Adding and configuring serial cards

The Serial Manager allows you to configure SCO OpenServer-supported serial cards and individual serial ports. (Information displayed by the Serial Manager corresponds to the output of hwconfig(C) for serial devices.)

You can start the Serial Manager in any of these ways:

• Enter mkdev serial or scoadmin serial manager on the command line.

• Double-click on the System Administration icon on the Desktop, then on Hardware/Kernel Manager, and select Serial Port from the devices listed.

• Start the SCOadmin launcher by entering scoadmin on the command line, then select Hardware/Kernel Manager, and select Serial Port from the devices listed.

• Select Configure from the Ports menu in the Modem Manager.

The Serial Manager shows:

• the ``units'' (serial controllers) in use, which correspond to COM ports:

  unit number	COM port
  0	COM1
  1	COM2
  2	COM3
  3	COM4
  4	COM5
  5	COM6
  6	COM7
  7	COM8
  8	COM9
  9	COM10

  ISA serial boards are assigned COM ports 1 through 4. PCI serial boards are assigned numbers 5 through 10; PCI serial port numbers are determined by the order in which the boards are discovered.

• the dumb serial cards that are currently configured for each serial controller

• the ports that are controlled by the card that is currently highlighted

To add an SCO OpenServer-supported serial card:

1. Shut down the system using the System Shutdown Manager or the shutdown(ADM) command.

2. Install the serial card(s) and configure your hardware according to the manufacturer's instructions. If your system includes a configuration disk or BIOS setup program, use it as instructed. If your system is configured with switch settings on the main system board (motherboard), define the new ports by setting the proper switches (refer to your hardware manuals for the settings).

3. Reboot the system, and log in as root.

4. The next step is to define the configuration of the serial card hardware. Start the Serial Manager as described earlier in this section, then continue with the instructions in ``Configuring a serial card''.

See also:

• ``Configuring a serial port''

• ``ISA and EISA serial cards''

• ``Micro Channel Architecture serial cards''

• ``PCI serial cards''