

                               TECHNICAL BULLETIN
                                 Bulletin #1-260

January 26, 1990

                         Updated Novell Ethernet Drivers

Novell recently placed new operating system (OS) drivers and shell drivers for
the NE1000, NE2000, and NE/2 network interface boards on NetWire.  

o  The new NE/2 and NE2000 Novell Ethernet drivers have AppleTalk support built
   in.  However, they can still be used in a non-AppleTalk environment.  

o  The NE2000 driver was updated to include support for multiple fragment
   transmissions of packets used by the current Macintosh VAPS.

o  The previous device drivers allowed the data buffer on an NE1000, NE2000, or
   NE/2 interface board to occasionally fill and overflow, causing performance
   degradation at the workstation.
 
o  The NE1000 O.S. drivers are dated 12/04/89.  The NE1000 shell driver is dated
   12/27/89.

o  The NE2000 O.S. drivers are dated 11/29/89.  The NE2000 shell driver is dated
   12/27/89.

o  The NE/2 O.S. and shell drivers are all dated 11/29/89.