COMi Installation and Configuration

  NOTE on interrupt sharing:
    COMi supports shared interrupts on ISA serial adapter boards from Sealevel
    Systems, Comtrol Corporation, DigiBoard, and Quatech Incorporated, and some
    other ISA serial adapters that have an interrupt ID register. See your
    adapter's documentation to determine if it has the required capabilities
    and how to set it up in a shared interrupt mode.

    There are no interrupt restrictions on MCA machines, though we do not
    recommend installing more that eight devices on a single interrupt, or
    sharing interrupts across COMi loads.

To install the COMi asynchronous serial device driver do one of the following:

Method One:

1. Open the OS/2 System folder

2. Open the Drives folder

3. Double click on the drive that contains the distribution diskette.

4. Double click on the INSTALL.EXE icon.

5. Once INSTALL is loaded, use the "Install Options" menu item to setup the
   installation for your system requirements.

    Select "Files" | "Install Options..."

6. Transfer the files.

    Select "Files" | "Transfer Files"

7. Use the "Config COMi" menu to configure the COMi device driver.  Once in
   the configuration program there will be on-line help to help with the
   configuration process.

8. Shutdown and re-boot your machine.

Method Two:

1. Open an OS/2 command prompt session.

2. Make the disk drive containing the distribution diskette the default drive.

    Example:  [C:\]A: [ENTER)

              (assuming the distribution diskette is in drive A:)

3. Start INSTALL.EXE by typing INSTALL [ENTER]

4. Follow the instructions from item five, above.

Once installed, you may use INSTALL at any time to change the configuration
of the COMi device driver and any device controlled by COMi, though any
changes you make will require a re-boot to take effect.  Print spooler port
initialization can only be configured via a print objects setting notebook.

Your distribution diskette contains one additional file.  IOCTL.C
contains "C" source code sample functions for most of the DosDevIOCtl
functions defined for Category One Asynchronous Serial Devices as defined in
the "Physical Device Driver Technical Reference".

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These programs are licensed to you on a per CPU basis.  One license is
required for each CPU on which they are installed.

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productivity and/or pleasure brought about by the use of these programs.  This
is the only disclaimer you have to read.

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driver, or other OS/tools products please contact:

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