Multi-Tech Systems ISI4608-PCI manual Software/Driver Installation

Chapter 3—Software/Driver Installation

(0-4):

Select 0 if your computer has a PCI bus. This tells the SCO operating system to autodetect the ISI cards.

2.The following text appears on the screen:

Multi_View is a utility which will allow you to have multiple sessions on terminals that have multiple pages of physical memory. In order for this utility to work with MultiTech’s serial cards, pseudo devices have to be created in your /dev directory. These devices are system-wide resources.

Enter the number of pseudo-devices to be created for the use of Multi_View utility (1 - 256).

The Multi_View utility initializes the multiple-page capability of terminals with multiple pages of memory. The number specified here is the total number of devices (between 1 and 256) available to all Multi-Tech terminals and it’s the number of pseudo devices available to the Multi_View utility.

Specify 4 pseudo devices for each ISI4604-PCI card installed; specify 8 for each ISI4608-PCI card installed.

For example, if the computer contains three ISI4608-PCI cards, you would enter 24.

You must initialize the ports separately using the enable command (for example, enable ttyl1a).

3.This text appears on the screen and relates to the “/dev” directory.

This script also creates the devices in your system to communicate with the ports of ISICOM. The default prefix for the tty ports is ttyl. The default prefix for the printer is prnl. Is this acceptable? (y/n/

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