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                      Perle-Serial Driver for Windows
                 Copyright 2004-2012 Perle Systems Limited
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  Driver release    : 2.9.0
  Date              : March 2012
  O/S Compatibility : Windows 2000 32-bit
                      Windows XP, 32-bit and 64-bit
                      Windows Server 2003, 32-bit and 64-bit
                      Windows Vista, 32-bit and 64-bit
                      Windows Server 2008, 32-bit and 64-bit
                      Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit
                      Windows Server 2008 Release 2, 64-bit

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  The Multi-port Perle-Serial Driver supports the following multiport serial 
  adapter cards from Perle: 
    
    SPEED4+, SPEED LE, SPEED LE Express 
    PCI-Fast4/8/16/16FMC, AT-Fast4/8/16
    UltraPort1/2/4/8/8i/16
    UltraPort1/2/4/8/16 SI
    UltraPort Express
    PCI-RAS, PCI-RAS V.92 modem cards

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Driver Installation/Upgrade Procedure
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Download the lastest Perle-Serial driver zip file from the Perle website for your 
operating system:

        pserial-x86.zip   - for 32-bit Windows operating systems.
        pserial-x64.zip   - for 64-bit Windows operating systems.
        pserial-ia64.zip  - for 64-bit Windows Itanium operating systems. 

Unzip the driver zip file to a local directory. 

Install the required Perle-Serial cards into the PC. When the PC boots, the OS 
will attempt to install drivers for the new hardware. Hit cancel when each of 
cards are found.

We recommend that you use the pserial-setup-<arch>.exe installation program, 
which will launch the installation wizard and create an installation 
sub-directory in the "Program Files" directory and then run the UpdateV2 
program which will install the driver for each card that was detected on bootup.

When adding new cards to a system with the driver already loaded, run the 
Update Driver program from the Start menu. Located at
"Start/All Programs/Perle/Perle-Serial/Update Driver".

To upgrade drivers for installed devices, install the new driver package.
This will update the files in the installation directory and then update all 
installed Perle-Serial type devices with the drivers found in this package. 

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Known issues in this release :
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* None


Driver Updates :
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These drivers will be updated from time-to-time. Please visit the Perle
Web-Site at http://www.Perle.com/ to ensure you have the latest release.

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The Multi-port Perle-Serial Driver can be configured using the Windows
Device Manager or using the command line configuration utility Spdcon.exe.
Both methods support the same configuration parameters.
Spdcon help will give information on how to use it.

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Release History
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Version    Description
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2.9.0	   * Added command line configuration utility Spdcon.exe.

2.8.4      * Fixed the order of serial port assignment to be sequential in
             Windows 7.

2.8.3      * Added support for new version of UltraPort 8i.

2.8.2      * Fix for null pointer, Win 7 blue screen.

2.8.1      * Maintenance release
             Added code to enable interrupt mask for port 8 on new version of 
             Speed8 LE PCI card.
             
2.8.0      * Added support for MT9234SMI modem modules on the PCI-RAS cards.
             Now using MultitechA.INF file for PCI-RAS card modems.

2.7.0      * Added support for the new versions of the UltraPort4 Express and 
             UltraPort8 Express.

2.6.12     * Modified to pass Microsoft Logo Certification for Server 2008 R2.
			 
2.6.11     * Obtained Microsoft Logo Signature.

2.6.10     * Maintenance release - FIFO property page help fixed
2.6.1      * Maintenance release - Corrected printer only uninstall.

2.6.0      * Added support for the new UltraPort1 Express and UltraPort 2
             Express cards with DB9 connectors

2.5.0	   * Added support for the SPEED LE and SPEED LE Express
             serial/parallel port cards.

2.4.0      * Added option for each port to report DSR always on. This option is
             found in the Port Settings tab of the Port Properties window.
             This option is used if the attached serial cable does not have a 
             DSR connection and the application requires an active DSR signal to
             work properly.
             This option when activated will disable DTR/DSR hardware flow
			 
2.3.1      * Obtained Microsoft Logo signature for driver.

2.3.0      * Added support for Window XP 64-bit version and 
             Windows 2003 Server 64-bit version. These OSes are supported on 
             both the x64 and itanium hardware platforms.
           * Added support for Windows Vista in both the 32-bit and 64-bit 
             versions.

2.2.0      * Added support for new PCI UltraPort SI cards which have Perle as 
             the VENDOR ID. The UltraPort16 SI is not affected by this change.
             The serial number of the UltraPort SI cards has the following form:
                57-xxWWYYxnnnn 
              where WW is the week of production and,
                    YY is the year of production.
             If the serial number on an Ultraport SI card shows that it has been 
             produced on or after the first week of Sept (WW=36) of the year 
             2006 (YY=06), then a driver of version 2.2.0 or later is required 
             to recognize the card.

2.1.0      * Added support for the UltraPort Express and Speed LE cards.

2.0.1      * Ports stoped functioning after recovering from standby or 
             hibernation mode on UltraPort SI cards
           * Added proper voice support in 5634.inf for PCI-RAS V.92 cards

2.0.0.2    * Fixed lockup issue when installing driver for Speed4(+) cards
           * Microsoft Windows logo testing performed and driver signed by Microsoft
		   
2.0.0.1    * Addes support for universal UltraPort SI cards that support EIA-232,
             EIA-422, EIA-485 protocols.
			 
1.0.7      * Added support to SPEED driver for the UltraPort1 serial card
           * Added support to SPEED driver for universal 3.3/5 V PCI-RAS4 V.92 
             and PCI-RAS8 V.92 Multi-Modem cards
1.0.6      * Added support for the UltraPort2 and Ultraport 8I serial adapter cards
1.0.5      * Added support for the UltraPort 4, 8 and 16 port PCI cards
           * All character with parity or framing errors were always aborted 
           * Proper support for SERIAL_ERROR_CHAR and error replacement flags
           * Break signals were not reported to the application
           * RTS signal would remain active after port closing when RTS/CTS 
             flow control was enabled
1.0.3      * Add Support for new Speed2 and Speed2+ cards.
           * Fix memory leak when driver is unable to delete symbolic link. 
1.0.2      * Change SPDPorts.dll to display new Perle Logo.
           * Include new SPDPorts.dll for port configuration in device manager.
           *  Improve performance of DTR/DSR flow control on Fast & RAS cards.
           *  Fix ISR to correctly recognise interrupt on 16 port cards.
           *  Add support for PCIFast4/8/16/16FMC, ATFast4/8/16 and PCIRas4/8 cards.
           *  Machine does not resume from standby/hibernate when Speed port is open.
           *  Speed driver needs to allow custom configuration of FIFO settings.
           *  Serial ports do not export an serial port interface.
           *  Device objects need to be created with the FILE_DEVICE_SECURE_OPEN characteristic.
           *  Driver touches IRP after it is queued outside protection of Cancel spinlock.
           *  Driver needs to support WMI and make standard serial port WMI data available to system.
           *  PURGE IOCTL does not check the buffer it is being passed is large enough before trying to use it.
           *  Copying a file to COM port from command line causes WDM error with driver verifier.
           *  Driver allows port to be removed from device manager whilst port is open.
           *  If card is uninstalled from device manager without uninstalling the ports first the COM# names are not used again if the card is reinstalled.

1.0.0      * Intial realease to support Speed4 multi-port serial card
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