Minicom Advanced Systems CMG-DCM manual Connecting digitizers and external hardware

Operator's guide

of intermediate machines which support SSH. Once this chain is set up, you can treat the connection as if it were a direct link between the DCM and your computer. Many standard Internet protocols may be fed through SSH in this manner. Whether this is possible will depend on the precise configuration of

your local area network. For more details, please see the documentation for SSH clients such as ssh and putty.

2.5 Connecting digitizers and external hardware

The DCM is designed for use with Gü ralp Systems digitizers, which communicate over RS232 or RS422 serial links using the GCF protocol. There are three RS232 ports available on a stand-alone DCM and ten on a rack- mounted model, whilst on a DCM bonded to a digitizer unit only the DATA OUT port is available (the digitizer is connected directly to the PORT A interface).

The three serial ports on a stand-alone DCM are labelled DATA OUT, PORT A, and PORT B. In a typical setup, one or both of the latter two ports are connected to Gür alp DM-24 digitizers, whilst the DATA OUT port connects the DCM to a computer or serial modem. However, the labels are provided merely for convenience: internally all three serial ports behave identically. Thus, if the DCM is connected to a network over Ethernet, you could use all three ports to communicate with digitizers. Conversely, if you have only one digitizer attached to a stand-alone DCM, either or both of the remaining two ports could be used to transmit data gathered by the module.

A rack-mounted DCM has a CONSOLE port with a female connector, corresponding to the Data out port of the stand-alone model, and nine serial ports (with male connectors) for communication with digitizers. These appear on the Web configuration interface with their Linux device names /dev/ttyS0, S1, etc., up to S7. The TTY port corresponds to /dev/ttySB0, whilst the CONSOLE port is shown as /dev/ttySA0.

If the DCM has a USB host interface, you can connect it to any USB peripheral supported by its Linux operating system. For example, you may want to attach a camera to the DCM, or an additional USB mass storage device. If there is no hard disk inside the module, it will automatically search for suitable storage on the USB interface. The DCM may alternatively have been supplied as a USB client; if this is the case, the USB connection can be used to connect the module to a single computer (see below).

2.6 Setting up the CMG-DCM

Once a DCM is installed, it must be configured to your particular requirements. The principal way to set up a DCM is through its on-board Web server, which

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