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- Page 1 Fast Ethernet PC Card DFE-650 Series User’s Guide Rev. 01 (August, 1997) 6DFE650.01 Printed in Taiwan RECYCLABLE...
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Page 2: Copyright Statement
Trademarks Copyright © D-Link Corporation. Contents subjected to revision without prior notice. D-Link and LANsmart are registered trademarks of D-Link Corporation / D-Link Systems, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their owners. Copyright Statement No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means... -
Page 3: Limited Warranty
Hardware: D-Link warrants its hardware products to be free from defects in workmanship and materials, under normal use and service, for the following lengths of time from the date of purchase from D-Link or its authorized reseller: Product Type Warranty Period... - Page 4 Customer bear the cost of sending back such products. A service charge may or may not be levied to Customer by D-Link. To find out if a service charge is levied or not, and the charged amount, read the RMA that is returned to Customer, or ask the D-Link office when an RMA is requested.
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Page 5: Limitation Of Liability
INSTALLATION MAINTENANCE OR USE OF D-LINK'S PRODUCTS. D-LINK SHALL NOT BE LIABLE UNDER THIS WARRANTY IF ITS TESTING AND EXAMINATION DISCLOSE THAT THE ALLEGED DEFECT IN THE PRODUCT DOES NOT EXIST OR WAS CAUSED BY THE CUSTOMER'S OR ANY THIRD... -
Page 7: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION............1 General Description ..........1 About Fast Ethernet ...........2 About Autonegotiation..........3 LED Indicators.............5 Summary of Features..........5 2. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ........8 Unpack and Inspect............8 Hardware Installation..........9 Remove the PC Card ..........12 Connect the Network Cable........14 Connecting for Fast Ethernet........14 Connecting for 10Mbps Ethernet ...... -
Page 9: Introduction
Installation instructions are given in Chapter 2. General Description The D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card is a credit-card sized Fast-Ethernet adapter for connecting a notebook PC to an IEEE 802.3 or 802.3u Ethernet network. The notebook PC must be equipped with a Type II or Type III PC Card slot. -
Page 10: About Fast Ethernet
100Base-TX (using two twisted pairs in EIA 568 Category 5 UTP or STP cable) 100Base-T4 (using four twisted pairs in a Category 3, Category 4, or Category 5 UTP cable) 100Base-FX (using two fiber-optic strands). D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Cards offer half-duplex 100Base-TX operation Category twisted-pair cable environments). -
Page 11: About Autonegotiation
Autonegotiation between devices within an Ethernet LAN is similar in concept, but much briefer. The two devices involved in the autonegotiation will be your DFE-650 Series PC Card and the hub or switch through which it is connected into the LAN. (Switches ordinarily provide autonegotiation functionality;... - Page 12 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide not.) The parameters to be negotiated between the DFE-650 and its supporting hub or switch include speed (100Mbps = Fast Ethernet, or 10Mbps = traditional Ethernet) and duplex mode (half-duplex or full-duplex).
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Page 13: Led Indicators
DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide LED Indicators The media coupler features three LED indicators: 1. 10/100 Indicator Steady green indicates Fast Ethernet selected. Dark indicates 10Mbps Ethernet selected. 2. Half /Full Indicator Steady green indicates Full-Duplex selected. - Page 14 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide • Built-in 64KB RAM data buffer • Full-Duplex capable in 10Mbps mode • Autonegotiation per IEEE 802.3u specification • No manual setup switches –– fully automatic configuration • Low power consumption (2 watts max.) •...
- Page 15 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide NetWare DOS ODI NetWare Lite Personal NetWare Windows 95 Windows 95 OSR2 Windows NT 3.51 Windows NT 4.0 Packet Driver for NCSA Packet Driver for FTP PC/TCP Packet Driver for IPX Packet Driver for Winsock...
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Page 16: Hardware Installation
User's Guide, ascertain that you have: • One DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card • One plastic storage bag for the PC Card • One media coupler • One D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card Driver diskette Yellow arrow Triangle... -
Page 17: Hardware Installation
Find/select an open Type II or Type III PC Card slot on your notebook computer's side or rear panel. Hold the DFE-650 with the colorful D-Link splash label upward. Notice that the splash label features a yellow triangle or "arrow," which points to the front end of the PC Card. - Page 18 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide It is most usual for the lower one of the two slots in the stack to be designated Slot 1, but there are exceptions. In subsequent procedure DFE-650 software installation, it may be necessary for you to know whether your DFE-650 is installed in Slot 1 or Slot 2.
- Page 19 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide avoid damage when detaching the plug from the DFE-650, it is necessary to depress the latch wings of the plug. See the following section, "Remove Ethernet PC Card." Step 3 Connect to the Network Medium Make the network connection by running a UTP cable from the supporting hub to your media coupler.
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Page 20: Remove The Pc Card
DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide Step 4 Confirm Connection (Ln/Act Indicator) When the notebook computer's power is ON, the DFE-650 is firmly seated in the slot connector, the media adapter plug is firmly engaged (and latched) in the back-end receptacle of the DFE-650,... - Page 21 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide thumb and forefinger to squeeze the latch wings into the plug body and gently pull the plug out of its receptacle. ⊗ Don't pull the connector without depressing the clip wings WARNING: Pulling the coupler plug out of its receptacle without depressing the clip wings will cause damage to the plug.
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Page 22: Connect The Network Cable
100m. The maximum individual cable run joining two hubs is 10m in general, but is 100m when both hubs qualify as Ethernet Class 2 Repeaters (all D-Link Ethernet hubs do qualify). But these cable runs may need to be... - Page 23 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide 650 and the supporting hub is 300 ft. The cable must be “ straight” (not a “ crossover” cable) with RJ-45 plug at each end. Make the network connection by plugging one end of the cable into the RJ-45 receptacle of the DFE-650, and the other end into a port of the supporting hub.
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Page 24: Software Installation
Instructions for software installation are given as README files on the D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card Driver diskette. The diskette also holds the Installation Director program, which helps you access the installation instructions appropriate to your station OS and the network environment. -
Page 25: Dos Platform In Netware Network
In such cases, you will be prompted to select a target directory for storage of software modules that Installation Director will copy over from the D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card Driver diskette. The README text will provide full information on the additional services provided.. - Page 26 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide Installing 16-bit NetWare Client for DOS Installation Director includes a Quick Install option for the DFE- 650 support software required for interoperation with the 16-bit NetWare Client for DOS. The screen text, status line guide text, and helptext of Installation Director will assist you through the Quick Install procedure.
- Page 27 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide Navigate to the appropriate directory in your Client32 source, so that it is your active directory, and find INSTALL.EXE in that directory. Then at the DOS prompt (shown here as ), type: >...
- Page 28 "Insert The Driver Disk" Dialog Box Insert the D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card Driver diskette into a diskette drive of the notebook PC. Type this path- name into the textbox (here assuming the diskette drive to be Drive...
- Page 29 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide is 5, and that is ordinarily a suitable value. The second parameter is a list of the data frame formats that the DFE-650 and the client software will be enabled to handle. The default setting enables four different frame types.
- Page 30 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide (key an , followed by <Enter> ). And you must then remember to enter the STARTNET.BAT command each time you connect and prepare for network operations. <F10> to approve the installation and initiate the automatic portion of the installation process.
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Page 31: Expanded Installation Instructions
DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide LOAD C:\...\DFE650.LAN SLOT=1 FRAME=... When you have completed the edit for each such line in STARTNET.BAT, then save STARTNET.BAT and exit from Edit. If you are uncertain whether the DFE-650 occupies Slot 1 or Slot 2, and you have entered the wrong slot number, then when you restart the notebook PC, there will be a diagnostic which advises that "the... - Page 32 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide the NetWare SETUP.EXE program is also the installation program for the DFE-650 software. Before you can proceed with any of the steps which follow, it will be necessary for you to have a source for the NetWare client software.
- Page 33 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide your best choice to go ahead with the installation run by choosing the Continue button. If the installation run is not successful, then the information given in the README file might be more useful at this stage in a second attempt.
- Page 34 ODI driver (Open Data Interface driver module) needed for operation of the DFE-650 under DOS or Windows 3.1 OS. That module is supplied on the D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card Driver diskette.
- Page 35 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide WARNING: Whenever any value is shown for either Line Speed or Duplex (i.e., the Connection Type setting is different from “none”), then the entire autonegotiation function of the DFE-650 will be disabled (turned off).
- Page 36 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide If you de-select the checkbox, then it will be necessary for you to STARTNET.BAT manually any time that you want to enable the notebook PC for network operation. If you want to maximize your notebook PC's resources which will be available during off- line operations, then de-select the checkbox (so that it is "blank").
- Page 37 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide Edit every such statement (there will be a maximum of four such statements), as follows: just ahead of the FRAME keyword, insert " " separated by at least one space before and after(but if SLOT=1 you know that the DFE-650 is in PC Card Slot No.
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Page 38: Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Troubleshooting the Installation Hardware If you experience any problems with the hardware installation, first ascertain that all network cable connections are firm, that the proper grade of cable is used for the network connection, and that the cable makeup is correct (straight –– without un-needed crossovers in the connector wiring). - Page 39 650 PC Card not detected" error still appears on each subsequent restart of the notebook PC, then please contact your dealer or your nearest D-Link office, as listed at the end of this User's Guide. You need to "unload the conflicting network driver"...
- Page 40 "Unload" Really Means "Avoid Loading at Startup" It is true that driver programs and related software modules, such as those supplied on your D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card Driver diskette, are often written so that the addition of a "/u"...
- Page 41 A software installation procedure (such as "Quick Install 16-bit Driver for DOS NetWare Client") copies the necessary drivers and related modules from the supplied DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card Driver diskette, into the target directory of the notebook PC's hard drive or other storage. The installation program also adds commands to the computer's AUTOEXEC.BAT file, so that each...
- Page 42 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide C:\ > edit autoexec.bat and find the troublesome line by inspection, and simply delete it. But if you are that clever, then it is very unlikely that you will be reading this. So here is a procedure which will help you to identify the troublesome line of AUTOEXEC.BAT.
- Page 43 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide Now we can cull that list of program names, by disregarding any item which is obviously not the name of a network driver. You might notice that some of the items (as in the example above) are names of DOS commands.
- Page 44 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide items on the short list is the culprit (conflicting driver). And that method is trial and error. So we begin testing each of the items on the short list in turn. We take the items in the same order as they appear in the short list (because taking them in that order will ordinarily lead us to the earliest success).
- Page 45 3. Remove the D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card Driver diskette from its drive, and key <CTRL + ALT + DELETE> to restart the notebook PC. 4. At the DOS prompt, insert the D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card Driver diskette and run Installation Director, again choosing...
- Page 46 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide Note that in this step, you must name the next item of your short list, rather than DFE650, which is used here only for purposes of example. 6. Repeat Step 2 above, but before you REMARK the line which invokes DFE650 (in the example case) you must undo the editing previously done in Step 2.
- Page 47 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide the above "trial by fire." You are excited about being an Uncertified Expert. Congratulations! But, you ask: How is a Certified Expert any different? The difference is only this: certain items in your short list would be old friends to the Certified Expert.
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Page 48: Dfe-650Tx Specifications
DFE-650TX Specifications Network Type: • Ethernet 100Base-TX Ethernet IEEE 802.3u standard for 100Mbps baseband CSMA/CD local area network • Ethernet 10BASE-T Ethernet IEEE 802.3 standard for 10Mbps baseband CSMA/CD local area network Jumperless Hardware Autonegotiation functionality Media interface: RJ-45 LAN Chip Set: •... -
Page 49: Netware Server
DFE-650TX Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide Physical Dimensions: 85.6 × 54.0 × 5.0 mm Environment: −20° to 80°C, (4° to 176° F) Storage: Operating: 0° to 55° C, (32° to 131° F) Humidity: 10% to 90% non-condensing Power Consumption: 2.0W PCB Construction: 2 layers Device Drivers* •... - Page 50 DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide releases of drivers. DFE-650TX Specifications...
- Page 51 Loopback tests, 12; 15 Collision LED, 6; 18 network operating system, 11; communication parameters, 4 PCI Bus, 4; 5; 8; 19 D-Link DFE-650 Series Fast Ethernet PC Card Driver README files, 11 , 7; 15 diskette second station, 12; 15; 16...
- Page 52 2180 Dunwin Drive, Unit # 6, Mississauga Ontario, L5L 5M8, Canada TEL: 1-905-828-0260 FAX: 1-905-828-5669 U.K. D-LINK (EUROPE) LTD. D-Link House, 6 Garland Road, Stanmore, London HA7 1DP U.K. TEL: 44-181-235-5555 FAX: 44-181-235-5500 GERMANY D-LINK (DEUTSCHLAND) GMBH I.G. Bachstrae 22, 65830 Kriftel Germany...
- Page 53 DFE-650TX Fast Ethernet PC Card User's Guide TEL: 886-2-916-1600 FAX: 886-2-914-6299 RETURN-MAIL ADDRESS CARD NOT INCLUDED DFE-650TX Specifications...