Moxa CP-104UL - Manual

1-2 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 1 1 Introduction Overview Smartio—The Smart Multiport Async Solution The term Smartio stands for smart multiport serial I/O solution. The Smartio CP-104UL Board is designed for the 32-bit PCI bus with Plug and Play feature. These boards offer 4 RS-232 serial ports ...

Introduction Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 1-3 conditions, such as lightning, or other high interference situations. Operating System Support The CP-104UL board supports Windows 2000/XP/2003, Windows NT, Windows 95/98, DOS, FreeBSD, SCO, and Linux. For more detail installation guide, please refer t...

1-4 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual Package Checklist You should find the following items in the Smartio CP-104UL board package: ! Smartio CP-104UL 4-port serial board ! Documentation and Software CD that contains drivers for Windows 2000/XP/2003, Windows NT, Windows 95/98, DOS, FreeBSD, SCO, and Lin...

Introduction Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 1-5 Installation Guide This section gives a brief summary of how to install the Smartio CP-104UL board under each supported operating system. The installation is simple and involves the following stages: Check the PCI BIOS settings. Install the Smartio CP-...

2 2 Hardware Installation The installation of the Smartio CP-104UL board involves both hardware and software. Software installation is discussed in the next chapter. In this chapter, we discuss hardware installation. The no-switch-no-jumper Smartio CP-104UL board’s IRQ number and I/O addresses are a...

3 3 Software Installation In this chapter, the driver software installation, configuration, and driver update/removal procedures are described for various operating systems, including Windows 2003, Windows 2000/XP, Windows NT, Windows 95/98, DOS, SCO, and Linux. Before proceeding with the software i...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-3 4. Wait while the installation wizard searches. The next window that opens cautions you that although this software hasn’t passed Windows Logo testing, this driver has already been tested and been shown that it can support Windows OS. Click on...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-5 8. Wait while the installation wizard searches. The next window that opens cautions you that although this software hasn’t passed Windows Logo testing, this driver has already been tested and been shown that it can support Windows OS. Click on...

3-6 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual How to Check the Installation There are three ways to check the installation of the CP-168U Series board. Using Device Manager 1. Use your mouse to position the cursor over your desktop’s My computer icon, click the right mouse button, and then select Properties . ...

3-8 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual CP-104UL v2 CP-104UL v1 Tx FIFO Rx FIFO Tx FIFO Rx FIFO High 128 120 64 56 Middle 64 60 32 28 Low 1 1 1 1 Unit: Bytes 6. Click [ OK ] in the Port X dialog box to confirm the port settings, and then click [ OK ] in the Property dialog box to complete the port settin...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-13 14. After all files have been copied to the system, the Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard window will open to indicate that it has finished installing “Port 0.” Click on Finish to install the board’s second port. 15. Repeat the above p...

3-14 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual If the driver installation was successful, you will be able to see the model number of the CP-168U board listed under Multi-port serial adapters . You may also expand the Ports (COM & LPT) item to check the status of the COM ports. If you see a question mark o...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-15 added, the system will prompt you to take care of port configuration, which is discussed in this section. 1. Click on a specific port from the CP-168U Series Installation window, and then click on [ Port Setting ] to open the Port X dialog bo...

3-16 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual CP-104UL v2 CP-104UL v1 Tx FIFO Rx FIFO Tx FIFO Rx FIFO High 128 120 64 56 Middle 64 60 32 28 Low 1 1 1 1 Unit: Bytes 6. Click [OK] in the Port X dialog box to confirm the port settings, and then click [OK] in the Property dialog box to complete the port settings....

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-17 Select the Hardware tab, and then click on Device Manager . Use the mouse to place the cursor over the CP-168U Series board under Multiport serial adapters, and then click the right mouse button. Select the Uninstall… option. Windows 2000 Win...

3-20 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual Install the Smartio Universal PCI or PCI board in the system Start Windows 95/98 to detect the board Driver installed before? Yes No Install the driver from the driver CD. See the section, “ First Time Driver Installation ” Configure the port. See the section, “ P...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-21 1. Upon detecting the first new Smartio CP-168U Series board, Windows 95/98 will automatically display a New hardware found message box, and then display the following dialog boxes. Click the Next button to proceed. Windows 95 Windows 98 2. C...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-23 6. Click on [ Next ]. 7. Click on [ Next ]. Board and Port Ready Board and Port Ready for Windows 95 and Windows 98 are slightly different. In finishing this stage, the driver installation will be complete. Windows 95 Windows 98 After the por...

3-24 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual NOTE If an error message similar to “CP-168U board(BusNo=x, DevNo=x, Port1=COMx) interrupt number is invalid!” pops up, refer to the “Troubleshooting” chapter for solutions. If you want to add more boards after installing the driver, simply plug the additional Sma...

3-26 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 7. To complete the update, click [OK] in the Port X dialog box, click [OK] in the CP-168U board Properties dialog box, and then click [OK] on the Device Manager tab. 8. Restart the system to activate the latest configuration. Updating the Driver This section shows...

3-28 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3. Click [Yes] in the following message box to confirm that you want to remove the driver. 4. Click [OK] in the Add/Remove Programs Properties dialog box. Windows NT Windows NT supports up to 256 serial ports, from COM1 to COM256. To fully utilize Windows NT’s mul...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-31 13. Click [OK] in the Port X dialog box to confirm the port settings, and then click [OK] in the Property dialog box to complete the port settings and return to the MOXA Smartio/Industio Configuration Panel dialog box. The configured CP-168U ...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-33 Configuring Another CP-168U Board In this section, we explain how to configure another MOXA CP-168U board that is already installed. Up to four CP-168U boards can be installed in one system under Windows NT, provided sufficient system resourc...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-35 DOS MOXA DOS API-232 is a software package that assists users to develop and/or debug programs for serial communications. This section will show you how to install the package, how to set up the driver, and how to load or unload the driver. T...

3-36 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 2. After the installation is complete, a message window will open to ask if you want to run the SETUP.EXE file. It is strongly recommended that you press Y to run this SETUP.EXE file. Setting up the Driver The following steps are using CP-134U Series as an example...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-37 2. Press Enter to select the proper model name, in this case, CP-134U Series. 3. Press PgDn to configure the CP-134U’s port settings, including port number, flow control, etc. You can enter/modify each port’s settings now. These displayed val...

3-38 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual NOTE Up to now you have completed the configuration for CP-134U Series board. You might skip this step and go directly to step 4 if you need not change any setting or configure any board. 4. Press F10 to save the modifications and exit the SETUP program. Legends S...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-39 Loading the Driver Having completed the setup, now you can load the driver BIN\DP-DRV.EXE at the DOS prompt. The driver will detect the board you installed automatically. If the board(s) is(are) detected, a message similar to below will show:...

3-40 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/mxser.o will taint the kernel: no license See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules MOXA Smartio/Industio family driver version 1.7 Tty devices major number = 30, ca...

Software Installation Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 3-41 /tmp/moxa/mxintall /tmp/moxa/sco.tar 3. # cd/tmp/mxinstall # ./mxinstall 4. The window shown below will open next. Press any key to continue. Copyright© 2004 Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. MOXA Smartio Family Device Driver I...

4 4 Serial Programming Tools Moxa supports a class of easy to use, yet powerful serial programming libraries and communication troubleshooting utilities under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 and Windows 95/98. Use these MOXA Serial Programming Tools to decrease your software development time. In the followi...

Serial Programming Tools Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual 4-3 Monitor (for MOXA boards under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) A useful port status monitoring program allows you to monitor data transmission of selected MOXA COM ports. It monitors data transmission/receiving throughput, and communication line s...

4-4 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual Terminal Emulator Terminal Emulator can be used to connect to various ports to see if data transmission is functioning correctly. Terminal Emulator features multi-windows, and supports VT100 and ANSI terminal types. You can transfer data interactively, send pattern...

5 5 Connection Cables and Cable Wiring In this chapter, we illustrate the possible connections and cable wiring for the CP-104UL boards. In serial data communications, DTE stands for Data Terminal Equipment, such as a PC’s COM1/2, serial printers, and terminals, and DCE stands for Data Communication...

5-2 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual DB-9/M Pin Assignment (CBL-M44M9x4-50, Opt4-M9B) DB-25/M Pin Assignment (CBL-M44M25x4-50) RJ 45 Pi n As si gn m ent (Opt4-RJ45B) MODE PIN RS232 1 DCD 2 RxD 3 TxD 4 DTR 5 GND 6 DSR 7 RTS 8 CTS MODE PIN RS-232 2 TxD 3 RxD 4 RTS 5 CTS 6 DSR 7 GND 8 DCD 20 DTR MODE PIN...

6 6 Troubleshooting Common Smartio CP-104UL board errors and possible corresponding solutions are given below. If the problem still cannot be solved after following these suggestions, contact your dealer or Moxa for help, or use the Problem Report Form at the end of this manual to report problems to...

6-2 Smartio CP-104UL User’s Manual Windows NT This section is specific for troubleshooting under Windows NT. For general problems and solutions, please see the previous section, General Troubleshooting. 1. After the system reboots, the error message, “Another driver in the system, which did not repo...

A A A. Technical Reference Specifications • Bus interface: 32-bit PCI • Number of ports: 4 • I/O address: Assigned by PCI BIOS • IRQ: Assigned by PCI BIOS • Data bits: 5, 6, 7, 8 • Stop bits: 1, 1.5, 2 • Parity: None, even, odd, space, mark • UART: Moxa UART (16C550C or compatible) • Speed: 50 bps t...

Return Procedure For product repair, exchange, or refund, you must: ! Provide evidence of original purchase. ! Fill out the Problem Report Form (PRF) as detailed as possible for shorter product repair time. ! Obtain a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number from the sales representative or dea...