
OS/2 Serial port driver COM.SYS with auto-detection of Serial Solutions PCI serial cards
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 (information on PARALLEL PORT driver included at the end of this document)

 -  version 1.1 30/6/2000



 
 	- PCI card support
	- > 115200 baud rate for cards which support this
	- ISA interrupt sharing cards with a shared interrupt status register
	- PCMCIA single function serial communications card support
	- Template updated to add additional com port to Device 121

 - the device driver is a replacement for the COM.SYS standard serial port
 	driver.

 - up to 8 COM ports can be opened with this version

 - (c) 2000 Serial Solutions written by Kieren Gracie.



INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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 -1-	Edit the file CONFIG.SYS located in the root directory of your OS/2
 			boot drive (normally C:)

		- search for COM.SYS, this should be on a line that begins with the
			word 'DEVICE='

		- (on my system, the line is 'DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\COM.SYS' - all
			command examples assume this is where COM.SYS is located, if it
			is in a different location you will have to modify the following 
			examples accordingly)



 -2-	Copy the file SSCOMA1.SYS (Serial Solutions COM driver release
			version 1.0) from the install disk to this directory, e.g.

				copy A:\SSCOMA1.SYS C:\OS2\BOOT\SSCOMA1.SYS

		- modify the line in CONFIG.SYS, replacing COM.SYS with SSCOMA1.SYS


 -2(a)-		*NEW NEW* Copy the file TEMPLATE.PCI into any directory you choose

		
		- NOW, add the command line argument

		
			/T<full path>TEMPLATE.PCI


		to the end of the SSCOMA1.SYS line in CONFIG.SYS, with at least 1 
			space before the /, replacing <full path> with the FULL path of
			where the template file is located. For example, if I copied 
			TEMPLATE.PCI into the directory D:\MYDIR, my DEVICE= line would
			read


		DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\SSCOMA1.SYS /TD:\MYDIR\TEMPLATE.PCI

			(N.B. : There should not be a space between the /T and the PATH)

		This template describes a range of PCI coms cards and gives
			additional information to the driver about a specific card's 
			non-standard features.



 -3-	Save the changes to CONFIG.SYS



 -4-	Reboot your machine in order for the new driver to be installed



PCMCIA Cards -- additional notes
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 - Please refer to the file PCMCIA.TXT for notes on using PCMCIA cards with
 	this driver


UNINSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
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 - If you experience any problems using this driver, you may have to revert back to your
	old version of the driver.

 - To do this, change the line in CONFIG.SYS mentioning SSCOMA1.SYS back to
 	it's original form, i.e. so that it names COM.SYS rather than SSCOMA1.SYS
			
 - You must then reboot your machine in order for the old device driver to 
 	be installed



OTHER UTILITY PROGRAMS INCLUDED WITH THIS RELEASE
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 - There is also an OS/2 program COMPORTS.EXE included with this release
 	which can be used to display the com number, I/O base address and IRQ
	line assigned to the PCI serial ports that the driver detects and tries
	to initialise.

	- see additional readme file COMPORTS.TXT

	- the program can be started by double clicking on its icon or may be run
		from a command prompt
		
		e.g., if installing from drive A: 

			copy A:\COMPORTS.EXE C:\OS2\APPS\COMPORTS.EXE

				(or to any directory you like)

				- if the directory is listed when you type ...

					PATH

				   then you can simply start the program by typing

					COMPORTS

				   from the command line.

				- otherwise, you must run the program from the directory you
				   copied it to.


 - RS232OS2.EXE : this is a simple OS/2 terminal program.



 - Please report any "bugs" or issues to your supplier.


Parallel Printer PCI Driver PARPCI.SYS
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 - This driver supports both ISA parallel ports (including those integerated into
   motherboards) and parallel ports on Brain Boxes PCI cards.

 - It replaces the standard OS/2 driver.

 - Up to three parallel ports can be used simultaneously with this driver.

 - To use it:

   Replace

	BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS

   or other parallel port driver with

	BASEDEV=PARPCI.SYS

   then copy "PARPCI.SYS" to the \OS2\BOOT directory.