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Driver bundle including a compressed, self-extracting, executable driver for the host processor and an adapter driver for the processor of a network adapter card
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Inventors: Hoese, Geoffrey B.; Johnson, Scott C.; Canion, Rodney S.;
Assignee: Compaq Computer Corporation (Houston, TX)
Primary Examiner: Black; Thomas G.
Assistant Examiner: Pardo; Thuy
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.
A driver bundle including a compressed, executable and self-extracting host driver prepended to an adapter card driver to form a single executable driver bundle. The driver bundle has a size less than the maximum allowable size for a command file, which is 64 Kbytes as defined by MS-DOS.RTM.. The combined size of the expanded host driver and the adapter card driver is greater than the maximum allowable size. When the driver bundle is executed, it commands a processor of a computer system to expand and execute the host driver. The computer system includes a network adapter card with an adapter processor for executing the adapter card driver. When executed, the host driver commands the processor to retrieve and download the adapter card driver to the network adapter card for execution by the adapter processor. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION A driver bundle according to the present invention includes a compressed, executable and self-extracting host driver prepended to an adapter card driver to form a single executable driver bundle.
The executable driver bundle has a size less than the maximum allowable size for a command file, which is 64 Kbytes as defined by MS-DOS.
RTM.
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The combined size of the expanded host driver and the adapter card driver is greater than the maximum allowable size, and thus would otherwise be separated into two separate files.
When the driver bundle is executed, it commands a host processor of a computer system to expand and execute the host driver.
The computer system includes a network adapter card with an adapter processor for executing the adapter card driver.
When executed, the host driver commands the processor to retrieve and download the adapter card driver to the adapter card for execution by the adapter processor.
A computer system according to the present invention includes a host processor for executing a driver bundle, where the driver bundle includes a compressed, self-extracting host driver prepended to an adapter card driver.
The computer system includes host memory, an expansion bus and an adapter card coupled to the expansion bus.
The adapter card is for any desired function, such as a network adapter card for enabling communication with a network.
The adapter card includes an adapter processor and adapter memory for executing the adapter card driver.
When the driver bundle is executed by the host processor, it commands the host processor to expand the compressed host driver within the host memory and then to execute the expanded host driver, which causes the host processor to download the adapter card driver to the adapter memory of the adapter card.
The computer system preferably includes a storage device for storing the driver bundle.
For example, the storage device is a floppy disk drive, a hard disk drive, a CD-ROM drive, or any other type of storage device
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