3. Software Installation
ICP DAS provides following device drivers for most operation systems such
as MS-DOS, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000/XP/2003. These Windows
drivers provide full interrupt-driven, buffered I/O for each COM ports. And also
supports the Plug & Play mechanism for easy installation.
VxCard DOS Lib:
Programming library files and sample programs for DOS.
VxCard Driver NT:
COM port driver for Windows NT 4.0.
VxCard Driver 2K:
COM port driver for Windows 2000/XP/2003.
VxCard Driver Linux:
tty driver for Linux.
Note:
VxCard Driver 2K also supports Windows XP and Windows
Server 2003.
For Windows users to access COM ports, please refer to the “
Serial
Communications in Win32
” article for programming information. Which can be
.
This chapter shows you the detail steps to install these drivers.
Note:
For more information about COM port number selection,
please refer to
Section 2.2 “COM Port Mapping & Board ID”
.
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