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1.
Navigate to Settings - Control Panel - Add/Remove New Hardware.
2.
From the Add/Remove Hardware Wizard, select Add/troubleshoot a device.
3.
Windows 2000 will search for new Plug and Play hardware on your computer. ESP
devices are network-attached and are not located by the Add New Hardware Wizard. A
list of devices that can be installed will be displayed. Select Add a new device.
4.
From the Find New Hardware page, select No, I want to select the hardware from a list.
5.
A list of hardware types will be displayed. Select Multi-port serial adapters.
6.
Windows 2000 will ask you to select a device driver. Highlight Equinox Systems Inc., select
Equinox Ethernet Serial Provider / Have Disk and point the Wizard to your A: drive.
7.
From the Select a Device Driver page, again select Equinox Ethernet Serial Provider.
8.
The Wizard will locate an ESP on your server's local subnet and display information
about that ESP. If your ESP does not yet have an IP address, you must enter the IP
address, then click Next.
9.
The Wizard will display the ESP confi guration for fi nal verifi cation. If the IP address you
assigned is correct, click Next.
10. The Wizard will now copy fi les from the Windows 2000 ESP driver diskette. During this
process, the Equinox ESP driver fi le is examined for a Microsoft digital signature. If the
ESP driver is not signed, a warning message is displayed. To continue the installation,
read the warning and then click Yes.
If you click No, the installation will terminate and the ESP will not be installed on your server.
11. Once all fi les are copied, click Finish.
Your ESP is now installed. Windows 2000 will now install the ESP serial ports.
Windows NT 4.0
1.
Navigate to Settings - Control Panel - Network to display the Network Control Panel.
Select the Services tab. Click Add to install the ESP driver for Windows NT 4.0.
2.
The Control Panel will generate a list of standard Network Services. The Equinox ESP
Service is a new network service. Click the Have Disk button.
3.
The Control panel will ask you to enter the pathname for the disk that contains the ESP
Service installation fi les.
a)
If you are installing from diskette, enter the drive letter of the diskette drive.
b)
If you are installing from the Equinox SuperSerial CD, enter the pathname
\DRIVERS\ESP\NT
c)
If you have stored the driver on the NT system or on a network drive, enter the full
pathname for the location of the Equinox ESP Service.
4.
The Control Panel will copy fi les from the specifi ed path to the required NT system
directories. Once the copy is complete and the driver is installed, the Control Panel will
automatically start the Equinox ESP Service. It will also start the ESP Installation Wizard
and attempt to locate ESP units on all local subnets.
Using the Installation Wizard, you can:
•
Discover and install ESP units on local or remote subnets
•
Confi gure ESP units and assign COM port numbers
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Equinox ESP-2 MI Serial Hub Installation Guide
, where D: is your CD-ROM drive letter.
D:
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