The computer recently imploded (quite literally), so I migrated everything over to a new computer we had lying around. Everything was installed and running nicely in the office, I sent it off to site (in another state) to install the new PC, but we could not communicate with the PLC.
According to my site contact, the error we kept getting was something like (she spelt it out over the phone to me, it won't be exact):
initDriver failed code:-1After a few hours on the phone with Rockwell (we didn't have the tech support package, which made it difficult), I learnt something amazing.
parentdriver (linx gateway may not be running)
RSLinx cannot communicate to devices using Windows XP SP3. Amazing. Our PC was recently rolled back from Windows 7 to XP, and I guess it was SP3 that was installed. Everything else works beautifully, but the RSLinx communications drivers (at least for Ethernet) will not.
So now I'm trying to figure out how to roll back to SP2 without losing anything. I'll keep you posted
