D-Link DE-530CT+, DE-530T+ Installation Manual

PCI-Bus Ethernet

Adapters

Model DE-530CT+

Model DE-530T+

Installation Guide

Rev. 04 (February, 1996)

6DE-530-CT.-.04
Printed in Taiwan

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Contents subject to revision without prior notice.
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D-Link Systems, Inc.
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Statement

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(such as translation, transformation or adaptation)
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Systems Inc., as stipulated by the United States
Copyright Act of 1976.

FCC
Certifications

Class B: model DE-530/CT/T+
FCC ID: KA2APC530-1

Made in Taiwan

[Philip: Is this line part
of the FCC Cert?]
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
received, including interference that may cause
undesired operation.

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Warnin
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Class B for model DE-530/CT/T+

This equipment has been tested and found to comply
with the limits for a Class B digital device,
pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits
are designed to provide reasonable protection against
harmful interference in a residential installation.
This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio
frequency energy and, if not installed and used in
accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful
interference to radio communications. However, there
is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a
particular installation. If this equipment does
cause harmful interference to radio or television
reception, which can be determined by turning the
equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try
to correct the interference by one or more of the
following measures:

♦

Reoriented or relocate the receiving antenna.

♦

Increase the separation between the equipment and
receiver.

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Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit
different from that to which the receiver is
connected.

♦

Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV
technician for help.

Shielded interface cables must be used in order to
comply with emission limits.
Changes or modifications not expressly approved by
user's authority to operate this equipment.

Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION ....................... 1-1

Features......................... 1-3

2 INSTALLATION ....................... 2-1

Hardware Installation............ 2-1

Step 1 Insert card into computer2-2
Step 2 Connect to network cable2-3

Twisted-pair cable ...... 2-3

Thin coaxial cable ...... 2-5

BOOT ROM Installation............ 2-6

Software Installation............ 2-6

Diagnostics Test Program......... 2-7

A TROUBLESHOOTING .................... A-1

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Features

Designed to be versatile and high-performance, the DE­530/CT/T+ adapter supports most popular networking
software and have the following features:

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Hardware Installation

The adapter m ust be used in a 32-bit PCI slot that supports
PCI local bus Mastering. Th e card settings, such as Interrupt
and I/O address, are automatically configured by the PC BIOS
without user's intervention.
Curr en tl y, the Pentium/ 486 m other boards provide as many as
three PCI slots. Each slot h a s a pre-assigned Inter rupt and I/O
address via the PC BIOS. Therefor e, while you insert the card
into a PCI Bus Master slot, the PC BIOS will automatically
assign unique address for the network card. In certain
computers, however, you have to modify your BIOS by
entering t he CMOS SE T UP utility.

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If you need to know the current I/O and IRQ settings of th e
card, pl e ase re boot your ma c hine and invok e the BIOS SE TUP
menu (usually by pressing the ESC key during boot up). Th is
menu screen will provide you with in formations regarding the
network card.
To install the card, simply insert it into your computer's PCI
Bus Master slot. Afterwards, connect a network cable to the
card.

Precaution

To prevent the damage to the
product due to ESD, please use a
wrist straps during the customer's
installation and maintenance.

Step 1 Insert card into
computer

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NOTES:

JP1 is INT jumper setting and
default setting is A.

On early motherboard, there may be
an INT conflict when you have
multiple adapters installed. Try
the following to resolve the
problems:

1. Check your PC BIOS INT and
system jumper setting.

2. If the problem still exists, try
to set the jumper to B or
consult the authorized dealer
for technical support.

3. You can run MSD from the MS-DOS
prompt for displaying the IRQ
status to check the current
usage of hardware interrupt.

Step 2 Connect to network
cable

Twisted-pair
cable

When connecting, you need the UTP ca bl e (Ca t. 3 , 4, 5) , in
addition to EIA/TIA-568 non-standard 100-ohm STP cable.
Con nect one end of the cable t o th e card a nd the other end t o a
hub. The cables are connected in a star topology. The
maximum cable length from the computer to hub is 328ft (100
meters).

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NOTE:

For the twisted pair cable, pins
1 & 2 must be a pair and pins 3 &
6 must also be a pair. Each pin
must connect straight to the other
end of cable (pin 1 to 1, 2 to 2,
3 to 3, and 6 to 6). Other pins
are not used.

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Thin coaxial
cable

The cable specification is 0.2 inch diameter RG-58A/U 50­ohm coaxial cable with BNC connectors at each end.
Connect the coaxial cable to the card's BNC por t. Th e cables
are connected in a bus topology. Th e maximum cable length is
600ft (185 meters) per segment. Also, a maximum of 30
compu t ers may be connected within each seg ment.
To increase the cable distance, Ethernet repeaters may be used
to boos t sig nal relay fr om one c abl e s e gm e nt to a nothe r. A
maximum of 4 repeaters may be used between any two
communicating nodes.

BOOT ROM Installation

The opt ional Boot ROM de vice allows you to connect a
diskless workstation to the network. The Network Operating
Systems that can be loaded are Netwar e RPL BOOT, IBM
LAN SERVER, Win d ows NT3.5 , DEC Pa th work.
Plug the BOOT ROM into the provided socket on the adapter.

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The system will be automatically configured after inserting the
BOOT ROM into the socket on the adapter.

Software Installation

The DE-530/CT/T+ adapter can be used on various networks
such as Novell 3.x or 4.x, Win dows for Workgroups, Windows
NT 31/ 3 5, Win95, LAN Ma nag er, Banyan Vi nes, DE C
PathWork, IBM LAN Server, SC O Un i x & NetBIOS.
Installation details are supplied in the Driver Diskette.
For example, to install the card in a Novell Workstation, you
can use the ODI driver as follows:

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Diagnostics Test
Program

The Diagnostics Program permits you to verify the
configuration and to inspect the isolation of faults. To prevent
the conflict between cards in your system, be sure to set the
unique settings for your card. Before starting with the
Diagnostics Program, make sure you have con nected the
loopba ck cabl e .
To run the Diagnostics Program, execute the following steps:

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external loopback test. The loopback data rate is 10
megabits per second.

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AUI external loopback mode transmits packets using
the AUI cable up-to-media attachment unit (MAU) to
check the MAU integrity.

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Look to see that you have
connected the BNC terminator to
the connector and also the custom­wired twisted-pair cable to the
UTP port, or it may cause the
external loopback test to fail.
With such cable, connect the wire
1 and 2 to connector 3 to 6
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The Network Diagnostic test checks
transmission and reception between
your computer and another station.
It requires simultaneous control
of your computer and another
station on your network.

Network Diagnostic test failure does not ordinarily indicate
faulty adapter performance. Usual causes of failure are
incorrect option settings, option settings that conflict with the
settings of other boards, or faulty in stallation of the adapter
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experi ence p roblems, check th e s oftwa re.
If you run the diagnostic tests successfully, you may rule out a
hardware failure on the computer. If the adapter passes all the
tests and there still appears to be a problem, look at cabling,
software and other issues that affect functionality on the
network.