preliminar y this document contains inf or mation on a product under de v elopment at adv anced micro de vices . the inf or mation is intended to help y ou e v aluate this product. amd reser v es the r ight to change or discontin ue w or k on this proposed product without notice . pub lication# 22103 re v: a amendment/ 0 issue date: jan uar y 1998 pcnet-pci ii-kt/2 am79c970a based ev aluation kit f or pci systems distinctive characteristics n pci-based ethernet adapter car d with on-boar d 10b ase-t and 10b ase2 connections n based on the pcnet-pci ii (am79c970a) single- c hip ethernet contr oller f or pci b us n implements a full y functional ethernet node using a p eripheral component inter connect (pci)-based system n ethernet adapter car d utilizing a high perf ormance , lo w-cost, b us master ar c hitecture (ne2100) n suppor ts full-duple x ethernet operation n software con gurab le n software compatib le with all pcnet famil y member s n software driver s suppor t all popular netw ork operating systems (nos) n inc ludes e v aluation boar d, software driver diskettes, and suppor ting documentation general description the pcnet-pci ii e v aluation kit is a design e v aluation v ehicle f or the am79c970a pcnet-pci ii single-chip ether net controller with an integ r ated pci b us inter- f ace . the kit includes an e v aluation board with the am79c970a ether net controller and is designed f or 10base-t (t wisted p air) or 10base2 (cheaper net) media. the e v aluation board, when installed in an pci-based host system, pro vides a platf or m f or demonstr ating the high perf or mance of the pcnet-pci ii de vice , the lo w man uf actur ing cost of a pcnet-pci ii based solution, and the o v er all ease of design. the platf or m fur ther al- lo ws the user to e v aluate netw or k hardw are and to de- v elop softw are f or an ether net node based on the pcnet-pci ii de vice . in addition to the e v aluation board, the kit comes with softw are disk ettes , a hardw are user s man ual, the pcnet f amily netw or k dr iv er installation guide , and the netw or king products cd-r om (pid# 21244). the softw are includes dr iv er object codes f or no v ell netw are odi dos and os/2, microsoft windo ws nt , windo w f or w or kg roups , lan manager , ban y an vines client, ibm lan ser v er , sco unix, ar tisoft lantastic/ ai, dec p athw or ks , and p ac k et dr iv er . also included are tw o utility prog r ams , one f or con gur ation of the netw or k adapter card and softw are dr iv er installation, and one f or eepr om con gur ation. no hardw are jumpers are required f or con gur ation. the pci system bios automatically con gures on po w er up , the i/o base address , interr upt channel, and dma chan- nel f or the pcnet-pci ii ether net adapter card. in addition, amd pro vides a lo w-le v el e v aluation pro- g r am to estab lish connections , and send and receiv e messages . the e v aluation prog r am allo ws the user to vie w and change the contents of the pcnet-pci ii reg- isters , the memor y resident initialization bloc k, and the data b uff er descr iptor rings . the prog r am also allo ws the designer to estab lish loops f or hardw are probing. the pcnet f amily con gur ation and installation utility prog r am, aminstall, pro vides an easy user interf ace to vie w the con gur ation of the pcnet-pci ii e v aluation board. the utility prog r am will automatically scan the sys- tem b us(es), which ma y include isa, vl, and pci to nd the installed pcnet-isa, pcnet-isa+, pcnet-isa ii, pcnet-32, pcnet-pci, pcnet-pci ii, and pcnet-pci ii de vices . with the con gur ation por tion of the prog r am, the utility will nd and repor t to the user , the i/o address , irq channel and dma channel, assigned to the pcnet-pci ii de vice b y the system bios . after con gur ation, the user ma y use the installation por tion of the utility to install a se- lected dr iv er b y cop ying the appropr iate dr iv er from the amd disk ette , and create or modify the config.sys , a ut oexec .ba t , and pr o t ocol.ini or net .cfg les on the user s system. the pcnet-pci ii e v aluation board stores the unique ieee ph ysical address in the ser ial eepr om. once po w ered up , the am79c970a de vice reads the node s ieee ph ysical address from the eepr om through the micro wire interf ace protocol. f or more details about the
2 preliminary pcnet-pci ii ethernet controller also refer to the am79c970a pcnet-pci ii data sheet (pid #19436), which is found in the networking products cd-rom (pid# 21244) or on the amd web site (www.amd.com). figure 1. pcnet-pci ii-kt/2 trademarks copyright ?1998 advanced micro devices, inc. all rights reserved. amd, the amd logo, and combinations thereof are trademarks of advanced micro devices, inc. clance, ?lan, isanet, lance, magic packet, and pcnet are trademarks of advanced micro devices, inc. product names used in this publication are for identi?ation purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. 22103a-2 am79c970a eeprom 10base-t twisted pair 10base2 cheapernet led am7996
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