The Wireless Connectivity Expert
ACT-IRx24UN-Lx /
ACT-IRx24UN-Lx-LE
User’s Manual
Copyright
2005-2014 ACTiSYS Corp
Page 7 of 28
Mar. 24, 2014
Version 1.3.4
Confidential Information
6. GENERAL SETUP PROCEDURE – Windows, Mac, Android & Linux
a)
Make sure USB dongle is
NOT plugged
into PC until you have installed the driver.
b) From
“
Add or Remove Program”
in
Control Panel
of
Win 98/ME/2K/XP, or from “
Programs and
Features
” in
Control Panel of
Windows
Vista
/Win 7/8
,
check if “
PL-2303 USB-to-Serial
” or
“
PL-2303 Vista Driver Installer
” exists. If exists, please
remove it
first.
c) Insert the installation CD and it will install driver for Windows 98/ME/2K/XP/Vista/Win 7/8
automatically.
d)
Manually SETUP under WinCE, Mac, Android or Linux OS:
Run
SETUP
yourself
under
WinCE, Mac, Android or Linux
since it will
not
autorun for you.
Please direct browse the installation CD to find the path: D:\Driver (assume D:\ is your CD driver).
Then select the right folder under it , say “Linux_RedHat” for example and extract the packaged file
for use.
Note: Google
Android OS
is also based on Linux kernel actually.
Linux driver is for RedHat 7.3/8.0/9.0 Only.
No need to install drivers for the followings:
Linux Kernel 2.4.10 and above already includes built-in drivers for PL-2303H;
Linux Kernel 2.4.31 and above already includes built-in drivers for PL-2303H, PL-2303HXD
and PL-2303XA/HXA.
e) Sometimes you may find it not AUTORUN in Windows, especially in Vista/Win 7/8. Make sure the
“
AUTORUN
” option under “
Control Panel=> AUTOPLAY
” has been selected in Vista/Win 7/8.
Otherwise please browse the CD and run
ACT-IR224UN-DriverInstaller_v#.#.#-YYYYMMDD.exe
manually.
f)
Plug the IR
adapter into USB port. It will lead you to a “Found New Hardware” procedure to
complete the installation.
7. INSTALLATION UNDER WINDOWS
7.1 Definition of “
New Chip
Inside
”
For those dongles which their
SN
(
S
erial
N
umber on the SN label, at the back side of the dongle)
has Prefix “TA”
, say,
S/N:
TA
000168
, these dongles have
“New Chip Inside”
. The new chip
inside is
PL2303
TA
.
Else, say,
S/N: LI001357
, or
S/N: UN002468
, etc., these are with
Old Chip inside: PL2303
HX
A
.