Re: Agilent LogicWave OS Compatibility


Keyser Soze wrote:
"mkaras" <mkaras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1159821912.848206.299790@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Keyser Soze wrote:
"mkaras" <mkaras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1159818683.071365.289040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have an Agilent LogicWave PC hosted logic analyzer. The device and
its software are very nice and useful. However I have found that the
Host software cannot properly connect and operate the logic analyzer
device when the host OS is Win2K or WinXP? (It always worked great
under Win98).

Does anyone here have any knowlwdge or experience with this device as
to whether there is ever a chance to see it operate with the newer
operating systems? I would like to try to amortize my $3200 investment
in this thing over a few more years.

- mkaras


Try version 1.21 of the E9340A LogicWave Application software.

Web page (very long link):

http://www.home.agilent.com/agilent/editorial.jspx?cc=US&lc=eng&ckey=1000000223:epsg:sud&nid=-536902557.536880599.02&id=1000000223:epsg:sud

File (very long link):

http://www.home.agilent.com/agilent/redirector.jspx?action=doc&lc=eng&cc=US&id=1000000223-1%3Aepsg%3Asud&ltype=External%20File

Version 1.21 is the version I have tried again and again for a long
while now.

- mkaras

The E9340A uses only the parallel port to communicate with the desktop.

From my experience not all desktop or laptop parallel ports work correctly with all combinations of operating systems and drivers.

One system I have, a Compaq Presario desktop, the port works great in Win98 but will not work with NT, 2K, or XP. To get it to work
at all with XP I had to add another PCI parallel port card to the system. Now XP will not boot up if I have a parallel cable
attached to the port. Note that I mean just the cable. No device is connected to the other end of the cable.

You may be having the same kind of issue with your parallel port.

The software available on the Agilent web site is version A.01.21.020305.

It this the same version as you are using?

My software installation on this WinXP machine is the same exact
version that you have mentioned as available from the Agilent web site.
(i.e. A.01.21.020305).

You have not directly stated whether you are actually using the
LogicWave unit with WinXP. Instead you talk about the parallel port
itself being functional or not. Could you please clarify this point?

I have tried this LogicWave thing on three desktop computers and a
notebook under Win98 and had all of them work correctly. When I updated
computers and resident OS's in recent years to years to Win2K & XP the
LogicWave compatibility was lost. One Gateway desktop actually worked
with LogicWave with Win98 installed and then quit working when Win2K
was installed. For a while, when that computer was still in service, I
had it setup in a dual-boot configuration just so it could be used for
LogicWave. As it stands today my three lab computers are running Win2K
and WinXP and LogicWave has been unavailable for use for a long while
now.

I posted this note to hopefully find somwone else who has a LogicWave
and has maybe seen it work successfully with these newer OS platforms.
If there is some chance then I could take steps to figure out how to
make it work. Otherwise I might as well list the unit for sale on eBay.

- mkaras

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