Banyan Vines: installing the NDIS2 driver onto a (DOS) workstation

Banyan Vines:
installing the NDIS2 driver onto a (DOS) workstation

The NDIS2 driver for DOS is called MCBND.DOS. To install it, perform the following in conjunction with the documentation supplied with Banyan Vines:

  1. Copy the Vines LAN Software (DOS) Install disk to a directory on your workstation called C:\Vines. In this directory, run PCCONFIG.

  2. From the main menu, select Network Card settings.

  3. Select NDIS Token Ring. Type the adapter's interrupt setting. For the Bindings= option, type: MCBND_NIF.

  4. Save the configuration and return to the main menu.

  5. Copy all the files in the NDIS directory on the Vines (DOS) Workstation disks to C:\Vines on your workstation.

  6. Copy MCBND.DOS from the Madge CSS Release Disk to C:\VINES.

  7. Add the following lines to CONFIG.SYS:

    DEVICE=C:\Vines\PROTMAN.DOS /I: C:\Vines
    DEVICE=C:\Vines\MCBND.DOS

  8. Add the following line to AUTOEXEC.BAT:

    BAN /NDTOKBAN

  9. Ensure that the PROTOCOL.INI contains at least the information below. 

    [PROTOCOL MANAGER]
 DRIVERNAME = PROTMAN$
      [VINES_XIF]
	DRIVERNAME = NDISBAN$
	BINDINGS = MCBND_NIF
  [MCBND_NIF]
	DRIVERNAME = MCBND$
    Sample PROTOCOL.INI for Vines

  10. Reboot the computer.

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