============================================== Lantronix DeviceInstaller for -------------------------------------------- x86: XP/2003 Server/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/2008 Server x64: Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/2008 Server -------------------------------------------- Software Release Notes -------------------------------------------- Version 4.4.0.0 Monday, September 23, 2013 Copyright (c) 2003-2013, Lantronix ============================================== This document describes the Lantronix DeviceInstaller for Windows software release. This document is divided into the following sections: o Description o Requirements o Installation o Upgrade Instructions o New Features o Resolved Problems o Known Problems o Technical Support Description =========== This utility provides users a single application, with a graphical interface and utilizing Microsoft's .NET Framework, to access various configuration functions for Lantronix networking products. This makes it easy to perform initial setup, IP address assignment, firmware upgrades, and configuration changes. Requirements ============ The following items are required to run DeviceInstaller: 1. x86: XP/2003 Server/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/2008 Server x64: Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/2008 Server 2. Microsoft .NET Framework v4.0. 3. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1, or later. 4. 30MB free hard drive space. The "Internet Connection Firewall" must be disabled, or else UDP Port 30718 must be available. Otherwise, you will not be able to detect or communicate with any devices on the network. To configure, go to the Control Panel, go to Network Settings, select the corresponding network adapter, choose Properties, and go to the Advanced tab. Installation ============ The DeviceInstaller is distributed in a single image as a self-extracting executable. It is included on the CD packaged with the device server. This utility can also be downloaded from the Lantronix website. 1. The application installation directory defaults to C:\Program Files\Lantronix\DeviceInstaller4.3, unless another folder is selected during the installation process. 2. A shortcut to this application is created on the Start/Programs menu. NOTE: The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 must be installed. This comes installed on Windows 7. If for some reason you received this setup utility without the .NET Framework, you can download it at the following URL: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/A/95A9616B-7A37-4AF6-BC36-D6EA96C8DAAE/dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe All installations use Windows Installer 3.1, and can be downloaded at the following URL: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/4/7/147ded26-931c-4daf-9095-ec7baf996f46/WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe Upgrade Instructions ==================== 1. The installation of DeviceInstaller 4.3 will not uninstall DeviceInstaller 2.0, 3.x, 4.1, or 4.2. To uninstall the DeviceInstaller utility manually, follow these steps: 1. Select Settings->Control Panel from the taskbar Start menu. 2. Double click on the Add/Remove Programs icon. 3. Under the Install/Uninstall tab, select DeviceInstaller in the Software list and then click Add/Remove. Follow the prompts. (Note: DeviceInstaller was the default Program Folder specified in the installation process.) New Features ============ Version 3.6 1. Now supports all subnets. 2. New IP assignment wizard designed to detect and correct PC & Network configuration issues during the IP assignment. 3. Built in TCP/IP tutorial. 4. Now supports XSDRIN units. Version 3.6.0.5 1. Now supports the VDS100 2. Now supports the XP485 3. DeviceInstaller now supports Simplified Chinese. Version 3.6.0.6 1. Certain names of devices shown in the main window of DeviceInstaller have been changed to reflect their dual nature (see Productinfobase.txt): Old Name New Name --------------------------- -------------------------------------- IAP DF1 Multi-Master UDS-10/Cobox-FL IAP DF1 Multi-Master IAP Modbus Bridge UDS-10/Cobox-FL IAP Modbus Bridge IAP Standard Tunnel UDS-10/Cobox-FL IAP Standard Tunnel DSTni-XPress DR UDS100/XPress DR IAP Version 4.0.0.0 1. DeviceInstaller is now organized as a tree view of devices on the network. 2. Configuration dialogs have been removed from this version of DeviceInstaller. A Web Browser and a Telnet console has been embedded into DeviceInstaller for ease of connecting and configuring a device using the Web interface or the Telnet interface provided by each device. Version 4.0.0.4 1. Supports the WiPort and WiBox WPA. Version 4.0.0.7 1. Supports the AR - XPort AR. 2. Supports the XA - XPort IAP. 3. Supports the WA - WiPort IAP. Version 4.1.0.1 1. Japanese Language support added. 2. Added support for L1 - OneTouch (LifeScan). 3. Added support for N0 - Mitsubishi Projector-Controller. 4. Added support for 128k ROM files for the Micro-100, XPort-01, Xport-03 and XPort-485. 5. Added support for upgrading multiple devices at one time. 6. Setup records can be saved and sent to other devices. 7. If a ProductInfobase.txt file is in the directory where setup.exe is executed, then after installation this ProductInfobase.txt file will be copied to the application directory. 8. Added Customization Options in Tools menu. 9. Wait time for device reboots is now user customizable. 10. ProductInfoBase.txt supports "EXTRA_TITLE", "IGNORE_LEGACY" and "IGNORE_UNKNOWNS". Version 4.1.0.3 1. Supports the V2 - LTX110 2. Supports the R1 - XPress DR+ 3. Supports the U3 - UDS1100 4. Supports the X4 - XPort-01 with 6.1 Firmware Version 4.1.0.4 1. Supports the A2 - EDS4100 2. Supports the FX - WiPort NR Version 4.1.0.6 1. Supports the rA - XPress DR+ Standard Tunneling Version 4.1.0.7 1. Supports the UA - UDS1100-IAP 2. Supports the U4 - UDS2100 Version 4.1.0.8 1. Supports the D3 - SDS1101 2. Supports the D4 - SDS2101 3. Supports the W6 - WiPort BG 4. Supports the W7 - WiBox BG Version 4.1.0.9 1. Supports the A3 - EDS32PR 2. Supports the A4 - EDS16PR 3. Supports the A5 - XPress I/O 4. Supports the IA - XPress DR+ Wireless Version 4.2.0.0 1. Converted from dependence on .NET Framework 1.1 to .NET Framework 2.0. 2. The Product Information Base is now in XML format instead of plain text. Support for new devices will be based on this file instead of creating a new executable. 3. Added the Lantronix Product Information Base XML editor. The latest PIBx file can be download via FTP from this editor. 4. In previous versions of DeviceInstaller, devices that are found and are not on the same network as the PC running DeviceInstaller, are marked as unreachable. Now, a new option has been added to allow the user to select this behavior, or to not have DeviceInstaller mark this device as unreachable. 5. Serial Recovery now has a persisten status mode to help in debugging recovery issues. 6. Selected devices can be excluded from the search results via the exclude toolbar button or the 'Device->Exclude Devices From Search Results' menu item. Version 4.2.0.2 1. Added support for EDS PS series of devices. Version 4.2.0.4 1. Added support for the Spider Duo (K2). 2. Added support for the XPort Pro (E5). 3. Added a user configurable value for Discovery timeout. This can be found in Tools->Options. 4. Name of XPort-03 has been changed to XPort-03/04. Version 4.2.0.5 1. Added device images. 2. Added support for EDS1100 and EDS2100. Version 4.3.0.0 1. Added support for 64 bit OSes. Supported 64 bit OSes are: Windows Vista x64, Windows 7 x64, and Windows 2008 Server x64. 2. Support of Windows 2000 has been dropped. Version 4.3.0.1 1. There is now a new directory for the lantronix.pibx file for 4.3 versions of Lantronix software. 2. Online help is now pure HTML and works with other browsers other than Internet Explorer. Version 4.3.0.2 1. Support for PremierWave EN added. File CDM20802_Setup.exe is copied to the DeviceInstaller installation directory. This file can be used to install a driver which allows DeviceInstaller to perform serial recovery over USB with the PremierWave EN. Serial recovery over USB running at 920K can be up to 10x faster than a serial port running at 115200. Please refer to the PremierWave User's Manual on how to implement this functionality. 2. Support for Micro125 added Version 4.3.0.3 1. Support for PremierWave XN added. 2. Support for PremierWave XC added. 3. Support for EDS-MD added. 4. Moved the menu item "Tools->Advanced->Recover Firmware" to "Tools->Recover Firmware." 5. Made optimizations to DeviceInstaller that resulted in speeding up the launch of the program, sped up the Search function, and sped up several other common functions. 6. A program, dping.exe, was added to the installation directory. This program will repeatedly "ping" a device via the 0x77FE port by sending the 0xF6 command until the user presses Ctrl-C. 7. A program, dsearch.exe, was added to the installation directory. This program does a search for devices from the command line. 8. A program, dlisten.exe, was added to the installation directory. This program listens on port 0x77FE to diagnose if discovery broadcasts are being sent from DI. Version 4.3.0.5 1. Support for xPico added. Version 4.3.0.6 1. Support for xSenso added. Version 4.3.0.7 1. Support for xDirect added. Version 4.3.0.8 1. Support for xPico-IAP added. 2. Support for xDirect-IAP added. 3. Support for XPort-05 added. 4. Support for PremierWave NR added. 5. Support for EDS2100 (Nuevo) added. 6. Support for XPort Pro (Nuevo) added. Version 4.3.0.9 1. Support for Micro125-IAP added. 2. Changed name of XPort Pro-04 to XPort Pro Lx6 Version 4.4.0.0 1. All products that start with the uppercase letter X have been changed to the lowercase letter x. Resolved Problems ================= Version 3.6.0.5 1. Configable Pins and Email Triggers were missing when displaying configuration for WiPort v5.6. 2. Encryption Key length was changed from 16 characters for 128 bits and 8 characters for 64 bits. The new values are 26 and 13 for 128 and 64 bits, respectively. 3. DeviceInstaller crashed when changing baudrates on the Advanced tab on the Edit Port Dialog. Version 3.6.0.6 1. Encryption Key is no longer displayed a clear text. 2. Disabling the Ad Hoc Network Creation will make the Ad Hoc Network Name, Ad Hoc Country, and Ad Hoc Network Channel inaccessible. 3. The following problem has been fixed: At the WEP encryption key you will see not the first 2 characters on 64 bit encryption. If you type in the encryption in Device Installer and push the apply and Ok button the WIPort is not found with the search function. 4. The following problem has been fixed: If you want to change the WEP encryption from 64 bit to 128 bit in Device Installer you get an error message : "Invalid Object" 5. DeviceInstaller now correctly requests and parses the RCR and SCR registers from selected devices. 6. DeviceInstaller now correctly handles baudrate selects for the XPort-03. 7. Fixed various Simplified Chinese inconsistencies. 8. VDS100 can now assign baudrates up to 230K. Version 3.6.0.7B1 1. Fixed issue where devices that only supported baudrates of 115K and below would not allow the baudrate to be changed. An error was presented to the user stating that a baudrate of 230K was not a supported baudrate. Even though 230K was not selected as the baudrate to be changed to. Version 3.6.0.7B2 1. Fixed issued where under certain conditions, some VDS100s where reported having 2 ports. Version 4.0.0.0 1. Fixed issues where the WiBox could not be recovered via a com port using the Advanced Recovery option. Version 4.0.0.5 1. Fixed issue where changing the IP address on a device, that has RS485 enabled for the serial protocol, will change the serial protocol back to RS232. Version 4.1.0.1 1. Fixed crash of DeviceInstaller on startup when the PC has no physical serial ports. 2. Fixed recurring invalid reuse of Sockets. 3. Calulation of subnet mask sent to the device was incorrect. 4. Fixed the clrscrn command for the XPort AR for Telnet. 5. Cut and Paste in the telnet tab now works. Version 4.1.0.2 1. Fixed issue where setting the IP address cleared the Telnet password. Version 4.1.0.4 1. Fixed issue where send a setup record retrieved from a device that has a static address. When sending this setup record to another device, that device's IP address was changed to the IP address in the setup record. Version 4.1.0.6 1. An Exception occurred when searching and the "Activate logging during searching." checkbox was checked. Version 4.2.0.1 1. Fixed issue with Serial Recovery of the XPort AR. Version 4.2.0.2 1. Fixed the problem where the user could not save or cancel changes made to the Product Information Base (PIBX) via the update PIB download from Lantronix's FTP site. Version 4.2.0.3 1. Fixed issue when running on Japanese Windows. The Name, Group and Comments fields where uneditable in the Details Tab. Version 4.2.0.4 1. Fixed an issue with the Add Device menu item. Now devices that are added from another subnet than the PC running DI is, will correctly obtain configuration from the device. Version 4.2.0.5 1. All interfaces on a NIC are now shown in the Options Form. 2. The cancel button is now enabled during IP Assignment. 3. The Add Device option now handles HostNames correctly. 4. Assigning an IP address to CoBOS devices inadvertently changed the Connect Mode of the device in certain situations. This issue has now been fixed in this version. Version 4.3.0.1 1. Fixed issue where the NIC selection in the Options dialog did not display Network Interfaces in the PC did not have access to DNS. Version 4.3.0.2 1. Fixed issue with the watchdog timer firing for EX chip devices during serial recovery. Version 4.3.0.4 1. Fixed issue Version 4.3.0.4 1. Fixed issue with Serial Recovery failing on the PremierWave XC. Version 4.3.0.5 1. Fixed issue with Serial Recovery failing on Evolution Devices such as the EDS series of devices. Version 4.4.0.0 1. xPort 03-04 (X2) Serial Recovery fixed. 2. Added xPort-IAP-05 (YM). 3. Change all "x" characters in the beginning of product names to lowercase. (ie. XPort to xPort) Known Problems ============== 1. Multiple devices cannot be upgraded at the same time. 2. Location of Custom Web Pages cannot be specified on the devices that support this feature. 3. If a device is set with DHCP enabled and AutoIP disabled and there is no DHCP server on the network, DeviceInstaller will not be able to discover the device. Version 4.0.0.0 1. Some devices will not connect correctly via the embedded Web Browser. These devices need a different Java Virtual Machine. Either use an external browser for these cases or perform the following tasks: 1. Load and install the latest Java JVM from www.java.com. 2. Add the environment variable "JAVA_PLUGIN_WEBCONTROL_ENABLE" with a value of "Sun5uxOrz". Technical Support ================= If you have a question about the DeviceInstaller utility, first look in the online Help file. When the program is running, press the F1 key to automatically display Help, or select Contents in the Help pull-down menu. This Help file can also be accessed via the shortcut on the Start/Program menu. If you cannot find an answer, please try our website at www.lantronix.com/support. If you still cannot find an answer, please contact Lantronix technical support at 1-800-422-7044 US or 1-949-453-7198. Copyright (c) 2003-2006, Lantronix. All rights reserved. Windows, .NET and Internet Explorer are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Save Installation... Cancel Ctl-Alt-Sht-L 0 Forever Ctl-Alt-Sht S Set Names