Asante Technologies ASANT GIGANIC 1064SX User Manual

Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX

PCI Ethernet Adapter

Installation Guide

Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX

PCI Ethernet Adapter

Installation Guide

Asanté Technologies, Inc.

821 Fox Lane

San Jose, CA 95131

February , 1999

Part Number 06-00503-00 Rev. A

Printed in USA

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Trademarks

Asanté Technologies, AsantéFAST, AsantéNIC and Asanté GigaNIC are trademarks of Asanté Technologies, Inc. Apple, AppleTalk, EtherTalk, AppleShare and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, and the Windows Logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Ethernet is a registered trademark of the Xerox Corporation. All brand names and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

FCC Information

This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference and (2) this device must accept any interference receiv ed, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference, in which case, the user, at his/ her own risk and expense will be required to correct the interference.

Declaration of Conformity

Asanté Technologies, Inc. declares that the Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI adapter conform with the following standards, in accordance with the provisions of the EC Directive 89/336/EEC: EN 55022(Class B):1994, EN50082-1:1992, IEC 801-2, IEC 801-3, IEC801-4:1988.

Asanté Warranty

Asanté Technologies, Inc. warrants that this product will be free from defects in title, materials and manufacturing workmanship. If the product is found to be defective, then, as your sole remedy and as the manufacturer’s only obligation, Asanté Technologies, Inc. will repair or replace the product. This warranty is exclusive and is limited to the Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI.

This warranty shall not apply to products that have been subjected to abuse, misuse, abnormal electrical or environmental conditions, or any condition other than what can be considered normal use.

Warranty Disclaimers

Asanté Technologies, Inc. makes no other warranties, express, implied or otherwise, regarding Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI, and speciﬁcally disclaims any warranty for merchantability or ﬁtness for a particular purpose.

The exclusion of implied warranties is not permitted in some states and the exclusions speciﬁed herein may not apply to you. This warranty provides you with speciﬁc legal rights. There may be other rights that you have which vary from state to state.

Developer tested only, Novell makes no warranty with respect to this product.

Limitation of Liability

The liability of Asanté Technologies, Inc. arising from this warranty and sale shall be limited to a refund of the purchase price. In no event shall Asanté Technologies, Inc. be liable for costs of procurement of substitute products or services, or for any lost proﬁts, or for any consequential, incidental, direct or indirect damages, however caused and on any theory of liability, arising from this warranty and sale. These limitations shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose of any limited remedy.

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Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Product Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Installing the Asanté GigaNIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installing the PCI Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Connecting the Asanté GigaNIC to the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Connecting a Duplex SC connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Testing the Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installing Network Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Power Macintosh Networks (minimum requirements) . . . . . . . . . 9

Power Macintosh Open Transport Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

LED Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

LED Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Using the Diagnostic Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Power Macintosh Diagnostic Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Asanté Driver Local Statistics (ADLS) Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Introduction

Conventions

This manual describes the installation procedures for the following product:

Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI

It also applies to the following platforms:

Apple Power Macintosh System 8.1 or higher (8.5 Recommended)

The Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI is the ideal solution for bandwidth hungry Web or intranet servers, graphic systems, engineering workstations and imaging systems supporting the Macintosh platform.

Install the Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI in your existing 100Mbps (100BASE-T) network to take advantage of the high-performance design and high-speed 32/64bit PCI bus right from the start.

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Introduction

Product Overview

The Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI is a Gigabit Ethernet network interface card designed for operation in computers, servers, and client workstations. The Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI card supports the following media type:

Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI operates under the Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-SX, short wavelength laser speciﬁcation. This speciﬁcation allows link lengths up to 275 meters on the widely available 62.5/125 mulitmode ﬁber, or 550 meters on 50/125 multimode ﬁber.

Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI Features

The Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI supports IEEE 802.3x ﬂow control and the IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet standard.The Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI is designed for optimum perf ormance by employing the following features:

Plug-and-Play operation for PCI adapters 64-bit PCI bus master at 33 MHz provides 2 Gbps burst

throughput to the host computer (also supports 32-bit PCI bus master).

On-board independent RX (receive) and TX (transmit) descriptor-based DMA processors reduce host CPU utilization by streaming RX and TX data to and from host memory without host intervention.

Intelligent interrupt algorithms reduce number of host interrupts and reduce latentcy.

Interrupt coalescing reduces host CPU utilization by transferring an arbitrary number of packets to or from host memory to the Asanté GigaNIC 1064SX adapter for PCI without host intervention.

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