CONTENTS Introduction........................1 System Requirements ....................1 Specifications......................1 Parts Names .........................2 FIRST THING TO KNOW ABOUT SOFTWARE INSTALLATION....4 Software Installation for Windows 95/98..............6 Installing the Device Driver...................6 Installing The Application Programs ................6 VCOMM Mode ....................6 Making PPP Connection (Basic Internet)..........6 Making Multilink PPP Connections............9 Making V.110 Connections ................9 Making V.120 Connections ..............10 Making Multi-destination Connections ..........10...
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NDIS Mode......................30 Making PPP Connections.................30 Making Multilink PPP Connections............31 Software Installation for Windows NT4.x...............34 Installing the Device Driver..................34 Installing the Application Programs ................39 NDIS Mode......................39 Internet Access....................40 CAPI Mode......................41 Installing RVS-COM Lite................41 Applications....................41 Making PPP connections................41 Making Multilink PPP connections............42 Making “Modem over ISDN”...
INTRODUCTION The ISDN TA PC Card brings the latest in mobile communication technology with flexibility and convenience. With the wide range ISDN signaling protocols switches supports, mobile experts may enjoy the mobile communication across the world and the high speed digital service. System Requirements §...
Application Program Interface Windows 98 Supported Windows NT 4.0 VCOMM Physical Specifications WinISDN RJ-45 ISDN line interface CAPI 2.0 Dimension: 85.6 x 54 x 5 (mm) NDIS WAN PCMCIA Type II Operating System Supported Windows 95 and OSR2 Parts Names 15-pin PC Card Connector ISDN Network Connection Cable...
HARDWARE INSTALLATION If you are using the ISDN TA PC Card under Windows 95/98, Do NOT insert the PCMCIA card until after the software installation is completed. Align the PC card with the arrow sign pointing toward the computer’s PCMCIA slot. Connect the 15-pin PC card connectors with the two exposed end of the PC card.
FIRST THING TO KNOW ABOUT SOFTWARE INSTALLATION The ISDN TA PC Card is designed to support a wide bandwidth of interfaces/drivers for a total solution in different environments. The software setup procedures accordingly vary from interfaces/drivers to interfaces/drivers. To help you set up the software efficiently, the software installation is organized by interfaces under Windows 95/98 and Windows NT respectively.
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Windows NT Hyper Terminal CAPI NDIS RVS-COM Center * PPP * PPP CAPI 2.0 NDIS Port * Modem over ISDN * G3 Fax Interface Driver * Voice application ISDN Low Level Driver v The blocked area indicate that after when setup.exe has been executed (see section titled “Installing Device Driver”), the Phone Dialer CAPI mode and NDIS were also installed.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95/98 Installing the Device Driver Insert the device driver compact disc or disks by sequence into your computer. Double-click My Computer. Double-click the drive whichever contains the device driver. For example, if you are using disks, insert the disks into drive A, double-click “3½ Floppy (A:)”.
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Select Dial-Up Networking. Double-click Make a New Connection, a dialogue box will appear as shown below. Name the new connection appropriately. Select Intelligent PCMCIA ISDN TA (modem). Enter in the area code and phone number of your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
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From the Dial-Up Networking window right-click your newly created connection. Select Properties. On the General tab, cancel the selection of “ Use area code and Dialing Properties” and click OK. From the Start menu, select Programs. Select Configuration Utility. Click Config. A dialogue box will prompt you to change the settings to fit your needs.
Making Multilink PPP Connections The Intelligent ISDN TA PC Card supports the combining of two 64 Kbps data channels into the equivalent of a single 128 Kbps line, which is known as Multi-Link connection. To make the multilink PPP connections, firstly the PPP connection has to be completed, and the hardware (the ISDN TA PC Card) has been properly installed.
§ If the maximum speed you selected is not listed above, the system will automatically adapt the V.110 user rate to the default setting at 38400 bps. Enter the ISDN phone number of the remote party that you want to call. Click “Next”, and click “Finish”...
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(a) Add the 2 COM port. § Enter “Control Panel” à “Modem”. Click “Add” button. § Check “Other”. Click “Next”. § Check “Don’t detect my modem; I will select it from a list”. Click “Next”. § Select “Intelligent ISDN” in “Manufacturers”, and “Intelligent PCMCIA ISDN TA (modem)”...
CAPI Mode Before starting applications CAPI mode, RVS-COM “CommCenter” is required to be executed. If the RVS.COM is not yet installed on your computer, perform the following procedures. Installing RVS.COM Lite 1. Insert the RVS-COM compact disc into your CD-ROM drive. Press Yes when the opening screen appears.
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4. Click Express configuration main line>. Follow the on-screen instruction to finish the installation. 5. To make sure if the RVS-COM has been well installed, you may check by going to the Start menu->Settings->Control Panel->Modems to see if “RVS ISDN Internet PPP” exists in there as illustrated below.
Making PPP connections Execute RVSCommCenter”. Click “Make new Connection” in the Dial-Up Networking folder. Name the new connection appropriately, for example, “RVS_PPP”. Select “RVS ISDN Internet PPP”. Click Configure…. Select “RVS Port (COM#)”. Click OK.
Click Next. Enter the ISDN phone number of your ISP. Click Next. Click “Finish”. Now you are ready for Internet access through CAPI. Making Multilink PPP Connections There are two ways to setup the ISDN PC Card for Multilink PPP (MP or MLP) connections through CAPI mode.
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When the above dialog box appears, check 2 COM port and click OK. Go to My computer. Select Control Panel. Double-click Modem. Click Add. Select “Other Modem”. Click “Next”. Select “Don't detect my modem; I will select it from a list”. Click Next. Select “RVS Datentechnik”...
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Click “Finish”. Now you can see “RVS ISDN Internet PPP #2” in the modem list in “Control Panel” à “Modem”. 10. Enter “Dial-Up Networking” folder in My Computer. 11. Click “Make new Connection”, and name the new connection appropriately. For example, “RVS_MP”. Select the modem “RVS ISDN Internet PPP”.
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12. Enter the ISDN phone number your ISDN ISP. Click Next to finish. 13. Right-click the new connection in Dial-Up Network. Click Property. 14. Click the “Multilink” tab. Check “Use additional device”. Click Add. Select RVS ISDN Internet PPP #2”. Click OK to complete the Multilink PPP settings.
Making V.110 Connections Execute “CommCenter”. And make sure all the settings are well and correctly configured. Go to My Computer. Make sure Dial-Up Networking (DUN) is well installed. Double-click “Make New Connection”. Name the new connection appropriately. For example, “RVS_V.110”. Select “RVS ISDN V.110”...
Click “Configure” button, and give the appropriate settings. Ignore the “Maximum speed” setting (you are recommended to set to the speed at higher than 64000 bps, such as 115200 or higher). Click “Next”. Click “Next”. Enter the ISDN phone number of the remote party that you want to call. Click “Next”, and click “Finish”...
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Start the RVS TransferMaster. The New Connection dialog appears. Select, by opening the list of the field Name, another party that has already been saved, or enter a Name for a new other party. Enter the...
Phone number of the other party and check Other party uses ISDN Eurofile transfer. Click Next. Enter the details for the connection in the Connect To dialog box. Click Connect. The connection will be established and you will then see the folder that the other party has made available to you for access.
Open the ISDN tab. Select appropriate ISDN voice encoding scheme for your location. Generally, you should select “A-law” for European countries, and “Mu-law” for N. America. Run “Config” in “Configuration Utility”. Open “Switch type” tab. Choose appropriate “Voice Encoding” scheme. Now you are ready to use the RVS-COM’s Softmodem function.
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Open “ISDN” tab. Select appropriate ISDN voice encoding scheme for your location. Generally, you should select “A-law” for European countries, “Mu-law” for North America...
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Open the Service tab. Select Accept calls. Select Fax. Click OK. Sending a fax Start Create New Fax in the RVS-COM group programs. Click OK.
Follow the on-screen instruction to enter the necessary information. When all set, RVS will send out the fax for you automatically. Receiving a fax Wait for incoming fax calls. You can go to Inbox to read the incoming fax. Voice Applications The voice applications includes: Digital answering machine ISDN Phone (acting like a telephone set, that you can communicate with...
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Digital Answering Machine Start RVSCommCenter. Open the Service tab. Check Accept calls. Check Answerphone. Open the ISDN tab, select the appropriate ISDN voice coding scheme for your location. A-law is usually used in European countries, and Mu-law for North America. Make sure all the other settings in “...
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Click Settings to record/edit your greeting message. The incoming voice message will be stored in “Inbox”. Double-click the received voice mails to play back the messages. ISDN Phone Start RVS-COM “CommCenter”. Open the Service tab. Clear the selections of the Accept calls and the Answerphone check box.
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Make sure all the other settings in “CommCenter” are correctly configured. Click OK. Run “Config” in “Configuration Utility”. Open “Switch type”. Choose appropriate “Voice Encoding” scheme. The setting should be consistent with RVS-COM in step (3). Start Telephone in “RVS-COM Lite” program group. Click “Answerphone”...
NDIS Mode NDIS is dedicatedly designed for Internet connections with Microsoft ISDN Accelerator Pack. Perform the following steps to install the NDIS driver,. Make sure ISDN Accelerator Pack is pre-installed, and the PC Card is firmly seated. Go to Control Panel. Select Add New Hardware. Click Next. Select “No”...
Double-click “Make New Connection”. Name the new connection appropriately. For example, “PPP_NDIS”. Select “ISDN-Line#” (in this case “ISDN-Line0”) in the “Select a device” box. Click “Configure” to check and configure the other settings. Click “Next” Type the ISDN phone number of your ISP that you want to call. Click “Next”, and click “Finish”...
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Click “Settings” button in “General” settings folder. Select “Use additional devices”. Click Add, and specify the additional device name and the secondary phone number, if available, for making Multi-Link PPP connections. Click “OK” to finish the Multi-Link PPP settings. Open the “Server Types” folder and complete all the TCP/IP settings accordingly, refer to the information provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
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Now you can use the Internet application software, for example, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator, to connect to ISP with Multilink PPP mode.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT4.X Installing the Device Driver Go to Control Panel. (You may go to the Start menu, select Settings to open the Control Panel folder.) Select Network. A Network dialog box will appear as illustrated below. Select Adapter tab. Click Add…. The following dialog box will appear.
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If you are using disks to install the device driver, insert the disk into your free floppy drive and type in the drive name, for example, A:, to continue. Or if you are using compact disk to install, insert the compact disk into your computer and type in the CD-ROM drive letter followed by winnt\driver, and click OK to continue.
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Press OK to continue. The installation program will proceed automatically. When finished, a Setup Message will prompt you to invoke Remote Access Services (RAS) setup. Press OK to continue. 10. When the Network dialog box appear, select the Services tab.
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11. Select Remote Access Service. Click Properties. The following figure will appear. 12. Select Add... When the Add RAS Device dialog box appears, select ISDN1 – ISDN_TA and click OK. Press Add... again to add ISDN2- ISDN_TA. When completed, press Continue. You will be prompted to...
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the Network dialog box again. Click Close to continue. The installation program will continue automatically. When finished, Windows will prompt you to restart your computer. Click Yes to continue.
Installing the Application Programs Before you start, make sure the type of your Application Program Interface. The Application Program Interface (API) is used as the interface between the hardware (ISDN TA PC Card) and the application programs. Up to date, the available Application Program Interface for Windows NT are NDIS and CAPI.
Internet Access Go to My Computer. Select Dial-Up Networking. Click New... to name the phonebook. Enter in the name properly. Shift to the next tab to enter in the required data as illustrated below. When finished, click OK. Select Dial to continue. When the Connect to ISDN dialogue appears, you are on the Internet.
CAPI Mode Installing RVS-COM Lite Make sure the RVS-COM Lite “CommCenter” has been well installed and executed before start any application in CAPI mode. For details, refer to the previous section with the same title in the Windows 95/98 environment. Applications All the applications applied in Windows NT can be executed as in Windows 95/98.
14. Select “Send my plain text password…” (recommended). Click “Next”. 15. Select “RVS ISDN Internet PPP (COM#)”. Click “ Next”. 16. Give the phone number that you want to dial to. Click “Next”. 17. Click “Finish”. 18. Click “Dial” to make connection immediately. Or click “Close” to wait for later PPP applications.
15. Run RVS-COM “CommCenter”. 16. Double click “Dial-Up Networking” in “My Computer”. 17. If you are not new of using Dial-up Networking, click “New” command button. If this is your first connection, just skip it. Give the new connection name. For example, “RVS_MP”. Click “Next”. 18.
Now you are ready to use the RVS-COM’s Softmodem function. Refer to the RVS-COM on-line documentation for application details. Making G3 Fax over ISDN Start CommCenter. Open the SoftwareFax tab. Select “Use SoftwareFax to receive fax” to receive a fax. Or select “Use SoftwareFax to send fax” to send a fax. Open “ISDN”...
ISDN AT COMMANDS Besides using configuration utility as described in the previous section, you can alternatively use ISDN AT command to configure and use the Intelligent ISDN TA PC Card. More specifically, AT commands are usually issued to the ISDN TA PC Card to control the TA's operation and configuration.
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5ESS switch AT!Z=9<Enter> Select async to sync PPP Conversion AT&N0=0<Enter> Select Single-Link PPP mode Mostly the AT commands can also be entered in the same command line. For example, AT!C0=0!Z=9&N0=0<Enter> As shown above, it is not necessary to put spaces between the commands (there is no space between AT, !C0=0, !Z=9, and &N0=0).
APPENDIX: ISDN AT COMMAND Command Description Go off-hook (answer the incoming call immediately) ATB? Display V.110 user rate for out-going calls ATBn n=0 V.110 user rate: 600 bps V.110 user rate: 1200 bps V.110 user rate: 2400 bps V.110 user rate: 4800 bps V.110 user rate: 9600 bps V.110 user rate: 19200 bps V.110 user rate: 38400 bps...
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Hang up the ISDN data calls ATH1 Disconnect ISDN Phone voice calls ATH3 Disconnect ISDN data calls and ISDN Phone voice calls ATI3 View driver version Return to connection (on-line) mode AT!C0=n ISDN D-channel protocol and switches selection n=00 AT&T 5ESS Custom n=01 Northern Telecom DMS-100 Custom n=02...
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Enable 3.1K Hz audio AT!Z=n B-channel protocol selection n=05 V.120 n=06 V.110 n=09 Async to Sync PPP conversion Note: The "!" commands are used to change certain fundamental configuration parameters which are changed very infrequently - often, only once at installation.
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