Connect a softlogix5800 controller to devicenet, Connect a softlogix5800 controller to devicenet -2 – Rockwell Automation 1784-PCIDS DeviceNet PCI Communication Interface Card User Manual

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5-2 Once You Have Completed the Installation

Publication 1784-IN004E-EN-P - April 2005

Connect a SoftLogix5800 Controller to DeviceNet

Before you can connect the SoftLogix system to the DeviceNet network, you must create the
1784-PCIDS card as part of the SoftLogix chassis.

3. Click OK.

1. From the SoftLogix chassis monitor, select Slot

⇒Create Module or right-click the appropriate slot

and select Create. Select the 1784-PCIDS card.

2. Specify

the backplane slot number.

4. Select the serial number of the 1784-PCIDS card you want.

7. Specify configuration settings for the

1784-PCIDS card:

A. Specify the network address (MAC

ID) on the DeviceNet network.

B. Specify the baud rate.

C. Enter the label name for the card (this

is the name you wrote on the label of
the card to help you identify the card
when you have others in the same
computer).

5. Select the serial number of the

card.

6. Click Next.

If you previously configured the 1784-PCIDS
card that you selected by serial number, the
chassis monitor remembers the configuration
from the last time you used the card (whether
in the same or a different slot).

8. Click Finish.