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CP-102U/UL Smart Serial Board
Quick Installation Guide
Fourth Edition, June 2008
1. Overview
Moxa’s CP-102U/UL is a 2-port RS-232 Universal PCI 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 device drivers make full use of the
128-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.
CP-102U/UL is a MOXA Green Product. Moxa’s Green Products
satisfy the RoHS directive of the European Parliament, and accordingly,
do not contain cadmium and cadmium compounds, hexavalent
chromium compounds, lead and lead compounds, mercury and mercury
compounds, PBBs (polybrominated biphenyls), or PBDEs
(polybrominated diphenyl ethers).
2. Package Checklist
Before installing the CP-102U/UL board, verify that the package
contains the following items:
y
1 CP-102U or CP-102UL 2-port serial board
y
Documentation and Software CD, which contains drivers for
Windows 2000/XP/2003, Windows NT, Windows 95/98,
DOS, FreeBSD, SCO, and Linux.
y
CP-102U/UL Quick Installation Guide
Notify your sales representative if any of the above items is missing or
damaged.
3. Hardware Installation Procedure
The CP-102U/UL board MUST be plugged into the PC before the
driver is installed. Follow these steps to install the board in the PC.
STEP 1
: Power off the PC.
STEP 2
: Plug the CP-102U/UL control board firmly into an open PCI or
PCI-X slot.
STEP 3
:
Fasten the holding screw to fix the control board in place.
STEP 4
:
Connect the connection cable to CP-102UL.
STEP 5
: Power on the PC; the BIOS will automatically set the IRQ and
I/O address.
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 CP-102U/UL User’s Manual for detailed instructions on
installing the drivers for this board.
Windows 2003/XP Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, Windows 2003/XP will automatically
detect the CP-102U/UL board.
2.
Insert the CP-102U/UL software CD in your CD-ROM drive.
3.
Select
Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)
.
4.
After selecting
Search for the best driver in these locations
, check
the
Include this location in the search
checkbox, and then use the
browse button to navigate to the CD’s
CP-102U_UL\Software\Win2K-XP-2003
folder.
5.
Click on
Continue Anyway
in response to any warnings that the
software hasn’t passed Windows Logo testing.
6.
After the board has been installed, the installation wizard will guide
you through the port installation procedure, starting with port 0.
7.
Use the
Device Manager
to check the installation of the board and
ports. Click on the + sign next to
Hardware
, and then check under
Multi-port serial adapters
and
Ports (COM & LPT)
. If there are no
warning marks, such as a question mark or exclamation point in front
of the board or port icons, examine the
Event Log
to determine what
the problem is.
Windows 2000 Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, Windows 2000 will automatically detect
the CP-102U/UL board.
2.
Insert the CP-102U/UL software CD in your CD-ROM drive.
3.
Select
Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)
.
4.
In
Optional search location
, checkmark
specify a location
. Navigate
to the
\CP-102U_UL\Software\Win2K-XP-2003
folder on the
software CD.
5.
Click on
Continue Anyway
in response to any warnings that the
software hasn’t passed Windows Logo testing.
6.
After the board has been installed, the installation wizard will guide
you through the port installation procedure, starting with port 0.
NOTE: Be sure to install the software from the CD’s
\CP-102U_UL\Software\Win2K-XP-2003
folder.
7.
Use the
Device Manager
to check the installation of the board and
ports. Click on the + sign next to
Hardware
, and then check under
Multi-port serial adapters
and
Ports (COM & LPT)
. If there are no
warning marks, such as a question mark or exclamation point in front
of the board or port icons, examine the
Event Log
to determine what
the problem is.
Windows 95/98 Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, Windows 95/98 will automatically detect
the CP-102U/UL board.
2.
Insert the CP-102U/UL software CD in your CD-ROM drive.
3.
There are some differences between the installation procedures for
Windows 95 and Windows 98. However, in both cases, be sure to
install the driver from the CD’s
CP-102U_UL\Software\Win9x\Windows.95
folder.
4.
After the board has been installed, the installation wizard will open
the port configuration window.
NOTE: If an error message similar to “CP-102U/UL board (BusNo=x,
DevNo=x, Port1=COMx) interrupt number is invalid!” pops up, refer
to the “Troubleshooting” chapter of the User’s Manual for
information on how to handle this error.
Windows NT Driver Installation
1.
After powering on your PC, log into NT as
Administrator
.
2.
Copy the folder
CP-102U_UL\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.
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.
#modprobe mxser
5.
Use the Moxa diagnostic utility to verify the driver status:
#cd /moxa/mxser/utility/diag
#./msdiag
6.
Use the Moxa terminal utility to test the tty ports:
#cd /moxa/mxser/utility/term
#./msterm
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