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Dell OptiPlex GXi Low-Profile Systems Reference and Installation Guide
Chapter 6. Then connect the NIC expansion card
to its network.
4.
Turn on the system.
5.
When the
Starting MS-DOS
message is dis-
played, press
<F5>
to prevent loading any drivers
or memory managers.
6.
Insert the NIC driver diskette into drive A. Then
type
a:
and press <
ENTER
>.
7.
Type
install
and press <
ENTER
>.
8.
Select
CONFIGURATION AND DIAGNOSTIC PRO-
GRAM
from the Main Menu.
9.
Scroll the list of NICs and find the integrated NIC
and the NIC expansion card you installed. Write
down the slot number and bus number for each.
10. Type the following commands and press
<ENTER>
after each:
cd c:\nwclient
edit net.cfg
11. Find the following
LINK Driver 3C90X
sec-
tion in the file:
LINK Driver 3C90X
;
; BUS NN
; SLOT 7
12. Delete the semicolon from the
BUS NN
line and
replace
NN
with the bus number for the inte-
grated NIC.
Use the bus number you recorded in step 9.
13. Delete the semicolon from the
SLOT 7
line and
replace
7
with the slot number for the integrated
NIC.
Use the slot number you recorded in step 9.
14. Copy the four modified lines shown in step 11 and
paste them below the original four lines. Then
modify the
BUS
and
SLOT
lines to reflect the bus
number and slot number for the NIC expansion
card.
15. Restart the system.
OS/2 Client Driver
NOTE: The OS/2 drivers are available from the Dell
BBS. See the chapter titled “Getting Help” in your Diag-
nostics and Troubleshooting Guide for the contact
number for your location.
Install the OS/2 client driver as follows:
1.
Connect the integrated NIC to its network
according to the instructions in “Connecting to a
Network” found earlier in this chapter.
2.
Exit to MS-DOS by doing one of the following:
•
Restart the system with a clean, bootable
MS-DOS diskette in drive A.
•
Type the following commands in an OS/2 win-
dow, pressing
<ENTER>
after each:
cd /os2
boot /dos
3.
Insert the NIC driver diskette into drive A. Then
type
a:
and press <
ENTER
>.
4.
Type
install
and press <
ENTER
>.
5.
From the Main Menu, select
DRIVER INSTALLATION
AND UPDATE
and press
<ENTER>
.
6.
From the Network Drivers menu, select
INSTALL
NOVELL NETWARE DRIVERS and
press
<ENTER>
.
7.
From the Novell NetWare Drivers menu, select
COPY OS/2 ODI DRIVER
and press
<ENTER>
.
8.
If you want to copy the driver to c:\netware, press
<ENTER>
. To copy the driver to another directory,
type the path and press
<ENTER>
.
Server Drivers for Novell NetWare
Environments
You can configure your system as a server computer
under either Novell NetWare 3.12 or 4.10. The drivers for
these network operating systems are located in the
\nw312 and \nw410 directories on the NIC driver dis-
kette. Instructions for installing and configuring these
drivers are contained in the help.exe program on the NIC
driver diskette.