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oodler
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My Notes on Starting Cold w/Network Card

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Here are some notes starting cold with the networking card. It was not nearly as painful as I was expecting, and I even had to update the firmware. Thanks to the folks on Discord for help.
  • purchased the card (archived for posterity)
  • put it in the board
  • dowloaded the latest ROMTERM.PRG found on the X16 Discord (from early June 2024, not linking here so ask around?)
  • turned on X16, ran ROMTERM.PRG
  • selected default settings (wifi "UART" already was already selected)
This brought me into the version of Zimodem that came with the card. I proceeded, then:
  • to configure the wifi I typed,

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    at+config
  • typed in, "host" - local machine name, just set it to "x16"
  • typed in, "wifi" - scans local wifi APs, select the one you want and put in the password
  • typed in, "quit" - prompts to save and quit
Once back to the main zimodem terminal, I tried connected to a couple of addresses; but it was clear there was a problem with the way it was displaying (more on that in a second); typed in the following commands:
This worked, but it was clear I needed to update the firmware on my network card. Based on:
  • I downloaded the update ZIP from Texelec, here
  • unzip'd it and followed the instructions in the text file
Notes on the update:
  • running on Windows 10
  • I tried the "./Update.bat" in Powershell, but the device could not be found initially
  • I did the "hold BOOT" thing to put it in update mode, that may have helped but the main issue was no driver was present
  • I had to install the driver CP210x Universal Windows Driver here
  • unzip'd it, found the device in the Windows "Device Manager" and went through "properties" to "update driver" - most may be familiar with this process
  • ended up putting the device on "COM3" for me
  • ran "./Update.bat" in Powershell, and it worked just fine
I then put it back in the x16, and reran "at+config" via "ROMTERM.PRG" to connect to wifi.

After that it all worked. The main card site has links to different BBSes and other things to play around with.
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