Date January 8,1988
Number: 205

Title: NE1000 Driver Update

A revision to the Shell Driver for the NE-1000 Network Interface
Card is now being tested and will be available beginning
Wednesday January 13, 1988.  The driver will be available for
downloading from NetWire.

The new driver resolves the majority of the reported problems
with the NE-1000 workstation Network Interface Card (NIC).
Novell is continuing its development on the NE-1000 with respect
to the hardware, the operating system driver, and the workstation
driver.  Additional updates may be made available as they are
developed and tested.

Customers presently experiencing difficulty with the NE-1000 as a
workstation NIC should download the driver from NetWire.
Customers needing access to NetWire may call 1-800-848-8199
(contentiental U.S.except Ohio residents) International and Ohio
residents may call (614) 457-0802.  The new workstation driver
does not require an RMA of the board itself.  Therefore,
customers should not request a Return Material Authorization.

The problems corrected by this driver are as follows:

1. Stations "hang" or "lock up" which then requires a hard reset
of the system.

2. Stations lose their connection which requires that the station
be re-booted and the shell re-loaded.

Customers that are using NE-1000 boards in file servers, should
remember the following as explained in the "NEW PRODUCT
INFORMATION" packet regarding the NE-1000.  That is the NE-1000
is not intended for use in file server hosting more that five
workstations.  In addition, they are not intended for five
station networks when the network will be subjected to heavy load
situations.