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4.1 – Conguring Your Serial Device
The COM port number and its COM port status message are very important to conguring your serial device.
The COM port status is the state of the Keyspan serial port. All serial ports have two states, BUSY (In Use) or IDLE
(Available). When the serial port is IDLE, the port is available for use by any serial device’s soware. When a COM
port is BUSY, the serial port is in use by soware and therefore not available to other programs.
The COM port number is the address of the Keyspan serial port. In order for any serial device to communicate via
the Keyspan adapter, that serial device’s soware must be told to use the Keyspan COM port number.
Step 2 – Determine Where to Select/Congure the Keyspan Serial Port(s).
Prior to using your serial device with a Keyspan serial port, you must rst tell that serial device’s soware which
serial port your serial device hardware is connected to.
For example, if you have a Palm, you will have to tell the Palm Desktop soware to look for your Palm handheld
(hardware) on a Keyspan serial port. By doing this, you establish communicaon between your serial device’s
soware (the Palm Desktop soware) and your serial devices hardware (the Palm handheld unit).
Most serial devices will have soware that will allow you to select which serial port the device is connected to.
Depending on your serial device and its soware, you may have to congure: a Control Panel (modems accessing
ISPs), an applicaon (UPS systems), or some combinaon of these (modems accessing terminals using Zterm).
Please refer to your serial devices’ documentaon on which method your serial device uses and how to access that
soware’s serial port “conguraon” screen.
Once you’re determined where to select or congure your serial device’s soware’s serial port sengs, please
proceed to Step 3.
Step 3 – Determine Which Serial Port to Select in Your Serial Device’s Soware.
When you’ve found the port selecon screen in your serial device’s soware, you may be presented with a list of
COM port numbers, a place to type in a COM port number, or some combinaon of both.
At this point, you have to select or enter the COM port number of the Keyspan serial adapter you are connecng to.
Please note that you can see the COM port number in the Adapter Status tab in the Keyspan Serial Assistant.
Step 4 - Use Your Serial Device.
Once you’ve congured your serial soware to use the Keyspan serial port, you’re ready to start using your serial
device.