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SERIAL CABLES PCI-SWGEN3-81U PCI Switch Board User’s Manual
CLI Manager
3.1 Start-uP VT100 Screen
PCIe switch board uses the USB port as the serial port interface. Please use the USB type
A male to Type B male cable to connect PCIe switch board to PC and operation system will
detect a new “
USB-to-Serial COM Port”. Please use this serial port to configure the PCIe
switch b o ard
.
Note: USB-to-Serial bridge chip is Prolific PL2303, user can download Windows, Mac OS X driver
from
http://www.prolific.com.tw
By connecting a VT100 compatible terminal, or a PC operating in an equivalent terminal
emulation mode, all CLI administration functions can be exercised from the VT100 terminal.
There are a wide variety of Terminal Emulation packages, but for the most part they should be
very similar. The following setup procedure is an example setup VT100 Terminal in Windows 7
system using Tera Term 4.83 (a VT100 Terminal Emulation program and it’s an open-source,
free, software implemented, Terminal Emulator program).
Note: If you have encountered an issue with newer version of Tera Term, we recommend
you to use old version Tera Term. (4.83 or older version)