National Instruments PCI-232/2 Manuale Utente

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a.

General Setup

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PCI Support

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PCI  Quirks

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Backward-compatible 

/proc/pci

b.

Character Devices

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Standard/generic dumb serial support

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Extended dumb serial driver options

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Support more than four serial ports

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Support for sharing serial interrupts

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setserial

 2.14 or later. To find the version of

 

setserial

, 

enter the 

following:

linux# setserial –V

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PCI Utilities 1.10 or later. You can download PCI Utilities 1.10 from 

ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/hardware

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PCI-SERIAL.tar.gz

. You can download this file from the National 

Instruments FTP site at 

ftp://ftp.natinst.com/support/

ind_comm/serial/linux/

After you have the file, extract and unzip it by entering the following: 

tar zxvf PCI-SERIAL.tar.gz

The 

tar

 command extracts and unzips 

PCI-SERIAL.tar.gz

 and 

creates the sub-directory 

PCI-SERIAL

. Enter the following to make 

sure all necessary files are included:

cd PCI-SERIAL

ls

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Configure your BIOS to include a Plug and Play aware OS.

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You need superuser privileges to do most of the steps and program 
segments in this document.