Date:     January 8, 1988
#205

1000 Driver Update

A revision to the Shell Driver for the NE.1000 Network Interface Card is now
being ested and will be available beginning Wednesday January 13, 1988. The
driver will be vailable for downloading from NetWire.

The new driver resolves the majority of the reported problems with the
NE.1000 orkstation Network Interface Card (NIC). Novell is continuing its
development on the E.1000 with respect to the hardware, the operating system
driver, and the orkstation driver.

Additional updates may be made available as they are developed nd tested.
Customers presently experiencing difficulty with the NE.1000 as a
workstation NIC hould download the driver from NetWire.

Customers needing access to NetWire may all 18008488199 (contentiental
U.S.except Ohio residents) International and Ohio esidents may call (614)
457.0802. The new workstation driver does not require an MA of the board
itself. Therefore, customers should not request a Return Material
uthorization.

The problems corrected by this driver are as follows:
1. Stations "hang" or "lock up" which then requires a hard reset of the
   system.
2. Stations lose their connection which requires that the station be
   rebooted and the hell reloaded.

Customers that are using NE.1000 boards in file servers, should remember the
ollowing as explained in the "NEW PRODUCT INFORMATION" packet regarding the
E.1000.
That is the NE.1000 is not intended for use in file server hosting more that
five workstations.
In addition, they are not intended for five station networks when he network
will be subjected to heavy load situations.