TECHNICAL BULLETIN                       LANAI/Novell NE1000/2000
LANtastic AI                                             08.05.91
LANtastic AI with Novell NE1000/2000 Ethernet adapters    


The Novell NE1000/2000 Ethernet adapters have been tested in-house
and are compatible with all other LANtastic Network Operating
System software.  This bulletin should replace all other notes
generated from this office to date. 

The following information is based on in-house testing and customer
support of LANtastic AI.  If you are not a registered LANtastic
owner, your questions should be directed to our technical sales
staff at (602) 293-6363.  Any questions or comments on this
bulletin may be forwarded by FAX (602) 293-8065 or mailed to :
Artisoft Inc., 575 East River Road, Tucson, AZ., 85704, ATTN:
LANtastic AI Support.

RUNNING LANTASTIC AI WITH A NOVELL NE1000 or NE2000 ADAPTER

         The NOVELL NE1000 (8-bit) and NE2000 (16-bit) adapters are
both supported with the NEX000.EXE device driver that is available
with LANTASTIC/AI 4.0. The first X indicates that both adapters are
supported with the one program.

         After running the INSTALL program and selecting either the
NE1000 or the NE2000 adapters, a program called NEX000.DOC will be
in the LANTASTI subdirectory. PLEASE READ IT.

         The program defaults to 8-bit mode, and thus, to run it on
an NE2000 adapter (or clone), you need to include the 16-BIT
software switch. The switches for NEX000 can be placed on the
command line in any order. It is very important that the adapter's
hardware settings for IRQ and IOBASE match up with the NEX000
command line switches. A command to use a NE2000 adapter with an
IOBASE of 2A0 and an IRQ of 2 would look like this (it does not
need to be in caps):

NEX000 IRQ=2 IOBASE=2A0 16-BIT
AILANBIO
REDIR machine_name LOGINS=8

         This device driver will run on 100% faithful clones. What
this means is that the clone adapter needs to emulate the NOVELL
adapter right down to the register level. We will provide all the
support for any clone, to the point of noticing incompatibility.
One such example would be a clone that needs to use a section of
high memory. Since the NE1000/2000 adapters do not use high memory,
and our NEX000 program does faithfully support the NE1000/2000
adapters, it would not run on those clones.

         When a NOVELL network is being swapped out for a LANTASTIC
network, the same IRQ and IOBASE that worked with NOVELL, in each
specific computer, will also work with LANTASTIC. These are
computer-specific settings, and, if there is no new hardware added
into the computer at the time of the swap out, the same settings
will work with LANTASTIC. Be sure to take note of the IRQ and
IOBASE that were working before! Keep in mind that different
manufacturer's programs could have different defaults than ours.
Thus, if there was no explicit mention of the IRQ and IOBASE that
was used previously, please be sure to find out what their defaults
were.

         Since the NOVELL adapters only offer IRQs of 2-7, the
NEX000 device driver will offer the same IRQs. This may be an
unpleasant surprise to those of you who are used to the 16-bit IRQs
(10 and 15) that we offer in other ARTISOFT products.

         Please refer to the SETTINGS document for information on
what settings to change given a certain problem that may come up.

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of this document.  LANtastic is a registered trademark of ARTISOFT,
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