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Table of Contents Cabling Rapidport........................................................................................1 Installing Rapidport Drivers ........................................................................2 Installing the Rapidport Modems.................................................................3 Interpreting the Status Lights.......................................................................4 The Edgeport Utility Program ......................................................
Rapidport Rapidport offers an easy solution for remote access via Plug-and-Play USB connectivity. This external, userinstallable solution plugs into the USB port of a PC, thin client or server and provides four 56K V.90 modems. EdgeUSB technology, shipping with Rapidport since 1998, adds Plug-and-Play USB compatibility to Microsoft Windows NT and Windows NT Embedded system users.
Installing Rapidport Drivers For Windows XP and 2003 Server Note: If your computer is connected to the internet, the latest Microsoft certified drivers will be automatically downloaded from the Microsoft driver update server. 1) You must be logged into an account with administrator privileges. 2) Insert the “Edgeport Driver” CD version 3.60 or above into your CD-ROM drive.
For Windows NT 4.0 Because Microsoft does not support USB in NT4.0, Digi International supplies a set of USB drivers that will be installed along with the necessary Edgeport drivers. NOTE: You must install the drivers using an account that has administrative privileges! To install the USB stack and Edgeport drivers: 1) Insert the “Edgeport Driver” CD Version 3.60 or above into your CD-ROM drive. 2) When the welcome dialog appears, click the Install Driver button.
Interpreting the Status Lights Interpreting the System Status Light Red This light signifies a loss of USB communication with the host. If the loss is due to unplugging the unit, when it is reconnected the light will blink red a few moments before turning green. Otherwise, the light indicates a problem with the drivers, which may need to be reinstalled. The red light will also blink during installation until the installation is complete. Amber This light signifies serial port activity on the Rapidport.
The Edgeport Utility Program (For All Windows Operating Systems) The Edgeport configuration utility program (edgeport.exe) allows you to manage the serial ports of your Rapidport product. Note that with Windows NT you must have administrative privileges in order to change the COM port settings. For more information, see the Support section at www.digi.com.
• Configure - Reassign the physical port on your device to any available Windows COM port number from 1 to 255 and give your device a user friendly Device Name. This capability is particularly helpful if you have more than one device. • Port Flags - Configure performance options and special functionality on a per-port basis. Low Latency: Normally the UART will interrupt when the receiver has been idle for 4 character times.
Remap Baud: (All operating systems) Setting the baud rate to 1200 baud will result in 230400 baud Ignore Flush: (Windows NT/2K/XP) If an application sends IRP_MJ_FLUSH_BUFFERS it will be ignored. Excerpt from Microsoft documentation: Drivers of devices with internal caches for data and drivers that maintain internal buffers for data must handle this request.
• Test Ports - Perform a confidence test on the internal workings of the serial ports. • Power Management – Turn on and off the power for Hubports with USB PlusPower ports Rapidport Installation Guide (90000665 Rev.
• Port Status – Provide the status of a selected (highlighted) serial port. The Poll Interval is the number of seconds between updates of this window. This is also the number of seconds between each entry in the log file. To create a log file, click the Start Logging button and enter a filename for the log file. This file will contain all of the information displayed in the Port Status window until the Stop Logging button is clicked. • Refresh – Scan for ports. Note that NT 4.
The driver supports COM port number assignment in two ways: 1. Assign COM ports based on converter serial number. This is the default setting. In this mode, the driver uses the serial number of each converter to uniquely identify it, and the COM port assignments for a given converter are based on its serial number. No matter which physical USB port a converter is plugged into, it will maintain its assigned COM port numbers. 2. Assign COM ports based on physical USB port.
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