LAVA does not provide drivers or support for UNIX. SCO UNIX has a command called mkdev serial that can install the port in UNIX. Consult the documentation for your version of UNIX to see if this is the correct command for you and the appropriate switches.

LAVA PCI cards do not install in Win2000 using a setup utility. They install when New Hardware is found at boot up of Windows. Windows searches your hard and floppy drives for an .inf file that includes the setup information for our card. This is a plain text file that contains the setup information for our card. Sometimes, it does not find this file so it is necessary to have our card reinstall.

The following procedure will reinstall our card:

1) Right Click on My Computer from the desktop and enter Properties and then Device Manager. Enter the section called Other Devices or Unknown Devices.

2) Remove the reference to either PCI card or PCI Serial Controller or PCI parallel controller by right-clicking on it and entering Uninstall.

3) Shut down your computer normally and ensure that our card is seated properly in the PCI slot.

4) Upon entering Windows, when New Hardware is found direct it to the LAVA Win2000 .inf file.

5) Let Windows search for our installation file and reinstall our card correctly.

WINDOWS 2000 FEATURES

In Windows 95/98/Me we provide a utility for redirecting the COM port assignment that Windows assigns our ports. This utility is not necessary in later versions of Windows. The following is the procedure to redirect our port in Windows 2000.

1) Go to Device Manager by right-clicking on My Computer from the Desktop and entering Properties.

2) Open up Ports (COM & LPT) by clicking the + sign to the left.

3) Double-click the port you wish to redirect and enter the Port Settings Tab.

4) Click the Advanced Button.

5) In the Window that appears you can redirect the port assignment.

SPECIAL WINDOWS 2000 FEATURE

Parallel Port LPT assignments can be redirected. Currently the choice for redirection is LPT1 LPT2 or LPT3.

CLEANING UP OUR INF FILE

If you are updating the .inf file from a previous version of this file it is necessary to remove the old version. You must go to the Windows\inf folder. If you don’t see the inf folder then your folder options are set to hide that folder. To see that folder go to View|Folder Options|View

In there make sure that the show all files option is set. Our .inf file is found under the name oemX.inf, where X is some integer. You must edit using notepad.exe each oemX.inf file and look for a reference to LAVA. If there is a reference to LAVA then remove that file. Also, remove the associated oemX.pnf that is located here as well.

Question:

I have upgraded my system to a newer version of Windows. I left my LAVA card in the system during the upgrade. Now in Device Manager my card is showing up in Other Devices as PCI Parallel Card or PCI Serial Card. The peripheral attached to it (modem, printer, Zip drive) won’t work. What do I do now?

Answer:

During the installation of the upgrade, Windows was looking for the drivers on the Windows upgrade CD. The card’s drivers are not located on the CD so the installation routine couldn’t install the card properly. The following procedure will reinstall the card properly:

1) Go to Device Manager by right-clicking on My Computer from the Desktop and entering Properties. Then click the Device Manager tab.

2) In Device Manager remove the PCI Parallel Card or PCI Serial Card with the exclamation (!) mark by clicking it and hitting delete on the keyboard.

3) Close all open windows and reboot the system by using Start|Restart.

4) Upon booting into Windows the New Hardware Found wizard will appear. Direct this wizard to the LAVA Installation disk, following the procedure described in the LAVA Installation manual for installing the card in Windows.

Question:

I have upgraded my system to Windows system to Windows ME (Millenium Edition). I left my LAVA card in the system during the upgrade. Now in Device Manager my card is showing up in Other Devices as PCI Parallel Card or PCI Serial card. The peripheral attached to it (modem, printer, zip drive) won’t work. What do I do now?

Answer:

During the installation of the upgrade, Windows was looking for the drivers on the Windows ME upgrade CD. Our drivers are not located on the CD so it couldn’t install it properly. The following procedure will have our card reinstall properly:

1) Go to Device Manager by Right Clicking on My Computer from the Desktop and entering Properties. Then click the Device Manager tab.

2) In Device Manager remove the PCI Parallel Card or PCI Serial Card with the exclamation (!) mark by clicking it and hitting delete on the keyboard.

3) Close all open Windows and reboot the system by using Start - Shutdown.

4) Upon the boot into Windows you will see the New Hardware found wizard. Direct this wizard to our disk, following the procedure illustrated in the LAVA Installation manual for installing the card in Windows 95/98.

Standard Microsoft Basic Configurations for Communications Ports

COM BASIC CONF RESOURCE

COM1 0 03F8-03FF: IRQ 4

1 03F8-03FF: Any IRQ

COM2 2 02F8-02FF: IRQ3

3 02F8-02FF: Any IRQ

COM3 4 03E8-03EF: IRQ4

5 03E8-03EF: Any IRQ

COM4 6 02E8-02EF: IRQ3

7 02E8-02EF: Any IRQ

COMX 8 Any I/O range: Any IRQ

Standard Microsoft Basic Configurations for Parallel Ports

Printer Port

BASIC CONF RESOURCE

0 03BC-03BE

0378-037A

0278-027A

NO IRQ

1 03BC-03BE

0378-037A

0278-027A

Any IRQ

2 ANY I/O Range

No IRQ

3 Any I/O Range

Any IRQ

4 Any I/O Range

Any IRQ

Any DMA

ECP Printer Port

BASIC CONF RESOURCE

0 03BC-03BE

0378-037A

0278-027A

NO IRQ

1 03BC-03BE

0378-037A

0278-027A

Any IRQ

2 03BC-03BE

0378-037A

0278-027A

Any IRQ

Any DMA

3 ANY I/O Range

No IRQ

4 Any I/O Range

Any IRQ

Any DMA

Question:

I have installed my LAVA card that has jumpers into my operating system correctly. However, when I try to use the card the OS reports that the card is not functioning properly. What should I do?

Answer:

The answer to this question applies to all LAVA cards that have IRQ jumper settings. To correct this situation it is necessary to make some BIOS setting changes. The following description applies to an Award BIOS version 4.51 PG. Consult your motherboard manual to find equivalent setting changes and how to enter your BIOS setup.

Enter PNP CONFIGURATION SETUP.

Change RESOURCES CONTROLLED BY from AUTO to MANUAL.

Scroll down to the IRQ(s) assigned to our card and change that IRQ from PCI/ISA PnP to Legacy ISA.

1) Boot into NT without the DSERIAL-550 installed in the computer.

2) Check for available IRQs. Go to Start|Programs|Administrative Tools| Windows NT Diagnostics and enter the Resources Tab. Check for a free IRQ in here. NT does not show the IRQ for parallel ports. By default the motherboard Parallel Port uses IRQ7,so, assume IRQ7 is not free. Also our card has IRQ 9 printed as IRQ 2. So if IRQ 9 is available then set our card’s jumper to IRQ2.

3) Find out which Input/Output Address the OnBoard Serial port is using.

Go to Start|Programs|Administrative Tools| Windows NT Diagnostics and enter the Resources Tab, then Click the Devices button. Double-click the Serial device. This shows your motherboard’s serial port address. Do not set our card to this address. Set our card to the next address. For example:

COM1 = 3f8

COM2 = 2f8

COM3 = 3e8

COM4 = 2e8

Therefore, if you see 3f8 and 2f8 then set our card to 3e8 and 2e8 (COM3 and COM4 respectively).

4) Shut down and put our card in the ISA slot.

5) Reserve the IRQ in the BIOS setup. The steps described here apply to all LAVA cards that have IRQ jumper settings. To correct this situation it is necessary to make some BIOS settings changes. The following steps apply to an Award BIOS version 4.51 PG. Consult your motherboard manual to find similar settings changes and how to enter your BIOS setup.

Enter PNP CONFIGURATION SETUP. Change RESOURCES CONTROLLED BY from AUTO to MANUAL. Scroll down to the IRQ assigned to our card and change that IRQ from PCI/ISA PnP to Legacy ISA.

6) Boot back into NT and verify that our card has installed. Go to Control Panel Ports. Ensure that the ports that were added are set to the correct IRQ and I/O addresses. If not then set them to the correct settings then reboot.

Go to Start|Programs|Administrative Tools| Windows NT Diagnostics and enter the Resources Tab, then Click the Devices button. Double-click the Serial device.

If you see an additional set of input output ranges then you have successfully installed our card.

Note: LAVA PCI cards do not use a setup utility to install in Windows 95/98/Me/2000. They install when New Hardware is found at boot up of Windows. Windows searches your hard and floppy drives for an .inf file that includes the setup information for our card. Sometimes, it does not find this file so it is necessary to reinstall the card.

The following procedure will reinstall the card:

1) Right-click on My Computer from the desktop and enter Properties and then Device Manager. Enter the section called Other Devices or Unknown Devices.

2) Remove the reference to either PCI card or PCI Serial Controller.

3) Shut down your computer normally and ensure that the card is seated properly in the PCI slot.

4) Upon re-entering Windows and when New Hardware is found, place the LAVA Installation and Utilities disk into the drive.

5) Let Windows search for our installation file to reinstall our card correctly.

Also:

In Windows 95 B OSR2 a patch must be run in order for PCI devices to function properly. In Device Manager check if there is an Other Devices Section. In there you might see a PCI bridge device and a Universal Serial Bus controller both with question marks (?). If this is the case then you must run the Windows patch that comes on a floppy or CD ROM with the motherboard while our card is NOT in the system. The file is usually called piix4.exe or something similar. Consult the readme files on the disk to find out what the file is exactly named in your case.

Also:

If your card is a generic version of a LAVA card, it will require drivers written specifically for that card. Consult Technical Support to obtain generic drivers.

If reinstalling the card doesn’t work, check the following:

A) Ensure that the card is seated in the slot properly.

B) See that the slot that the card is in has no problem. Try the card in a different slot ensuring that it is properly seated in the slot.

C) Some computers give errors with our card if the card is placed in a dedicated PCI slot if there are shared PCI / ISA slots in that computer. Try the card in one of the shared PCI ISA slots.

D) Ensure that the card itself has no problems. If it does, replace it through the reseller of your card. If they are not willing to replace it then we can.

RS232 DB9 Connector

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RS-232 Serial PC Port Connector DB-25

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RS232 RJ45 Connector

INSTRUCTIONS ON SETTING BIOS FOR JUMPERED CARDS

Question:

I have installed my LAVA card that has jumpers into my
operating system correctly. However, when I try to use
the card the OS reports that the card is not functioning
properly. What should I do?

Answer:

The answer to this question applies to all LAVA cards
that have IRQ jumper settings. To correct this situation
it is necessary to make some BIOS setting changes. The
following description applies to an Award BIOS
version 4.51 PG. Consult your motherboard manual to find
equivalent setting changes and how to enter your BIOS setup.

Enter PNP CONFIGURATION SETUP.

Change RESOURCES CONTROLLED BY from AUTO to MANUAL.

Scroll down to the IRQ(s) assigned to our card and change
that IRQ from PCI/ISA PnP to Legacy ISA.

The following was done using Redhat Linux 6.2

- setserial that comes with the package is version 2.15

- download latest version of setserial

- copy the rc.serial that came in the archive into the /etc/ directory (read the readme that comes in the archive)

- by default there are 4 serials ie. /dev/ttyS(x)

- setserial -g /dev/ttyS* shows what devices are existing

- to add additional ports use the following commands

- mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS(x) c 4 64 (where x is the port number)

- cd /dev

./MAKEDEV ttyS(x)

- if you have an ISA card, use setserial /dev/ttyS(x) port 0x(address) irq (y) uart 16650V2 or 16550A (where y is the interrupt you jumpered the card for, address is the I/O you set the jumper for and 16550A and 16650V2 is the type of uart on the serial card)

- examples for ISA: setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0×02f8 irq 10 uart 16650V2 for Com 3

- setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0×02f8 irq 11 uart 16550A for Com 4

* the above example was for a DSerial 550

- if you have a PCI serial card the lspci -v will report what resources the serial card is using

- use the same ’setserial /dev/ttyS(x) port 0x(address) irq (y) uart 16650V2 or 16550A’ command to configure the serial device

- examples for PCI: setserial /dev/ttyS4 port 0×6100 irq 12 uart 16650V2 for Com 5

- setserial /dev/ttyS5 port 0×6200 irq 12 uart 16650V2 for Com 6

* the above example was for a Lava Port PCI

- the serial ports’ configurations can be found in /etc/serial.conf

To properly install an ISA serial port, you need a free IRQ and I/O address on your computer for the LAVA card to use.

Shut down your computer

To check for free resources, shut down your computer. If the card is in your computer, remove it now. Next, restart your computer.

Set the I/O address

Once your computer has restarted without the card, go into Windows Device Manager, and select “Ports”. Choose a COM port, select “Properties”, and write down the I/O address.

After you’ve done this for all COM ports, set the addressing jumpers on your card to an address NOT ALREADY USED by Windows. For example, if you found that COM1 had an address of 03F8, you would configure your card to use the next available address of 02F8.

Set the IRQ

Next, return to Device Manager, select “View”, and choose “Resources by type”. This will give you a list of all IRQs that are currently being used by the computer. Write down all numbers from 1 to 15 that DO NOT appear in that list. Any IRQ that you have written down can be used as a free IRQ for the port you are installing.

Set IRQ jumper on the card to one of the free IRQs in your computer. Once you’ve done this, you are ready to shut down the computer, and install the card.

Restart your computer

Once the card is installed in the computer, reboot your system. After the Operating System is fully loaded, go to Control Panel, and select “Printers and Other Hardware”. In that Window you should see an option to “Add Hardware”. Windows will then search for hardware, and ask you if the hardware is currently connected to the computer. Select “Yes, I have already connected the hardware”. You will then see a Window where you are prompted to select the type of device you have installed. Select “Add a New Hardware Device”, which should appear as the last entry on the list.

Windows will then prompt you to either automatically or manually install the device. At this point select “Install the hardware that I manually select from a list”. You should then be able to select “Ports”, then choose “Standard” and “Communications port”.

Prior to finishing the installation, select “View or Change Resources for this Hardware (Advanced)”. This option will allow you to configure Windows to recognize the resources you have selected for your card. Once you select this option, the “Add New Hardware Property” window should appear. Now select “Set Configuration Manually.” Under “Settings Based On”, choose “Basic Configuration 0008″. This option will allow you to specify the settings for your card. You should now be able to double-click the I/O range and the IRQ and enter the resources to reflect how you set the jumpers on your card.

Once this is done, select Finish, and restart your computer.

Check your settings

Once your computer has restarted, you should go back to Device Manager, and ensure that the resources the computer has given to the card match what you specified earlier. At this point, you may find your port has defaulted to become something other than what you specified. If you wish to change this setting, double-click the port listing and go to the “Port-Settings” tab. Choose “Advanced”.

Change the COM number to what you desire.

Once these changes are made, you should be able to use your ISA serial port.

These instructions are framed for the LAVA DSerial-550, but can be used for any jumpered LAVA card.

1) Check for available resources. Enter Device Manager By RIGHT clicking on My Computer from the desktop going to properties and then clicking the Device Manager Tab.

Double-click computer in Device Manager.

Find a number missing in here between 0 and 15. If 9 is missing then set the IRQ jumper to 2. If all the IRQs are being used then you must disable a device to free up an interrupt for our card.

In Device Manager open up ports COM and LPT. Record which COMs are in there. In Device Manager open up Modems. Double-click your internal modem (if you have one). Go to the Modem tab. Record the COM it is using. Set the COM jumper NOT to what you have currently recorded.

I.e. if you have recorded COM1 COM2 COM3 jumper our card for COM4.

2) Shut down your computer and place our card back in the slot.

3) Boot into the BIOS setup. Reserve the IRQ in the BIOS setup.

These instructions apply to all LAVA Cards that have IRQ jumper settings. The following steps apply to an Award BIOS version 4.51 PG. Consult your motherboard manual to find equivalent settings and how to enter your BIOS setup.

Enter PNP CONFIGURATION SETUP. Change RESOURCES CONTROLLED BY from AUTO to MANUAL. Scroll down to the IRQ assigned to our card and change that IRQ from PCI/ISA PnP to Legacy ISA. Save Settings and exit.

4) Boot back into Windows.

5) Run Add New Hardware and let it detect our card.

6) Go to device manager and double click the new COM port. Go to Resources and make sure that the interrupt request matches what you have set our card to.

7) Repeat Steps 1)-6) for the second serial port.

Installation

Before installing the card into the system you must check for available resources. To get a general idea of the IRQ and COM port addresses in use you can you will have to check several different locations:

COM port addresses and IRQs in use can be found by executing the command “sin ar|grep devc-ser8250″ which will return the arguments of process devc-ser8250 (eg. devc-ser8250 -u1 3F8,3 -u2 2F8,4 - which tells us that IRQs 3 and 4 are in use as are IO addresses 3F8 and 2F8).

In addition certain IRQs may be reserved by the PCI system bus. Executing the command “pci -v |grep Interrupt” will return a listing of all the interrupt line values.

Set the jumpers on the card to any IRQ and COM port addresses NOT found in the previous step.

NOTE: The DSerial-550 is shipped with factory default jumper settings of COM1/IRQ 3 for Port A and COM2/IRQ 4 for Port B.

With the power turned off, insert the DSerial-550 card into any free ISA slot in your PC. Make sure the card is well seated. Turn your PC on and start QNX 6.

If jumpered correctly QNX will automatically detect the presence of the DSerial-ISA card and create two devices in the folder /etc/dev/ called Ser[x] and Ser[x+1] (where x will be the first available COM port while enumerating at boot-up).

NOTE: QNX will always enumerate Port A before Port B (i.e. Ser[x] will always refer to Port A and Ser[x+1] will always refer to Port B).

To verify that the card has been installed you may check in either the /etc/dev/ folder, or in QNX’s System Information (Launch>Utilities>System Information). Within the System Information listing you will find a process named “devc-ser8250″. By selecting this process you will have access to several different information tabs. Selecting the Arguments tab (Args) will provide you with the exact arguments that were passed to the devc-ser8250 process at boot-up. From here you can easily determine which port is assigned to which serial device by referring to the card’s resources.

For example, given the process command “devc-ser8250 -u1 3F8,3 -u2 2F8,4 -u3 a000,5″ we can see that Com1 and Com2 were mapped to devices Ser1 and Ser2 respectively and our serial port at a000 was mapped to device Ser3.

Testing

Testing the card’s functionality can be done by using QNX’s own terminal program, Qtalk, and a loopback connector. To test a port, attach the loopback connector and open up a Qtalk session by executing the command “qtalk -m /dev/ser3 -b 115200,8,n,1″ on the port. While the loopback connector is attached any characters entered in Qtalk should be echoed back to the screen. Removing the loopback connector should prevent character echoing from occurring.

Troubleshooting

If for some reason the card was not picked up by QNX at boot-up you can manually add the port by using the devc-ser8250 command.

Example: Say we have two serial ports residing at physical addresses=3e8 and 2f8, using IRQ=5 and 10, respectively, and neither of which is allocated a serial device in the /etc/dev/ folder. If we have determined that Ser1 and Ser2 already exist in the /etc/dev/ folder (this is done by inspecting the folder /etc/dev/ for all serial devices), we can add two new serial devices by running the command:

devc-ser8250 -u3 3e8,5 -u4 2f8,10

This is a very simple example of adding two new serial devices using the devc-ser8250 command. Full documentation of all the options associated with this command can be found in the QNX 6 RTOS Utilities Reference.

Installation

On install during the bootup process, Linux detects the DSerial-550 and sets the configuration for ttyS2 and ttyS3. To verify proper installation you must remember the I/O range (see table below) and IRQ each serial port was jumpered to.

ttyS0 = 0×03f8; irq = 4

ttyS1 = 0×02f8; irq = 3

ttyS2 = 0×03e8; irq = 4

ttyS3 = 0×02e8; irq = 3

First you must verify that the card was installed correctly. To do this at the command line type:

setserial -a /dev/ttyS2

Note: ttyS2 refers to Com3. This may change depending on how the jumpers are configured on the card.

If the card is correctly configured in Linux you will see the following information:

/dev/tty2, Line 2, UART 16550A, Port: 0×03e8, IRQ: 4

Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 256, divisor: 0

closing_wait: 15360

Flags: spd_normal skip_test

Your port and IRQ should conform to the jumper settings on the card.

If you find that the information displayed does not match the above (port and IRQ should match your jumper settings), then carry on to the next step below. If the data is correct then the installation is complete.

To set the serial port to the correct settings, edit the file:

/etc/rc.d/rc.local

Add the following lines at the end of the file:

setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0×03e8 irq 4 uart 16550a baud_base 115200 ^fourport

setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0×02e8 irq 3 uart 16550a baud_base 115200 ^fourport

Your port/IRQ may be different depending on the jumper settings on the card. Be sure to save the added changes. On reboot all of the ports should be operational.

Introduction

Dial-up Networking Requirements:

Windows CD

DNS server IP addresses (primary and secondary) from ISP:

Domain Name from ISP

Telephone number to ISP

User name for ISP

If dial-up networking is already installed with dial-up adapter and TCP/IP protocol then go straight to configuration.

Installation:

Verify if Dial-up Networking is installed:

Check Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add Remove Programs, Windows Setup

Then check in Communications, Details

If Dial-up Networking is selected, then it is installed.

Verify if Dial-up Adapter and TCP/IP protocol is installed:

Check Start, Settings, Control Panel, Network, Configuration

If Dial-up Adapter, TCP/IP protocol, and Client for Microsoft Networks is selected then they are installed.

Installation of Network Components:

In Start, Settings, Control Panel, Networks

Client for Microsoft Networks

Click Add Dbl Click Client

Choose Microsoft then Client for Microsoft Networks

Click OK

Dial-up Adapter:

Click Add , double-click Adapter

Choose Microsoft then Dial-up Adapter

Click OK

TCP/IP Stack:

Click Add, double-click Protocol

Choose Microsoft

Choose TCP/IP

Click OK

Click OK from configuration and Restart System

Configuration of TCP/IP:

In Start, Settings, Control Panel, Networks, TCP/IP properties the following settings are selected:

IP Address: Obtain an IP address Automatically

WINS configuration: Use DHCP for WINS Resolution

Gateway: Leave blank

Bindings: Select Client for Microsoft Networks

Advanced: Leave with Defaults

DNS Configuration: Enable DNS

DNS Configuration: Host (username)

Domain Name: (domain name)

DNS server search order: (Primary DNS Server)(Secondary DNS Server)

Setup of Connection Icon:

Double Click My Computer, Dial-up Networking, and Make New Connection Icons

Give Icon a name like the name of the ISP

If modem not displayed select modem from modem area

Select the highest modem speed

Make sure that Only Connect at this Speed is NOT selected

Click OK

Click NEXT in Make New Connection Wizard

Enter phone number to ISP

Setup of Dial-up Properties:

Click on the New Connection Icon just created

Click Server Type, Pick Dial-up Server: Choose PPP as Server Type

In Advanced Options: Enable Software Compression Checked

Log On to Server: Not Checked

Require Encrypted password: Not Checked

TCP/IP: (only Protocol enabled)

(disable IPX & NetBEUI)

TCP/IP settings: Make sure Server assigned IP address and Specify Name Server address are selected

Add Primary and Secondary Server IP addresses

For Primary and secondary WINS Configuration: Leave at 0.0.0.0

Check use IP header Compression and use Default Gateway on Remote Network

I have installed my LAVA card that has jumpers into my Operating System correctly. However, when I try to use the card the OS reports that the card is not functioning properly. What should I do?

Answer:

The answer to this question applies to all LAVA cards that have IRQ jumper settings. To correct this situation it is necessary to make some BIOS setting changes. The following description applies to an Award BIOS version 4.51 PG. Consult your motherboard manual to find equivalent setting changes and how to enter your BIOS setup.

Enter PNP CONFIGURATION SETUP.

Change RESOURCES CONTROLLED BY from AUTO to MANUAL.

Scroll down to the IRQ(s) assigned to our card and change that IRQ from PCI/ISA PnP to Legacy ISA.