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Lava Computer LavaPort 650 Installation Manual

Summary of LavaPort 650

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    Lavaport 650 installation manual rev. B01 lava computers sserial pci p.N. Moko l74.1 made in canada pn moko s-1 made in japan 0255351.

  • Page 2: Contents

    Contents quick install installing the lavaport-650 hardware windows installation · changing i/o resources - com & irq · setting lavaport data rates · lava modem speed set - for 230.4 kbps · setting lavaport fifo control · flow control windows nt 4.0 installation · high speed data rates 3 4 5 8 10 12...

  • Page 3: Quick Install

    Quick install windows 95/98/me/2000/xp 1. With the power off, insert the lavaport-650 pci card into any free pci slot. 2. Launch windows - new hardware will be detected. 3. When prompted, insert the lavaport-650 installation diskette point windows to look at the floppy's root directory. 4. After win...

  • Page 4: Hardware Installation

    Hardware installation 4 1. Before opening the casing of your computer, make sure that all power is off. 2. Locate an unused pci slot and insert the lavaport-650 into it. Ensure that it is well seated. 3. Screw the metal backplane of the lavaport-650 board to your pc’s casing and replace the machine’...

  • Page 5: Windows Installation

    Windows driver installation 1. Once the lavaport-650 is installed in your pc, start your computer. Windows will automatically detect the lavaport-650 as a new pci serial controller and ask you to insert the lavaport installation diskette. The installation files are located in the root directory of t...

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    6 3. Click on the start button, then choose settings, control panel, system, device manager. You should see a window that is similar to the following:.

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    4. Click on ports and select the com port listed under the heading lavaport 650 pci. 5. Click properties. The following screen will appear: 7.

  • Page 8: And Irq Of Your Port

    8 because the lavaport 650 is a pci device, windows will always allocate non-standard i/o resources to this port (e.G. Assigning it as com 5, even though any one of com1-4 may be free). If your software requires the use of standard i/o resources, you may modify those used by the lavaport-650 in one ...

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    9 1. You may physically modify the i/o range and irq used by the lavaport 650 by de-selecting the “use automatic settings” check box, and double-clicking the appropriate heading, or: 2a. For windows95/98/me, you may use the lava port redirect utility provided in the utils subdirectory of your lavapo...

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    10 setting lavaport data rates in windows.

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    11 the data rate of the lavaport may be set using the bits per second pull down menu. Please note that this menu will also appear when setting the “port properties” in any communications application, and may have to be set independently of your control panel settings. Control panel settings may not ...

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    The lavaport-650 supports data rates up to 460.8 kbps, including 115.2 kbps and 230.4 kbps. However, not all modems support com port rates above 115.2 kbps. If your modem does not support higher data rates and you select a higher data rate in the lavaport properties, windows will automatically defau...

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    14 setting lavaport fifo control in windows.

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    The lavaport-650 uses a 16650 uart incorporating a 32-byte fifo (first- in first-out) buffer. The fifo control tabs set the buffer “trigger” levels. When the buffer is filled to its trigger level with the selected number of bytes, the cpu will be interrupted and asked to either reload the buffer (fo...

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    Flow control refers to the type of signaling that is used between the modem and the lavaport. If you are connecting the lavaport to a modem or isdn terminal adapter, use the default setting of hardware (rts/cts) flow control. Software flow control (xon/xoff ) is used only for connecting the lavaport...

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    17 windows nt 4.0 installation windows nt driver installation 1. Once the lavaport-650 is installed in your pc, turn your computer on and start nt. 2. Place the lavaport installation diskette into your floppy drive and select run from the start menu. When prompted type: a:t4.0\setup. 3. After the ...

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    18 please note that com 1 may not appear in this applet if you have your mouse attached to com 1. The lavaport-650 supports data rates up to 460.8 kbps, including 115.2 kbps and 230.4 kbps. However, not all modems support com port rates above 115.2 kbps. If your modem does not support higher data ra...

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  • Page 20: Lava Computer Mfg Inc.

    Lava computer mfg inc. Lava technical support 9:00 am to 5:30 pm monday to friday (eastern time) tel: +416 674-5942 fax: + 416 674-8262 e-mail: tech@lavalink.Com internet: www.Lavalink.Com this device complies with part 15 of the fcc rules. Operation is subject to the following conditions: (1) this ...