D-Link DFE-650TX Product Manual - Page 41

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. He or she would have recognized them by name just as surely as you know your friend's face when you meet in a crowd. In the example case, the short list included four items, LSL, DFE650, IPXODI, and NETX. The Certified Expert would have recognized NETX as a NetWare shell module, therefore not the culprit conflicting network driver. And the Certified Expert would have recognized LSL as most likely being a link support layer module, which functions in a higher layer of the communications system, while a hardware-specific network adapter driver functions in a lower (physical) layer. And the Certified Expert would have recognized or guessed that the IPXODI module is a protocol-layer element concerned with the transmission/reception of NetWare IPX packets by an ODI (Open Data Interface) network adapter. Thus the Certified Expert would have known, by a simple process of elimination, that the DFE650 element is the conflicting driver. So the Certified Expert would have been able to skip the trial and error process, which we needed to grunt through, in order to know which line of AUTOEXEC.BAT to cancel. And here is one more bit of insight. Since the conflicting driver must be a hardware-specific driver, then it is likely to bear a name which suggests the model name of the PC Card it serves. The Certified Expert will be acquainted with a large range of PC Card products. So he or she will be able to know which element in the short list has a name which suggests a PC Card model name. Now you know what lies between you and being a Certified Expert. Troubleshooting 39