Perle Systems RIO 5500036-17 - Manual (Page 144)

RIO Remote I/O System User Guide
Installing RIO under Linux
Page 144
Chapter 2 Installing hardware and software
General installation procedure for Linux
The general procedure for installing and configuring host cards, drivers software and
associated utilities for the Linux operating system is as follows:
1. Install any PCI host cards you require into your system. See Installing a Universal 3.3/
5V PCI host card on page 156 .
2. Install the RIO Linux drivers onto your system using the procedures described in
Installing drivers onto your system on page 145 .
3. Install the RIO Linux utilities onto your system using the procedures described in
Installing utilities on page 147 .
4. Create devices for the required ports using the procedures detailed in Creating devices
for the attached ports on page 148 .
5. Load the driver module into the Kernel and download the firmware onto the host card and
device concentrators. See Loading the driver module into the kernel on page 150 .
6. Add or remove any ports you want to the system. See Adding ports to the system on
page 153 and Removing ports from a system on page 155
7. Install any ISA host cards you require into your system. See Installing an ISA host
card on page 158 .
8. Remove any host cards you want from your system. See Removing host cards on
page 160 .
Your system can now use the serial adaptor cards and device concentrators you have
installed.
Note
The RIO driver for Linux supports up to 4 host cards of either ISA or PCI bus types. Under
most circumstances the driver will not need to be configured to recognise cards of either type.
Once the host card has been installed and the machine has been powered on the driver will
automatically find any PCI cards installed in the system and register the correct interrupt that
has been assigned by the BIOS. This is a feature of PCI Plug & Play.