Advantech EKI-1526/N/I/TI, User Manual

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5. Under Serial Port Settings, click the
Type
drop-down menu and select the port
type.
Review the settings under the Ethernet fields and verify them.
6. Click
Next
to continue or
Previous
to return to the previous screen.
The selected settings are displayed in the following Wizard window.
7. Locate the radio button correlating to the target port to modify and click on it to
select it.
Verify the Device Port (EKI device physical serial port) and System Port (virtual
COM port for PC) settings before continuing.
8. Click
Finish
to complete the process. A Wizard complete! screen displays
indicating the completion of a successful procedure.
5.2.4 Confirming Virtual COM Settings
1. On your desktop, navigate to
Start > All Programs
>
EKI Device
Configuration Utility
and click
Advantech EKI Device Configuration Utility
to open the utility.
2. Locate
Serial Ports
menu in the menu pane and click on the Expand icon next
to Virtual COM Ports to view a list of the mapped ports.
3. Select a VCOM port to view its settings.
Figure 5.9 Serial Port Listing on EKI Device
For the next step, you will need to open the device manager on your system.
Using the Device Manager, you can both view and change the COM port
settings.
4. On your desktop, click on the
Start button
and then on
Control Panel
. A
window displays showing all the available control panels.
Note! The following instructions are written for Windows 7; the Windows XP
equivalent is displayed in parentheses (). The instructions may vary on
other operating systems.