
Intel PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Adapter "OS/2 Community" Driver for OS/2 & eCS V0.1.6
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Overview
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 This is a current build of the latest snapshot of the E1000E driver source 
 which is currently at V0.1.6+ level. This should match the code level
 and realibility to the last official release of this driver.
 This driver will work only on newer PCI Express based Intel network chipsets,
 the old PCI based adapter family is supported by the last official E1000 OS/2
 driver made by Intel or IBM.


Install
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 Unpack the files from the archive in a temporary location, then use your 
 favorite MPTS utility to install the driver.


Special Thanks
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 We express our thanks to Mensys BV, especially David for starting the Multimac
 project to address the requirement for native network drivers and to support 
 PCIe based network chipsets on the market. Multimac has its roots in the 
 NVETH driver port made by nickk. We also want to thank nickk for the good 
 nvidia nforce network family driver port and making the code available.


Known Issues
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 The driver will always report the 'loaded ok' message during bootup, this 
 means that non matching hardware, ressource problems amoung other errors will 
 not be reported properly because this kind of error proccessing hasn't been 
 implemented yet.


Report Errors
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 You may report failures connected with the driver to the multimac trac ticket 
 system. Please check first if the same bug was already reported or already 
 fixed. URL: http://svn.ecomstation.nl/multimac


Debug Driver
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 For a deep analysis its required to have access to a more detailed debug log
 which is provided by the debug driver version of the E1000E driver. There are 
 two versions available in the \debug subdirectory of this package, the 'com' 
 version will write the log to a com1 (3f8h) terminal, the 'mem' debug variant
 will write it to an internal memory buffer. The driver has limited error 
 handling, because of it hardware mismatches or init problems will not 
 be reported.


Urls
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 eComStation 
	http://www.ecomstation.com

 Multimac Trac active tickets list 
	http://svn.ecomstation.nl/multimac/report/1

 Intel PRO/100/1000 PCI OS/2 driver 
	http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=9258&ProdId=871&lang=eng


License
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 Please check the included LICENSE file in this package for more details.
