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Introduction to MDI

Driver configuration

All network cards and drivers for SVR5 and SCO OpenServer 5 are configured with the Network Configuration Manager. MDI driver writers must provide configuration files to interface with the Network Configuration Manager:


SVR5
Populate a bcfg(DSP/4dsp) file with configuration information about the MDI driver and device.

SCO OpenServer 5
Populate an Adapter Options File (AOF) and a driver-specific lkcfg file with configuration information about the MDI driver and device. Some driver packages will also need to provide a customized acfg.c file for the driver.
By making information such as the I/O address, IRQ, RAM address and size, ROM address and size, DMA ports, media type and speed, and custom tunable parameters available through the bcfg file, customers can configure drivers by running the Network Configuration Manager rather than editing Space.c(DSP/4dsp) files and rebuilding the drivers. This provides consistency for all MDI driver configurations.
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OpenServer 6 and UnixWare (SVR5) HDK - June 2005