Quatech user manual Windows 95 Installation, Installing a Quatech QSP-100 Under Windows

4. Windows 95 Installation

Windows 95 maintains a registry of all known hardware installed within the computer. Inside this hardware registry Windows 95 keeps track of all the computer's resources, such as base I/O addresses, IRQ levels, and DMA channels. In the case of aPC Card (PCMCIA)type board, Windows 95 configures the new hardware using free resources it finds within the hardware regis- try, and updates the registry automatically.

Windows 95 handles the QSP-100 as a "parent/child device". The QSP-100 is the "parent device". Each serial port is a "child device" of the "parent device" QSP-100. To allow easy configuration of Quatech's QSP-100, two configuration files have been written for the QSP-100. These files are called "INF" files. The "QSP-100.INF"file describes the resources of the QSP-100 parent device. It also indicates the number of child devices. There are 4 child COM ports for the QSP-100. The "MLTPT_SP.INF" file describes the settings for each serial port including all the necessary device drivers.

Windows 95 allows changes in the system resources if the default choices are unacceptable. But first, allow Windows 95 to configure all of the devices. Since the child COM ports are depend- ent on the parent devices resource allocations, the resources can only be modified at the parent device. Changing these resources is an easy task described in a later section.

4.1Installing a Quatech QSP-100 Under Windows 95.

1.Insert the QSP-100 into any available PC Card socket.

2.The first time a new PC Card type is installed the New Hardware Found window opens. After this first installation Windows 95 will automatically detect and configure the card. If the New Hardware Found window does not open, then skip to the next section, "Viewing the QSP-100 Settings".

3.The New Hardware Found window provides several options to configure the QSP-100 card. Click the "Driver from Disk" option button. Click "OK" to continue.

4.An "Install from Disk" dialog box shoud appear. Insert the Quatech COM CD with the "QSP-100.INF"file, the "MLTPT_SP.INF", and the"SERIALQT.VXD" file into the disk drive, select the correct drive letter and path, and click "OK". Windows 95 will browse the path for the aforementioned files.

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