Perle Systems 1P Creating Devices for the Attached Ports, Psaddports m n, Modprobe perle-serial

Install from Tar File Driver Version 3.5.x or Higher

1.Log in to the LINUX system as root user.

2.At the LINUX prompt, copy the supplied perle-serial .tgzfile onto your system in the /tmp directory.

3.Unpack the file using the command:

tar –xzvf perle-serial-<version>-<release>.tgz

4.In the directory run: make

Note: If the parallel port driver has been installed, then the system will need to be rebooted to complete the uninstall proces.

Creating Devices for the Attached Ports

After the SPEED LE or SPEED LE Express cards and the new driver have been installed, terminal devices will need to be created for the added ports. This can be done be using the ps_addports utility.

To use the ps_addports script, enter the following command:

ps_addports m n

where:

m is the first port device (starting at 0) n is the last port device to add.

The port devices will be created in the /dev directory and will have the following format:

where nn is the 2 digit port number.

The perle-serial driver has been installed so that it will automatically be loaded the first time a SPEED LE or SPEED LE Express device is used. However, if more than one SPEED LE or SPEED LE Express card was installed in the Linux machine, then the driver can be manually loaded to determine which terminal device numbers have been assigned to each card.

To load the driver, enter the command:

modprobe perle-serial

Review the messages in the file /var/log/messages.

Once the port devices have been created, they may be used as standard LINUX serial TTYs.

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