controller. The kit includes an evaluation board with the
10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX media.
based solution.
device.
power management and AMD鈥檚 patented Magic Packet鈩?/div>
technology for remote wake-up and power-on. The board
supports power management and remote wake-up via the
PCI bus using the PME pin, or by using the 3-pin WOL con-
nector and cable that is included in this kit. This functionality
requires a system or motherboard that provides auxiliary
power and remote wake-up functions.
In addition to the evaluation board, the kit comes with the
AMD Networking CD-ROM, a hardware user鈥檚 manual,
the
PCnet Family Network Driver Installation Guide
, the
Am79C973 data sheet, board schematics and Bill of Ma-
terials, and instructions for testing the Magic Packet re-
mote wake-up technology.
The software includes driver object codes for Novell Net-
Ware ODI DOS and OS/2, NetWare Server, Microsoft
Windows NT, Windows 95, Window 98, Windows CE, Win-
dows for Workgroups, LAN Manager, Banyan VINES Cli-
ent, IBM LAN Server, SCO UNIX, Artisoft LANtastic/AI,
DEC Pathworks, and Packet Driver. Also included are util-
ity programs for con鏗乬uration of the network adapter card
EEPROM con鏗乬uration, diagnostics, and Magic Packet
wake-up.
No hardware jumpers are required for con鏗乬uration. The
PCI system BIOS automatically con鏗乬ures on power up,
the I/O Base Address, interrupt channel, and DMA chan-
nel for the PCnet-
FAST III
-based Ethernet adapter card. In
addition, AMD provides a low-level evaluation program to
establish connections, and send and receive messages.
The evaluation program allows the user to view and
change the contents of the PCnet-
FAST III
registers, the
memory resident Initialization Block, and the data buffer
Descriptor Rings. The program also allows the designer to
establish loops for hardware probing.
The PCnet Family Con鏗乬uration and Installation utility
program,
AMINSTAL
, provides an easy user interface to
view the con鏗乬uration of the PCnet-
FAST III
evaluation
board. The utility program automatically scans the system
bus(es), which may include ISA, VL, and PCI to 鏗乶d the in-
stalled PCnet-ISA, PCnet-ISA+, PCnet-ISA II, PCnet-32,
PCnet-PCI, PCnet-PCI II, PCnet-
FAST
, PCnet-
FAST+
,
and PCnet-
FAST III
devices. With the con鏗乬uration por-
tion of the program, the utility will 鏗乶d and report to the
user the I/O address, IRQ channel, and DMA channel as-
signed to the PCnet-
FAST III
device by the system BIOS.
After con鏗乬uration, the user may use the utility to create
or modify the CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and PRO-
TOCOL.INI OR NET.CFG 鏗乴es on the user鈥檚 system.
The PCnet-
FAST III
evaluation board stores the unique
IEEE physical address in the serial EEPROM. Once pow-
ered up, the Am79C973 device reads the node鈥檚 IEEE
physical address from the EEPROM through the Microw-
ire interface protocol. For more details about the PCnet-
FAST III
Ethernet Controller also refer to the
Am79C973
PCnet-FAST III
data sheet (PID #21510D).
Trademarks
Copyright 漏 1999 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
AMD, the AMD logo, and combinations thereof and Magic Packet and PCnet are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Product names used in this publication are for identi鏗乧ation purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.
This document contains information on a product under development at Advanced Micro Devices. The information
is intended to help you evaluate this product. AMD reserves the right to change or discontinue work on this proposed
product without notice.
Publication #
22349
Rev:
A
Amendment/0
Issue Date:
March 1999
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