Quatech MPAP-100 Software Troubleshooting, DOS Client Driver 22.1.1 Generic SuperClient Drivers

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22 Software Troubleshooting

This appendix discusses how to resolve some common problems sometimes encountered when using the MPAP-100 configuration software.

22.1 DOS Client Driver

22.1.1 Generic "SuperClient" Drivers

Many Card and Socket Services packages include a generic client driver (or SuperClient) which configures standard I/O devices such as serial ports or modems. If one of these generic client drivers is installed, it may try to configure the MPAP-100 causing the MPAP-100 client driver to fail installation. In these cases, the user should do one of the following:

1.Place the MPAP-100 client driver above the generic client driver in the CONFIG.SYS.

2.Configure the generic client driver to disable configuration of nonstandard I/O cards. Consult the Card and Socket Services documentation for availability and details of this feature.

22.1.2 Lack of Available Resources

One function of the Card and Socket Services software is to track which system resources (memory addresses, I/O addresses, IRQs, etc.) are available for assignment to inserted PCMCIA cards. Occasionally, Card Services may incorrectly determine that a particular resource is free when it is actually in use or vice-versa. Most DOS-based Card and Socket Services generate a resource table in a file (typically in the form of an .INI file) which the user can modify to adjust the available system resources.

22.1.3 Multiple Configuration Attempts

Some Card and Socket Services have a setting which aborts the configuration process after a single configuration failure (such as a request for an unavailable resource). The user should change this setting to allow for multiple configuration attempts.

22.1.4 Older Versions of Card and Socket Services

Often, older versions of Card and Socket Services (with copyright date of 1993 and before) don't work correctly with I/O cards such as the MPAP-100. An up-to-date version of Card and Socket Services should be obtained by contacting Quatech, Inc.

22.2 DOS Enabler

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Contents Users Manual MPAP-100 RS-232 PCMCIA SYNCHRONOUS ADAPTERfor PCMCIA Card Standard compatible machines QUATECH, INCMPAP-100 WARRANTY INFORMATIONPRODUCT DESCRIPTION Single Channel PCMCIA RS-232-D Synchronous Communications AdapterCopyright 2001 Quatech, Inc 5.3 OS/2 Client Driver Configuration Examples 5.2.1 Tying a configuration to a particular socket5.4 Monitoring The Status Of PCMCIA Cards Table of Contents10.3.1 Using channel A for both transmit and receive Table of ContentsAccessing the SCC while FIFOs are enabled 22.1.4 Older Versions of Card and Socket Services1.1 System Requirements 1 Introduction2 Hardware Installation 3 DOS / Windows 3.x Software Installation 3.1 MPAP-100 Client Driver for DOS 3.1.1 DOS client driver installationDEVICE=drive\path\MPAP1CL.SYS S#,B#,I#,C ... S#,B#,I#,C 3.1.3 Hot Swapping 3.1.2 Auto Fallback configurationPage DEVICE=C\MPAP-100\MPAP1CL.SYS 3.2 DOS Client Driver examplesDEVICE=C\MPAP-100\MPAP1CL.SYS b300,c DEVICE=C\MPAP-100\MPAP1CL.SYS s0,b300,i53.3.1 DOS Enabler Installation 3.3 MPAP-100 Enabler for DOS3.3.3 Configuring a card 3.3.2 Hot Swapping is not supportedMPAP1EN S#,B#,I#,W#,C MPAP1EN S#,R,W# 3.3.4 Releasing a cards configurationMPAP1EN.EXE s0,b300,i5,c 3.4 DOS Enabler ExamplesMPAP1EN.EXE s1,b300,i3,wd8 MPAP1EN.EXE s0,r4.1 Using the Add New Hardware Wizard 4 Windows 95/98 InstallationPage Page 4.2 Viewing Resources with Device Manager 4.3 Configuration Options 5.2 OS/2 Client Driver Installation 5 OS/2 Software Installation5.1 System Requirements DEVICE=drive\path\MPAP100.SYS addr,irq,C ... addr,irq,C5.2.3 Hot Swapping 5.2.2 Auto Fallback configurationDEVICE=C\MPAP-100\MPAP100.SYS 300,5 5.5 Installing OS/2 PCMCIA SupportPage 6 Using the MPAP-100 with Syncdrive 7 Addressing 8 Interrupts SDLC/HDLC Bit Synchronous Communications 9 SCC General InformationByte-oriented Synchronous Communications Asynchronous Communications9.1 Accessing the registers Example 3 Write data into the transmit buffer of channel A coding, CRC reset Master interrupt control and resetInterrupt control, Wait/DMA request control Interrupt vector9.3 SCC Data Encoding Methods 9.2 Baud Rate Generator Programming9.4 Support for SCC Channel B ClockFrequency TimeConst 2 BaudRate ClockMode9.4.4 Other signals are not used 9.4.1 Receive data and clock signals9.4.2 Extra clock support for channel A 9.4.3 Extra handshaking for channel A9.5.1 Register Pointer Bits 9.5 SCC Incompatibility Warnings9.5.2 Software Interrupt Acknowledge 10 FIFO Operation 10.2 Accessing the FIFOs10.1 Enabling and disabling the FIFOs 10.2.1 Transmit FIFO10.2.2 Receive FIFO 10.3 SCC configuration for FIFO operationRegister 10.3.2 Using channel B for receive 10.4.1 Interrupt status 10.4 FIFO status and control10.5 Accessing the SCC while FIFOs are enabled 10.4.2 Resetting the FIFOs10.4.3 Reading current FIFO status 10.4.4 Controlling the FIFOsPage 10.7 Receive FIFO timeout SWSYNC 11 Communications RegisterBit 2 TCKEN --- Transmit Clock Source RCKEN --- Receive Clock SourceBits 1-0 Reserved, always INTS1, INTS0 --- Interrupt Source and Enable Bits 12 Configuration RegisterFIFOEN --- External data FIFO enable External Data FIFOs Present --- Reserved, alwaysRXSRC --- Receive FIFO DMA Source 13 Interrupt Status Register 14 FIFO Status Register 15 FIFO Control Register Bits 7-0 Receive Pattern CharacterThis is 16 Receive Pattern Character RegisterBits 7-0 Receive Pattern Count 17 Receive Pattern Count RegisterBit 6 Reserved, always Bits 5-0 Timeout Interval 18 Receive FIFO Timeout RegisterBit 7 X16MODE --- Clock Mode 19 External Connections 19.2 RING pin 19.1 SYNCA pin19.3 Null-modem cables CIRCUIT AB - SIGNAL GROUND 20 DTE Interface SignalsCIRCUIT BB - RECEIVED DATA CIRCUIT CB - CLEAR TO SENDCIRCUIT CD - DTE READY DATA TERMINAL READY CONNECTOR NOTATION DTR CIRCUIT CC - DCE READY DATA SET READY CONNECTOR NOTATION DSRCIRCUIT CE - RING INDICATOR CONNECTOR NOTATION RING CIRCUIT CF - RECEIVED LINE SIGNAL DETECT CARRIER DETECTCIRCUIT TM - TEST MODE 21 Specifications 22.1.3 Multiple Configuration Attempts 22 Software Troubleshooting22.2 DOS Enabler 22.1 DOS Client Driver 22.1.1 Generic SuperClient Drivers22.2.2 Socket Numbers 22.2.1 With Card and Socket Services22.2.3 Memory range exclusion 22.3 OS/2 Client Driver 22.3.1 Resources Not AvailablePage MPAP-100 Users Manual Revision March P/N