Configuration
Power up and reboot the system.
After you reboot the system, the following message should be displayed:
Hostess 550 Board Setup
Copyright (c)19xx Comtrol Corp. All Rights Reserved
Immediately following this message, each Comtrol controller found in the system is listed in
this format:
Hostess 550 board at xxx IRQ# has y ports starting at ttyhzz
where xxx is the base address, # is the interrupt vector, y is the number of ports, and ttyhzz
is the name of the first port on the controller.
When installation is complete, use the following information to enable the ports.
Enabling Ports
The following table shows the default device names assigned to each non-modem and modem
serial port on the controller board:
The non-modem names allow communications with a serial device over a simple 3-wire
connection consisting of the transmit and receive data data lines and signal ground. The
modem names require modem control to function properly. Specifically, the carrier detect
Device Names
Controller
Non-Modem
Modem
First
ttyh00-ttyh15
ttyH00-ttyH15
Second
ttyh16-ttyh31
ttyH16-ttyH31
Third
ttyh32-ttyh47
ttyH32-ttyH47
Fourth
ttyh48-ttyh64
ttyH48-ttyH64
