DirectPort UPCI Multi-port Serial Cards Software User Guide Rev.1.0 Sena Technologies, Inc.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 Copyright Copyright 2010, Sena Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Sena Technologies reserves the right to make changes and improvements to its product without providing notice. Trademark Windows® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Notice to Users When a system failure may cause serious consequences, protecting life and property against such consequences with a backup system or safety device is essential.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 Contents Windows ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Windows Vista/2008/7 Device Driver Installation......................................................................... 4 Windows XP/2003 Device Driver Installation...............................................................................8 Windows 2000 Device Driver Installation ......................
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 Windows Windows Vista/2008/7 Device Driver Installation 1. Turn off your PC and insert DirectPort UPCI board into PCI slot. 2. Turn on the PC power. 3. Start Windows Vista/2008/7 and then “Found New Hardware” message will pop up. Otherwise, please proceed to step #7. 4. Select “Locate and install driver software (recommended)”. 5.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 7. In case “New Hardware found” window does not appear, driver must be installed manually. Go to Control Panel Device Manager. 8. Right click the “PCI Serial Port” under “Other devices” category, and click the “Update Driver Software… ”. 9.”Update Driver Software – PCI Serial Port” message window appears. Click the “Browse my computer for driver software”.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 10. “Browse for driver software on your computer” window appears. Click the “Browse… ” button and select “[CD-ROM]:\Drivers\Win2000,XP,2003,Vista,2008,7” for its location. Then click the “Next” button. In case of x64 Windows, select “[CD-ROM]:\Drivers\WinXP,2003,Vista, 2008,2008R2,7 x64” for its location. 11. Once the installation is complete, “Windows has successfully updated your driver software” Message box appears.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 13. “Insert the disc that came with your PCI Serial Port” Message box will appear. Click the “Next” button. 14. “Windows Security” window may appear according to driver version. Click “Install this driver software anyway”. 15. “The software for this device has been successfully installed” Message box appears. Click the “Close” button. 16. If DirectPort driver is successfully installed, following items can be found under “Device Manager”.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 Windows XP/2003 Device Driver Installation 1. Turn off your PC and insert DirectPort board into PCI slot. 2. Turn on the PC and insert the install CD. 3. Start Windows XP/2003 and then “Found New Hardware Wizard” begins. 4. Select “Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)” and click the “Next” button. 5. Select “Search for the best driver in these locations” and “Include this location in the search” and specify the location as below.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 6. A warning message may show up depending on driver version. Click the “Continue Anyway” button. 7. An instruction message as above appears after installing multifunction adapter. Press the “Finish” button and then “Found New Hardware Wizard” for each serial port begins. 8. Repeat steps 3 ~ 7 until “Found New Hardware Wizard” ends as many times as the number of serial ports. 9.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 Windows 2000 Device Driver Installation 1. Turn off your PC and insert DirectPort board into PCI slot. 2. Turn on the PC and insert the install CD. 3. Start Windows 2000 and Log on as administrator. 4. “Found New Hardware Wizard” appears after booting as below: 5. Press the “Next” button. 6. Select the “Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)” and press the “Next” button.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 7. Select the “Specify a location” and press the “Next” button. 8. Select the “Browse… ”, specify [CD-ROM]:\Drivers\Win2000,XP,2003,Vista,2008, 7” and press “OK” button. 9. Press the “Next” button. 10. Press the “Finish” button and then “Found New Hardware Wizard” for each serial port appears.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 11. Repeat steps 5 ~ 9 until “Found New Hardware Wizard” ends and then remaining ports are installed automatically. 12. After all installations are completed, you can check the device information in [Setting] [Control Panel] [System] [Hardware] [Device Manager]. You can see the SENA DirectPort UPCI installed at “Multifunction adapters” category and “DirectPort UPCI – Serial Port” at “Ports (COM & LPT)” category in device manager.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 Windows Device Driver Configuration DirectPort device settings are pre-configured with optimal values by default. However, if the settings need to be changed for any specific applications, please follow the procedures below. 1.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 3. Click the “Settings” button with dotted red line in “Advanced Options“ as shown below to get “Advanced Settings… ” window. 4. If UART type is 16C105x, FlowControl would be activated and the FIFO size occupies “256”. 5. You can select “FlowControl” radio button and change the “FIFO Interrupt Trigger Levels” by selecting on Combo Box. Click “OK” to finish setting.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 6. If 16C105x Type DirectPort is connected devices which deal with small/low speed data input and output, Interrupt could be delayed owing to big Trigger Level. In this case, check “55x Trigger Mode”. However, “55x Trigger Mode” is not suitable for large/high speed data. 7. Select RxFifo Trigger and/or TxFifo Trigger to set “FIFO Interrupt Trigger Levels” and click the “OK” button. 8.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 9. Click "Restore Defaults" to set back default values. Click the "Ok" button to finish settings. 10. If you want to change the port names of all ports sequentially, click the “All Port Remap… ” button. 11. Specify this port name as you want and click the “OK” button. The port names of the device will be rearranged. If you use OS other than Windows Vista and Windows 7, the change is applied without rebooting.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 12. When you want to use the serial mouse, check “Serial Mouse” item and select the COM port for serial mouse. The optimized FIFO setting will be applied for the serial mouse. If you select “No Select”, the serial mouse setting isn’t applied to any COM port. If you select “COM x”, you can select COM port number to apply the serial mouse setting. If you select “All Serial” item, the serial mouse setting is applied to all COM Ports. 13.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 Windows Device Driver Removal This page applies to Windows 2000 and higher versions. 1. Insert the provided device driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. If you see auto-run program of driver disk, terminate it. 2. Run the uninstaller program. For x86 Windows: (“[CD-ROM]:\Drivers\Win2000,XP,2003,Vista,2008,7\Uninstall.exe”) For x64 Windows: (“[CD-ROM]:\Drivers\WinXP,2003,Vista,2008,2008R2,7 x64\Uninstall.exe”) 3. Press “OK” button. 4.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 Linux Downloading Linux Device Driver Please download the proper DirectPort driver files for each DirectPort model from Sena website at www.sena.com and follow the procedures below. 1. Download the proper DirectPort driver for each DirectPort on SENA website at www.sena.com 2. Unzip the downloaded file. 3. Check your Linux Kernel version and save the proper file to the storage device. Linux Device Driver Installation/Removal 1. Turn off the power of PC 2.
DirectPort UPCI Software User Guide Rev.1.0 Trouble Shootings Q1. The DirectPort does not work properly even after it has been successfully installed One of major reasons DirectPort boards do not work properly is mostly interrupt conflict. This is not a frequent problem because PCI boards are automatically assigned interrupts. However, reasons for interrupt conflict or abnormal operation of PCI boards can be classified into three as below.
