UltraPort Serial Adaptors User Guide
Installing under Solaris
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Chapter 2 Installing drivers and host cards
General installation procedure for Solaris
The general procedure for installing and configuring host cards, drivers software and
associated utilities for the Solaris operating system is as follows:
1. Install any UltraPort cards you require into your system. See
Installing host cards and
cable accessories
on page
94
2. If required, install the Solaris drivers and utilities onto your system using the procedures
described in
Installing drivers and utilities
on page
76
.
3. If required, remove any host cards you want from your system. See
Removing host
cards
on page
100
.
4. Using the
admintool
utility, configure the serial ports you have added to the system. See
Configuring serial ports
on page
78
.
Your system can now use the serial adaptor cards you have installed. If required, you can
reconfigure serial ports following initial installation.
Note
Once you have installed the drivers, if you add or remove any host cards the operating
system will update the kernel accordingly using the
startcomf
program.
startcomf
is run automatically during boot up and checks to see if any host cards have
been added or removed since the last time the system was powered up. If anything has
changed the files which identify the ports and terminals are updated.
