Moxa Technologies SMART SERIAL BOARD CP-118U User Manual

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CP-118U Smart Serial Board

Quick Installation Guide

Third Edition, January 2005

1. Overview

CP-118U is an 8-port RS-232/422/485 Universal PCI serial board 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.

2. Package Checklist

Before installing the CP-118U board, verify that the package contains the
following items:
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1 CP-118U 8-port serial board

Documentation and Software CD, which contains drivers for

Windows 2000/XP/2003, Windows NT, Windows 95/98,
DOS, FreeBSD, SCO, and Linux.

CP-118U Quick Installation Guide

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

3. Hardware Installation Procedure

The CP-118U 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: Use the DIP switches on the board to select the serial interface.

Refer to the Mode vs. DIP switch table below (also shown on
the board):

Mode

RS-232 --- --- ON
RS-422 --- ON OFF

4-WIRE

RS-485

ON OFF OFF

2-WIRE

RS-485

OFF OFF OFF

STEP 3: Plug the CP-118U control board firmly into an open PCI or

PCI-X slot.

STEP 4: Fasten the holding screw to fix the control board in place.
STEP 5: Power on the PC; the BIOS will automatically set the IRQ and

I/O address.

STEP 6: Proceed with installing the driver, as described in the next

section.

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-118U 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-118U board.

2. Insert the CP-118U 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-118U\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. If the board appears to be installed incorrectly, 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-118U board.

2. Insert the CP-118U 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-118U\Software\Win2K-XP-2003 folder on the software
CD, and then click on OK to continue.

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. If the board appears to be installed incorrectly, use the Device

Windows 95/98 Driver Installation
1. After powering on your PC, Windows 95/98 will automatically detect

the CP-118U board.

2. Insert the CP-118U software CD in your CD-ROM drive.
3. There are 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-118U\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-118U 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-118U\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//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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