Linksys LNE100TX User Guide - Page 30

Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series Running the Card's Diagnostics If you suspect that there may be a problem with the Fast Ethernet Card, or if you need to identify the card's MAC address, you can use the DIAG diagnostic program on the EtherFast® 10/100 LAN Card Driver Disk. To run the program, start up your computer in DOS. The program only works in standard "real DOS mode" DOS - it will not work in a Windows DOS window. To get into "real DOS mode," do the following: • In Windows 95, start your computer. When the Starting Windows... message appears, press the F8 key. You will then get to the Microsoft Window Startup Menu. • In Windows 98, start your computer (No Starting Windows... message will appear). Immediately and rapidly press the F8 key until you get the Microsoft Window Startup Menu. 1. Choose the Safe mode command prompt only option. Press Enter on the keyboard. 2. Insert the EtherFast® 10/100 LAN Card Driver Disk into drive A. Enter the appropriate commands after the following prompts: • When "C:\>" appears, type "a:" then press Enter. • When "A:\>" appears, type "cd diag" then press Enter. • When "A:\diag>" appears, type "diag" then press Enter. You can also copy the software to your local (c:\) drive and run DIAG from your hard disk. 3. The Fast Ethernet Diagnostics Program will appear, providing a display of the card's basic information (Ethernet Address, IRQ, I/O Port and Media Type). Press Enter to begin the testing cycle. If the card isn't found, power off the PC and ensure that the card is properly seated in the PCI slot. 4. The word "passed" will appear next to each successful test. If the card fails the Peer-to-Peer, Ping, or Bandwidth tests, any network problems that you are experiencing are external to the card; check your cabling and hub connections. If the card fails the Loopback or Register tests, check your computer's settings, then contact Linksys Customer Support for help. 53 EtherFast® 10/100 LAN Cards Appendix Sharing Your Files and Printers Overview By sharing your files and printers, other PCs on your network will be able to access the resources on your PC. Before sharing your files and printers, you should prepare your computer to be used with any file servers that may be on the network. If you are not using Windows 95, 98 or Millennium with an NT, 2000 or NetWare file server, or if you are not sure if you have a file server, continue below. If you are using a NetWare or NT file server, refer to the directions in the Appendix for client setup. Enabling File Sharing 1. Double-click your My Computer icon. A window of available disk drives will appear. 2. Using your right mouse button, click once on the drive or folder that you want to make available to other users. 3. Click on Sharing, followed by the Sharing tab. Click on Share As. 4. In the Share Name box, enter a name for the drive or folder you are sharing. This can be any drive on your PC-floppy drive, hard drive, CD drive, zip drive, etc. Note: If you are only 5. Decide on the type of access that you want to give using your PC to other users. access the Internet, it • Read-Only access allows other users to view the is highly recommended that you create files on the selected drive. passwords for your • Full access allows other users to create, change, or shares. delete files on the selected drive. • Depends on Password allows other users to have Read-Only and/or Full access to the selected drive, depending on the password that you decide to give them. 54