Trying to make a R&S FSP Spectrum Analyzer talk LXI via LAN. It has the B16 option (LAN interface) and is updated to the latest 4.50 SP5 firmware taken from here -
https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/en/firmware/fsp/?&facet=facet.OperatingSystem&facet.OperatingSystem=Windows%20XP.Whenever I try to turn LXI on (via the 'LXI Configuration' Win menu item) I get a popup message:
LXI uses XPe WMI SP2, your instrument contains only XPe SP1 WMI.
Please update the WMI, the file could be updated from the internet.
'My Computer/Properties' says it has:
Microsoft Windows XP
Embedded
Version 2002
i.e. no SP2. I tried installing regular SP2 for XP but that broke things (like the soft on/off button stopped working), I panicked and reverted the change (glad I could), but didn't really check if SP2 fixed LXI for the short time I had it. Tried searching for XP Embedded SP2 but didn't get very far (found posts explaining that anything 'embedded' has to be configured and not downloaded?).
The LAN interface itself seems to be working. I can ping say google.com, also visiting the IP address of the instrument with a browser from another computer renders the attached page. For whatever weird reason basic tools like ipconfig and ping were missing from the installation. I managed to copy 'ping.exe' from another XP and that worked, but ipconfig barfs, there seem to be DLLs missing or something (that doesn't seem to affect the SA, all seems to work fine).
So am I missing something obvious? R&S download page for FSP has a download called 'LXI Class C Support V1.21', but it has a note 'required only for base system version < 4.5x', and what I have is 4.5. Is there such a thing as XP Embedded SP2 and is it safe to be applied to any XP Embedded installation? I guess I'll write to R&S but haven't been very successful with them helping with obsolete products. Appreciate your help...