driver for PCMCIA
cards. If Windows 95 is installed in a notebook
with a PCMCIA card reader, the PCMCIA driver should be installed simultaneously
as Windows 95 is installed. You don't need to install the PCMCIA driver
again. However, if you have not
installed PCMCIA driver in Windows 95 yet, you must install PCMCIA driver first. After installing
PCMCIA driver, you should install
Ethernet driver according to the prompt of Windows 95. The following give the brief procedures to
install PCMCIA driver and Ethernet driver on
Windows 95. If you have installed a PCMCIA card
reader driver, please skip step 1 - 4 and jump to step 5 directly.
Note: Do no plug-in EP-4101 for step 1-4.
- When log into Windows 95, click
the "My Computer" icon to open "My Computer" window,
then click the "Control Panel" icon from "My Computer" window.
- In the "Control Panel" window, click the
"Add New Hardware" icon. A
"Add New Hardware Wizard" window will appear and ask you if it will continue to
auto-detect a new hardware. If you press "Next" button to confirm to
auto-detect a new hardware, the Windows 95 will detect all hardwares
installed in the system. It will take a few minutes to detect all hardwares in the system.
- Windows 95 will list all hardwares it
found. Choose "PCMCIA controller" from the hardware list and click "Finish" button to install PCMCIA driver.
- Reboot your computer after
installing PCMCIA driver.
- Plug PCMCIA Ethernet card into a PCMCIA
card reader before Windows 95 starts up. The system will prompt you "New Hardware Found" and ask you to install
driver. Choose "Driver From Disk Provided by Hardware
Manufacturer" and confirm to install driver. A "Install From Disk" window
will appear and ask you to enter the path of driver, key-in or select
your driver path to "Copy Manufacturer's file from:" window and then
confirm. This will install the PCMCIA 10/100M Fast Ethernet
driver to Windows 95 system.
- Reboot your computer after installing
the PCMCIA Ethernet driver. Open "Network Neighborhood" window and you will acquire network service.
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Q: How to verify the Windows95/98
driver is properly installed or not?
Answer: Check the Device
Manager in System of Control Panel. Click the + sign of Network Adapter to
see the PCMCIA network adapter driver. Make sure there is no exclamation
mark on the PCMCIA Ethernet driver. Double click or go to the property of
the PCMCIA Ethernet driver. If the Device Status shows "the device is
working properly", the driver has been installed properly.
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Q: If the driver is not properly
installed or has problem, how to remove the driver and reinstall?
Answer: If the Device Status does not show "the device is working
properly" message in the property of PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter, the driver is not
properly installed. You can try click the "update drivers" button to
reload the driver from E:\win95 or E:\win98 directory. Or remove the
PCMCIA Ethernet driver from the Device Manager. Shutdown the
machine. Take out the PCMCIA Ethernet card from the slot. Power on
the machine. Check Device Manager again. Make sure there is no device with
a yellow exclamation mark, especially the card socket service. Then
plug-in the PCMCIA ethernet card. Windows95/98 will auto detect the new
device and allow you to load the driver. Follow the normal procedure to
finish the driver installation.
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Q. How to install Windows NT4.0 driver for
EP-4101 LAN adapter?
Installing driver procedure on Microsoft Windows NT :
- Start Windows NT 4.0, then click
the Start button.
- Open the Settings menu and select
Control Panel.
- Double-click the Network icon.
- If you have previously installed a network adapter on
the computer:
- Click Adapters in the
Network window
- Click Add
- If you have not installed a network
adapter on the computer:
- Click Yes in
the Network Configuration dialog box
- Select Wired to the Network in the Network Setup Wizard window
- Click Next to continue
- Click the Select from list button
- Click the Have Disk button in the Select Network
Adapter window. The Insert Disk window
appears.
- Insert the Driver Disk into
the CD-ROM drive.
- At the prompt, type the following: E:\EP4101\WINNT40
- Click OK.
Windows NT will perform the "Bindings Configuration" process. If any additional network software options
were installed, you may be prompted for
specific information for these packages.
- Complete the installation by following the instructions
provided by Windows NT.
- Restart the computer.
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Q: How to install Novell DOS client
driver for EP-4101 LAN adapter?
Workstation for DOS ODI Client
Introduction:
This document describes the procedure to setup the NetWare v3.X , v4.X workstation driver for the PCMCIA 10/100M Fast Ethernet
adapter. You must run Socket/Card services device driver and/or
Enable program before you invoke any Ethernet driver. For
the detailed information on how to install PCMCIA driver,
please refer to the User's Manual or the "About PCMCIA" section
in README file.
Location of Driver: \NETWARE\DOSODI\AX88190.COM
Sample Configuration Files:
STARTNET.BAT:
EN190
LSL
AX88190
IPXODI
NETX or VLM (VLM's for
NetWare 4.X )
NET.CFG
Link Support
Protocol
Bind AX88190
LINK DRIVER AX88190
; NODE ADDRESS 2A8012345678
; Frame
Ethernet_802.3
Port 300
IRQ 5
; S10
; S100
NetWare DOS Requester
FIRST NETWORK
DRIVE = F
NETWARE PROTOCOL = NDS BIND
Auto-Installation Procedures for NetWare Client :
Before you start the installation process,
make sure that the adapter is properly
installed and configured. Make sure that your NetWare workstation operating system is
properly installed.
- Run INSTODI.BAT from the driver
which has this installation diskette.
- Select the ODI environment (VLM or NETX).
- The installation program will copy all
required files to C:\NWNET directory and create NET.CFG and STARTNET.BAT files.
- The installation program will modify
CONFIG.SYS file to add
"LASTDRIVE=drive" statement upon your confirmation and modify NET.CFG and STARTNET.BAT
files under C:\NWNET directory to meet your ODI environment.
- Reboot your system for the configuration to
take effect if you select VLM environment in step 2.
- Change directory to C:\NWNET then run
STARTNET.BAT, you will connect to the file server.
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Q: Do you have a driver
compatibility list for EP-4101?
Driver Compatibility
Socket Services and Card Services
The key elements of the PCMCIA software
architecture are the Socket Services and
the Card Services. Socket services comprise the hardware-dependent software that controls
the physical PCMCIA slots (also called
"sockets") controller hardware. They are BIOS-level software interface that provides a way to
access the PCMCIA slots of a computer Socket Services, identify how
many slots are in your computer and detect the insertion or removal
of a PCMCIA card when the computer is
power ON. Socket Services are part of the PCMCIA 2.0 specification and interfaces with Card
Services. Card Services are
hardware-independent and are the software management interface that
automatically allocates the system resources,
such as memory and IRQ, once Socket Services
detect that a PCMCIA card has been inserted in a slot. Card Services also release
these resources when the PCMCIA card is
removed. In addition, Card Services provide an interface to higher level software to load needed hardware
drivers.
Some vendors subdivide Card Services to Card Services and Client Driver. Their function assignments are as follows. Card
Service allows "hot swap" of
PCMCIA cards, manages their competition for system resources and manages the PCMCIA card
resources. Client Driver communicates with
PCMCIA hardware device drivers (such as the Ethernet PCMCIA MAC-layer driver programs), registers with Card Services and initializes
the PCMCIA card upon its insertion in the slot. Generally, a Client Driver is only necessary for
PCMCIA cards such as network
adapters, which may require certain unique hardware resource parameters such as
I/O port address and IRQ numbers.
Client Drivers may not be required for such
PCMCIA cards as RAM cards or disk cards, which use universal hardware resource parameters understood by the Card Services.
Driver Installation
The following provides only a guideline to
load the Socket Services, Card Services and
the Client Driver (where required). For the exact procedures, refer to the documents concerning
the PCMCIA software of your system, and the
README file on this diskette.
A) For computers that provide Socket Services
and Card Services in the form of
device drivers
- Insert the PCMCIA Ethernet card
in a slot.
- Load a Client
Driver program (Socket/Card Service providers).
- Load the Enable program
(Socket/Card Service providers or EN190.EXE)
- Load a MAC-layer
driver program for your network operating system.
B) For computers that do not have Socket
Services and Card Services:
- Insert the PCMCIA Ethernet card
in a slot.
- Execute the EN190.EXE program. This program allows you specify parameters for system resource allocation (I/O port address, IRQ, etc.)
- Load a
MAC-layer driver program for your network operating system.
Note: The EN190.EXE does not include the
Socket/Card Services. It directly
enables the PCMCIA Ethernet card, instead of going through
these Services. Without the functions of Socket/Card Services, the card must be enabled every
time when it is plugged
in the systems.
Basically, the MAC-layer driver for PCMCIA Ethernet adapter is compatible to NE2000 once the "Enable
program" is invoked. We provide many kinds of drivers, including NetWare ODI
driver, NDIS driver, NDIS driver for WFW311, Packet Driver and Windows 95 driver, for your convenience. You can use either our driver in the diskette or any compatible driver in your hand.
However, if you need a driver we do not
support in the diskette, you can ask your dealers for the updated driver information or ask the vendor of
PCMCIA card reader for Socket /Card services device drivers for your specific
operating system, and then you can use any compatible drivers in
your hand for this PCMCIA Ethernet adapter.
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