Installation guide

Windows 95/98/ME Installation
Manual • Doc. No.: C.2001.21 / Rev. 3.0 •
© 2000-2007 esd gmbh
CAN-API Installation
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2.6.2.3 Starting the Device Drivers
2.6.2.3.1 ISA-Bus Boards
Switch on the computer again after installation and restart Windows 9x/ME. The driver is automatically
loaded and started by Windows 9x/ME. In the device manager there is now the new device class
CAN
Controller
, under which all
esd
-CAN boards can be shown and configured.
2.6.2.3.2 CAN-PCC
Switch on the computer again after installation and restart Windows 9x/ME. The driver is automatically
loaded by Windows 9x/ME but not
started. In the device manager, however, the new device class
CAN
Controller
exists, under which all
esd-
CAN boards can be shown and configured.
For starting the driver the command
cpcc start
has to be entered explicitly in the command line.
This is necessary to be able to share the parallel interface with other device drivers. After successfully
starting the driver, it has an exclusive access to the parallel interface until it will be stopped again by
means of
cpcc stop
.
Another reason for executing an explicit start command is that the driver is not being assigned with its
own resources within Windows 9x/ME, but that it uses the available resource ‘Parallel Interface’.
Therefore no smart icon
Resources
(see the following chapter) exists for this driver within the device
manager. In smart icon
Status
the parallel interface to be used (LPT1, LPT2, LPT3) has to be entered
below port instead and the driver automatically uses the current Windows-9x/ME configuration (I/O-
address, interrupt) for this interface.
Attention:
For the operation of the CAN-PCC under
Windows 9x/ME the parallel port has to be set to
operating mode
Force ECP
in the properties
window. If the hardware does not support this
setting, the bidirectional mode has to be selected
(
Force Bidir.
).