Multitech ISI4608, User Manual

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Chapter 3 - Driver Installation
2. The following text appears on the screen:
Multi_View is a utility which will allow you
to have multiple sessions on terminals that
have multiple pages of physical memory. In
order for this utility to work with
MultiTech’s serial cards, pseudo devices have
to be created in your /dev directory. These
devices are system-wide resources.
Enter the number of pseudo-devices to be
created for the use of Multi_View utility
(1 - 256).
The Multi_View utility initializes the multiple-page capability of
terminals with multiple pages of memory. The number specified here
is the total number of devices (between 1 and 256) available to all
Multi-Tech terminals and it’s the number of pseudo devices
available to the Multi_View utility.
Specify
8
pseudo devices for each ISI4608 card installed.
For example, if the computer contains three ISI4608 cards, you
would enter
24
.
You must initialize each of the eight ports separately using the
enable command (for example,
enable ttyl1a
).
3. This text appears on the screen and relates to the “/dev” directory.
This script also creates the devices in your
system to communicate with the ports of
ISICOM. The default prefix for the tty ports
is ttyl. The default prefix for the printer
is prnl. Is this acceptable? (y/n/q).
For most users, it’s best to select
y
, which entails accepting the
default values. Then proceed to step 4.
Details for use of non-default port/printer values . The /dev
directory holds device-information files used by the kernel to access
the hardware. When you add an ISI card, you must give the ISI
ports unique names so they do not conflict with existing ports or