FAQs Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I find the latest driver for my USB to Serial or ExpressCard device?
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  • US - USB to Serial
  • VX - Serial ExpressCard
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Where can I find the latest drivers for my PX-275 or PX-279?
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  • PX - PCI Express Serial Cards
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Where can I find the latest drivers for my PCI Express card? (Excludes PX-275/279)
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  • PX - PCI Express Serial Cards
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Where can I find the latest drivers for my PCI or PCMCIA card?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • PM - Serial PC Card (PCMCIA)
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
  • UP - uPCI Powered Serial Cards
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Where can I find the latest Linux drivers for my PCI card?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • PM - Serial PC Card (PCMCIA)
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
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Where can I find the software for my BL-565 and BL-752?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Where can I find the latest drivers for my Ethernet to Serial Device?
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  • ES - Ethernet to Serial
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Where can I find the drivers for my PCI card to be used in DOS?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
  • UP - uPCI Powered Serial Cards
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Where can I find the software for my BL-521/730?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Where can I find the software for my BL-819/830?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Where can I find the software for my BL-554?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Where can I find the drivers for my PCI card to be used in Windows NT?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
  • UP - uPCI Powered Serial Cards
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Where can I find the drivers for my Apple Mac?
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  • US - USB to Serial
  • VX - Serial ExpressCard
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Where can I find the Windows 8 drivers for my USB to Serial device?
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  • US - USB to Serial
  • VX - Serial ExpressCard
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Where can I find the latest Linux drivers for my USB device or ExpressCard?
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  • US - USB to Serial
  • VX - Serial ExpressCard
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Where can I find the BL-875 application to pair/un-pair my devices?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Where can I find the latest drivers for my XC ExpressCard?
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  • XC - Serial PCIe ExpressCard
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Where can I find the Windows 8 drivers for my PCI Express card? (Excludes PX-275/279)
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  • PX - PCI Express Serial Cards
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Where can I find the Windows 8 drivers for my Ethernet to Serial device?
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  • ES - Ethernet to Serial
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Where can I find the latest driver for my Ethernet IO module?
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  • ED - Ethernet IO
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What is the difference between Windows CE 3.0 and Pocket PC 2000?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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How do I find out if an unusual baud rate is supported by my Brain Boxes Serial card?
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  • ALL
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What is the difference between RS422 communication and RS485 communication?
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  • ALL
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Do the Brainboxes products allow communication with security enabled ie authentication and encryption?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Are the parallel ports on your serial cards ECP and EPP enabled?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • PX - PCI Express Serial Cards
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
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How far will RS232 communicate?
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How far will RS422/485 communicate?
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  • ALL
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What does your basic development kit consist of?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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What is the difference between BCSP and H4?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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I am interested in learning more about your baseband implementation.
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Is it possible to setup a SCO link using your products?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
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Can I send HCI commands using the UART BT specification to the BL-510 RS232 device?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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I have a Windows CE Bluetooth stack - can I connect to your CompactFlash card?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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What is the cause of buffer overrun when transmitting data to my serial card?
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  • ALL
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I am having trouble connecting to my Bluetooth Nokia phone
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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I’m losing data when transmitting or receiving via the BL-521
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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What is the temperature and humidity range for Brainboxes Bluetooth Products?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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How do I test my Brainboxes card to make sure its working?
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  • ALL
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RS232 RS422 RS485 Standards
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  • ALL
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How to use Hyperterminal to test serial cards
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  • ALL
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How do I identify my Brainboxes product?
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  • ALL
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Bluetooth FAQ
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Does my BrainBoxes Bluetooth product support TCP/IP ?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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What is the purpose of the buffer on a UART?
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  • ALL
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What is Autogating?
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What is XOn / XOff Software Flow Control?
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  • ALL
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What is a UART?
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  • ALL
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What is RTS / CTS Hardware Flow Control?
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What is a FIFO?
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What is Optical Isolation?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
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The CSR chip can be set to run at 1,382,400 baud. Do your products support this setting?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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What Baud rates will your Bluetooth products work at?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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What is the maximum distance your Bluetooth devices will cover?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Over what distance will a Class 1 device communicate with a Class 2 device?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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What does 450, 550, 750 UART compatibility mean, and why is there no 950 ?
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  • ALL
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What is the pin-out of the small connector on my PCMCIA card?
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  • PM - Serial PC Card (PCMCIA)
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What are the Pin outs of the 9 pin D connector for my RS232 or RS422/485 port?
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  • ALL
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What are the Pin outs of the 25 pin D connector for my RS232 or RS422/485 port?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • PX - PCI Express Serial Cards
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
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What is the pinout of an LPT Parallel Printer Port?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
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How do I physically fit/install my ISA, PCI or PCI Express card into my computer?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • PX - PCI Express Serial Cards
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
  • UP - uPCI Powered Serial Cards
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How do I create a loop back connector?
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  • ALL
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How do I convert my Bluetooth device from BCSP to H4 and vice versa?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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How do I change the COM label of my Brainboxes card?
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  • ALL
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Can I use your BL-510 RS232 Bluetooth Adaptor with my Bluetooth Stack?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Do you have Bluetooth drivers for Linux?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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Will your products work with the Linux Bluetooth stacks that are currently available?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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I am having problems sending and receiving data from my device, via a BL-521 or BL-819/830
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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How can I upgrade the firmware on my BL-521?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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How do I set my RS422/485 device into half duplex mode?
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  • ALL
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I cannot get a UC card to work but my CC card is fine
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  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
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I do not have a Card Properties page in Device Manager
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  • ALL
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Do you have support for 64-bit Windows operating systems?
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  • ALL
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I can not find my ES device in Boost.LAN Manager
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  • ES - Ethernet to Serial
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I can not open my COM port installed in Boost.LAN Manager
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  • ES - Ethernet to Serial
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I can not access the web configuration pages of the ES device
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  • ES - Ethernet to Serial
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What are the default port numbers and anti-virus/firewall exceptions?
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  • ES - Ethernet to Serial
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How do I reset my BL device?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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ASCII protocol and commands
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  • ED - Ethernet IO
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How do I upgrade the firmware on my Bluetooth device?
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  • BL - Bluetooth Serial Adapter
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I am trying to install my 2-port PCMCIA card in Windows 2000 but it will not install properly.
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  • PM - Serial PC Card (PCMCIA)
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I am trying to install my 2-port PCMCIA card in Windows XP but it will not install properly.
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  • PM - Serial PC Card (PCMCIA)
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I have tried to install my 1-port PCMCIA card in my laptop and it has installed incorrectly and displays an error code 10 when examining the Port’s properties from Device Manager
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  • PM - Serial PC Card (PCMCIA)
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I have tried to install my PCI / PCMCIA card in Windows XP and it has installed incorrectly and displays an error code 41 when examining the Port’s properties from Device Manager
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • PM - Serial PC Card (PCMCIA)
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
  • UP - uPCI Powered Serial Cards
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I am trying to install my PCI / PCMCIA card in Windows 2000 / XP and an error has occurred. Windows is asking for a .vxd file e.g. ssenum.vxd, or is looking for a Windows 95/98 file
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  • PM - Serial PC Card (PCMCIA)
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How do I install my PCMCIA card?
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  • PM - Serial PC Card (PCMCIA)
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How do I install my Brainboxes Ethernet to Serial device?
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  • ES - Ethernet to Serial
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How do I install my Brainboxes PCIe card (Excluding PX-279/275)?
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  • PX - PCI Express Serial Cards
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How do I install my Brainboxes USB or Expresscard device?
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  • US - USB to Serial
  • VX - Serial ExpressCard
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How do I install my Brainboxes PCI card (Includes PX-279/275)?
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  • CC - PCI Serial Cards
  • UC - uPCI Serial Cards
  • UP - uPCI Powered Serial Cards
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How do I install the Boost.IO Manager application?
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  • ED - Ethernet IO
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How do I install my Ethernet IO module?
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  • ED - Ethernet IO
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