DAVICOM DM9PCI NDIS 2 Driver Installation Guide for WFW 3.11

Microsoft introduced WFW 3.11 as a 32-bit architecture which uses NDIS 3
as its network device driver. Figure 1. depicts the WFW 3.11 system
architecture when NDIS 3 MAC driver is used.

	  Figure 1. Windows for Workgroup 3.11 using NDIS 3 MAC driver

	       +----------------------+ +-------------------------+
	       |       VREDIR.386     | |	VSERVER.386	  |
	       | (Network Redirector) | | (File and Print Server) |
	       +----------------------+ +-------------------------+
	       +--------------------------------------------------+
	       |     VNETBIOS.386 (Virtual NETBIOS Interface)	  |
	       +--------------------------------------------------+
	       +--------------------------------------------------+
	       |     NETBEUI.386 (NetBEUI Transport Protocol)	  |
	       +--------------------------------------------------+
	       +--------------------------------------------------+
	       |	 NDIS.386 (NDIS 3.0 Support Layer)	  |
	       +--------------------------------------------------+
	       +--------------------------------------------------+
	       |	       NDIS 3.0 Network 		  |
	       |	      Adapter Card Driver		  |
Protected Mode +--------------------------------------------------+
------------------------------------------------------------------------
			    +-------------------+
			    |			|
			    |  Network Adapter	|
			    |			|
			    +--------+		|
				     +----------+

The NDIS 2 drivers are real-mode drivers, and reside in the MS-DOS
conventional memory. If we intend to use real-mode driver in 32-bit
WFW 3.11 environment, 2 additional drivers are needed. The NDIS2SUP.386
is the NDIS 2 to NDIS 3 mapping support layer and the NDIS2HLP.SYS driver
is the real-mode stub for the NDIS2SUP.386 VxD and assist in the binding
process between real-mode NDIS 2 network adapter drivers and NDIS 2 protocols.
Figure 2. shows this configuration.

  Figure 2. Windows for Workgroup 3.11 using NDIS 2 MAC driver

    +----------------------+ +-------------------------+
    |	    VREDIR.386	   | |	     VSERVER.386       |
P   | (Network Redirector) | | (File and Print Server) |
r   +----------------------+ +-------------------------+
o   +--------------------------------------------------+
t   |	  VNETBIOS.386 (Virtual NETBIOS Interface)     |
e   +--------------------------------------------------+
c   +--------------------------------------------------+
t   |	  NETBEUI.386 (NetBEUI Transport Protocol)     |
e   +--------------------------------------------------+
d   +--------------------------------------------------+
    |	      NDIS.386 (NDIS 3.0 Support Layer)        |
M   +--------------------------------------------------+
o   +--------------------------------------------------+
d   |  NDIS2SUP.386 (NDIS 2 to NDIS 3 Mapping Layer)   |
e   +--------------------------------------------------+
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
R   +--------------------------------------------------+
e   |						       | +-----------------+
a   |  NDIS2HLP.SYS (NDIS 2 to NDIS 3 Mapping Layer)   | |    Real Mode    |
l   |						       | | NDIS 2 Protocol |
    +--------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------+
M   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
o   |			    NDIS 2 Network				   |
d   |			 Adapter Card Driver				   |
e   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
			    +-------------------+
			    |			|
			    |  Network Adapter	|
			    |			|
			    +--------+		|
				     +----------+


* Install NDIS 2 MAC driver in the Windows for Workgroup 3.11 Environment

1. Install WFW 3.11 network componets first
2. Add DM9PCI NDIS 2 MAC driver to adapter list.
3. Modify CONFIG.SYS manually and make sure that the following lines appear

      DEVICE=C:\WFW311\IFSHLP.SYS
      DEVICE=C:\WFW311\PROTMAN.DOS /I:C:\WFW311
      DEVICE=C:\WFW311\DM9PCI.DOS
      DEVICE=C:\WFW311\NDISHLP.SYS