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- *README.TXT Release Notes for Plug and Play Kit *
- * for MS-DOS(R) and Windows(TM) *
- *Release 1.21 June 1994 *
- *******************************************************************
-
-
- Introduction
- ============
-
- This kit contains Release 1.21 of the Plug and Play Kit for
- MS-DOS and Windows. The components of this kit are:
-
- Plug and Play Configuration Manager (CM) for MS-DOS and Windows.
- Provides configuration services to real-mode and protected-
- mode drivers and to applications in MS-DOS and Windows
- environments.
-
- Plug and Play ISA Configuration Utility (ICU) for MS-DOS and
- Windows.
- Provides a way to assign system resources to add-in cards
- before the card is installed. This assignment avoids
- resource conflicts and keeps track of system resources so
- that Plug and Play cards do not conflict with non-Plug
- and Play cards in a system. A full description of ICU
- features and use is available in the ISA Configuration
- Utility (ICU) User's Guide.
-
- Plug and Play Device Driver Development Kit.
- Contains sample source code for drivers and applications
- that illustrate Configuration Manager functionality. Also
- contains include files and libs to use in coding your own
- drivers and applications.
-
- Plug and Play PCMCIA Driver Development Kit.
- Contains sample source code for drivers and applications
- that illustrate PCMCIA client functionality. Also
- contains include files and libs to use in coding your own
- drivers an applications.
-
- Documentation.
- Contains manuals and specifications to support using and
- developing products with the previously listed components.
- The documents on the Documentation diskette are:
-
- - Plug and Play Developer's Guide
- - ISA Configuration Utility (ICU) User's Guide
- - Before You Add a Card
- - External Plug and Play Interfaces Specification for
- MS-DOS and Windows Run-time Configuration Services
- - Plug and Play ISA Specification
- - Extended System Configuration Data Specification
- - On-line ICU User's Guide source
-
- Information on the components of this kit, and on the inclusion
- of the Configuration Manager and the ISA Configuration Utility
- in your products, is available in the Plug and Play Developer's
- Guide.
-
-
- Installation Notes
- ==================
-
- 1) On systems with MS-DOS version 6.0 or later that use a multipath
- config.sys file, the MS-DOS installation procedure might corrupt
- the config.sys file by duplicating sections of the file and
- corrupting the duplicate sections. If you have this type of
- config.sys file, verify the integrity of the config.sys file
- before rebooting your system. If you see this problem, perform
- the following steps:
-
- a) Replace the config.sys file with the backup file made by the
- installation, config.bak.
-
- b) Edit the config.sys file and add a line to load the CM driver to
- the beginning of the file. Here is an example line that assumes
- the default installation:
-
- DEVICE=C:\PLUPGPLAY\DRIVERS\DOS\DWCFGMG.SYS
-
- 2) The installation procedures in this kit assume that C: is
- the boot drive of the system. Therefore, the procedures
- create, make changes to, or overwrite boot drive files on C:.
- In particular, the procedures put the escd.rf file into C:\,
- and create or modify the config.sys file in C:\.
-
- On systems without the Plug and Play BIOS, if the boot drive
- is not C:, but some other drive, the user must move the
- escd.rf file to the root directory of the boot drive.
- Also, the user must add line that loads the CM driver
- (dwcfgmg.sys) to the config.sys file in the root directory
- of the boot drive.
-
- Some utilities, for example, the Stacker disk compression
- utility, can change the boot drive from C: to another drive.
- Such drive changes are not always obvious to the user. In
- order to avoid the user having to move and edit files, the
- installation procedure must make an INT 21 call to detect
- the boot device before installing the escd.rf file or
- changing the config.sys file.
-
- 3) If you have already installed one version (MS-DOS or Windows)
- of the kit, install the other version in the same directory as
- you installed the first version. By default, both versions of
- the installation use the same directory: c:\plugplay.
-
- If you use a different directory, the system configuration
- information displayed when you invoke the Windows ICU might
- look different than that displayed when you invoke the
- MS-DOS ICU.
-
- 4) If you have already installed the one version (MS-DOS or
- Windows) of the kit, when the second installation procedure
- asks if you want to replace an existing escd.rf file, answer No.
- If you answer Yes, you will lose any system configuration
- changes you made with the first installed version of the ICU.
-
- If you inadvertently answer Yes to this question, you can
- recover the previous version of the escd.rf file by copying the
- c:\escd.bak file to c:\escd.rf. This recovery is not necessary
- if you made no system configuration changes with the MS-DOS
- ICU.
-
- NOTE
- The escd.rf file is not used on systems with the
- Plug and Play BIOS.
-
-
- MS-DOS Installations
- --------------------
-
- 1) To install and run the Plug and Play Kit for MS-DOS, your
- system must have a minimum of 488 KBytes of free conventional
- memory.
-
- 2) Run the MS-DOS installations for the kit components from MS-DOS,
- not from an MS-DOS window under Windows.
-
- 3) The MS-DOS install program on these diskettes is incompatible
- with the expanded memory manager (emm386). Before installing
- the Plug and Play kit for MS-DOS, disable your expanded memory
- manager. After you have finished the installation, you can
- enable the expanded memory manager again.
-
- 4) The MS-DOS installation fails during an overinstall of a
- previous version of the Kit if the user has changed the file
- permissions of the previously installed version to read-only.
-
- 5) During MS-DOS installations, you are offered the opportunity
- to select from one or more choices. The highlighted choice
- (that is, the choice selected when you press the Enter key)
- is lighter than the other choices. On many, but not all,
- displays, the highlighted choice flashes.
-
-
- Windows Installations
- ---------------------
-
- 1) If the Windows screen saver becomes active during the Windows
- ICU setup, the index generator that runs at the end of the
- setup program is iconized as an MS-DOS icon. To complete
- the setup procedure, return to Windows and maximize the
- MS-DOS icon.
-
- 2) The Windows ICU installation fails on a system that has MS-DOS
- 6.0 installed with the VSafe virus scanner active if the VSafe
- scanner checks executable files and protects executable files
- (VSafe options 4 and 8).
-
- 3) A problem might occur if a previously installed version of
- the Windows ICU was deleted. The Windows ICU installation
- does not put the proper device driver entries into the
- windows/system.ini file if there is an entry in the win.ini
- file under [ConfigMgr] of Installed=yes.
-
- Delete this entry to from the win.ini file and run the Windows
- installation again, or edit the windows/system.ini file and
- insert the driver entries in the [386Enh] section of the file:
- device=VCAD.386
- device=VCMD.386
-
- For PCMCIA support in the Windows ICU, also add (to the
- same section):
- device=pccardrm.386
-
- 4) The R1.21 installations replace the old readme.* files from
- previous releases with this readme.txt file. The installations
- do not remove the icons for these older readme files from the
- Plug and Play Windows program group. Please remove the icons
- for these files and leave only the icon named "Release
- Notes."
-
-
- ******************************************************************
- *Plug and Play Kit for MS-DOS and Windows *
- ******************************************************************
-
- The components of the Plug and Play Kit for MS-DOS and Windows are:
-
- - The Plug and Play Configuration Manager (CM)
- - The ISA Configuration Utility (ICU)
- - The Configuration Assistance Utility (cassist)
-
-
- Plug and Play Configuration Manager (CM)
- ========================================
-
- The Plug and Play Configuration Manager provides all of the
- functionality defined in the "Plug and Play Device Driver
- Specification for Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) and MS-DOS".
-
- The Configuration Manager also complies with the specifications
- and definitions in:
-
- "Plug and Play ISA Specification", Version 1.0a
- from Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corporation
-
- "Plug and Play BIOS Specification", Version 1.0a
- from Intel Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation,
- Phoenix Technologies, Ltd.
-
- "Plug and Play BIOS Extensions Guide", Version 1.21
- from Intel Corporation
-
- "PCI BIOS Specification", Version 2.1, from Intel Corporation
-
- "Extended System Configuration Data Specification"
- Version 1.02A, from Intel Corporation, Compaq Computer
- Corporation, and Phoenix Technologies, Ltd.
-
- This release of the Configuration Manager supersedes all previous
- releases.
-
-
- ISA Configuration Utility (ICU)
- ===============================
-
- The ISA Configuration Utility provides a way to assign system
- resources to add-in cards before the card is installed. This
- assignment avoids resource conflicts and keeps track of system
- resources so that Plug and Play cards do not conflict with
- non-Plug and Play cards in a system. A full description of ICU
- features and use is available in the ISA Configuration Utility
- (ICU) User's Guide.
-
- NOTE
- The ISA Configuration Utility is for ISA systems
- only. Do not run it on EISA systems. To configure
- EISA systems, use an EISA Configuration Utility.
-
-
- Configuration Assistance Utility (cassist)
- ==========================================
-
- On systems without the Plug and Play BIOS, the Configuration
- Assistance Utility (cassist) determines the resources used
- by system (motherboard) devices. Chapter 2 of the Plug
- and Play Developer's Guide provides information about
- cassist, and Chapter 2 of the ICU User's Guide provides
- information on using cassist.
-
- NOTE
- The cassist utility is not needed on systems
- with the Plug and Play BIOS.
-
- The Device Driver Development Kit provides a document that
- discusses how a card vendors can enhance cassist to detect
- their cards.
-
-
- New Functionality
- *****************
-
- This release adds the following functionality to the R1.1
- Plug and Play Kit for MS-DOS and Windows:
-
- New Configuration Manager Functionality
- =======================================
-
- Dynamic Loading of the Configuration Manager Driver.
- Parts of the Configuration Manager driver (dwcfgmg.sys)
- are loaded into memory when the driver is needed and
- unloaded when it is no longer needed. This results
- in significant memory savings over the R1.1 CM, where
- the entire driver stayed resident in memory.
-
- Default MS-DOS CM Installation Supports Locking.
- By default the functionality provided by the CM_LockConfig and
- CM_UnlockConfig functions is available to applications running
- in real-mode MS-DOS environment.
-
- The CM lock functionality is always available under Windows,
- including the Windows V86 DOS.
-
- If this functionality is not needed, add the /NOLOCK parameter
- in the line in config.sys that invokes the CM driver
- (dwcfgmg.sys).
- NOTE
- The CM_LockConfig and CM_UnlockConfig functions
- are unrelated to the locking options available
- with ECU or ICU utilities. Details on these
- functions are available in the "External Plug and
- Play Interfaces Specification."
-
- Support for all Plug and Play BIOS Installation Check
- Structures.
- The Configuration Manager now supports all three versions of
- the Plug and Play BIOS Installation Check structures:
- - that defined in the Plug and Play ISA Specification V1.0.
- - that defined in the Plug and Play BIOS Specification V1.0
- - that defined in the Plug and Play BIOS Specification V1.0a
- The R1.1 Configuration Manager only supported the structure
- defined in the Plug and Play ISA Specification V1.0.
-
- Plug and Play BIOS Support.
- On a Plug and Play BIOS System, the ESCD image is now
- synchronized with the System Device Nodes and the Statically
- Allocated Resource Information maintained by the Plug and
- Play BIOS.
-
- New CA_PnPB_ Functions.
- The CA_PnPB_ functions provide access to the System Device
- Nodes and the Statically Allocated Resource Information.
-
- New CME_ Functions.
- The CME_ functions provide support for Query, Allocation
- and Deallocation of resources for dynamic devices, such
- as PCMCIA devices.
-
- New CA_PCI_Get_Routing_Options Function
- The CA_PCI_Get_Routing_Options function provides support
- for the PCI BIOS 2.1 Get_PCI_Interrupt_Routing_Options
- function. Call this function before calling the
- CA_Acfg_PCI_Get_Routing_Options function.
-
- New Flags in Config_Info.
- Support is now provided to set the DEVICE_RECONFIGURABLE and
- the DEVICE_DYNAMIC flags in the Config_Info dFlags.
-
- Function Configurability Information in ESCD.
- This release supports the new ESCD BITMAP field indicating
- whether DCDs (Plug and Play ISA or PCI devices) are reconfig-
- urable.
-
- Support for Empty ESCD.RF File.
- On systems without the Plug and Play BIOS, a message alerts the
- user to run CASSIST if an empty ESCD.RF file is detected on a
- legacy system. When an empty ESCD.RF file is detected, no Plug
- and Play ISA cards are configured by the CM.
-
- New /NODCD Option.
- When the /NODCD option is specified and no DCD (Plug and Play
- ISA or PCI device) is present in the system, the driver
- deinstalls itself from memory.
-
- New /STATIC Option.
- When the /STATIC option is specified, the Configuration Manager
- remains resident in memory and is not unloaded when there is
- no runtime function active.
-
- New /NOVCPI Option.
- When the /NOVCPI option is specified, the Configuration Manager
- does not use the Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI) to
- switch from virtual 8086 mode to real mode (via protected mode)
- prior to calling ACFG BIOS or Plug and Play BIOS run-time
- functions.
-
- Detection of PCI Devices.
- Any PCI device missing from the ESCD image is added and
- any PCI device no longer present is removed from the ESCD
- image.
-
- Configuration of PCI Devices.
- Any non-boot/non-PC Compatible PCI device not configured by the
- BIOS is configured and activated by CM.
-
-
- New ISA Configuration Utility Functionality
- ===========================================
-
- This release adds the following functionality to the R1.1 ISA
- Configuration Utility (ICU)
-
- - The ICU complies with the following three specifications:
- - that defined by the Plug and Play ISA Specification V1.0.
- - that defined by the Plug and Play BIOS Specification V1.0
- - that defined by the Plug and Play BIOS Specification V1.0a
-
- - Support is now provided to set the DEVICE_RECONFIGURABLE and
- the DEVICE_DYNAMIC flags in the Config_Info dFlags.
-
- - The ICU now provides support for DevNode configuration
- information retrieval and setting via interfaces defined in the
- Plug and Play BIOS V1.0a specification. The ICU can now modify
- configurable motherboard system devices.
-
- - The ICU now provides support for displaying PCMCIA cards and
- their resource usage (if PCMCIA Card Services that recognizes
- the Configuration Manager is also running on the system).
-
- - The ICU now displays names for PCI devices. These names
- describe the device's functionality.
-
- - The ICU now supports enabling and disabling PCI devices. This
- feature is available when Version 1.21 of the ACFG BIOS is
- running on the system.
-
- NOTE
- If you find that you cannot disable any PCI
- devices, then you have an outdated system BIOS.
- Contact your system vendor for a new version of
- the BIOS.
-
- - The ICU now includes the conflicting resource value when it
- reports conflicts, as well as the conflicting card and resource
- type.
-
- - The Windows ICU now provides an online User's Guide in Windows
- Help format.
-
- - Messages that notify the user of conflicts display a resource
- value as well as a resource type.
-
-
- PCMCIA VxD
- ----------
- The Windows version of this release installs the following file:
-
- <drive>:\windows\system\pccardrm.386
- This file is a PCMCIA Card Services virtual device driver (VxD).
- This VxD allows the ICU to receive PCMCIA card events for Card
- Services clients in Windows, thus allowing the ICU display to
- include PCMCIA cards. For this VxD to work properly, real mode
- Card Services must be running on your system.
-
- An entry for this VxD is put into the \windows\system.ini file
- under [386Enh] but is commented out. Edit the file and
- remove the comment character(;) to activate the VxD.
-
- New Configuration Assistance Utility Functionality
- ==================================================
-
- Sound Cards Detected.
- cassist now detects Soundblaster Pro and Media
- Vision sound cards.
-
- SCSI Adapters Detected.
- cassist now detects Adaptec and DPT SCSI controllers.
-
- Plug and Play Cards.
- cassist can now run with Plug and Play cards in the system.
-
-
- Plug and Play Kit Notes and Limitations
- ***************************************
-
- Release 1.21 of the Plug and Play Kit for MS-DOS and Windows
- has the following limitations:
-
- - The CM and ICU do not support more than one PCI bus.
-
- - When the CM or ICU move a PCI card, they allocate memory resources
- according to the run-time memory requirement of the card. If this
- value is smaller than the PCI card's boot-time memory requirement,
- the BIOS relocates the PCI card the next time the system is booted.
- Therefore, the system boots in a different configuration than that
- last assigned by the CM and ICU.
-
- - The CM and ICU do not take into account the Shadow attribute of the
- memory blocks. So, there may be incompatible ROMs in the same
- shadow region. A workaround for this is to have all off-board
- ROMS use the same mode - shadowed or not shadowed. The preferred
- mode is not shadowed, since not all cards support ROM shadowing.
-
- - The CM and ICU do not differentiate between 8-bit and 16-bit devices.
- Thus, both device types can be allocated memory in the same 128K
- block. Due to ISA bus addressing, this memory allocation method can
- cause cards to not work. To work around this problem, design your
- devices to require memory in 128K blocks.
-
- Configuration Manager Notes and Limitations
- ===========================================
-
- - Whenever the Configuration Manager executes a 32-bit I/O read to
- the Plug and Play BIOS the system may hang and/or reset.
- The problem occurs only on systems with a Plug and Play BIOS, Plug
- and Play software Release 1.21, and EMM386 versions prior to 4.49.
-
- To fix this problem, use version 4.49 or higher releases of the
- EMM386 memory manager. End-users with earlier versions of the
- EMM386 memory manager should contact their OEM or Microsoft for
- information on obtaining an updated EMM386 device driver.
-
- - Using the DOS 6.21 or 6.22 Memmaker program with a Plug and Play
- system may cause system reboots. Selecting the Memmaker program's
- "Aggressive" memory scanning option causes Memmaker to specify
- HIGHSCAN as an option parameter to EMM386 in the config.sys file.
- The HIGHSCAN option may cause EMM386 to map memory into the F000:0 BIOS
- space used by the system BIOS. In this instance, EMM386 does not
- recognize that the BIOS may be using the entire 64 KB range from
- F000:0 to F000:FFFF. Typically, the system reboots when the
- Configuration Manager begins initialization, however the behavior
- may vary from system to system depending upon the BIOS.
-
- To work around this problem, do not select the "Aggressive" memory
- scan option on Memmaker.
-
- - Some Plug and Play platform BIOS memory map ESCD into the E000:0
- block. Unfortunately, EMM386 does not recognize the presence of
- ESCD information in the E000:0 range and maps memory on top of the
- ESCD area. This corrupts the ESCD storage area.
-
- To work around this problem, end-users should contact their system
- OEMs. OEMs should determine where their BIOS stores ESCD. If the
- BIOS maps ESCD into the E000:0 range then end-users and OEMS should
- exclude the E000:0 range on the EMM386 command line. A permanent
- workaround involves BIOS vendors including a BIOS signature in front
- of the ESCD header when using the E000:0 range.
-
- - In the absence of the Intel Plug and Play BIOS extensions, Plug
- and Play boot devices are not reconfigured by the Configuration
- Manager.
-
- - Software exists that is incompatible with proper Configuration
- Manager operation. The interaction between this software and
- the CM might cause unusual system behavior or system delays
- when both the CM and the software are running on the system.
-
- If you suspect such interaction is causing problems on your
- system, try adding the /STATIC and/or the /NOVCPI options to
- the dwcfgmg.sys driver line in the config.sys file. Either
- or both options might remedy the problem.
-
- - The VCAD Windows driver provides protected-mode EISA interfaces.
- when the /PMEISA CM option is specified. Since not all EISA
- systems provide this level of BIOS functionality, these
- functions might not work correctly on all EISA systems.
-
- - If you use the /FILE option of the Configuration Manager on a
- system with the ACFG BIOS, and you don't provide motherboard
- information for the system in an escd.rf file, the ICU cannot
- run. This option is normally needed only for testing on
- EISA systems.
-
- ISA Configuration Utility Notes and Limitations
- ===============================================
-
- - When you save an image file (Save Image File or Save Image File
- As.. on the Advanced menu), the icu.ndx index file is not
- updated. So, if the configuration you saved contained one or
- more unlisted cards, when you load the image file you saved,
- the card resources for these unlisted cards are in the loaded
- configuration image. However, cards of this type might be listed
- as "Unknown Card," instead of by the name you assigned
- when you added it. You can avoid this behavior by choosing the
- Save item on the File menu before you save the image file. In
- addition, if you copy the image file to another system, you
- must also copy the icu.ndx index file to avoid this behavior.
-
- - Pressing the F1 key invokes the ICU help facility from the
- ISA Configuration Utility window (the main window) only.
-
- - When you are modifying a function of a Plug and Play card in
- preparation for locking it, you might see a conflict message
- that indicates the card is conflicting with itself. Try
- reconfiguring the card functions in a different order.
-
- - If a function has two or more resource types that must be
- configured together, the ICU might not be able to configure
- that function, even though there might be a valid configuration
- available. If you encounter this problem, see the discussion
- on resolving conflicts in the Troubleshooting section of the
- ICU User's Guide for ways to successfully configure functions
- in this category.
-
- - When you pick a resource for a new card that is currently used
- by an existing card, the ICU reconfigures the Plug and Play ISA
- cards first, then the PCI cards. However, PCI cards are
- restricted to specific interrupts. Sometimes, the configuration
- fails because the ICU assigns Plug and Play cards to all the
- valid PCI card interrupts. Then, The ICU cannot configure the
- PCI cards. Use the ICU to reconfigure the Plug and Play cards
- to different interrupts, then try again to configure your new
- card.
-
- - If a boot function on a Plug and Play card causes a conflict
- error on a system without the Plug and Play BIOS, one of two
- messages appears after you Modify the card and change the
- function:
-
- This card will be configured when the system is rebooted.
- This may not be true. If this message appears, there
- is a configuration that works. However, systems
- without the Plug and Play BIOS lack the ability to
- configure boot functions of Plug and Play cards, and
- cannot find the working configuration for you.
-
- Find the working configuration and configure the Plug and
- Play card using jumpers, switches, or a software
- configuration utility provided by the card manufacturer.
- Inspect the resources currently used in the system to
- determine a working configuration.
-
- A conflict has been detected with <conflicting_card>. The
- conflicting resource is <resource_and_value>.
- This message might be inaccurate. It might not inform
- you of the conflict keeping the card from being configured.
-
- Inspect the resources currently used in the system and use
- the conflict resolution techniques described in the Chapter
- 5 of the ICU User's Guide to discover and correct the conflict.
- If in the course of resolving a conflict reported by this
- message you see the message discussed previously, use the
- techniques described to continue.
-
- - Because of ISA architecture limitations, ISA cards cannot use
- Interrupt 2, but must use Interrupt 9 instead. The ICU takes
- this limitation into account and only allows users to choose
- Interrupt 9 when Interrupt 2 is listed as a valid resource value
- in a configuration file. When this substitution occurs, the
- interrupt value is offered as "Interrupt 9(2)."
-
- - When you are configuring an unlisted card, if the card
- manufacturer's documentation lists Interrupt 2 as a valid
- resource value, you must instead choose Interrupt 9.
-
- - A set of reserved resources is standard on ISA systems.
- However, the ICU mistakenly allows these resources to be
- allocated by the user. Please do not allocate the following
- resources:
- I/O Ports 279h, A79h
-
- - You can increase the size of the Smartdrv buffer to make the ICU
- faster.
-
- MS-DOS ICU Limitations
- ----------------------
-
- - The MS-DOS ICU installation might fail if some Terminate and
- Stay Resident (TSR) programs or drivers are resident in memory.
- If this happens, remove all TSRs from memory and restart the
- install process. Some example TSRs and drivers are: Borland
- Side Kick and network drivers that are not loaded from
- config.sys.
-
- - You might see this message:
- N100: Not enough memory to run the ICU.
- In a few cases, 488 KBytes of free memory is insufficient.
- In these cases, ICU operation ceases suddenly and you see an
- MS-DOS "Out of Memory" error. In this situation, use the
- Windows version of the ICU if it is available. If the Windows
- ICU is not available, use the Save item on the File menu
- after each card operation to avoid losing too much work.
-
- - You might see this message:
- N110: Please run the ICU from its directory.
- You must invoke the ICU from the directory that contains the DB
- directory (default placement C:\PLUGPLAY\ICU).
-
- - You must execute the MS-DOS ICU from MS-DOS only, not from an
- MS-DOS window.
-
- - If you rearrange the ICU dialog boxes on the screen, you might
- see spurious lines, characters, or buttons. Do not click the
- mouse on these spurious entities. Clicking the mouse here
- causes the system to hang.
-
- - Double-clicking to select an item in a list is not supported.
-
- - The scroll box (the square slider inside the scrollbar)
- occasionally does not work. Use the arrow keys.
-
- - If you initiate an action such as Add Card when the System
- Resource Usage dialog box is visible, the dialog box might
- close.
-
- Windows ICU Limitations
- -----------------------
-
- - If you have no mouse, you might not be allowed to make a
- choice from the Choices for Configuration list on the Settings
- screen if the choices above and below the choice you want cause
- conflicts. The Windows keyboard interface selects each entry
- instead of just highlighting it. If this happens try using the
- arrow keys and/or the Page Up/Page Down keys to move in the list.
-
-
- Configuration Assistance Utility Notes and Limitations
- ======================================================
-
- - cassist operation is incompatible with network operation.
- Disable network drivers on your system before running
- cassist. Enable the network drivers after you have run
- cassist.
-
- - cassist creates the escd.rf file in the root directory of the
- current drive (that is, the drive on which the cassist utility
- is run). On systems without the Plug and Play BIOS, if the
- current drive is not the boot drive, the user must move this
- escd.rf file manually to the root directory of the boot drive.
-
- - cassist does not detect interrupt resources used by ISA video
- cards.
-
- *******************************************************************
- *Plug and Play Device Driver Development Kit *
- *******************************************************************
-
- The Plug and Play Device Driver Development Kit (DDDK) contains
- sample source code for drivers and applications that illustrate
- Configuration Manager functionality. The include files and
- libraries required by drivers and applications are also part
- of this kit.
-
- The DDDK diskette also includes the R1.21 Configuration
- Manager for both MS-DOS and Windows.
-
- The MS-DOS installation installs only the MS-DOS drivers and
- sample code. The Windows installation installs drivers and
- sample code for both Windows and MS-DOS applications.
-
- The DDDK installation places the cassist.doc file into
- the cassist directory. This file is an interface document
- that describes how vendors can enhance cassist (the Intel
- configuration assistance utility) to detect their cards.
-
- The DDDK installation creates the directory samples\dos. This
- directory includes source and executables that illustrate
- the use of the CM.
-
- - The DCM_AP and DCM_DRV samples have source and executables
- that illustrate the use of the CM interfaces.
-
- - PNPBAPP.EXE and PNPINFO.EXE provide information about the
- system's Plug and Play environment.
-
- These samples are described in the file samples\dos\notes.txt.
-
- The DDDK installation also creates the directory samples\win.
- This directory includes the WCM_AP and WCM_DRV samples, which
- have source and executables that illustrate the use of the CM
- interfaces. These samples are described in the file
- samples\win\notes.txt.
-
-
- *******************************************************************
- *Plug and Play PCMCIA Driver Development Kit *
- *******************************************************************
-
- The PCMCIA Driver Development Kit (PDDK) contains sample source
- code for drivers and applications that illustrate PCMCIA client
- functionality. The include files and libraries required by
- drivers and applications are also part of this kit.
-
- This kit provides you with C and assembly language interfaces to
- call PCMCIA Card Services. These interfaces, and the Card
- Services clients you write using them, require that real mode
- PCMCIA Card Services be running on the system. These Card
- Services are not provided in the PDDK; you must get them from
- another source.
-
- The MS-DOS installation installs only the MS-DOS drivers and
- sample code. The Windows installation installs drivers and
- sample code for both Windows and MS-DOS applications.
-
-
- *******************************************************************
- * Trademark and Copyright Citations *
- *******************************************************************
-
-
- MS-DOS is a registered trademark, and Windows is a trademark of
- Microsoft Corporation.
-
- The program used for MS-DOS installation of components of the
- Plug and Play Kit for MS-DOS and Windows, INSTALL, is licensed
- software provided by Knowledge Dynamics Corp., P.O. Box 780068,
- San Antonio, Texas 78278 (U.S.A.). INSTALL is Copyright (c)
- 1987-1993 by Knowledge Dynamics Corp., which reserves all copyright
- protection worldwide. INSTALL is provided to you for the exclusive
- purpose of installing the MS-DOS components of the Plug and Play
- Kit for MS-DOS and Windows. Intel Corporation is exclusively
- responsible for the support of the Plug and Play Kit for MS-DOS
- and Windows, including support during the installation phase.
- In no event will Knowledge Dynamics Corp. provide any technical
- support for the Plug and Play Kit for MS-DOS and Windows.
-
- Other names and trademarks are the property of their respective
- companies.
-
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