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Unread 12-02-2011, 21:45
Paul Gehman Paul Gehman is offline
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Re: CRio Connection: Buggy

Our experience seems to indicate something going on with the "Enable NetConsole - CAN Driver Plugin - Black Jaguar Serial Bridge" option that we chose to install with our v25 and v27 imaging.

At 1:30PM, we installed the FRC_2011_v27.zip image that came with the latest Labview v3.1 update, via the tether. The dialog box indicated that the installation was successful. I rebooted/cycled the cRIO while the main programming crew was at lunch.

At 1:50PM - when the main programming crew came back - they simply tried to install our working baseline code. The download just about immediately stalled and threw an error. Seems that an entry in the ni-rt.ini file under the "Startup Dlls" entry section on the cRIO was incompatible with the newer image. We ftp'd into the cRIO, pulled the ni-rt.ini file to the Developer laptop and deleted the entry - and placed the ni-rt.ini file back on the cRIO. At least that got us back to an earlier version of the ini file.

At 2:20PM -- after finding a copy of the v25 image on a Mentor's laptop - we imaged the cRIO with the older v25 image. We checked the "Enable NetConsole - CAN Driver Plugin - Black Jaguar Serial Bridge" options. This imaging was also successful. AND our CAN/Black Jag code now worked. We figured we lost about 1 1/2 of prime Saturday programming time dealing with this anomoly.

Our experience with v27 and our basic CAN/Black Jag-centric baseline code indicates that there is a serious incompatibility. We figure that until v27 is "fixed" - we will just have to use the v25 image.
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