Trans PC Card -Universal Parallel Port - Installation

Installation of the Parallel Port with Notebook PCs

Windows Vista

After insertion of the card into the PC Card slot, let Vista find a driver. After it fails to find one, please follow the steps below:

Open Device Manager (Control Panel > System > Device Manager) and select under “Other Devices” “TDC TRANS_PC_CARD”. It will have a yellow exclamation mark indicating that it’s not installed.
Right click on TDC TRANS_PC_CARD and select “Update Driver Software”
Select “Browse my computer… Locate and install driver software manually”
Select “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer…”
Select “Ports (COM & LPT)” and click NEXT
Under Manufacturer select “(Standard port types)” and then “Printer Port”
Click NEXT, answer Yes to the warning about manually installing drivers, and then click CLOSE.
The TDC card should now show up in Device Manager under Ports >> Printer Port.
Shut down and restart the computer to allow for Windows registry update.

Windows XP Professional and Home Edition

The Card installs automatically as Plug and Play standard parallel port.
You need only to insert the Card into PC Card slot of your Notebook PC
for automatic installation of an add-on parallel port. The drivers for the card are provided by XP operating system.

Windows 2000

The Card auto-installs as Plug and Play standard parallel port.
You need only to insert the Card into PC Card slot of your Notebook PC
for automatic installation of an add-on parallel port.

Windows ME

After insertion of the card into the PC Card slot - "New Hardware Found" window will appear followed by "Add New Hardware Wizard" window. To install the card, please follow the steps below:

Select the second option "Specify the loccation of the driver (Advanced) and click the "Next" button.
Select the second option: "Display a list of all drivers" and click the "Next" button.
Scroll down the list of devices, highlight "Ports(COM & LPT)" and click the "Next" button.
Highlight "Standard" in the left window, "Printer Port" in the right window and click the "Next" button.
Click "Yes" button on the "Update Driver Warning".
On "Add New Hardware Wizard" window click the "Next" button.
Click "Finish" button. You should hear two beeps confirming successful installation of LPT2 port.
Shut down and restart the computer to allow for Windows registry update.

Windows 98 - (Second Edition)

After insertion of the card into the PC Card slot - "New Hardware Found" window will appear followed by "Add New Hardware Wizard" window. To install the card, please follow the steps below:

Click the "Next" button.
Select the second option: "Display a list of all drivers" and click the "Next" button.
Scroll down the list of devices, highlight "Ports(COM & LPT)" and click the "Next" button.
Highlight "Standard" in the left window, "Printer Port" in the right window and click the "Next" button.
Click "Yes" button on the "Update Driver Warning".
On "Add New Hardware Wizard" window click the "Next" button.
Click "Finish" button. You should hear two beeps confirming successful installation of LPT2 port.
Shut down and restart the computer to allow for Windows registry update.

Windows 98 and Interim Version of Window 95B (OS-R2)

After inserting the Card into PC slot, the "New Hardware Found" box appears, followed by Device Driver Wizard box. To install the Card, please follow the procedure below:

Click the "Next" button and after the Wizard finishes attempt to read drive A:, press "Finish" button.
From Control Panel, double-click on System icon and from Device Manager, list of devices, select "? Other devices" and then select "? TDC-Trans PC Card" under the "? Other Devices"
Select "Properties" button and select "Driver" tab, Click on "Update Driver" button.
Check "No, select driver from the list" and press "Next" button
Highlight "Ports [COM & LPT]" from the list of devices
Highlight "Standard" and "Printer Port", then press "Finish" button
You should hear two beeps confirming successful installation of LPT2 port
Shut down and restart the computer to allow for Windows registry update.

Windows 95

After inserting the Card into PC slot, the "New Hardware Found" box appears. To install the Card, please follow the procedure below:

Select the last option "Select from a list of alternate drivers" and click OK.
Highlight "Ports (COM &LPT) and click OK.
On the "Select Device" dialog box highlight "Standard port types" on the left and "Printer Port" on the right. You should hear two beeps confirming successful installation of LPT2 port.
Shut down and restart the computer for Windows registry update.

After installation with Windows, the Card features full Plug and Play capability (automatic self configuration upon insertion, confirmed by two beeps). Windows installs the Card as LPT2 if your PC has LPT1 already installed. If your PC has two PC Card slots, you may install second Trans PC Card as LPT3 repeating the steps above for installation. Windows assigns LPT2 to the Card in the first slot and LPT3 to the Card in the second slot during power-up.

Windows NT4

Windows NT4 does not support PC Cards, You need to use the CardWare version 6.31 from APSoft - web site: www.tssc.de to enable the Parallel Port on the card.

DOS or Windows 3.x

To install the parallel port, under DOS, please use UPP.com which enables the Card as a standard parallel port. The UPP.com is provided on the disk or please download UPP.com from Installation Section of our web site www.transdigital.net. The port enabling program UPP.com, writes directly to Intel or Intel compatible PCMCIA controler chip and installs the Card as LPT1, LPT2, LPT3. The default is LPT2.

UPP installs LPT2

UPP 1 installs LPT1 and interrupt IRQ7

UPP 2 installs LPT2

UPP 3 installs LPT3

Linux

To install the Card as a Plug and Play add-on standard parallel port, you need to use Linux with kernel supporting PCMCIA (kernel 2.2 or later) and PC Card Services. All required installation information for Card Services is provided in CIS (Card Information Structure) on the flash of the Card.

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