Connecting new plc via ethernet

[PLCwannabe]

I'm trying to connect a new brx plc via ethernet, but it is not showing up when I rescan for new plcs. I also tried Net edit, it doesn't show up there either. There are no other ethernet connections to this computer, so i think I just need to set the computer IP and Netmask to the correct values so it can connect to the brx. What are the default values for Ip and netmask that will work? No I don't have a usb pom.

[franji1]

New PLCs come with no IP Address.  Is this truly new, out of the box, or just new to you (i.e. it may already have an IP Address)?

What Network Adapter(s) do you have selected?  There is a button on the bottom of the Connect dialog.  Type in all the information here or just take a screen shot of it by selecting that dialog, hitting Alt+PrtScrn, then paste it in Paint, save it as a file, then add it as an attachment to your reply here.  That should give us enough detail about your networkless computer.

[RBPLC]

Like franji said, most of the time when I run into something similar, it's because the wrong adapter is selected inside of NetEdit.

[franji1]

Like franji said, most of the time when I run into something similar, it's because the wrong adapter is selected inside of NetEdit.

Designer now has the ability to set the IP address.  It lets you pick your set of NIC(s), then broadcasts on all those selected, and even recommends a possible IP Address and warns if you pick one that may be "in use" - more advanced than NetEdit.

[PLCwannabe]

The PLC is new out of the box. Long story short: No internet access,remote location, 1999 model computer, not sure of the windows version,it does have ethernet and it seems like we can change the ip of computer. So we set the ip to 192.168.1.2 and the netmask to 255.255.255.0.  The ethernet adaptor does show up in "Select ethernet  Network", but we still can't get the plc to show up.
 (I'm troubleshooting this via phone for a friend in remote location)

[Greg]

PLCwannabe, is the Link light ON for the BRX PLC? And is the Activity light blinking?

[PLCwannabe]

The link light was on for sure, not sure if the activity light was blinking or not. We'll try again tomorrow.

[PLCwannabe]

We connected this plc to a newer model desktop pc and we got it working. So I guess the other pc software was outdated or something.

[franji1]

If it had Windows 98 on it, that is not suppoerted.  Designer can run on XP, but Microsoft doesn't even support it, so Caveat Emptor.

Glad to see you got it working