User`s manual

Software Manual • EKF Intelligent I/O Controller Family On CompactPCI
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Installation
On a Windows NT4 system simply run the “setup.exe” installer on the installation disk
labeled
"EKF's Intelligent Serial Driver for i960 Board Family WinNT/2000"
and follow the instructions. At the end of the installation procedure you should reboot the
system to start the driver.
The driver currently distributed does not support Windows 2000's PnP. When installing a
new board of EKF’s Intelligent I/O Controller Family to the system, the PnP manager of
Windows 2000 reports that it has found new hardware when booting. Insert the installation
disk in the floppy disk drive when Windows asks for a driver for the new hardware. After the
PnP manager has done its work, it requested you to reboot the system. Before doing that
call the “setup.exe” on the installation disk to configure anything necessary for the driver.
Reboot the system when setup requested it.
Setup asks for the location on the
CompactPCI
bus, where the hardware to install can be
found. The information needed by setup is the PCI bus number and the PCI device number.
These numbers can be obtained in different ways:
Take a look on the PCI device table listed by the system BIOS at boot time. Locate
the I/O controller to install by the device type “Simple communication controller” or
“Serial bus controller”.
When the system is already booted use one of the several available PCI browsers
like “PCIView”.
Alternately call from a command window:
pflash960 -Vm=100
and you will get a PCI device listing. Look for devices with vendor ID 0x8086 and
device ID 0x1960 to locate a member of EKF’s Intelligent I/O Controller family.
Pay attention to enter the PCI numbers in decimal when setup prompts for them.
Note, that when swapping an I/O controller to another
CompactPCI
slot, you have to change
the board’s PCI numbers within the registry. See next section for the meaning of the registry
entries used by the driver.