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SERIAL DEVICE SUPPORT

Serial device support

The serial device support feature is available on models with an OSD (on-screen-display) chip revision of O5.0 or greater, firmware program MXP21B or greater, and kernel MXK20 or greater. If the chips, firmware, or kernel are not the correct revision, they must be updated. The chips can be upgraded by purchasing an upgrade kit (consisting of two chips). The firmware and kernel updates are free from out web site at www.rose.com.

The serial feature allows you to connect to a serial device such as the serial port on a Unix or Sun computer, a communication device, or any device with a serial port. The serial device is connected to the DB25F CPU port on the UltraMatrix with a serial cable (See Appendix C for serial cable part numbers). Any CPU port can be configured to be a serial port. When you switch to that port, you are connected to the serial device and can access it as you normally would.

To configure a CPU port for a serial application, call up the main menu (Ctrl – F12), and then select computer and press [Enter]. From the configure computer menu, use the up/down arrow keys to select the desired computer to configure for serial, then use the left arrow key and select the keyboard field for the selected computer and press [Enter]. A selection box will display listing the supported choices. Use the up/down arrow keys and select the serial baud rate to configure the CPU port for and press [Enter]. Save the changes to flash memory. Once saved, that CPU port is configured for serial support.

(Computer 2 in Figure 31 is configured for serial support)

Configure computer

	Computer name		Keyboard Mouse
1	Computer	1	PC2	PS/2
2	Computer	2	Serial 9600,N,8,1
3	Computer	3	PC2	PS/2
4	Computer	4	PC2	PS/2
5	Computer	5	PC2	PS/2
6	Computer	6	PC2	PS/2
7	Computer	7	PC2	PS/2
8	Computer	8	PC2	PS/2
9	Computer	9	PC2	PS/2
10	Computer	10	PC2	PS/2
11	Computer	11	PC2	PS/2
12	Computer	12	PC2	PS/2
13	Computer	13	PC2	PS/2
14	Computer	14	PC2	PS/2
15	Computer	15	PC2	PS/2
16	Computer	16	PC2	PS/2

Use page up and page down keys to configure more computers,

Name of computer, up to 16 characters

Figure 31. Serial support

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