cRio not recognized on Windows Vista Ultimate via Parallels on Mac OS X

[wnasheim]

I'm and undergraduate ME student and I'm working on doing some data acquisition for our FSAE team.  We recently acquired a cRio 9004 and I've rounded up our university LabView 8.6 with FPGA and RT module disks to try to get the ball rolling.  I was thinking that writing the code would be the most challenging part of this project, but I can't even get the Remote Systems to recognize the cRio. 

There are a couple of catches here: first, I'm not sure that I have the drivers installed for the cRIo and can't find a disk.  Can I download them somewhere?  Second, I'm running LabView 8.6 in Windows Vista Ultimate via Parallels Desktop on my MacBook Pro, with reasonable success.  Parallels handles my network drivers and they're set to automatically acquire an IP address, so I'm not sure where I am going wrong (aside for the possibility of missing cRio drivers).  I would appreciate any help you can offer.

Thanks,

Wade

[speleato]

Hello wnasheim,

You will need to install NI-RIO to use your controller.

You can get the latest version here. http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/1386/lang/en

Sebastian

[Ruhmann]

If you have NI-RIO installed and you're still having problems, it's possible that your virtual machine is on a different subnet then your cRIO controller.  This can happen if the virtual machine is set to use NAT.  Try to make sure that the network settings are set to "bridged" (at least that's what it's called with most VM software, not sure about parallels) and that the virtual machine is on the same subnet as the controller.

[wnasheim]

Thanks for your help.  I downloaded the NI-RIO package but it still doesn't want to recognize the cRIO.  I tried toying with the settings, and tried to make sure that the host computer and DAQ are on the same subnet (not really sure how to do that).  Unfortunately, I still couldn't get it to work.  I may just use my old Dell to see if it works...

[wnasheim]

OK, just found the "bridged" ethernet setting for Parallels unchecked.  I checked it; when I get home I'll see if I can get the controller to recognize the DAQ now.  Thanks again!!!

[Robbob]

A common issue with laptops is that they use the primary network card(almost always wireless) to detect the cRIO through Measurement & Automation explorer. If the bridged does not work, try disabling your wireless and try again. If this allows you to detect the cRIO, then you should go to control panel->network devices->advanced->Advanced settings and reorder your network devices to have your wired connection at the top. Also, if your laptop does not have autoswitching capability, then you will need to use a crossover cable and not a straight through cable.