After you have inserted the PC Card, you must configure the PC Card software to operate with your computer and network operating system. You will need the manuals that were shipped with your network operating system.
If your computer does not have a hard disk, contact your network administrator.
LANAID is a software tool that is shipped on the IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring PC Card 2 CD-ROM. Use LANAID to automatically configure the appropriate system files for the IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring PC Card 2 to work with any of the network operating systems that are listed below.
LANAID requires that Card Services or an Intel socket controller that is compatible with the point enabler is installed.
LANAID detects the following network operating systems and changes parameters in the PC Card configuration in order to work with them:
For all other environments, you will use your network operating system to change parameters in the PC Card configuration.
LANAID identifies the PC Card to be configured by its universally administered address. The universally administered address, or net address, of the IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring PC Card 2 was assigned at the factory and is on the back of the card. Ensure that the address shown by LANAID is the same as the address on the PC Card. It may be necessary to remove one or more PC Cards to allow LANAID to find the PC Card to be configured.
The LANAID graphical user interface operates under DOS or in a full-screen DOS session of OS/2. (A DOS window of OS/2 will not work correctly.) You need at least 1.5 MB of free, extended memory and 300 KB of conventional memory to run the program. At a DOS prompt, enter mem to find out about the memory availability on your system.
You can select LANAID options in several ways. You can click with a mouse or other pointing device, or you can make selections by tabbing to your selection and pressing Enter. (If you will be using a mouse with LANAID, make sure that you have a mouse driver installed.) You can also select push buttons with hot keys. The hot keys are the letters that correspond to the underlined characters on the push button. Press Alt plus the hot-key letter.
You can get help on each LANAID panel by selecting the Help button at the bottom of the panel. You can get context-sensitive help by placing your mouse pointer on any part of the panel and pressing F1.
This section explains how to run LANAID to configure the PC Card for operation with a previously installed network operating system and device driver. See Software Installation for information on installing network operating systems and device drivers.
If you are using Card and Socket Services, LANAID will default to Autoset mode, which allows the LAN driver to negotiate with Card and Socket Services for available resources. If you do not use Autoset mode, LANAID will allow you to select values for resources, such as Interrupt and I/O Address, to be used by your PC Card.
If you are not using Card and Socket Services in Autoset mode, you must ensure that the values that you select for Interrupt and I/O address do not conflict with those for other PC Cards installed in your computer. Use the Change push button to select from the allowable values yourself. The Hardware folder shows parameters of the computer system that you cannot set, but that might be useful.
Select the Store push button.
When you finish with the panels, press the Done button and you will be returned to the main panel. Installation is then complete. See Appendix C. Running the Diagnostics Program if you want to use the diagnostics.
Note to LAN administrators: If you want to do automated installations of LAN Client, use the LANAIDC tool. Enter lanaidc /h from the directory on your hard drive where you installed LANAID. You can also boot the Diagnostics and LANAIDC diskette that you create from the DIAGDISK.EXE diskette image (see Appendix A. CD-ROM Content and Software Packages). The diskette will boot to a menu that allows you to select either Diagnostics or LANAIDC. See Appendix D. "LANAIDC Parameter Information" for more information.
If startup configuration files are bypassed, LANAID or LANAIDC does not have the information to determine the resources used; therefore, it will not allow you to set any parameters. Do not bypass the startup configuration if you want to configure your system. (A typical way to bypass startup files is by pressing the F5 key during the DOS boot phase.)