SUBJECT:

EISA platform supporting of NDC ISA card

QUESTION:

I found some problem with the ship version of Windows NT
driver that prevent installation of device driver. I am
installing the NW620 card in Windows NT 4.0 with SP 4 and
it may happen to both NT3.51 ad 4.0. The driver version is
3.21E as in the \WINNT\OEMSETUP.INF. The driver disk is P/N
88-862003-42 Rev A1. The problem is when you install the
driver and click 'Have Disk' then key in the location of
OEMSETUP.INF file the NT system say cannot find OEMSETUP.INF.
Seem that the [PlateformsSupported] section of this INF file
short of a keyword PCI. I added it below "Jazz Internal-Bus"
and is then able to install the driver. We just have to add
PCI to the list and it is able to install now. Something I
am not certain is whether the EISA keyword is also needed or
not.

ANSWER:

Yes, you must add the EISA keyword into the OEMSETUP.INF
file to support a machine using the EISA slots.

The OEMSETUP.INF problem you found was also found in the
alpha-test period of our wireless product. But because the
problem occured only on an EISA machine, a PC using the EISA
bus/slot platform, and we didn't intend to support this
platform officially (we were not sure whether all EISA
platforms are completely compatible with ISA one), we decided
not to add the EISA keyword to the OEMSETUP.INF file.