a 'walkthrough' of setting up a NIC?

I am currently using a 1747-UIC to communicate with SLC 500's & Micrologix controllers. My new laptop didn't have a serial, so this was logical (and thanks to whoever here suggested it!). I used to use a PCMCIA (DH+,DH-485, & RIO) to do all comms, but my company decided the second shift Electrician needed it more in his laptop. I remember asking how to configure my NIC to do comms between the laptop & PLC5's. Can anyone (who has done it) walk me through setting this up?

Why dont you just get a belkin- usb to serial converter.
Then I guess you would then have to use one of
AB's stupid pics.

Stasis

Was this the thread, Click Here,
you were looking for?

Paul

In a nutshell:

Install the driver.

Connect the UIC.

Open the device manager from the System Properties in the Control Panel.

Look under the PORTS heading and see what COM port # Windows assigned it. Open the properties of that com port and local at the advanced page on the port settings tab. Change the latency timer to 1. (You can also change the com port assignment to something else if you like too).

Save and close the control panel.

Open RSLinx. Add a new device from the RS232 DF1 selection. In the configuration dialog that pops up, assign the COM port to what you found previously, change the device to a 1770-KF3/1747-KE. Set the baud setting to what you need, error checking to CRC, protocol to Full Duplex. AUTO CONFIG does not work with the UIC.

If everything went clean you should see devices connected to it. Anytime you change the baud rate, I've found that I've had to close RSLinx, disconnect the UIC, wait, connect again, then start RSLinx. Apparently the UIC configuration is only when its first connected. Of course this may work differently on your computer.

Hope this helps.

Paul,yes, that was the thread (...kicks self for NOT using the search function...owie!)

jstolaruk, I have already set up the UIC...using WinXP, it will configure when the OS 'sees' the new device. I manually changed the comm port assigned to the USB to avoid known issues with Micrlogix controllers.

what I'm trying to find out is how to set my NIC to communicate with SLC 5/05s & PLC-5s. I know how to find which port is assigned to the NIC in the XP 'Devices' tree...and I have the ethernet driver active in RSLinx, although I'm not sue it's the correct ethernet driver(AB-ETHIP-1). That may be the whole problem... I guess my question really is how to get RSLinx to use the NIC for comms...

In your control panel, set the subnet mask on your Ethernet connection to be the same as the PLC. Set your IP address and make sure the subnet address matches the PLC.

In RSLinx->Configure Drivers->AB_ETH-1 you have to fill in the station map to assign logical station numbers with the IP addresses of the devices you are trying to communicate with. Then the devices will show up in RSWho.

Thats it in a nut shell.