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A PPENDIX A T RANSPARENT PRINTING
A PPENDIX B O PERATIONS FOR EIA-422/EIA-485
A PPENDIX D C ONTACTING P ERLE
Contents
A BOUT THIS MANUAL
R EVISION HISTORY
F AST C ONTENTS
Installing under Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server
Installing under SCO OpenServer and OpenServer6
Installing under Windows NT
Installing under SCO UnixWare
Installing host cards and cable accessories
Definitions of Signals and Direction
Host card back panel connectors and pinouts
Connector box and cable guide
I NDEX
The EIA-422 Standard
Chapter 1 Introduction
Connection accessories on page
You need to read this chapter if you want to
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Connection accessories
Connection accessories
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Installing drivers and host cards
Installing under Windows 95 and 98 on page
Installing under Windows NT on page
Installing under SCO OpenServer and OpenServer6 on page
Before you start
Installing under Windows 95 and 98 on page
Installing under Windows NT on page
Installing under SCO OpenServer and OpenServer6 on page
Downloading drivers from the Perle web site
Installing under Windows 95 and
General installation procedure for Windows 95 and 98 on page
Installing device drivers and utilities on page
Configuring serial ports on page
General installation procedure for Windows 95 and
Installing device drivers and utilities
2. Proceed by clicking Next and the following Add New Hardware Wizard window will appear
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Installation of the device drivers and utilities is now complete
Configuring serial ports
The properties tabbed window for the selected device is now displayed
5. In the properties window, click on the Port Settings tab. The Settings page is now displayed
Selects the port name for a given device
Re-configuration of ports is now complete
Line Termination The line termination parameter is not changeable by the user in EIA-232 mode. However both EIA-422 and EIA-485 modes are defaulted to disabled but can be enabled by the user if needed
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Chapter 2 Installing drivers and host cards
Removing drivers and utilities from your system
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2. In the control panel window, double click on the System icon
Installing under Windows NT
Installing under Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/ Server
Installing device drivers and utilities onto your system on page
Configuring serial ports on page
Adding additional cards and/or updating drivers on page
General setup procedure for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server
Installing device drivers and utilities onto your system
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Click Start All Programs Perle Perle-Serial Update Driver or
Adding additional cards and/or updating drivers
Configuring serial ports
To configure UltraPort and UltraPort SI and UltraPort Express serial ports under Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, or Server 2008 proceed as follows
The device Properties tabbed window is now displayed
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Parameter
Description
Tx FIFO Limit
to send small amounts of data but needs acknowledgement
Parameter
Description
Rx FIFO Trigger Level
High Flow Control
Installing under SCO OpenServer and OpenServer6
General installation procedure for SCO OpenServer on page
Installing device drivers and utilities on page
Configuring serial ports on page
General installation procedure for SCO OpenServer
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Installing device drivers and utilities
1. Login to your system as super user
7. In the Software Manager menu, click on Software Install New
10.In the Enter Image Directory window, enter the following in the Image directory field
Installation Options window will be displayed
16.In the message window, click on OK to close the window
Serial port naming conventions
Device name
Function
Description
Configuring serial ports
The Speed window is now displayed
The Port Configuration tool menu is as follows
Quit Port Configuration tool without saving
Logins
Display all ports with logins enabled
Selecting a getty
definition
All ports with logins enabled
Ports Logins
Ports Unconfigured
To Display
Enable logins for a port
Enable button
Disable logins for a port
Disable button
Setultrap Interface Protocol Configuration Utility UltraPort SI only
Command Line Interface
Configuration
Option description
Configuration
Option description
485hdx
485fdx
a EIA-485 TX Driver Control The default for this field is auto. When auto is set the UltraPort SI will automatically detect the beginning and the ending of data being transmitted in order to enable and disable the transmit line. When the field is set to rts it is the host application’s responsibility to enable and disable the transmit line via the RTS handshake line when it wants to send data
Removing drivers and utilities from your system
3. In the Software Manager window select the driver you want to remove
5. In the confirmation window, click on the Remove button
Installing under SCO UnixWare
General installation procedure for SCO UnixWare on page
Installing drivers and utilities on page
Configuring serial ports on page Installing under Solaris on page
General installation procedure for SCO UnixWare
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Installing drivers and utilities
Serial port naming conventions
Device name
Function
Description
Configuring serial ports
Serial Manager
3. In the Serial Manager window, select the host card you want. Then in the Serial Manager menu, click on View Ports
Parameter
Set to
Port Type
Selected speed bps
Setultrap Interface Protocol Configuration Utility UltraPort SI only
Command Line Interface
Configuration
Option description
Configuration
Option description
485hdx
485fdx
h Help Displays the setultrap usage screen
1. At the command prompt, type pkgrm spd and press Enter
Removing drivers and utilities from your system
Installing under Solaris
General installation procedure for Solaris on page
Installing drivers and utilities on page
Configuring serial ports on page
General installation procedure for Solaris
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Installing drivers and utilities
By default, each port is associated with three entries under the /dev directory
Serial port naming conventions
Configuring serial ports
To configure serial ports with admintool proceed as follows
2. In the Admintool Users window, click on Browse Serial Ports
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The Admintool Modify Serial Port window is now displayed
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In the Admintool Modify Serial Port window you can click on the Expert button to show more fields, as shown in the next picture
Selected speed bps
Actual speed bps
921600
Setultrap Interface Protocol Configuration Utility UltraPort SI only
Command Line Interface
Configuration
Option description
Configuration
Option description
485hdx
485fdx
h Help Displays the setultrap usage screen
Installing under Solaris
Chapter 2 Installing drivers and host cards
Removing drivers and utilities from your system
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Installing under Linux
General installation procedure for Linux
Installing Drivers onto your system
General installation procedure for Linux on page
Uninstall Patch Versions
cd /usr/src/linux patch -R -p1 path to patches/patch file
rpm build command -bb perle-serial-version.spec
cd /tmp/perle-serial-version-release tarinstall.sh
rpm -ivh perle-serial-version-release.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/packages directory/SPECS
Creating devices for the attached ports
psaddports m n
modprobe perle-serial
Setultrap Interface Protocol Configuration Utility UltraPort SI only
UltraPort 8i and UltraPort81 Express RTS/DTR option
The utility is used as follows
setio8rts off
Command Line Interface
Configuration
Option description
485hdx
Configuration
Option description
485hdx
485fdx
Uninstalling the UltraPort Driver for Linux
rpm -e perle-serial
Installing host cards and cable accessories
Installing cables and connector boxes on page
Installing host cards and cable accessories
Chapter 2 Installing drivers and host cards
Installing UltraPort, UltraPort SI, and UltraPort Express cards
Full anti-static precautions should be taken when handling host cards
Installing cables and connector boxes
Installing cables on UltraPort1, UltraPort1 SI, UltraPort1 Express, UltraPort2, and UltraPort2 SI cards
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Removing host cards
Full anti-static precautions should be taken when handling host cards
Chapter 3 Cabling information
Definitions of Signals and Direction on page
Host card back panel connectors and pinouts on page
Connector box and cable guide on page
Definitions of Signals and Direction
EIA-232
EIA-422
EIA-485
Host card back panel connectors and pinouts
DB9 back panel connectors and pinout on page
RJ45 back panel connectors and pinout on page
UltraPort4 SI-RJ45 Switches on page
DB9 back panel connectors and pinout
DB9M pin
EIA-232
EIA-422
RJ45 back panel connectors and pinout
RJ45 10-pin
RJ45 8-pin
EIA-232
UltraPort4 SI-RJ45 Switches
Switch
Position
Position
RJ12 back panel connectors and pinout
RJ12 pin
EIA-232
VHDCI-68 Ultra SCSI back panel connectors and pinout
VHDCI-68
Ultra SCSI
EIA-232
VHDCI-68
Ultra SCSI
EIA-232
EIA-422
VHDCI-68
Ultra SCSI
EIA-232
EIA-422
VHDCI-68 Ultra
SCSI Pin
EIA-232
EIA-422
VHDCI-68 Ultra
SCSI Pin
EIA-232
EIA-422
VHDCI-68 Ultra
SCSI Pin
EIA-232
EIA-422
VHDCI-68 Ultra
SCSI Pin
EIA-232
EIA-422
Connector box and cable guide
Cable or connector box
For connector
connector
Cable or connector box
For connector
connector
Product
Connector box and cable pinouts
RJ45 connector box on page DB25 connector box on page
DB9 connector box on page DB25 Fan-out cable on page
RJ45 10-pin to DB25 converter on page
RJ45 10-pin to DB25 converter
RJ45 pin
DB25 Pin
EIA-232
RJ45 10-pin to DB9 converter
RJ45 pin
DB9 Pin
EIA-232
RJ45 10-pin to RJ45 SPEED converter
RJ45 10-pin
RJ45 10-pin
RJ45 8-pin
RJ45 10-pin to RJ45 Digi converter
RJ45 10-pin
RJ45 10-pin
RJ45 8-pin
RJ45 10-pin to RJ45 Digi ALTPIN converter
RJ45 10-pin
RJ45 10-pin
RJ45 8-pin
RJ45 connector box
RJ45 10-pin
RJ45 8-pin
EIA-232
DB25 connector box
DB25 Pin
EIA-232
EIA-422
DB9 connector box
DB9 Pin
EIA-232
EIA-422
DB25 Fan-out cable
DB25 Pin
EIA-232
EIA-422
DB9 Fan-out cable
DB9 Pin
EIA-232
EIA-422
Appendix A Transparent printing
What is transparent printing? on page
Problems with printer output on page
The printcap.spd configuration file on page
What is transparent printing?
print.spd file
Problems with printer output
The printcap.spd configuration file
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The print.spd configuration file
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Appendix B Operations for EIA-422/EIA-485
The EIA-422 Standard on page The EIA-485 Standard on page
Cabling Distances on page
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The EIA-422 Standard
Specifications
EIA-422
UltraPort Serial Adaptors User Guide The EIA-422 Standard Page
The EIA-485 Standard
Specifications
EIA-485
UltraPort Serial Adaptors User Guide The EIA-485 Standard Page
Many Masters / The EIA-485 Full Duplex mode supports many Masters and many Slaves. This system can
EIA-485 Half Duplex Diagram #1
EIA-485 Half Duplex Diagram #2
Fail Safe Circuitry
Cabling Distances
Cable length in feet
Protocol
Transfer Rate, Kbps
Appendix C Troubleshooting
You need to read this appendix if you want to
SCO OpenServer 5 on page SCO UnixWare/SCO OpenServer 6 on page
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008 on page
SCO OpenServer
Example of normal SPEED driver boot messages
WARNING Speed Node file updated
etc/conf/node.d/spd being updated
Additional card warning messages
Message
SCO OpenServer 5 error messages
Error message
Reason
Action required
SCO UnixWare/SCO OpenServer
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WARNING Speed Node file updated
etc/conf/node.d/spd being updated
Additional card warning messages
Message
SCO UnixWare error messages
Error message
Reason
Action required
Error message
UX sh sh ERROR telinit Not
Reason
Action required
Windows NT
Windows NT general troubleshooting UltraPort and UltraPort SI only
UltraPort Serial Adaptors User Guide Windows NT Page
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server
Windows error messages on page
Windows error messages
Problem
Action required
Contacting Perle
Appendix D Contacting Perle
Making a technical support query
Making a technical support query on page Repair procedure on page
Internet access
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Repair procedure
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