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CI-132 Industrial Serial Board
Quick Installation Guide
First Edition, December 2004
1. Overview
CI-132 is a 2-port RS-422/485 ISA serial board that is ideal for
connecting a wide range of serial devices—including terminals,
modems, printers, scanners, cash registers, bar code readers, keypads,
numeric displays, electronic scales, and data acquisition equipment—to
a PC. The board’s well-designed device drivers make full use of the
16-byte Tx/Rx FIFO and on-chip H/W and S/W flow control, which
allow data transmission at speeds of up to 921.6 Kbps.
2. Package Checklist
Before installing the CI-132 board, verify that the package contains the
following items:
!
1 CI-132 2-port serial board
!
Documentation and Software CD
!
Quick Installation Guide
Notify your sales representative if any of the above items is missing or
damaged.
3. Hardware Installation Procedure
The CI-132 board MUST be installed in the PC before installing the
driver. The following directions explain how to install the board in the
PC.
STEP 1
:
Power off the PC.
STEP 2
:
Insert the CI-132 control board firmly into an ISA slot.
STEP 3
:
Fasten the holding screw to fix the control board in place.
STEP 4
:
Short Jumper JP1.
STEP 5
:
Power on the PC.
STEP 6
:
Execute
io-irq.exe
from DOS mode, entry 0xA700.
STEP 7
:
Configure the I/O address, IRQ, INT vector, etc., and then
press F10 to save the configuration.
STEP 8
:
Power off the PC, open Jumper JP1, and power on the PC.
STEP 9
:
Enter the BIOS to reserve a specific IRQ.
STEP 10
: Restart the PC.
4. Software Installation Information
The board MUST be plugged in before installing the driver. See the
previous section for instructions on how to install the board in your PC.
Refer to the CI-132 User’s Manual for detailed instructions on installing
the drivers for this board.
Windows 2003/XP Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, log into Win 2003/XP as Administrator.
2.
Insert the CI-132 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.
3.
Select
Add/Remove Hardware
from Control Panel.
4.
Select
Add a device
.
5.
Select
Add new device
.
6.
Select
No, I want to select the hardware from a list
.
7.
Select
Multi-port serial adapters
.
8.
Select
Have Disk,
and then use the browse button to navigate to the
CD’s
CI-132\Software\Win2K-XP-2003
folder.
9.
Select the CI-132 driver.
10.
Start the installation.
11.
Click
Yes
in response to any admonitions that the software doesn’t
contain a Microsoft digital signature.
12.
Click
Finish
to complete the driver installation
.
13.
If your ISA board configuration is not set as the default, you will need
to change the driver
settings to match the hardware configuration.
Use the
Device Manager
to check if I/O, IRQ, INT vector, etc. are
correct.
Windows 2000 Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, log into Win 2000 as Administrator.
2.
Insert the CI-132 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.
3.
Select
Add/Remove Hardware
from the Control Panel.
4.
Select
Add a device
.
5.
Select
Add new device
.
6.
Select
No, I want to select the hardware from a list
.
7.
Select
Multi-port serial adapters
.
8.
Select
Have Disk,
and then use the browse button to navigate to the
CD’s
CI-132\Software\Win2K-XP-2003
folder.
9.
Select CI-132 driver.
10.
Start the installation.
11.
Click
Yes
in response to any admonitions that the software doesn’t
contain a Microsoft digital signature.
12.
Click
Finish
to complete the driver installation
.
13.
If your ISA board configuration is not set as the default, you will need
to change the driver
settings to match the hardware configuration.
Use the
Device Manager
to check if I/O, IRQ, INT vector, etc. are
correct.
Windows 95/98 Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, log into 95/98 as Administrator.
2.
Insert the CI-132 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.
3.
Run
Setup95.exe
for both Windows 95 and Windows 98. In both
cases, be sure to install the driver from the CD’s
CI-132\Software\Win9x\Windows.95
folder.
4.
After the board has been installed, the installation wizard will open
the port configuration window.
5.
Configure the I/O, IRQ, INT vector, etc.
6.
Restart the OS
Windows NT Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, log into NT as Administrator.
2.
Copy the folder
CI-132\Software\WinNT\Windows.nt
to your hard
drive.
3.
Open the
Control Panel
, click on the
Network
icon, and select the
Adaptors
tab.
4.
Click the
Add
button, and then
Have Disk…
in the
Select Network
Adapter
window.
5.
Specify the exact path to the folder created in Step 2 above.
6.
Select
MOXA Smartio/Industio Family multiport board
in the
Select OEM Option window, and then click on
OK
to start installing
the driver.
7.
When the Moxa Smartio/Industio Configuration Panel dialog box
appears, click on
Add
to open the
Property
window to modify port
settings and advanced FIFO configuration done automatically by the
system.
8.
Configure the I/O, IRQ, INT vector, etc.
9.
Restart the OS.
Linux Driver Installation
1.
Execute the following commands from the Linux prompt:
#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
#cd /
#mkdir moxa
#cd moxa
#cp /mnt/cdrom/<driver directory>/mxser.tgz .
#tar xvfz mxser.tgz
2.
#cd mxser
#make clean; make install
3.
#cd /moxa/mxser/driver
#./msmknod
4.
Install the module driver at the I/O address that you configured. E.g.,
if the I/O address is 0x180, then execute the following command:
#modprobe mxser ioaddr=0x180
5.
You can use the Moxa diagnostic utility to verify the driver status:
#cd /moxa/mxser/utility/diag
#./msdiag
6.
You can use the Moxa terminal utility to test the tty ports:
#cd /moxa/mxser/utility/term
#./msterm
P/N: 18020013211
