Installing and Configuring the NetWare Driver57Slot Numbers for Multiple NICsIf you are installing more than one NIC on a server, you must know which NIC correspondsto a given PCI slot in order to connect a cable from the NIC to the appropriate port on thehub or switch. You can correlate slots with physical NICs by the NIC MAC addresses. (TheMAC address is written on a bar code label on the top component side of the NIC.)Obtaining Slot NumbersThe NetWare driver installation program requires you to enter a PCI slot number for eachNIC. In older versions of NetWare software, the term slot number referred to the physicalslot in which the NIC was installed in the server. Now, the slot number is a combination ofthe bus number, bus type, and the physical slot number. The value of a slot number can be10001 or larger.Follow this procedure to obtain slot numbers for a multi-NIC installation:1 Install only one 3C990B NIC, as described in “Installing and Connecting the NIC” onpage 18.2 Follow the installation instructions in this chapter to load the EtherCD, copy the driver,and load the driver.3 In the NetWare Console, issue a CONFIG command.4 Write down the slot number that is listed for the installed NIC.5 Install the second 3C990B NIC.6 Follow the installation instructions in this chapter to install the driver on the second NIC.Each time you load the driver, the CONFIG command displays the slot numbers for allthe 3C990B NICs in the system.Installing the NetWare 3.12 Server DriverTo install the driver in a NetWare 3.12 server:1 Copy the MSM31X.NLM, ETHERTSM.NLM, and NBI31.NLM files from the \NWSERVERdirectory on the EtherCD to the directory on your hard drive where other NLM filesare located.The NLM file location is typically in the sys:system directory. You need a NetWare clientsystem to copy the NLM files to the server.2 Copy the LAN driver file (3C99X.LAN) from the EtherCD to the same directory.3 Add the following two lines to the AUTOEXEC.NCF file:load sys:\system\3c99x.lan slot= NAME=FRAME=bind ipx to net=4 Save and exit the file, and then reboot the server.NOTE: Copy the NLM files only if the versions existing on the server are older thanthe versions supplied on the EtherCD.NOTE: If you copy the NLM files to a different directory, you must specify the pathin the preceding LOAD statement.
