Moxa Technologies CP-104UL V2, CP-104UL Quick Installation Manual

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CP-104UL V2 Smart Serial Board

Quick Installation Guide

Fourth Edition, April 2005

1. Overview

CP-104UL V2 is a 4-port RS-232 Universal PCI serial board that is
ideal for connecting a wide range of serial devices to a PC. Suitable
devices include terminals, modems, printers, scanners, cash registers,
bar code readers, keypads, numeric displays, electrical scales, and data
acquisition equipment. The board’s device drivers make full use of the
128-byte Tx/Rx FIFO and on-chip H/W and S/W flow control, which
allow data transmission at speeds of up to 921.6 Kbps.

CP-104UL V2 is a MOXA Green Product. Moxa’s Green Products
satisfy the RoHS directive of the European Parliament, and accordingly,
do not contain cadmium and cadmium compounds, hexavalent
chromium compounds, lead and lead compounds, mercury and mercury
compounds, PBBs (polybrominated biphenyls), or PBDEs
(polybrominated diphenyl ethers).

2. Package Checklist

Before installing the CP-104UL V2 board, verify that the package
contains the following items:

y 1 CP-104UL V2 4-port serial board

y Documentation and Software CD, which contains drivers for

Windows 2000/XP/2003, Windows NT, Windows 95/98, DOS,
FreeBSD, SCO, and Linux.

y CP-104UL V2 Quick Installation Guide

y 1 CBL-M44M9x4-50 Cable (with CP-104UL-DB9 V2)

y 1 CBL-M44M25x4-50 Cable (with CP-104UL-DB25 V2)

Notify your sales representative if any of the above items is missing or
damaged.

3. Hardware Installation Procedure

The CP-104UL V2 board MUST be installed in the PC before installing
the driver. The following directions explain how to install the board in the
PC.

STEP 1: Power off the PC.

STEP 2: Insert the CP-104UL control board firmly into a free PCI or

PCI-X slot.

STEP 3: Fasten the holding screw to fix the control board in place.

STEP 4: Connect one of the connection boxes or connection cables to

CP-104UL, and connect an adaptor if required.

STEP 5: Power on the PC; the BIOS will set the IRQ and I/O address

automatically.

4. Software Installation Information

The board MUST be plugged in before installing the driver software. See
the previous section for instructions on how to install the board in your
PC. Refer to the CP-104UL User’s Manual for detailed instructions on
installing the drivers for this board.

Windows 2003/XP Driver Installation

1. After powering on your PC, Windows 2003/XP will detect the

CP-104UL V2 board automatically.

2. Insert the CP-104UL V2 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.

3. Select Install fro m a list or specific location (Advanced).

4. After selecting Sea rch for the best driver in these locations, check

the Include this location in the search checkbox, and then use the
browse button to navigate to the CD’s
CP-104UL v2\Software\Win2K-XP-2003 folder.

5. Click Continue A nyway in response to any warnings that the

software hasn’t passed Windows Logo testing.

6. After the board has been installed, the installation wiza rd will guide

you through the port installation procedure, starting with port 0.

7. Use the Device M anager to check if the installation of the board and

ports was successful. Click on the + sign next to Hardware, and then
check under Multi-port serial adapters and Ports (COM & LPT). If
there are any special marks, such as a question mark or exclamation
point, in front of the board or port icons, examine the Event Log as a
first step to determine where the problem is.

Windows 2000 Driver Installation

1. After powering on your PC, Windows 2000 will detect the CP-104UL

V2 board automatically.

2. Insert the CP-104UL V2 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.

3. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended).

4. In Optional search location, checkmark specify a location. Navigate

to the \CP-104UL V2\Software\Win2K-XP-2003 folder on the
software CD, and then click on OK to continue.

5. Click Continue A nyway in response to any warnings that the

software hasn’t passed Windows Logo testing.

6. After the board has been installed, the installation wiza rd will guide

you through the port installation procedure, starting with port 0.
NOTE: Be sure to install the software from the CD’s
CP-104UL v2\Software\Win2K-XP-2003 folder.

7. Use the Device M anager to check if the installation of the board and

ports was successful. Click on the + sign next to Hardware, and then
check under Multi-port serial adapters and Ports (COM & LPT). If
there are any special marks, such as a question mark or exclamation
point, in front of the board or port icons, examine the Event Log as a
first step to determine where the problem is.

Windows 95/98 Driver Installation

1. After powering on your PC, Windows 95/98 will detect the

CP-104UL V2 board automatically.

2. Insert the CP-104UL V2 software CD in your CD-ROM drive.

3. There so me differences between the installation procedures for

Windows 95 and Windows 98. However, in both cases, be sure to
install the driver from the CD’s
CP-104UL v2\Software\Win9x\Windows.95 folder.

4. After the board has been installed, the installation wiza rd will open

the port configuration window.
NOTE: If an error message similar to “CP-104UL board (BusNo=x,
DevNo=x, Port1=COMx) interrupt number is invalid!” pops up, refer
to the “Troubleshooting” chapter of the User’s Manual for
information on how to handle this error.

P/N: 1802001044200

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Windows NT Driver Installation

1. After powering on your PC, log into NT as Administrator.

2. Copy the folder CP-104UL v2\Software\WinNT\Windows.nt to

your hard drive.

3. Open the Control Panel, click on the Netw ork icon, and select the

Adaptors tab.

4. Click the Add button, and then Have Disk… in the Select Network

Adapter window.

5. Specify the exact path to the f older created in step 2. above.

6. Select MO XA Smartio/Industio Family multiport board in the

Select OEM Option window, and then click on OK to start installing
the driver.

5. When the Moxa Smartio/Industio Configuration Panel dialog box

appears, click on Add to open the Property window to modify port
settings and advanced FIFO configuration done by the system
automatically.

Linux Driver Installation

1. Execute the following commands from the Linux prompt:

#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
#cd /
#mkdir moxa
#cd moxa
#cp /mnt/cdrom/<driver directory>/mxser.tgz .
#tar xvfz mxser.tgz

2. #cd mxser

#make clean; make install

3. #cd /moxa/mxser/driver

#./msmknod

4. #modprobe mxser

5. Use the Moxa diag nostic utility to verify the driver status:

#cd /moxa/mxser/utility/diag
#./msdiag

6. Use the Moxa terminal utilit y to test the tty ports:

#cd /moxa/mxser/utility/term
#./msterm

5. Pin Assignments and Cable Wiring

CP-104UL V2 boards have one female DB44 connector on the board.
You may use the cable included as a standard accessory to connect to
your serial devices, or purchase one of the following optional
accessories. In the following figures, we give the pin assignments for
the serial device side of the four connection options.

CBL-M44M25x4-50

:

Male DB44 to male DB25 x 4

Male DB25

1

14

13

25

Pin RS-232

2 TxD
3 RxD
4 RTS
5 CTS
6 DSR
7 GND
8 DCD

20 DTR

CBL-M44M9x4-50:
Male DB44 to male DB9 x 4

Opt4-M9A

:

Male DB44 to male DB9 x 4

Male DB9

15

69

Pin RS-232

1 DCD
2 RxD
3 TxD
4 DTR
5 GND
6 DSR
7 RTS
8 CTS

Opt4-RJ45A:
Male DB44 to 8-pin RJ45 x 4

8-pin RJ45

18

Pin RS-232

1 DSR
2 RTS
3 GND
4 TxD
5 RxD
6 DCD
7 CTS
8 DTR

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