Allied Telesis AT-2972T/2 - Manual (Page 19)

AT-29xx Series Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapters Installation Guide
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AT-29xx Series Adapter Software Drivers
An AT-29xx Series adapter is shipped from the factory with the default
Broadcom software driver installed. To update the software driver, you
have two options:
ˆ If your system has an Internet connection, you can download the AT-
29xx software driver from the Microsoft’s Update Manager. This utility
is accessed through the Start button. However, the Microsoft Update
Manager may not have the latest Allied Telesis software drivers.
ˆ You can download the latest version of the software driver from the
Allied Telesis website at www.alliedtelesis.com/support/software.
This manual provides instructions to download the software driver from the
Allied Telesis website and install it on your adapter.
Supported
Operating
Systems
The AT-29xx Series Adapters support software drivers on the following
operating systems:
ˆ Windows Server 2003
ˆ Windows XP
ˆ Windows 2008 R2
ˆ Windows Vista
ˆ Windows 7
ˆ Linux
ˆ Novell NetWare
ˆ MS-DOS
Software Driver
Features
The following is a list of the AT-29xx Series Gigabit Ethernet Network
adapters features for all of the supported operating systems:
ˆ Flow Control (IEEE 802.3X)
ˆ Jumbo frames (9 KB)
ˆ Layer 2 Priority Encoding (802.1P)
ˆ Adaptive interrupt frequency
ˆ Integrated 96 KB Frame Buffer Memory
ˆ Support for PXE
ˆ Load balancing
Note
Novell NetWare 5.1 does not support Jumbo Frames.