[taichichuan]

Sorry, Tennessee is too far to pop over :-(. But, I'll still try to help remotely.

OK, you'll need to get a cross-over (null modem) Ethernet cable (BestBuy, RadioShack, MicroCenter and others carry them) and plug it between your PC and the cRIO port 1. Once you've done that, open the control panel, Network control and double-click the network connections icon for your Ethernet to open it up.

Click the properties button, select Internet Protocol and click properties again. This will bring up a dialog box with a tab that says "General". Select the "Use the following IP address" radio button and key in your PC's IP address in the IP address field, e.g., 10.23.93.10 and enter 255.0.0.0 into the subnet mask field. You can leave the rest blank. Click OK and then OK again. When you're done, click the "Close" button.

Turn on the cRIO and check your DOS box again to see if it can ping the cRIO after a minute or so.

Also, while you're at the BestBuy, pick up a female-female null modem cable with DB9 connectors on it. This is what you'll need to monitor the boot cycle on the cRIO if things go wrong.

Assuming the cRIO is pingable, you can next move on to using the cRIO Imaging tool to load v19 of the firmware. You can get that from the FIRST website.

HTH,

Mike