Atop ABLELink® Wireless Serial Server SW5001 User Manual Version 1.0 Updated on 2006/06/06 Tel: 886-3-5508137 Fax: 886-3-5508131 www.atop.com.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT The information contained in this document is the property of Atop Technologies, Inc. and is supplied for the sole purpose of the operation and maintenance of products of Atop Technologies, Inc.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 FCC WARNING Class B for Wireless Serial Server (Model: SW5001) This SW5001 has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION..................................................................................4 1.1 PACKAGING ........................................................................................................................... 4 1. 2 APPLICATION CONNECTIVITY ................................................................................................. 5 2. NOMENCLATURE AND SETTINGS ........................................
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 1. Introduction Atop SW5001 Wireless Serial Server is a gateway between Ethernet (TCP/IP) and RS-232/RS-485 communications. It allows almost any serial device to be connected to a new or existing wireless network. The information transmitted by SW5001 is transparent to both host computers (IP network over wireless LAN or Ethernet) and devices (RS-232/RS-485).
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 1. 2 Application Connectivity Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 2. Nomenclature and Settings 2.1 Nomenclature of SW5001 Components Figure 2.1 shows the names of SW5001 components. In the figure, the indicated switch settings represent factory settings. SMA rev. Antenna Connector LED indication for Wireless Status 10/100M Ethernet port for settings Mini-DIN Connector for Serial port 5-pin Terminal Block for Serial port LED indication for System Status 3-pin Terminal Block for Power input Figure 2.1.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 3. Hardware Installation Prepare necessary cables, hub, power cord and RS-232/RS-485 connector. Place SW5001 to the area that an access point can cover, or connector it via Ethernet cable with RJ45 connecor. Connect a serial device to a serial port of SW5001, make sure the right connection of either RS-232 or RS-485. Plug in DC-9-30V, the buzzer will beep and the RUN LED will blink if SW5001 functions normally. Please refer to Appendix A.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 use Telnet to send the TCP/IP packet with destination port number 1 to SW5001, after SW5001 reboots it will change its IP address to the new one. Note: 1. Arp command can only be used to set a static IP address of SW5001 using system reset user name admin and default password null. 2. Only TCP/IP packet with destination port number 1 will lead SW5001 to reboot and change the IP address. 3.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 3.4 TCP/IP Port Number Port number 4660 is default of SW5001 and is associated with serial port COM1. After your application program connects to the TCP port 4660 of SW5001, data being sent to this TCP connection from your application program are transparent to the COM1 of SW5001. Vice versa is also true. 4. Software Configuration 4.1 Configuration set by monitor.exe utility Use monitor.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Note: You can press the default button of SW5001 to reset the password to the default value. 2. After verifying the password, the following terminal screen appears. Notes: 1. If SW5001 does not receive any command within 1 minute, Telnet will be terminated automatically. 2. The changes of networking parameters will take effect only when you exit and restart SW5001. 3.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 This page gives you the general information of SW5001 including IP and MAC address, SNMP information, kernel and AP version, and connection status of the device. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Networking Select “2” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” to enter Networking page as following: This page allows you to change network settings of the device including IP address, subnet mask, gateway IP address and SNMP information of SW5001. Please notice that any setting change made on this page won’t take effect until you restart the device. Change the password 1.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 field, type the new password in the “Please input new password” and the “Please verify new password” fields. Note: You can press the default key of product to reset password to the default value.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Configure SW5001 as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.123, destination port is 666. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Configure SW5001 as UDP client, the local port is 4660, the destination IP is 10.0.29.254, destination port is 666. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 COM port setting Type 2 from “Input choice and enter (1~4):” of COM1, the following screen appears, you can then give the COM port alias name, set the baud rate and parity, determine number of data bit and stop bit, and decide if you want to use flow control and the type of flow control you want to use. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Enabling serial data buffer Type 3 from “Input choice and enter (1~4):” of COM1, by default COM port serial data buffer is enabled meaning that when TCP/IP Ethernet connection is broken, serial data collected from serial device will be kept in SW5001, once TCP/IP connection is resumed, the serial data will be sent through Ethernet connection, you can disable it if you wish. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Setting packet delimiter Packet delimiter is a way of controlling packets within serial communication. It can prevent packets from being cut thus keep the packets complete. SW5001 provides two ways of parameter setting as inter character timer and terminator. By default packet delimiter timer is 0 ms, you can change timer shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 You can also choose character pattern as the packet delimiter indicated in the following figure: Accessing Wireless LAN setting Select “5” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” the following screen appears. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 The above page gives you the general information about SW5001 wireless configurations including the access point it connects to, the current channel and transmitting rate it communicates with the other wireless devices, topology it uses, and what the ESSID (extended service set identifier) and WEP (wireless encryption protocol) are if you use them. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Wireless LAN topology You can choose either infrastructure or ad-hoc mode for SW5001 as indicated in the following figure: Wireless LAN Transmission Rate You can set SW5001 transmission rate as 1 Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps, or full auto based on 802.11 standard shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Wireless LAN Ad-hoc channel You have to select the same channel for two wireless devices to talk to each other as indicated in the following figure: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Wireless LAN ESSID ESSID (extended service set identification) is used to identify all of the computers in the wireless LAN system, it is different from BSSID (basic service set identification) which contains a single access point (AP) and several other nodes. The following diagram illustrates this concept: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 By default, SW5001’s ESSID is NULL meaning that it can connect to any access point it detects regardless of SSID of the access point. However if there are two access points within the coverage of SW5001, it will not connect to either of them, in this case you have to specifically input the ESSID of one of the access points for connection.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Wireless Encryption Protocol or Wired Equivalent Protocol ( WEP ) Setting For security reason, SW5001 can set up to use WEP key of 40 bits or 128 bits to securely communicate in the wireless network. Telnet WEP key set up screen is as following: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 4.4 Configuration set by web browser It is also possible to modify various settings through the web server interface. To do so, please follow the steps below. Log in to the system 1. From web browser, type in the IP address of SW5001 in the URL. Example: http://10.0.50.100 2. The following authentication screen appears. Please type in user name and password then click on “OK”. The user name is admin and password is null by default. 3.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Change the password 1. Click on the “Security” link and the following screen appears. 2. Please input the old password in the “Old Password” field, input the new password in the “New Password” and the “Verified Password” fields. Then click on “Save Configuration” to update the password. Note: You can press the default key of product to reset password to the default value. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Network setup Click on the “Networking” link and the following screen appears. Fill in IP information under TCP/IP field. Alternatively, you can do the configuration by putting a check on DHCP to obtain auto IP address, gateway and subnet mask information.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 COM1 Setup Click on the “COM1” link and the following screen appears. Fill in COM1 parameter information under COM1 field then click on “Save Configuration” button to save the changes. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 LINK1 Setup 1. Click on the “COM1” link and the following screen appears, you can configure SW5001 as transparent mode by default. Configure SW5001 as TCP server and the local port is 4660, IP filter is disabled by default, if IP filter is enabled, only source IP 10.0.29.11 can connect to SW5001. Configure SW5001 as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.11, destination port is 4660.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Configure SW5001 as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.11, destination port is 4660. Configure SW5001 as UDP mode. Local port is 666, destination IP is 10.0.50.100 and destination port is 4660. 2. Click on “Save Configuration” to save the changes. 3. If the update is successful, the following screen appears. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Wireless LAN Setup You can configure wireless LAN parameters through web pages, the following page gives you the information of the access point SW5001 is connected to, it also allows you to configure SW5001’s wireless topology, ESSID and WEP security. In addition, the BSS Quality and Signal Strength will indicate you the situation of signal. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 4.5 Virtual COM Mode Virtual COM driver mode for windows converts COM data to IP data to control the RS-232C port on a SW5001 via the IP. By creating Virtual COM ports on the PC, Atop Virtual COM redirects the communications from the Virtual COM ports to an IP address and port number on a SW5001 that connects the serial line device to the network. The following figure is Atop Virtual COM connection diagram.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Applying to the serial server Cautions on Use Atop Virtual COM supports firmware AP v3.4 and above of ABLELink Wirless Serial Servers. Limitation Atop Virtual COM driver provides user to select up to 256 COM ports as Virtual COM ports in a monitoring PC. User can select them from a list of COM ports, which is from COM1 up to COM256. Installation Make sure you have turned off all anti-virus software before beginning the installation.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Or you can enable Virtual COM through telnet configuration by setting COM1 as TCP server, and type in the local port number for COM1, then enable virtual COM as shown in the following figure: 4.5.2.2 Run Serial/IP for ATOP program on monitoring PC In the Window Start Menu, select the Serial/IP for ATOP program group and select Serial/IP for ATOP Configuration.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 At right is a sample Virtual COM Control Panel window. At the left is the list of the COM ports that you have selected (in the Select Ports window) for use by the Virtual COM Redirector. If you wish to change which ports appear in this list, use the Select Ports button. Each COM port has its own settings. When you click on a COM port, the Control Panel display changes to reflect the settings for that COM port.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 a username and/or password every time an application tries to use the serial server. 5. Click the Configuration Wizard button and then click the Start button that appears in the wizard window. This important step verifies that the Virtual COM Redirector can communicate with the serial server using the settings you have provided.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Appendix A: SW5001 Wireless Serial Server Specifications A.1. Hardware Specifications Specifications CPU 150MHz RISC with MMU support Memory Flash: 8MB /2MB for Bootloader / SDRAM: 16MBytes. Interface Mini-PCI Slot (for Wireless Module) Watchdog Hardware Watchdog Reset Debug Port CPU Build in Com. Wireless LAN Compliance for IEEE802.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Configuration Web browser Telnet Console Windows utility Mechanical HxWxD: 90mm x 45mm x 75mm Metal Housing for IP50 Standard Environment Operating: 0 to 60°C (32 to 140°F), 5 to 95% RH Storage: -20 to 85°C (-4 to 185°F), 5 to 95%RH A.2.
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User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 2. Terminal Block Connector RS-485 only uses RTS/R- and TxD/R+ for data communication while RS-232 or RS-422 uses RTS/R-, TxD/R+, CTS/T- and RxD/T+ for communicating data. A.3.2 Power terminal block connector Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 A.4 LED Indication for Link Status A.4.1 Detect SW5001 startup “ ^ “ : Beep twice “ = “ : Beep off Description Message Startup OK and AP firmware is enabled ^==^========^^^ (5sec) Table 1. Buzzer indication A.4.2 Detect SW5001 Signal Strength The BSS quality can be detected by LED indication in SW5001.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Message Description LED off No data is transmitting on COM port LED on blinking state Data is transmitting on COM port Table 3. COM Port LED Message RUN LED Description Message LED on Jumper JP7 and JP8 are short to disable AP firmware in the flash memory. LED blinking (rate: 0.5Sec) AP firmware is running Table 4. RUN LED Message Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Appendix B Configuration Utility The configuration utility monitorXX.exe (XX: Version number) comes with the product CD or diskette is the main utility program to demonstrate and configure SW5001’s settings. D.1 Run the utility Start the program under environment and the following window appears. D.2 Detect Operational Devices You may do the following steps to detect devices currently available on the network. 1. Start monitorXX.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 3. After you click the “Configure Now” button, the target device will return an ACK message indicating the modification is successful as shown in the following: Please note monitor25.exe version 2.5 and above requires gw21le.dll library to function properly. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 The following table lists the functional descriptions for all the fields. Field Name Field Descriptions Broadcast IP Except for the default IP 255.255.255.255, other items (IPs) are read from the file “seg.cfg”. This field specifies a detecting IP range. It may be a designated IP or a broadcast IP. Wishes Specifies minimum number of the devices you wish to get reply from after sending an Invite request.
