Lava LAVAPORT-PLUS User Manual
LavaPort-Plus
Installation Manual
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LAVA
COMPUTERS
MADE
IN
LAVAPORT-PLUS
CANADA
P.N.MOKO L77.x
Rev.B00
Congratulations on your purchase of the LavaPort-Plus Com Port
Accelerator and EPP parallel port for 56K and ISDN external modems,
printers,and other high-speed serial and parallel peripherals.
Included with your package, you should have the following:
1. The LavaPort-PCI printed circuit board
2. One software installation diskette
3. This user’s manual
If any of the above items are missing,please contact the reseller where
you purchased this product.
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Contents
Quick Install
Installing the LavaPort-Plus Hardware
Windows Installation
· Installing Windows Drivers
· Configuring the Parallel Port
· Optimizing the Parallel Port for Zip Drives
· Custom configuring serial ports
· Changing Port Numbers (Com 3/4/5 etc.)
· Setting LavaPort serial data rates
· Setting LavaPort FIFO Control
· Flow Control (serial ports)
· Lava Modem Speed Set - for 230.4 kbps
Note: Instructions for installing the LavaPort-Plus
under DOS,Windows 3.x,or Windows NT 4.0 may be found
in the ReadMe file of the appropriate subdirectory of
your LavaPort-Plus diskette.
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Quick Install
Windows (versions other than 3.x and NT)
1. With the power off,insert the LavaPort-Plus card into any free PCI
slot.
2. Launch Windows - new hardware will be detected.
3. When prompted,insert the LavaPort-Plus installation diskette and
select the file “Lava.inf” in either the root or theWin95 subdirectory.
(If the diskette is not found you may have to type“A:\WIN95\”).
4. After Windows has booted,click the Start button,then Settings,
Control Panel,System,Device Manager,Ports. The LavaPort-Plus
ports will be listed as two of your Com Ports and the Parallel Port will
appear with an appropriate LPT number.Click “Properties”to change
the default settings as desired.
5. If desired,install the Lava Com Port Redirect and Lava Modem Speed
Set utilities to change the Com numbers of your serial ports, and to
automate modem speed settings.
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Hardware Installation
1. Before opening the casing of your computer,make sure that all
power is off.
2. Locate an unused PCI slot and insert the LavaPort-Plus into it.Ensure
that it is well seated.Locate an unused backplane on your PC casing
and insert the second serial cable bracket into it.
3. Screw the metal backplane of the LavaPort-Plus board to your PC’s
casing and replace the machine’s cover.
4. Connect your external peripheral cables to the appropriate port on
the LavaPort-Plus and turn the PC on.
Screw for attaching card bracket
to PC casing
Serial Port 1
Parallel Port
PCI Slot
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Serial Port 2
(cable connection)
NB: Red wire
corresponds to pin 1
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Windows Installation
Windows Driver Installation
Note: Make sure that you are installing the correct LavaPort-Plus
1. Once the LavaPort-Plus is installed in your PC,start your computer.
Windows will automatically detect the LavaPort-Plus as a new PCI
Controller and ask you to insert the LavaPort Installation diskette.
The installation files are located in either the root or the Win95
subdirectory of this disk. On some PC’s you may have to type
A:\WIN95 when prompted for the LavaPort Installation diskette.
2. After the necessary files have been copied,Windows will complete
the full installation of the LavaPort-Plus.During this process,a
LavaPort Parent will be created in Device Manager under MultiFunction Adapters,and two child serial ports and one parallel port
will be created in Device Manager/Ports.The following describes
how you may customize these ports for your personal needs.
drivers for the appropriate operating system.
DO NOT install NT or Windows 3.x drivers under
other versions of Windows
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3. Click on the Start button, then choose Settings,Control Panel,
System, Device Manager.You should see a window that is similar to
the following:
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Configuring the LavaPort-Plus Parallel Port
Note: Most printers will not require customization of the
LavaPort-Plus parallel port. However, some parallel port devices
(e.g.External drives) require parallel ports that use standard
(legacy) ISA LPT addresses (0278h or 0378h). Because the LavaPlus is a fully compliant PCI device,the default address
(Input/Output Range) of its parallel port is beyond the standard
range of ISA I/O addresses.In order to connect such a peripheral
to the LavaPort-Plus,the I/O address range of the parallel port
must therefore be changed manually.The following section will
describe how this is done.
1. Open Control Panel|System|Device Manager and find the
Lava Parallel PCI listing under Ports. Click Properties, and
proceed to the Resources tab.The following screen will
appear (Note: the Input/Output Range and Interrupt of your
particular configuration may differ from the one below).
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