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| ivaylo:
Trying to make a R&S FSP Spectrum Analyzer talk LXI via LAN. It has the B16 option (LAN interface) and is updated to the latest 4.50 SP5 firmware taken from here - https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/en/firmware/fsp/?&facet=facet.OperatingSystem&facet.OperatingSystem=Windows%20XP. Whenever I try to turn LXI on (via the 'LXI Configuration' Win menu item) I get a popup message: --- Quote ---LXI uses XPe WMI SP2, your instrument contains only XPe SP1 WMI. Please update the WMI, the file could be updated from the internet. --- End quote --- 'My Computer/Properties' says it has: --- Quote ---Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Version 2002 --- End quote --- i.e. no SP2. I tried installing regular SP2 for XP but that broke things (like the soft on/off button stopped working), I panicked and reverted the change (glad I could), but didn't really check if SP2 fixed LXI for the short time I had it. Tried searching for XP Embedded SP2 but didn't get very far (found posts explaining that anything 'embedded' has to be configured and not downloaded?). The LAN interface itself seems to be working. I can ping say google.com, also visiting the IP address of the instrument with a browser from another computer renders the attached page. For whatever weird reason basic tools like ipconfig and ping were missing from the installation. I managed to copy 'ping.exe' from another XP and that worked, but ipconfig barfs, there seem to be DLLs missing or something (that doesn't seem to affect the SA, all seems to work fine). So am I missing something obvious? R&S download page for FSP has a download called 'LXI Class C Support V1.21', but it has a note 'required only for base system version < 4.5x', and what I have is 4.5. Is there such a thing as XP Embedded SP2 and is it safe to be applied to any XP Embedded installation? I guess I'll write to R&S but haven't been very successful with them helping with obsolete products. Appreciate your help... |
| Wuerstchenhund:
--- Quote from: ivaylo on November 02, 2015, 04:39:38 am ---Trying to make a R&S FSP Spectrum Analyzer --- End quote --- Which one exactly? There are two variants of the FSP, the older one using a Pentium3/Celeron (FMR6) running Windows NT 4 (model no 1064.4495.xx) and the later variant (1164.4391.xx, has a front panel which has 'FSP' on the side left of the screen) coming with a Pentium-M/Celeron (FMR7) running Windows XP Embedded. The older variant can apparently be upgraded to running XP but this comes with a few problems and isn't recommended. --- Quote ---Whenever I try to turn LXI on (via the 'LXI Configuration' Win menu item) I get a popup message: --- Quote ---LXI uses XPe WMI SP2, your instrument contains only XPe SP1 WMI. Please update the WMI, the file could be updated from the internet. --- End quote --- 'My Computer/Properties' says it has: --- Quote ---Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Version 2002 --- End quote --- i.e. no SP2. I tried installing regular SP2 for XP but that broke things (like the soft on/off button stopped working), I panicked and reverted the change (glad I could), but didn't really check if SP2 fixed LXI for the short time I had it. Tried searching for XP Embedded SP2 but didn't get very far (found posts explaining that anything 'embedded' has to be configured and not downloaded?). --- End quote --- XP Embedded doesn't work with the regular XP Service Pack, you need the updates for XPe (which I don't think aren't publicly available). In addition, XPe is not meant to be updated the same way as regular XP, i.e. you'd generally create a new system image in Visual Studio. --- Quote ---So am I missing something obvious? R&S download page for FSP has a download called 'LXI Class C Support V1.21', but it has a note 'required only for base system version < 4.5x', and what I have is 4.5. Is there such a thing as XP Embedded SP2 and is it safe to be applied to any XP Embedded installation? --- End quote --- Yes, there is, but again I don't think it's available publicly. The other alternative might be to install a regular Windows XP on the FSP (the drivers should be in a directory on the hard disk). |
| ivaylo:
Thanks for the response. It's the newer flavor of FSP, which come with XP by default (and the two USB sockets on the back). |
| Wuerstchenhund:
--- Quote from: ivaylo on November 02, 2015, 07:41:31 am ---Thanks for the response. It's the newer flavor of FSP, which come with XP by default (and the two USB sockets on the back). --- End quote --- If I were you I'd get a cheap good small SATA SSD, install it in the FSP and then install Windows XP Pro with all updates onto it, plus the FSP drivers/software. This should pretty much give you what you want. The other thing is that you should probably make a backup of your hard disk (using imaging software) and then replace the hard drive anyways before it fails, as chances are good that the slow Fujitsu 2.5" SATA drive that R&S has used in their instruments has already started running out of spare sectors and is eating itself alive. I've seen a lot of R&S devices with these drives, and I've yet to see one where these Fujitsu drives were used and where it didn't had an excessive defective sector count. The later FSP uses SATA so you can just replace it with a SATA SSD (get a good one, i.e. intel, disable background defrag in XP, and leave say 10% to 15% unused so that garbage collection can do its magic). |
| ivaylo:
Yeah, I did that. Well, kinda... No SATA in this FSP, it's same Fujitsu but PATA. So I got one of these - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008KTFFXA. Worked fine, looks like it's loading a bit faster too. But these days I am really hesitant to mess with anything Windows at low level (well I used to, 20 years ago, but then I had more time too). Nowadays Windows to me means installation disks, touch the registry only if you know what you are doing, etc. When I was copying the Fujitsu with its three partitions, custom boot loader and what not I got the impression that my chances to rebuild this system with straight XP Pro, like you suggest, are slimmer than the guy who has been writing here he'd be rebuilding a DOS ran R&S unit to run on Linux ()... |
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