Industio
CI-132 Series User’s Manual
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Software Installation
In this chapter, the software driver installation, configuration and driver
update/removal procedures are described for various operating systems, including
Windows NT, Windows 95/98 and DOS. Before proceeding with the software
installation, complete the hardware installation, detailed in previous chapter,
“Hardware Installation”.
If it is necessary for you to develop your own applications, please also refer to the next
chapter, “Serial Programming Tools”, for programming issues.
Windows NT
Windows NT supports up to
256
serial ports, from
COM1
to
COM256
. To fully
integrate the advanced features of Windows NT, multi-process and multi-thread,
pure 32-bit Windows NT device drivers are developed for the
Industio
CI-132 Series
multiport boards. The driver conforms to Win32 COMM API standard.
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To install the driver for the first time, please go directly to the next section,
“Installing Driver”.
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If you already have installed the driver and want to re-configure the board and
port, add more boards or delete boards, please refer to the section “Configuring
Board and Port”.
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To update or remove the driver, please go to the section, “Updating Driver” or
“Removing Driver”.
