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Managing Peripheral Devices
8.4 Connecting Devices and Loading Device Drivers
Network Communication Device
To connect the network communications logical device on VAX systems, run the
appropriate startup files for the particular network protocol. For example, three
common net stack startups are:
@SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$STARTUP ! TCP/IP Services
@SYS$STARTUP:NET$STARTUP ! DECnet-Plus
@SYS$STARTUP:STARTNET ! DECnet Phase IV
Virtual Terminals
For information about connecting virtual terminals and loading their driver, see
Section 8.6.2.
For information about configuring virtual terminals in conjunction with TCP/IP
Services Telnet, see Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management.
Event-Handling Device Driver
A Compaq-supplied driver named SYS$SYSTEM:CONINTERR.EXE permits real-
time processes to connect to interrupt vectors for quick response to and special
handling of real-time events. The driver is not associated with any specific device
type. Refer to the OpenVMS VAX Device Support Manual for more information.
(This manual has been archived but is available on the OpenVMS Documentation
CD-ROM.)
Example
The commands in the following example autoconfigure the devices attached to
a VAX system, and connect the console block storage device and the network
software device:
$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SYSGEN
SYSGEN> AUTOCONFIGURE ALL
SYSGEN> CONNECT CONSOLE
SYSGEN> EXIT
$ @SYS$MANAGER:STARTNET
8.4.2 Manually Connecting Devices and Loading Device Drivers (Alpha Only)
On Alpha systems, commands for connecting devices and loading their drivers
are in the System Management utility (SYSMAN). All SYSMAN commands that
control and display the I/O configuration on an Alpha system contain the prefix
IO.
Whenever possible, it is preferable to use the IO AUTOCONFIGURE command to
connect standard devices and load device drivers.
IO AUTOCONFIGURE does not connect or load the device driver for the network
communications logical device. In addition, other devices and drivers might exist
that IO AUTOCONFIGURE does not connect and load.
You can connect unattached devices and devices that have nonstandard names, as
well as load device drivers with the SYSMAN commands IO CONNECT and IO
LOAD.
For more information, refer to the SYSMAN section of the OpenVMS System
Management Utilities Reference Manual and Writing OpenVMS Alpha Device
Drivers in C.
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