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Software Installation

Smartio

 C104H/HS User’s Manual

    3-17

DOS

MOXA  DOS  API-232  is  a  software  package  that  assists  users  to  develop  and/or
debug  programs  for  serial  communications.  This  section  will  show  you  how  to
install the package, how to setup up the driver, and how to load or unload driver.

For details of the serial programming (API-232 Library) and utilities, please refer to
the next chapter, “Serial Programming Tools”.

Installing Driver

Run  the  installation  program,

  DOSINST.EXE, 

in  the  DOS/Windows  3.x  driver

diskette.  Specify  the  target  API-232  directory  (e.g. 

C:\MOXA

)  where  software

driver will be copied. Press 

F2

 to start the installation.

Summary of Contents for Smartio C104H

Page 1: ...al Universal 4 Port Serial Board May 1999 6th Edition The content of this manual is also available in CD ROM and at Moxa Web Site Moxa Technologies Co Ltd Tel 866 2 8665 6373 Fax 886 2 8665 6372 www m...

Page 2: ...ice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Moxa Moxa provides this document as is without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the particular purpo...

Page 3: ...ilt for technical support product inquiry new driver update user s manual update etc The followings are the services we provide E mail for technical support address support moxa com tw FTP site for fr...

Page 4: ...nd overall installation guide Chapter 2 Hardware Installation Hardware installation for the Smartio C104 Series boards and connection cable Chapter 3 Software Installation This Chapter details the sof...

Page 5: ...and Hardware Configuration 2 4 Software Installation 3 1 Windows NT 3 1 Installing Driver 3 2 Configuring Board and Port 3 7 Updating Driver 3 9 Removing Driver 3 9 Windows 95 98 3 9 Installing Driver...

Page 6: ...6 Utilities 4 6 Windows 3 x 4 8 Windows COMM API Library Win16 4 8 Utility 4 9 Existing Applications 4 9 Connection Cable and Cable Wiring 5 1 RS 232 Cable Wiring 5 1 Troubleshooting 6 1 General Troub...

Page 7: ...data loss even at high speed such as 921 6 Kbps which offers a reliable and high performance solution for serial multiport communications The Smartio C104 Series is equipped with custom designed ASIC...

Page 8: ...nel via which the configuration utility Io irq exe can access the board which is identical to the first port s base I O address The only jumper JP1 is designed in case that users forget the CAP addres...

Page 9: ...stems not mentioned please refer to the respective operating system s manual for how to install and configure the standard driver MOXA Serial Comm Tool For easy application development MOXA provides a...

Page 10: ...ed v Surge protection for RS 232 C104HS v High speed 16550C Communication Controller with on chip hardware flow control no data loss v PComm serial communication tool v Support popular OS Windows NT W...

Page 11: ...ng items in the package v Smartio C104 Series 4 port high performance async board v Device driver diskettes l Windows NT and Windows 95 98 1 l DOS Windows 3 x 1 v C104H HS User s Manual This Manual v...

Page 12: ...stall the Smartio C104 Series board Installation Install the software from the diskette See Chapter Software Configure the driver for the board and ports Installation for respective OS Connect the dev...

Page 13: ...perating systems Default Settings The Smartio C104 Series has the following default factory settings I O address 0x180 Port 1 0x188 Port 2 0x190 Port 3 0x198 Port 4 IRQ 10 INT Vector 0x1C0 CAP Jumper...

Page 14: ...are configuration effort i e installation without running configuration program Io irq exe Simply always short the jumper JP1 The software and hardware configuration will be completed at the same time...

Page 15: ...ged Hardware Installation with IO IRQ Utility This section is for those who can not use quick hardware installation u Install two or more Smartio C104 Series boards in a system u Fail to install due t...

Page 16: ...DOS system 5 Run the utility Io irq exe contained in the driver diskette to set up I O address IRQ and INT vector of the board Please refer to the next section IO IRQ Utility and Hardware Configuratio...

Page 17: ...lation Smartio C104H HS User s Manual 2 5 1 Run the utility Io irq exe contained in the driver diskette to set up I O address IRQ and INT vector of the board 2 Select Smartio Industio ISA Family and p...

Page 18: ...ess Enter the base I O address for each port either sequentially or not Avoid to conflicting with any other devices IRQ Enter the IRQ 2 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 or 15 for each port independently or not Speed...

Page 19: ...ps is equal to the working speed 38 4 Kbps However if the port is driven by NON Moxa provided driver such as standard serial driver or Moxa drivers other than Windows NT and 95 98 such as DOS the real...

Page 20: ...FFH Interrupt vector is one byte of I O address in which each bit is used to indicate the occurrence of interrupt for corresponding port To use interrupt vector type in the hardware Interrupt vector I...

Page 21: ...amming 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...

Page 22: ...e sure the board s has have already been plugged in the system slot s if you are doing quick installation 1 Please log in NT as Administrator 2 Open the Control Panel click on the Network icon and sel...

Page 23: ...dustio Configuration Panel dialog box click Add to enter Property dialog box to add the Smartio C104 Series board Select the C104 Series in the Board Type field If necessary type the desired interrupt...

Page 24: ...rectly to the step 8 if you need not change any setting 7 In the Property dialog box select the desired port in the port list and click Port Setting to enter the individual Port setting dialog box to...

Page 25: ...is mapped to COM4 sequentially If Auto Enumerating COM Number is not checked specify the COM number for individual port For instance the second port can be out of sequence say COM10 while the first po...

Page 26: ...the system restarts you may check the event log issued by the MOXA driver to see if the ports of the board are initialized successfully l Enter the Administrative group click on the Event Viewer icon...

Page 27: ...ready made applications such as PComm utility Terminal emulator See Serial Programming Tools chapter or HyperTerminal to transmit receive data as well as Remote Access Service to provide dial up netwo...

Page 28: ...ector Interrupt no and Base I O Port Address Please see steps 6 to 8 in the previous section Installing Driver for more details except that the Board Type field is not supposed to be changed l Click A...

Page 29: ...nfiguration Windows 95 98 Windows 95 98 supports up to 128 serial ports from COM1 to COM128 To fully integrate the advanced features of Windows 95 98 multi process and multi thread pure 32 bit Windows...

Page 30: ...ish button in the Complete message dialog to enter the configuration panel 4 The Moxa Smartio Industio Configuration Panel dialog will pop up for you to configure the board and ports 5 In the Moxa Sma...

Page 31: ...te Go directly to the step 7 if you need not change any setting 6 In the Property dialog box select the desired port in the port list and click Port Setting to enter the individual Port setting dialog...

Page 32: ...to COM4 sequentially If Auto Enumerating COM Number is not checked specify the COM number for individual port For instance the second port can be out of sequence say COM10 while the first port is mapp...

Page 33: ...P 0x0180 port 1 COM3 Board is not found appears refer to chapter Troubleshooting for solutions Note Once the board and the driver are installed and the driver restarts successfully you can start to de...

Page 34: ...er for more details In this configuration panel you may l Click Property to enter Property dialog box to configure the selected board with the correct COM Number INT Vector Interrupt no and Base I O P...

Page 35: ...Open Control Panel icon and then System icon and then select Device Manager tab Then select and open the MOXA Smartio Industio multiport board option and then select the C104 Series Click on Propertie...

Page 36: ...er s Manual Removing Driver Open Control Panel icon and then Add Remove Programs icon and then select Install Uninstall tab Then select and open the MOXA Smartio Industio Driver option and then enter...

Page 37: ...ll the package how to setup up the driver and how to load or unload driver For details of the serial programming API 232 Library and utilities please refer to the next chapter Serial Programming Tools...

Page 38: ...are steps for setting up the Smartio C104 Series driver Note that it is not intended to illustrate all the convenient functions of the setup programs when configuring the boards Please refer to the F1...

Page 39: ...rtio C104H HS User s Manual 3 19 2 Press Enter to pop up the SETUP dialog box In the SETUP dialog box Press F8 to specify the CAP Address and press ENTER and then type Y YES to load the configuration...

Page 40: ...Series board will be shown along with other default settings such as port number buffer size etc Note Up to now you have completed the setup for Smartio C104 Series board You may skip this step and g...

Page 41: ...rt is referred to as port number in terms of serial programming You may map the port number range to the one you prefer between 0 and 255 as long as no port number overlapping condition or port number...

Page 42: ...2 to 3 described above 5 Press F10 to save the latest configuration and exit the SETUP program Loading Driver Having completed the setup you can load the driver BIN SER DRV EXE at the DOS prompt The...

Page 43: ...8 serial ports Communication Driver Setup driver None serial port found It means the Smartio C104 Series driver is not installed properly Please refer to chapter Troubleshooting for possible reasons...

Page 44: ...driver diskette click OK in the Driver Installation dialog box to install the driver 2 When installation completed the program group MOXA Standard COMM Driver and Board Configuration dialog boxes app...

Page 45: ...ings click Modify type in the desired I O address in the Address field and select the desired IRQ and COM number Then click OK and Save to save the new configuration and exit 3 When configuration comp...

Page 46: ...OM8 or from COM6 to COM9 depending on user s need Normally COM1 is used by mouse and to fully use the 4 MOXA ports thus COM3 to COM6 is recommended In this case the original COM1 and COM2 on PC will b...

Page 47: ...ards configured as High Speed Spectrum the real working speed is equal to 8 times of the displayed speed For example a port if set to Normal Speed Spectrum with 38 4 Kbps will work at 38 4 Kbps for su...

Page 48: ...3 28 Smartio C104H HS User s Manual...

Page 49: ...ication library for easy programming in most popular languages useful utilities such as diagnostic monitor and terminal emulator illustrative example programs and comprehensive on line documents The s...

Page 50: ...e implementation of multi process and multi thread serial communication programs and hence greatly reduce the developing time For complete library function description and example programs for Visual...

Page 51: ...3 Diagnostic for MOXA boards only A convenient diagnostic program provides internal and external testing such as IRQ TxD RxD UART CTS RTS DTR DSR DTR DCD testing etc for the MOXA boards and ports to v...

Page 52: ...ows you to watch the selected MOXA COM ports data transmitting receiving throughput and communication line status which are updated and displayed on the screen at every time interval In addition you m...

Page 53: ...nual 4 5 Terminal Emulator The Terminal Emulator features multi windows and supports terminal types of VT100 and ANSI You can transfer data interactively send pattern periodically or transfer file usi...

Page 54: ...he sub directory EXAMPLE language of the API 232 directory In addition for DOS C language only there are also Modem Control and File Transfer library available supporting Hayes compatible modem contro...

Page 55: ...streamed to disk storage for later analysis 2 The TTY terminal emulation utility allows user to view the signal status and transfer data interactively or files using ASCII XMODEM YMODEM ZMODEM and KER...

Page 56: ...e Moxa driver is running in the background Windows 3 x Windows COMM API Library Win16 MOXA Windows compatible COMM Driver supports Microsoft Windows COMM API such as OpenComm ReadComm WriteComm etc It...

Page 57: ...a after each port opened with selected communication parameters Multiple windows for ports simultaneously are available for a demonstration of multitasking feature of Windows 3 x The Windows provided...

Page 58: ...4 10 Smartio C104H HS User s Manual...

Page 59: ...PC COM1 2 serial printer and terminal The term DCE is for Data Communication Equipment like modem RS 232 Cable Wiring The followings are pin assignments for various connection options Smartio C104 Ser...

Page 60: ...Modem Cable Smartio C104 DTE Device DB25 Male DB25 Male TxD 2 2 TxD RxD 3 3 RxD RTS 4 4 RTS CTS 5 5 CTS DSR 6 6 DSR DTR 20 20 DTR GND 7 7 GND DCD 8 8 DCD PC COM2 port Serial Printer Terminal or any DT...

Page 61: ...Opt 4C Straight through Cable Smartio C104 DCE Device DB25 Male DB25 Female TxD 2 2 RxD RxD 3 3 TxD RTS 4 4 CTS CTS 5 5 RTS DSR 6 6 DTR DTR 20 20 DSR GND 7 7 GND DCD 8 8 DCD Modem or any DCE Device O...

Page 62: ...is set to OFF you could just leave RTS CTS DSR DTR DCD open ignoring the connection indicated in dash lines PC COM2 port Serial Printer Terminal or any DTE Device Opt 4C Smartio C104 DTE Device DB25...

Page 63: ...ged in the system If that is the case re install the board and make sure that it fits well in a 16 bit slot this time Sometimes the slot for plugging the board is bad In this case try other slots unti...

Page 64: ...ad to this trouble a The user forgets or does not know the Configuration Access Port CAP of the board See next problem 4 for how to solve this problem b The CAP of the board conflicts with other add o...

Page 65: ...nce the CAP is unknown Step 1 Power off the PC OFF Step 2 Install jumper onto the JP1 of the board jumper JP1 Install Step 3 Power on the PC Now the CAP address of the board will be 0xA700 ON Step 4 E...

Page 66: ...system reboots the error message Another driver in the system which did not report its resources has already claimed the interrupt used by xxx appears in the Event Log This indicates that the MOXA bo...

Page 67: ...good one f The board might be defective 3 The COM number of the Smartio C104 Series conflicts with others The COM numbers of different boards happen to be the same Try to change the COM number mappin...

Page 68: ...make sure the board is seated firmly in the expansion slot e The slot for plugging the board is defective In this case please try other slots until you find a good one f The board might be defective D...

Page 69: ...bits 5 6 7 8 v Stop bits 1 1 5 2 v Parity none even odd space mark v UART 4 16550C or compatible v Speed bps 50 921 6K v Connectors 4 DB25 Opt 4C or DB9 male Opt 4D v Data signals RS 232 TxD RxD RTS...

Page 70: ...by request Note Download the newest drivers from the MOXA FTP service UART 16C550C The UART chip 16C550C is an intelligent asynchronous controller capable of supporting one full duplex channel that si...

Page 71: ...ontroller 040 05F Timer 060 06F Keyboard 070 07F Real time clock 080 09F DMA page register 0A0 0BF Interrupt controller 2 0C0 0DF DMA controller 0F0 0FF Math coprocessor 100 1EF not usable 1F0 1F8 Fix...

Page 72: ...no Signal Pin no Signal 1 20 RI3 2 DCD3 21 DTR3 3 GND 22 DSR3 4 CTS3 23 RTS3 5 RxD3 24 TxD3 6 RI4 25 DCD4 7 DTR4 26 GND 8 DSR4 27 CTS4 9 RTS4 28 RxD4 10 TxD4 29 RI2 11 DCD2 30 DTR2 12 GND 31 DSR2 13...

Page 73: ...oard o open o short 4 Operating System o Windows 95 o Windows 98 o Windows NT 3 51 o Windows NT 4 0 o DOS o Windows 3 x o Others 5 PC Host Make _________ Model _________ 6 CPU Speed _____MHz Make ____...

Page 74: ...er product repair time v Obtain a Return Merchandise Authorization RMA number from the sales representative or dealer v Carefully pack the product in anti static package and send it pre paid to the de...

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