fieldbus

[arwin]

We have already bought pcmcia card with

serial number : C85922

product number : 183628E-01

Operating system : Windows 98

Currently, we are going to use ni tool in order to access and change the parameter of dP transmitter on FF network. Unfortunately, ni tool doesn't work in our pc.

We have pcmcia card and driver both configurator and communication manager which is run in windows 98. This driver is stored in floppy disk. In our pc has been installed only XP O/S, no other. Therefore, the driver cannot be installed. We tried to get new driver from ni.com, thus we extract and install in our pc, but it still cannot communicate with dP transmitter. 

Can we use new software for the old pcmcia card? without upgrade from previous software (get when buy the card).

We hear configurator cannot be activated, unless we buy special package. Isn't right?

If we not activated ni-fbus, could we access the transmitter? How?

Thank you,

[Vince Shen]

Your PCMCIA-FBUS card should work well on the latest NI-FBUS software, version 3.2.1.

NI-FBUS Configurator can not access online devices if it is not activated. I think that is why you can not communicate with your dP transmitter.

I suggest that you use NI-FBUS Dialog Utility to access the parameters of online devices. This tool is installed along with NI-FBUS software. Please find it from Windows Start->National Instruments->NI-FBUS->Utilities->Dialog.

Please refer to NI-FBUS Hardware and Software User Manual. Page 4-13 ~ 4-16 explains how to use Dialog Utility.  Using block and parameter tag names, you can read/write all  parameters of the devices which are connected to PCMCIA-FBUS card.