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RocketPort

® Series Device Driver for the SCO UnixWare 2.1.x Operating System Software Installation Card

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Before You Begin

Before you install the RocketPort device driver for

UnixWare 2.1.x, you must:

• Install the RocketPort card or cards using the

Hardware Installation Card that came with your card

or download it from the web/ftp sites.

• Remove any older RocketPort device driver that may be

on your system.

• Obtain and extract the current driver files.

Removing the Existing Driver

Follow these steps to remove the existing RocketPort

driver:

1. Log in as the system administrator (root) and invoke

the pkgrm utility. Use this syntax:

pkgrm rckt

2. If you have other drivers to remove at this time, do so.

3. Shut down and reboot the system so that your changes

take effect.

shutdown -y -i6 -g0

Extracting the Driver Files

This driver is released in a .z file. The package is released

with the following file name format:

180xxxxY.tar.Z

where:

180xxxx is the Comtrol file name.

Y is the revision letter.

tar.Z means that the file has been compressed.

1. Insert the diskette that contains the UnixWare 2.1.x

file you downloaded.

2. Copy the 180xxxxY.tar.Z file from the floppy to the

/var/spool/pkg directory. For example:

doscp a:180xxxxX.Z /var/spool/pkg/180xxxxX.Z

3. Return to the command prompt as root, go to the /var/

spool/pkg directory, and type the following commands

to create a directory structure named rckt.

uncompress 180xxxxY.Z

tar xvf 180xxxxY

4. Go to Installing the Device Driver to install the driver.

Installing the Device Driver

After installing the RocketPort card and extracting the

driver, follow these steps to install the RocketPort driver.

1. Boot the system, login as the system administrator

(root), and invoke the pkgadd utility.

pkgadd rckt

2. Press Enter to select the ALL option.

3. Select the number and type of cards you are installing

by answering the questions presented during the

install. See the Hardware Installation Card for I/O

DIP switch settings for ISA series cards.

4. Shutdown the system and turn the computer off:

shutdown -y -i6 -g0

5. Configure the RocketPort cards using the information

in the following discussions.

Loading the Device Driver

After you install the driver and hardware, you must load

the driver before configuring ports.

To load the driver manually, use either modadmin or the lod

script. For more information on modadmin, see the

modadmin man page.

To use the lod script, enter this command:

/comtrol/rckt/lod

If the driver is loaded successfully, the following message

displays:

UX: modadmin: INFO: module rckt loaded, ID=##

If the driver does not load successfully, an error message

displays.

Unloading the Device Driver

To unload the driver, use either modadmin or the ulod

script. The ulod script syntax is:

/comtrol/rckt/ulod

If the driver is unloaded successfully, the following message

displays:

UX: modadmin: INFO: module ## unloaded

RocketPort

Series

Device Driver for the SCO UnixWare 2.1.x Operating System

Software Installation Card

Summary of content (8 pages)

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RocketPort® Series Device Driver for the SCO UnixWare 2.1.x Operating System Software Installation Card Before You Begin Installing the Device Driver Before you install the RocketPort device driver for UnixWare 2.1.x, you must: After installing the RocketPort card and extracting the driver, follow these steps to install the RocketPort driver. • Install the RocketPort card or cards using the Hardware Installation Card that came with your card or download it from the web/ftp sites. 1.
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card will always be Board 1 and the ISA card will always be Board 2. For more information on ISA I/O addressing, see your RocketPort Hardware Installation Card. Device Names This driver provides three device types: • Non-modem Control Enabling direct device names allows communications with a non-modem serial device over a simple 3-wire connection, consisting of the transmit and receive data lines and the signal ground.
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The rates are remapped as shown in the following table: Enabling Ports Baud Rate Mapping To enable a port, enter this command: System Rate Setbaud Rate 50 57600 75 76800 110 115200 134 230400 pmadm -e -p -s For more information, see the man page for pmadm. Disabling Ports To disable a port, enter this command: pmadm -d -p -s For more information, see the man page for pmadm.
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Each port can be remapped to different rates, and you can remap more than one rate for a given port. For example: /dev/term/r0a 300 115200 /dev/term/r0A 300 76800 /dev/term/r0A 1200 230400 2. Reboot the system, or execute /comtrol/rckt/baud.init for immediate change. The rates will be remapped each time the system is rebooted. 3. Use the normal tty administrative procedure to set the port to the system rate. The remapped rate is used instead.
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The keywords are described further in the following table. Keyword Description device This specifies the printer device for a group of statements, and must be the first line in each group of statements describing a device. All statements that follow this statement and come before the next device statement (or the end of the file) will apply to the named device.
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9. You may now direct output to the printer via the tprint device name. For example, enter this command: ls> /dev/term/tpr0a This should print a listing of the present working directory on the printer, without printing to the terminal screen. 10. To further test the printer, cat files to /dev/term/tpr0a. 11. Login on the terminal and cat files to the printer. The video display should not stop while printing is in progress.
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Checking Flow Control To check flow control setup, enter this command: stty -a
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Retaining Non-Default Parameters on Disabled Ports Drivers only retain stty settings for a particular line as long as that line is open. Likewise, when you do an stty on a closed port, the stty settings are not retained. When you apply stty settings to your login tty, the changes are retained because even after stty terminates, the login shell continues to hold the line open.