LANtastic 6.0 - installing two EtherLink III 3C5X9's

Artisoft LANtastic 6.0, installing two EtherLink III 3C5X9 adapters

Part 1: Installing the driver

To install LANtastic version 6.0, DOS needs to be installed on drive C:\ or a bootable DOS diskette must be used.

1. Insert the LANtastic 6.0 diskette labelled "1 of 4" in drive A:\
2. At the A:\ prompt, type INSTALL
3. Follow the instructions in each proceeding window, making the appropriate selections for the particular setup
4. At the window that prompts for a driver support selection, choose: "NDIS Support for Network Adapters"
5. Put the EtherDisk in drive A:\ and set the path to A:\NDIS\DOS
6. To finish the installation, put the appropriate diskettes in drive A:\ when prompted
7. Reboot the machine

Part 2: Below is a sample of the nessessary configuration files. Add the following lines to the CONFIG.SYS, PROTOCOL.INI and STARTNET.BAT (or other batch file they use to start the network):

CONFIG.SYS

LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICE=C:\LANTASTI\PROTMAN.DOS /I:C:\INI_FILE
DEVICE=C:\LANTASTI\ELNK3.DOS
DEVICE=C:\LANTASTI\ELNK3.DOS

PROTOCOL.INI

Use "SLOT = "<n> with EISA cards
Use "IOADDRESS = 0xnnn" with ISA cards
Use "INTERRUPT = <n>" with ISA cards

[PROTMAN]
DRIVERNAME = PROTMAN$
DYNAMIC = YES

[CARD_ONE]
DRIVERNAME = ELNK3$
IOADDRESS = 0x300
INTERRUPT = 3
SLOT = 1

[CARD_TWO]
DRIVERNAME = ELNK32$
IOADDRESS = 0x310
INTERRUPT = 5
SLOT = 4

STARTNET.BAT

INTERRUPT is used with ISA & EISA
MPX=<nn> is used with ISA & EISA
MPX number is any hex number from C0 - FF
ADAPTER=<n> is used with ISA & EISA
ADAPTER number is any decimal number from 0 - 255

AI-NDIS BIND_TO=CARD_ONE IRQ=3 MPX=c7
AILANBIO MPX=c7 adapter=0
AI-NDIS BIND_TO=CARD_TWO IRQ=5 MPX=d7
AILANBIO MPX=d7 adapter=1