Use a grounding wrist strap at all times. Place all electronic components on a static-dissipative surface or in a static-shielded bag when they are not in the chassis Part No. 2007C40C20 Printed in Taiwan Dec. 2009 PER-C40C Quick Installation Guide...
P E R - C 4 0 C A Message to the Customer Fist of all, thank you for purchasing PER-C40C Mini PCI module. This Quick Installation Guide will help you on the process of the installation. Please read it thoroughly before you start to install it.
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M i n i P C I M o d u l e P E R - C 4 0 C Ordering Information TF-PER-C40C-B10-01 Mini-PCI 4-port RS-232 Module, Rev. B1.0 Packing List 1 PER-C40C Mini-PCI Module 4 RS-232 Cable 1 CD-ROM for QIG (in PDF format) and drivers PER-C40C Quick Installation Guide...
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1.5 COM Port 1 Connector (COM1) ..........9 1.6 COM Port 2 Connector (COM2) ..........9 1.7 COM Port 3 Connector (COM3) ..........10 1.8 COM Port 4 Connector (COM4) ..........10 1.9 Driver Installation and Module set up ........10 PER-C40C Quick Installation Guide...
Four RS-232 Ports Onboard Full Duplex Serial Communication 1.2 Specifications Form Factor Mini-PCI Type III A 2” x 2.35” (50.8mm x 59.6mm) UART Chipset OXFORD OXmPCI954 Power Requirement +3.3V Operating Temperature 32°F ~ 140°F (0°C ~ 60°C) PER-C40C Quick Installation Guide...
M i n i P C I M o d u l e P E R - C 4 0 C 1.3 Connector Locations and Dimension 6.50 1.00 50.95 45.97 COM4 34.29 COM3 COM2 22.61 20.00 20.00 10.92 COM1 4.00 MPCI1 0.00 PER-C40C Quick Installation Guide...
COM3 Serial Port #3 COM4 Serial Port #4 1.5 COM Port 1 Connector (COM1) Signal Signal DCDA DTRA Ground DSRA RTSA CTSA 1.6 COM Port 2 Connector (COM2) Signal Signal DCDB DTRB Ground DSRB RTSB CTSB PER-C40C Quick Installation Guide...
CTSD 1.9 Driver Installation and Module set up The PER-C40C supports Linux and Windows XP platforms. It comes with a CD-ROM that contains all drivers and utilities that meet your needs. When your platform is Windows XP please following the sequence below to install the drivers, when your system is Linux, you don’t need to install the driver just process the Mini PCI RS-232...
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2. Select “Search for the best driver in these locations.”, next select “Include this location in this search:” and then click “Browse” to open the “CD-ROM/Driver/PER-C40C Mini PCI RS-232 Module driver V1.0 for Windows” file as shown in figure 2 . Click “Next.”...
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4. The “Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard” dialog Appears as shown in figure 3, click “Finish.” 5. Repeat the above process for the second, third, fourth, fifth AAEON PCI Communications Port. 6. Please re-start your Windows. Finalizing Mini PCI RS-232 module settings...
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P E R - C 4 0 C 4-port Mini PCI module will show 4 AAEON PCI Communications Port and 2-port Mini PCI module will show 2 AAEON PCI Communications Port as the figure 4 shows 4 ports Mini PCI module Figure 4 Mini-PCI RS-232 module set up in Linux If the module is a 4-port Mini PCI, you don’t need to proceed with the...
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IRQ number and the next have I/O address 3. Open the file: /etc/rc.local and add two commands setserial /dev/ttySX1 port IOADDR1 irq Y uart 16950 baud_base 115200 setserial /dev/ttySX2 port IOADDR2 irq Y uart 16950 baud_base 115200 PER-C40C Quick Installation Guide...
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/dev/ttyS4 port 0xe000 irq 9 uart 16950 baud_base 115200 setserial /dev/ttyS5 port 0xe100 irq 9 uart 16950 baud_base 115200 Please re-start your computer. 5. Make cat /proc/tty/driver/serial command to see if the display is as following, if yes you already set it up. PER-C40C Quick Installation Guide...
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