Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product 70918 Lindy
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© LINDY ELECTRONICS LIM ITED & LINDY-ELEKTRONIK GM BH - FIRST EDITI ON (JUNE 2004) CardBus/PCMCIA 2 Serial Ports User Manual English LINDY N o. 70918 www.
Introduction Thank you for purchasing the RS -232 asynchronous serial PCM CIA card, an ideal soluti on for adding additi onal ports to a wide variety of portabl e systems. Th is C ar d B u s is y ou r b es t s olu tio n t o ut ilize th e p er i pheral w ith serial port i n an easy-to-use environment such as pl ug-n-play and hot-swapping function.
3 4.0 Pin Assignment 5.0 Dr iv er Installation Windows NT4.0 1. Pow e r up the system . 2. After inserti ng the S eri al Card Bus into PCMC IA Type II slot successful ly, please fol low the instructions as bel ow : 3. Please run the “ In stall_Ser ial.
4 Windows 9x /2000/XP 1. Pow e r up the system . 2. After inserti ng the S eri al Card Bus into PCMC IA Type II slot successful ly, please fol low the instructions as bel ow : 3. S ys tem w ill sh ow th e “ F ound New Hardware W izard” window s.
5 5.0 Ver ify ing Installation Please right cl ick “My Com puter”, sel e ct “Properties”, and “Hardw are”, then “ Dev ice M anager ” to verify the dri ver instal lation completed.
6 6.0 Configur e COM Por t 1. Select the COM P ort w hich you want to configure, for exam ple COM4. Right check the m ouse, and select the “ P roper ties ”. 2. You can configure different operati ng setti ngs through selecti ng the “ High Speed Com mu nication s P ort ” properties pages.
7 3. You can select “ FIFO s ” change the length of recei ver and transm itter FIFO. This page is used to configure the FIFO trigger levels , i. e. at what fill leve ls the device will gener ate an interrupt, or apply aut om at i c fl ow cont rol.
8 4. You can select “ Dat a Rate ” change the crystal Frequency of input cl ock. This page provides a li st of com m on crystal val ues used w i t h CO M ports. Sel ect “ Detect crystal frequency” to detect t he i nput cl ock f requency to t he U AR T.
9 Thi s dev ic e com pli es w it h Part 15 of the FCC Rul es. Operat ion i s subject to t he f oll ow i n g two condi ti ons : (1) t his dev i ce m ay not cause har mf ul int erf erence, and (2) t his dev i ce m ust accept any inter fer ence recei v ed, incl udi n g int erf erence t hat may cause undesired oper ati ons .
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