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Chapter 8 About Network Device Drivers 111
2. All network device drivers installed on your computer. With an MS-
DOS computer using more than one network adapter, list network
device drivers in the order of their Local Area Network Adapter
(LANA) numbers. On OS/2 workstations, LANA numbers are
assigned according to the order of entries in the [networks] section of
the LANMAN.INI file.
For an OS/2 workstation, the protocol drivers must also be listed
after the Protocol Manager driver, but before the workstation driver.
3. For OS/2 only, the LAN Manager workstation driver,
NETWKSTA.SYS, also called the redirector. The redirector changes
operating-system requests into network events and transmits them to
the proper protocol stacks. The ifs line in CONFIG.SYS that loads
NETWKSTA.SYS requires a /i: option to specify the root of the
LAN Manager directory tree. A /nobind option loads
NETWKSTA.SYS without performing the netbind operation; this
option is sometimes necessary when a special program must be run
prior to the netbind. Netbind must be run before you can use the
network. For more information about binding, see the
Microsoft/3Com LAN Manager Network Driver Interface
Specification (NDIS), version 2.01.
If you install two or more network adapters that require the same
media-access control driver, you may have to include a separate
instance of the driver for each adapter installed. (Check the adapter
manual(s) to see whether this is necessary.) Use the same driver
specification each time; that is, the lines in CONFIG.SYS should look
exactly the same in both instances. For example, if you have two 3Com
EtherLink/MC cards on an OS/2 computer, lines similar to the
following are added to CONFIG.SYS:
The AUTOEXEC.BAT or STARTUP.CMD File
The lines added to AUTOEXEC.BAT (for MS-DOS Basic or Enhanced
workstations) or STARTUP.CMD (for OS/2 workstations) are slightly
different.
For AUTOEXEC.BAT, lines containing the load and net start
commands are added, to load the protocol drivers and start the
workstation. For a Basic workstation, the load line is added first, and
after it, the net start line is added. For an Enhanced workstation, the
net start line is added first, and after it, one or more load lines are
added. These lines must be in the correct order for the workstation to
function.
For STARTUP.CMD, only a net start line is added to start the
workstation.