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At-2900 series adapter software drivers, Supported operating systems, Software driver features – Allied Telesis AT-2900 Series Adapters User Manual

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AT-2900 Series Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapters Installation Guide

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AT-2900 Series Adapter Software Drivers

An AT-2900 Series adapter is shipped from the factory with the default
Broadcom software driver installed. To update the software driver, you
have two options:

If your system has an Internet connection, you can download the
AT-2900 software driver from the Microsoft’s Update Manager.
This utility is accessed through the Start button. However, the
Microsoft Update Manager may not have the latest Allied Telesis
software drivers.

You can download the latest version of the software driver from the
Allied Telesis website at www.alliedtelesis.com/support/
software
.

This manual provides instructions to download the software driver from the
Allied Telesis website and install it on your adapter.

Supported

Operating

Systems

The AT-2900 Series Adapters support software drivers on the following
operating systems:

Windows Server 2003

Windows XP

Windows 2008 R2

Windows Vista

Windows 7

Linux

Novell NetWare

MS-DOS

Software Driver

Features

The following is a list of the AT-2900 Series Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
features for all of the supported operating systems:

Flow Control (IEEE 802.3X)

Jumbo frames (9 KB)

Layer 2 Priority Encoding (802.1P)

Adaptive interrupt frequency

Integrated 96 KB Frame Buffer Memory

Support for PXE

Load balancing