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LANDR9 contains Novell LAN Drivers and Support Modules written to the v3.30 ODI Assembly Specification (files in the 33SPEC subdirectory). It also contains a set of Novell LAN Drivers and Support Modules written to the v3.20 ODI Assembly Specification (files in the 32SPEC subdirectory). LAN Drivers written to the v3.30 ODI Specification will not run with the Support Modules written to the 3.20 ODI Specification. In general, the v3.30 Support Modules should work with LAN Drivers written to the 3.20 ODI Specification. However, some LAN Drivers written to the 3.20 ODI Specification may have problems with the support modules written to the v3.30 ODI Specification. In those cases the support modules written to the v3.20 Specification will need to be used.
The LAN Drivers and support modules (NBI, MSM, and TSM) in the 33SPEC subdirectory are written to the v3.30 Assembly Specification. To use them you must also use NBI.NLM (NetWare Bus Interface Module) for NetWare v4.1 and NBI31x.NLM for NetWare v3.12. The v3.3 Assembly Specification supports only Ethernet, Token-Ring, and FDDI Topologies. The v3.3 Assembly Specification will not run on NetWare versions prior to NetWare v3.12 or prior to NetWare v4.10. For earlier versions of NetWare use the LAN Drivers and Support modules in the 32SPEC subdirectory. The 32SPEC subdirectory contains Novell's LAN Drivers and support modules written to the 3.20 ODI Assembly Specification.
Note: Only MSM31X.NLM and NBI31X.NLM (and not MSM.NLM nor NBI.NLM) are needed for NetWare v3.12 servers (and vice versa on NetWare v4.1). Also, NBI.NLM (for NetWare v4.1) or NBI31X.NLM (for NetWare v3.12) should be copied to the server startup directory (where the file SERVER.EXE exists) on servers that use NetWare Peripheral Architecture (NWPA) disk drivers (these have a file extension .HAM instead of .DSK) which require NBI.NLM. Not all NWPA disk drivers require NBI.NLM.
The files in the 32SPEC subdirectory did not have any updates. The following is a list of files that were updated in the 33SPEC subdirectory:
MSM.NLM was changed to provide improved performance on SMP servers.
NBI.NLM and NBI31X.NLM were changed to fix a posible hang in an infinite loop (SPD #132737). They were also changed to enable pre-scan on NEC PC-98 machines, including the creation and maintenance of the NBIHW.CFG file (SPD #133158).
NE2100.LAN and NE1500t.LAN were changed to fix a problem with the driver abending the server when two cards were used. If one card loaded and the the other failed to load because of bad parameters (i.e. wrong port or interrupt) it would abend the server.
CNE2100.LAN and CNE2100.LDI were changed to add an additional range of PORT addresses and Interrupts.
NTR2000.LAN was changed to correct a timing problem on 486 machines. This was causing driver failures when the driver was loaded and unloaded or when the card was reset.
With the 3.2 ODI specification, adapters that did not use a slot number would list their slot as 0. With new buss architecture slot 0 is a valid slot. With the 3.3 ODI specification, adapters that do not use a slot number list their slot as -1 (0xFFFF). Because of this, MONITOR.NLM and the console "config" command will display these adapters as using slot 65,535. This will not cause any problems.
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