I need to connect and upload a program off of a controllogix 5561 processor that has firmware v12.42 on it. I am working off of a windows 7 computer.
What I have tried/where I am at:
I'm working out of 'xp mode' on windows 7. We have the only local area connection working as a loopback adapter between the xp and win7 versions to handle the activation of rockwell software. This means we aren't able to connect to the PLC via ethernet. We tried adding another 'local area connection' but that does not seem to be helping.
We've explored the possibility of using a usb connection into maybe an en2t card or other processor but our usb ports are 3.0 which is unsupported by windows xp mode, and we've no clear way to downgrade them to 2.0. This further hampers us as we could be using the usb port to an external drive to handle our software activation and could then use the ethernet to handle the plc communications.
Has anyone handled this before? We cannot update the firmware without blowing away the program so we're kind of stuck.
What I have tried/where I am at:
I'm working out of 'xp mode' on windows 7. We have the only local area connection working as a loopback adapter between the xp and win7 versions to handle the activation of rockwell software. This means we aren't able to connect to the PLC via ethernet. We tried adding another 'local area connection' but that does not seem to be helping.
We've explored the possibility of using a usb connection into maybe an en2t card or other processor but our usb ports are 3.0 which is unsupported by windows xp mode, and we've no clear way to downgrade them to 2.0. This further hampers us as we could be using the usb port to an external drive to handle our software activation and could then use the ethernet to handle the plc communications.
Has anyone handled this before? We cannot update the firmware without blowing away the program so we're kind of stuck.