Firefox Has Its Uses
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I had a critical computer fail last year, the laptop that runs our SCADA system, and haven't had an opportunity to rebuild it until recently. Today I undertook that task, starting with creating a link to allow me to access the SCADA network from my desk. That's not as easy as it sounds, since the laptop used to be in another office, and the cable end is still there. I had a DIR-615 wireless router lying about at home doing nothing, so I figured I'd plug it in to the SCADA cable and route the signal over the wireless link to my desk. Once connected there, I can play with the settings until I get it all re-integrated and working again, then plan a permanent, hardwired home for the laptop. That's as far as I got, since I'd long ago installed dd-wrt on the router, and forgot the IP address and login info. No problem - I can just reset it to factory defaults, restore the original firmware and configure from there. I've spent most of 4 hours attempting to do that. Grrrr... The instructions are clear and easy, though finding the original firmware was neither. But following the instructions goes nowhere - the firmware update hangs, and the router never reboots. I figured I now had a dandy brick suitable for wedging the door open on a nice day, or facilitating delivery of limited-range airmail through light-weight fenestrations. But, serendipity smiled, and I came across instructions that included a warning that "this works with Firefox, but WILL NOT work with any version of IE." Having tried at least a dozen times with IE I decided to try one more time, with Firefox this time, before giving the DIR-615 an indecent burial. By golly, it worked like a charm, first try! Thanks, Mozilla! :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
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I had a critical computer fail last year, the laptop that runs our SCADA system, and haven't had an opportunity to rebuild it until recently. Today I undertook that task, starting with creating a link to allow me to access the SCADA network from my desk. That's not as easy as it sounds, since the laptop used to be in another office, and the cable end is still there. I had a DIR-615 wireless router lying about at home doing nothing, so I figured I'd plug it in to the SCADA cable and route the signal over the wireless link to my desk. Once connected there, I can play with the settings until I get it all re-integrated and working again, then plan a permanent, hardwired home for the laptop. That's as far as I got, since I'd long ago installed dd-wrt on the router, and forgot the IP address and login info. No problem - I can just reset it to factory defaults, restore the original firmware and configure from there. I've spent most of 4 hours attempting to do that. Grrrr... The instructions are clear and easy, though finding the original firmware was neither. But following the instructions goes nowhere - the firmware update hangs, and the router never reboots. I figured I now had a dandy brick suitable for wedging the door open on a nice day, or facilitating delivery of limited-range airmail through light-weight fenestrations. But, serendipity smiled, and I came across instructions that included a warning that "this works with Firefox, but WILL NOT work with any version of IE." Having tried at least a dozen times with IE I decided to try one more time, with Firefox this time, before giving the DIR-615 an indecent burial. By golly, it worked like a charm, first try! Thanks, Mozilla! :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
I read this last night. This morning her indoors was trying to run the Tax Office software on the Mac using the default browser. First it said it needed to update Java (again!) Then it needed to update the software (again) Then it didn't work - just hanging. So she tried it in Chrome. Said the software wasn't installed. Installed it. It said it needed to install the software! I recalled your post and so she tried FireFox. It. Just. Ran.
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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I read this last night. This morning her indoors was trying to run the Tax Office software on the Mac using the default browser. First it said it needed to update Java (again!) Then it needed to update the software (again) Then it didn't work - just hanging. So she tried it in Chrome. Said the software wasn't installed. Installed it. It said it needed to install the software! I recalled your post and so she tried FireFox. It. Just. Ran.
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
Glad to hear it worked for you! Even better, on my end, is that by the end of the day I was able to successfully connect to all three endpoint radios in my SCADA network. Now all I have to do is get the control software to communicate with all the devices located at each of those three radio sites. That shouldn't be too difficult; after all, I didn't design it, install it, integrate it, or ever receive one minute of training on the product I've never heard of that runs the thing. How hard can it be?:suss:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Glad to hear it worked for you! Even better, on my end, is that by the end of the day I was able to successfully connect to all three endpoint radios in my SCADA network. Now all I have to do is get the control software to communicate with all the devices located at each of those three radio sites. That shouldn't be too difficult; after all, I didn't design it, install it, integrate it, or ever receive one minute of training on the product I've never heard of that runs the thing. How hard can it be?:suss:
Will Rogers never met me.
:) Next thing you'll be expecting a manual to read ;)
MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Glad to hear it worked for you! Even better, on my end, is that by the end of the day I was able to successfully connect to all three endpoint radios in my SCADA network. Now all I have to do is get the control software to communicate with all the devices located at each of those three radio sites. That shouldn't be too difficult; after all, I didn't design it, install it, integrate it, or ever receive one minute of training on the product I've never heard of that runs the thing. How hard can it be?:suss:
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
I didn't design it, install it, integrate it, or ever receive one minute of training on the product I've never heard of that runs the thing. How hard can it be?
Roger, be careful what you wish for. I've been fighting hand-to-hand in the trench with Siemens for about a week now. We were given some door-cum-turnstile controllers they make using a crap protocol that only they could have invented; poorly documented; and really poor support, to boot. Eventually they accepted some responsibility when presented with our questions from the client buying the stuff. It's amazing how you can leverage information from them when the client threatened to cancel the order. In Nagy terms, getting support from them now is like opening Paris' legs with a crowbar, namely, no problem. :)
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Roger Wright wrote:
I didn't design it, install it, integrate it, or ever receive one minute of training on the product I've never heard of that runs the thing. How hard can it be?
Roger, be careful what you wish for. I've been fighting hand-to-hand in the trench with Siemens for about a week now. We were given some door-cum-turnstile controllers they make using a crap protocol that only they could have invented; poorly documented; and really poor support, to boot. Eventually they accepted some responsibility when presented with our questions from the client buying the stuff. It's amazing how you can leverage information from them when the client threatened to cancel the order. In Nagy terms, getting support from them now is like opening Paris' legs with a crowbar, namely, no problem. :)
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
Hahaha, so familiar. When you need proper hardware support while writing software for a client on hardware someone else makes you CC your client's engineers. The wheels will spin faster than you ever saw them spinning before. Few million worth of client seems to do that (even though there isn't a chance of cancellation, the relationship is too old, too big and there are very few that can do hardware even remotely similar). On the other hand we've found 1 hardware bug for them and a few missing items in documentation so it's not like they didn't gain anything.