Installation guide

RTX Installation
Manual • Doc. No.: C.2001.21 / Rev. 3.0 •
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CAN-API Installation
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2.7.3 Installation
In order to support the CAN modules in the RTSS environment it is necessary to make RTX manage
these devices. For Windows NT the device has to be disabled through the Windows control panel
because there are no Plug and Play or Power Management concerns with Windows NT (skip
Step 1
below). Managing devices on Windows 2000 or Windows XP requires converting a Windows device
into an RTX device (see
RTX Runtime Documentation
for details).
Step 1: Converting to RTX device
Before the RTSS device driver can control the device the CAN module has to converted into a RTX
controlled device. This is performed using the
RTX Properties
control panel applet.
Select the
Devices
Tab (RTX 5.x) or
Plug and Play
Tab (RTX 6.x). In this applet under
Devices
the
CAN module has to be selected and assigned to the RTX driver according to the following figure:
If there has already been installed a driver under Windows 2000/XP for this CAN module it will be
listed as
CAN-Interface
. If not, it will be listed as
Other PCI Bridge Device
.
After the conversion the CAN module has to be removed by means of the device manager and the
computer has to be rebooted. You will find detailed information on this procedure e.g. in the release
notes of RTX 5.0 in the chapter
Managing RTX Devices in Windows 2000
.
After reboot the CAN modules has to listed in the device manager as shown in the following figure: