Moxa CI-132 - Manual

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CI-132 Industrial Serial Board

Quick Installation Guide

First Edition, December 2004

1. Overview

CI-132 is a 2-port RS-422/485 ISA 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 well-designed device drivers make full use of the
16-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.

2. Package Checklist

Before installing the CI-132 board, verify that the package contains the
following items:

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1 CI-132 2-port serial board

!

Documentation and Software CD

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Quick Installation Guide

Notify your sales representative if any of the above items is missing or
damaged.

3. Hardware Installation Procedure

The CI-132 board MUST be installed in the PC before installing the
driver. The following directions explain how to install the board in the
PC.

STEP 1

:

Power off the PC.

STEP 2

:

Insert the CI-132 control board firmly into an ISA slot.

STEP 3

:

Fasten the holding screw to fix the control board in place.

STEP 4

:

Short Jumper JP1.

STEP 5

:

Power on the PC.

STEP 6

:

Execute

io-irq.exe

from DOS mode, entry 0xA700.

STEP 7

:

Configure the I/O address, IRQ, INT vector, etc., and then
press F10 to save the configuration.

STEP 8

:

Power off the PC, open Jumper JP1, and power on the PC.

STEP 9

:

Enter the BIOS to reserve a specific IRQ.

STEP 10

: Restart the PC.

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 CI-132 User’s Manual for detailed instructions on installing
the drivers for this board.

Windows 2003/XP Driver Installation

1.

After powering on your PC, log into Win 2003/XP as Administrator.

2.

Insert the CI-132 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.

3.

Select

Add/Remove Hardware

from Control Panel.

4.

Select

Add a device

.

5.

Select

Add new device

.

6.

Select

No, I want to select the hardware from a list

.

7.

Select

Multi-port serial adapters

.

8.

Select

Have Disk,

and then use the browse button to navigate to the

CD’s

CI-132\Software\Win2K-XP-2003

folder.

9.

Select the CI-132 driver.

10.

Start the installation.

11.

Click

Yes

in response to any admonitions that the software doesn’t

contain a Microsoft digital signature.

12.

Click

Finish

to complete the driver installation

.

13.

If your ISA board configuration is not set as the default, you will need
to change the driver

settings to match the hardware configuration.

Use the

Device Manager

to check if I/O, IRQ, INT vector, etc. are

correct.

Windows 2000 Driver Installation

1.

After powering on your PC, log into Win 2000 as Administrator.

2.

Insert the CI-132 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.

3.

Select

Add/Remove Hardware

from the Control Panel.

4.

Select

Add a device

.

5.

Select

Add new device

.

6.

Select

No, I want to select the hardware from a list

.

7.

Select

Multi-port serial adapters

.

8.

Select

Have Disk,

and then use the browse button to navigate to the

CD’s

CI-132\Software\Win2K-XP-2003

folder.

9.

Select CI-132 driver.

10.

Start the installation.

11.

Click

Yes

in response to any admonitions that the software doesn’t

contain a Microsoft digital signature.

12.

Click

Finish

to complete the driver installation

.

13.

If your ISA board configuration is not set as the default, you will need
to change the driver

settings to match the hardware configuration.

Use the

Device Manager

to check if I/O, IRQ, INT vector, etc. are

correct.

Windows 95/98 Driver Installation

1.

After powering on your PC, log into 95/98 as Administrator.

2.

Insert the CI-132 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.

3.

Run

Setup95.exe

for both Windows 95 and Windows 98. In both

cases, be sure to install the driver from the CD’s

CI-132\Software\Win9x\Windows.95

folder.

4.

After the board has been installed, the installation wizard will open
the port configuration window.

5.

Configure the I/O, IRQ, INT vector, etc.

6.

Restart the OS

Windows NT Driver Installation

1.

After powering on your PC, log into NT as Administrator.

2.

Copy the folder

CI-132\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.

8.

Configure the I/O, IRQ, INT vector, etc.

9.

Restart the OS.

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.

Install the module driver at the I/O address that you configured. E.g.,
if the I/O address is 0x180, then execute the following command:

#modprobe mxser ioaddr=0x180

5.

You can use the Moxa diagnostic utility to verify the driver status:

#cd /moxa/mxser/utility/diag
#./msdiag

6.

You can use the Moxa terminal utility to test the tty ports:

#cd /moxa/mxser/utility/term
#./msterm

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