National Instruments ENET-Serial User manual

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November 2001
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GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR SERIAL DEVICE
SERVER FOR LINUX X86/SOLARIS 2.X
Note NI ENET-Serial User Manual refers to the ENET-232 Series
and ENET-485 Series User Manual for Linux x86/Solaris 2.x in the
NIserial/Enet subdirectory of your installation.
Follow these steps to install your serial device server software and hardware:
1. Loginasroot and insert the CD. Install the NI Serial device server software
by running the installation script INSTALL from the VISA subdirectory of the
appropriate operating system directory.
2. Record the following information from the baseplate label here:
Serial Number
Ethernet Address
Default Hostname
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3. Connect the power and Ethernet cables.
4. Power on the serial device server.
1 Power Connection 2 Ethernet Connection
1 PWR/RDY LED
2 Ethernet LEDs
3 Serial Port LEDs
4 Power Switch
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5. Wait up to 90 seconds and observe the PWR/RDY LED for the
following output:
•Steady yellow—Device was automatically configured. Go to step 6.
•Steady red—Contact National Instruments.
•Slow blinking pattern—See Appendix B, PWR/RDY RED Signaling,
in the NI ENET-Serial User Manual and contact National Instruments.
•Continues flickering rapidly—See Chapter 3, Ethernet Configuration,
in the NI ENET-Serial User Manual to configure your device manually.
6. Follow these steps to configure the NI Serial server software:
a. Run visaconf, which is in the NIvisa subdirectory of your installation.
Click Add Static, which brings up the Add New Static Resource
window. From the Select the interface listbox, select NI ENET
Serial Box.
b. Fill in the Hostname or IP address box in one of the following ways:
• If the serial device server is on the same subnet, click Browse…. This
brings up the NI Ethernet Device Configuration window, from which
you can highlight the appropriate device. Click Select.TheHostname
or IP address box is filled automatically.
• If DHCP configured the network parameters, type in the serial device
server hostname. (Use the default hostname listed on the baseplate
label unless you changed the hostname using NI Ethernet device
configuration.) If DHCP did not configure the network parameters,
type in the serial device server static IP address you configured using
NI Ethernet device configuration. If you get any errors, refer to
Appendix C, Troubleshooting and Common Questions,intheNI
ENET-Serial User Manual.

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c. Click OK to finish. The VISA Configuration window should now show
the new static addition(s) under the Ethernet Serial node.
d. Exit VISA Configuration. If you see the question Do you wish to
commit all your changes to VISA?, answer Yes.
7. To verify hardware and software installation, run NIvisaic,whichisin
the NIvisa subdirectory of your installation. NIvisaic attempts to open
and close each port. If the test is successful, all ENET-Serial ports are under
the ASRL0 (ENET/Serial) node; there are none under the Unknown node.
If there is a failure, select any ENET-Serial port under the Unknown node and
press Enter. This brings up a dialog box with a diagnostic message with more
information on the error source. To troubleshoot the problem, refer to
Appendix C, Troubleshooting and Common Questions,intheNI ENET-Serial
User Manual.
8. Connect the serial devices to the serial ports.
9. For further information, see the NI ENET-Serial User Manual.
1 Serial Ports 1 and 2 2 Serial Ports 3 and 4 (on 4-Port Models Only)
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