Forvus Technical Bulletin #111

Technical Bulletin #111
Forvus 3270 PCI Adapter setup for IBM Personal Communications Version 5.0 and above

This technical bulletin is issued to assist users of the Forvus 3270 Coax Adapter - PCI to perform the steps necessary to use with the IBM Personal Communications Version 5.0 or later.

Important Note: You must have your IBM Personal Communications software CD before continuing - you will be prompted for it as files are necessary to be installed from this CD.

This updated driver (dated 08/31/2004) for the Forvus 3270 PCI coax card adds support for version 5.0 - 5.7 of IBM's Personal Communications under Windows 2000/XP.

Details:

1) This bulletin will require a file download - click here to obtain the file that will generate a 3270 PCI driver diskette. download file: frpcomm.zip

2) Extract the files to a blank formatted diskette in drive A

3) Install the IBM Personal Communications Emulator if not already installed.

4a) If you have not yet installed the Forvus PCI Coax card, use this diskette when prompted for the driver location. (Skip Step 4b).

4b) If you have already installed the Forvus PCI Coax card, you will have to update the existing drivers as follows:

Right click on the "My Computer Icon"

Left click on "Properties"

Click on the "Hardware" tab

Click on "Device Manager"

Click the plus sign next to "3270 Adapters"

Double click on "Forvus 3270 Coax Adapter - PCI"

Click on the "Driver" tab

Click on "Update Driver"

If Win2000 > select checkbox to "Display a list of known drivers for this device so that I can choose a specific driver"

If WinXP > select checkbox to "Install from list or specific location", click Next, then select checkbox "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install", click Next.

Click "Have Disk" button and Browse to location of new drivers.

The updated drivers will install and prompt you to reboot.