UltraPort Serial Adaptors
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A PPENDIX D C ONTACTING P ERLE
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A PPENDIX A T RANSPARENT PRINTING
A PPENDIX B O PERATIONS FOR EIA-422/EIA-485
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A BOUT THIS MANUAL
R EVISION HISTORY
Installing under SCO UnixWare
Installing under Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server
Installing under SCO OpenServer and OpenServer6
Installing under Windows NT
Connector box and cable guide
Installing host cards and cable accessories
Definitions of Signals and Direction
Host card back panel connectors and pinouts
The EIA-422 Standard
I NDEX
Connection accessories on page
Chapter 1 Introduction
You need to read this chapter if you want to
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Connection accessories
Connection accessories
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Installing under SCO OpenServer and OpenServer6 on page
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
Downloading drivers from the Perle web site
Configuring serial ports on page
Installing under Windows 95 and
General installation procedure for Windows 95 and 98 on page
Installing device drivers and utilities 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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Installing under Windows 95 and
Chapter 2 Installing drivers and host cards
Removing drivers and utilities from your system
2. In the control panel window, double click on the System icon
Installing under Windows NT
Adding additional cards and/or updating drivers on page
Installing under Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/ Server
Installing device drivers and utilities onto your system on page
Configuring serial ports 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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Adding additional cards and/or updating drivers
Click Start All Programs Perle Perle-Serial Update Driver or
To configure UltraPort and UltraPort SI and UltraPort Express serial ports under Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, or Server 2008 proceed as follows
Configuring serial ports
The device Properties tabbed window is now displayed
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to send small amounts of data but needs acknowledgement
Parameter
Description
Tx FIFO Limit
High Flow Control
Parameter
Description
Rx FIFO Trigger Level
Configuring serial ports on page
Installing under SCO OpenServer and OpenServer6
General installation procedure for SCO OpenServer on page
Installing device drivers and utilities on page
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1. Login to your system as super user
Installing device drivers and utilities
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
Description
Serial port naming conventions
Device name
Function
The Speed window is now displayed
Configuring serial ports
Display all ports with logins enabled
The Port Configuration tool menu is as follows
Quit Port Configuration tool without saving
Logins
definition
Selecting a getty
To Display
All ports with logins enabled
Ports Logins
Ports Unconfigured
Disable button
Enable logins for a port
Enable button
Disable logins for a port
Option description
Setultrap Interface Protocol Configuration Utility UltraPort SI only
Command Line Interface
Configuration
485fdx
Configuration
Option description
485hdx
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
3. In the Software Manager window select the driver you want to remove
Removing drivers and utilities from your system
5. In the confirmation window, click on the Remove button
Configuring serial ports on page Installing under Solaris on page
Installing under SCO UnixWare
General installation procedure for SCO UnixWare on page
Installing drivers and utilities on page
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Installing drivers and utilities
Description
Serial port naming conventions
Device name
Function
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
Selected speed bps
Parameter
Set to
Port Type
Option description
Setultrap Interface Protocol Configuration Utility UltraPort SI only
Command Line Interface
Configuration
485fdx
Configuration
Option description
485hdx
h Help Displays the setultrap usage screen
Removing drivers and utilities from your system
1. At the command prompt, type pkgrm spd and press Enter
Configuring serial ports on page
Installing under Solaris
General installation procedure for Solaris on page
Installing drivers and utilities on page
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Installing drivers and utilities
Serial port naming conventions
By default, each port is associated with three entries under the /dev directory
To configure serial ports with admintool proceed as follows
Configuring serial ports
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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
Option description
Setultrap Interface Protocol Configuration Utility UltraPort SI only
Command Line Interface
Configuration
485fdx
Configuration
Option description
485hdx
h Help Displays the setultrap usage screen
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Installing under Solaris
Chapter 2 Installing drivers and host cards
Removing drivers and utilities from your system
General installation procedure for Linux on page
Installing under Linux
General installation procedure for Linux
Installing Drivers onto your system
cd /usr/src/linux patch -R -p1 path to patches/patch file
Uninstall Patch Versions
cd /usr/src/packages directory/SPECS
rpm build command -bb perle-serial-version.spec
cd /tmp/perle-serial-version-release tarinstall.sh
rpm -ivh perle-serial-version-release.src.rpm
psaddports m n
Creating devices for the attached ports
modprobe perle-serial
setio8rts off
Setultrap Interface Protocol Configuration Utility UltraPort SI only
UltraPort 8i and UltraPort81 Express RTS/DTR option
The utility is used as follows
485hdx
Command Line Interface
Configuration
Option description
485fdx
Configuration
Option description
485hdx
rpm -e perle-serial
Uninstalling the UltraPort Driver for Linux
Chapter 2 Installing drivers and host cards
Installing host cards and cable accessories
Installing cables and connector boxes on page
Installing host cards and cable accessories
Full anti-static precautions should be taken when handling host cards
Installing UltraPort, UltraPort SI, and UltraPort Express cards
Installing cables and connector boxes
Installing cables on UltraPort1, UltraPort1 SI, UltraPort1 Express, UltraPort2, and UltraPort2 SI cards
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Full anti-static precautions should be taken when handling host cards
Removing host cards
Connector box and cable guide on page
Chapter 3 Cabling information
Definitions of Signals and Direction on page
Host card back panel connectors and pinouts on page
EIA-485
Definitions of Signals and Direction
EIA-232
EIA-422
UltraPort4 SI-RJ45 Switches on page
Host card back panel connectors and pinouts
DB9 back panel connectors and pinout on page
RJ45 back panel connectors and pinout on page
EIA-422
DB9 back panel connectors and pinout
DB9M pin
EIA-232
EIA-232
RJ45 back panel connectors and pinout
RJ45 10-pin
RJ45 8-pin
Position
UltraPort4 SI-RJ45 Switches
Switch
Position
RJ12 pin
RJ12 back panel connectors and pinout
EIA-232
EIA-232
VHDCI-68 Ultra SCSI back panel connectors and pinout
VHDCI-68
Ultra SCSI
EIA-422
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
connector
Connector box and cable guide
Cable or connector box
For connector
Product
Cable or connector box
For connector
connector
RJ45 10-pin to DB25 converter on page
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
EIA-232
RJ45 10-pin to DB25 converter
RJ45 pin
DB25 Pin
EIA-232
RJ45 10-pin to DB9 converter
RJ45 pin
DB9 Pin
RJ45 8-pin
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
EIA-232
RJ45 connector box
RJ45 10-pin
RJ45 8-pin
EIA-422
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
The printcap.spd configuration file on page
Appendix A Transparent printing
What is transparent printing? on page
Problems with printer output on page
print.spd file
What is transparent printing?
The printcap.spd configuration file
Problems with printer output
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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
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The EIA-485 Standard
Specifications
EIA-485
Many Masters / The EIA-485 Full Duplex mode supports many Masters and many Slaves. This system can
EIA-485 Half Duplex Diagram #1
Fail Safe Circuitry
EIA-485 Half Duplex Diagram #2
Transfer Rate, Kbps
Cabling Distances
Cable length in feet
Protocol
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008 on page
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
Example of normal SPEED driver boot messages
SCO OpenServer
Message
WARNING Speed Node file updated
etc/conf/node.d/spd being updated
Additional card warning messages
Action required
SCO OpenServer 5 error messages
Error message
Reason
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SCO UnixWare/SCO OpenServer
Message
WARNING Speed Node file updated
etc/conf/node.d/spd being updated
Additional card warning messages
Action required
SCO UnixWare error messages
Error message
Reason
Action required
Error message
UX sh sh ERROR telinit Not
Reason
Windows NT general troubleshooting UltraPort and UltraPort SI only
Windows NT
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Windows error messages on page
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server
Contacting Perle
Windows error messages
Problem
Action required
Internet access
Appendix D Contacting Perle
Making a technical support query
Making a technical support query on page Repair procedure on page
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