Arcom ELAN-104NC Instruction manual

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ELAN-104NC
Quick Start & Data Manual
For Windows®CE
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ELAN-104NC Quick Start Manual for Windows CE........................................................................ 4
What’s in the Kit?.............................................................................................................................. 5
What else do I need?.......................................................................................................................... 6
Task Analysis.................................................................................................................................... 7
Task 1: Powering up the ELAN-104NC board................................................................................... 8
Task 2: Saving the registry................................................................................................................ 9
Installation of Microsoft’s Visual C++ Version 6.0.......................................................................... 10
Installation of Microsoft’s Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ Ver 6.0 ......................................... 10
Installation of the Arcom Platform SDK..........................................................................................10
Task 3: Setting up a COM port for the ActiveSync connection......................................................... 11
Task 4: Installing ActiveSync on a host system................................................................................ 12
Task 5: Copying files using ActiveSync........................................................................................... 14
Task 6: Rebuild, download and run a program................................................................................ 15
ELAN-104NC Data Manual for Windows CE.................................................................................. 16
The Boot Loader.............................................................................................................................. 17
Video Modes................................................................................................................................... 17
Touchscreens................................................................................................................................... 18
Calibration................................................................................................................................... 18
Testing ........................................................................................................................................ 18
Installation................................................................................................................................... 18
Storage Devices............................................................................................................................... 19
Running files directly from startup................................................................................................... 20
Ethernet........................................................................................................................................... 20
Ethernet Connection / Debugging.................................................................................................... 20
Using Internet Explorer ................................................................................................................... 21
Persistent Registry........................................................................................................................... 22
Operating System Variants .............................................................................................................. 23
Loading a Windows CE Image ........................................................................................................ 23
Supported devices............................................................................................................................ 25
Limitations to use............................................................................................................................ 25
FAQ’s ............................................................................................................................................. 25
Platform SDK Manual for Windows CE.......................................................................................... 26
Windows CE Platform SDK documentation..................................................................................... 27
The Class Library............................................................................................................................ 29
ArcomDog................................................................................................................................... 29
ArcomMediaGX.......................................................................................................................... 30
ArcomElan104............................................................................................................................. 31
ArcomMatrix............................................................................................................................... 31
ArcomIO32 ................................................................................................................................. 32
ArcomRelay8 .............................................................................................................................. 33
ArcomOUT16.............................................................................................................................. 33
ArcomIN16 ................................................................................................................................. 34
ArcomKeydisp............................................................................................................................. 34
ArcomMultiIO............................................................................................................................. 35
ArcomGIO .................................................................................................................................. 36
ArcomCan................................................................................................................................... 37
Support software.............................................................................................................................. 38
regsvr.exe.................................................................................................................................... 38
regpatch.exe ................................................................................................................................ 38
flushreg.exe................................................................................................................................. 38
Licensing Issues .............................................................................................................................. 39
End User License Agreement....................................................................................................... 39

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Revision History
Manual Comments
Issue A
Issue B 991214 000420 Manual first released in this format. ECR 565

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ELAN-104NC Quick Start Manual
for Windows CE

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What’s in the Kit?
Arcom's ELAN-104NC kit for Windows CE comprises of the following items:-
•An ELAN-104NC-M16-F8 processor board loaded with a Windows CE image
(Desktop variant, compressed version)
Note:
Other variants of the Windows CE Operating System can be loaded onto the ELAN-104NC
board.
See the ‘Operating System Variants’ section.
•A Power supply with US, UK and Euro style plugs, and connector for the ELAN-104NC
board
•A PS/2 mouse
•A PS/2 to AT keyboard adapter
•A VGA adapter cable
•A DB9 to DB9 null modem cable
•A floppy drive ribbon cable
•An IDE drive ribbon cable
•An ELAN-104NC Windows CE Development Kit CD-ROM
•This set of instructions
•An ELAN-104NC Flat Panel Interface board (FPIF board)
•An ELAN-104NC to FPIF interface cable
The following items are also included with the Flat Panel kit:-
•An NEC 6.5" flat panel (Type NL6448AC20-06)
•A backlight inverter board
•An FPIF to flat panel interface cable
•A backlight power cable

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What else do I need?
• A PS/2 or AT Keyboard
• A VGA monitor (If not using the ‘Flat Panel’ kit)
• A PC with a Pentium class processor, a CD-ROM drive and floppy disk drive, running either:-
•Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 or later with minimum 32MB RAM
(48MB recommended)
or • Microsoft Windows 95 or later with minimum 24MB RAM (48MB recommended)
Note:
Application emulation is only possible if using a Microsoft Windows NT host system.
•Microsoft Visual C++ Version 6.0 and the Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ Version 6.0
•Microsoft ActiveSync Version 3.0
Note:
The ActiveSync software can be downloaded from Microsoft's Windows CE web site at
www.microsoft.com/windowsce/products/download/activesync.asp
A link to it is provided on the ELAN-104NC Windows CE CD-ROM

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Task Analysis
1. Setting up the board and booting to Windows CE
2. Changing the backdrop appearance and saving the changes in the Persistent Registry
3. Setting up a COM port to be used with ActiveSync
4. Establishing a remote connection between the host system and the Windows CE System
5. Transferring files from the host system using the remote connection
6. Rebuilding an application and downloading it to theWindows CE System

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Task 1: Powering up the ELAN-104NC board
1. Plug the supplied mouse into the socket labelled 'PL16 MOUSE'
2. Plug a keyboard into the socket labelled 'PL4 KEYBOARD', using the supplied PS/2
adapter if required
3. If using a CRT monitor:
•Plug the monitor into the supplied adapter cable, then plug the adapter cable into
the socket labelled 'CRT PL11'
4. If using the 6.5" Flat Panel, supplied in a Flat Panel Development kit:
•Make Sure a CRT monitor is NOT connected, or the flat panel will not work
•Make connections to the supplied FPIF (Flat Panel Interface board) as described
below:
PL1: Connect to the ELAN-104NC 'PL1 LCD PANEL' connector using the supplied
40way ribbon cable
PL2: Connect to the flat panel’s data and control signals header, using the cable
supplied
PL3: Connect to the backlight inverter board, using the cable supplied
•Set the FPIF and ELAN-104NC links as described below:
FPIF Links ELAN-104NC Links
LK1 B Shift clock buffered LK1 A 3.3V Flat Panel voltage
LK2 B Shift clock non-inverted LK11* B +5V Backlight supply voltage
* Version 2 boards onwards
Further information on Flat Panels
Refer to the ELAN-104NC Technical Manual in the documentation section of the Windows
CE CD-ROM.
5. Fit the appropriate US, UK or Euro plug onto the power supply unit
6. Plug the power supply cable into the socket marked 'PL17 POWER'
7. Plug the power supply unit into a 100-240V AC supply
8. If necessary, enter the BIOS set up by using the F2 key, and make changes as required
Further information on BIOS Set Up
Refer to the ELAN-104NC Technical manual in the documentation section of the Windows
CE CD-ROM.
9. The system will boot to a 'Windows CE' backdrop
Note:
After the board has been powered up for approx. 2 minutes, a dialogue box may appear,
saying 'DHCP was unable to obtain an IP address.'
• Click OK to cancel the dialogue
See the Ethernet section for further information.
You have now completed Task 1

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Task 2: Saving the registry
1. Make sure the battery link LK10 is in position ‘A’ so that registry amendments are saved.
2. If you have not already powered up the board as described in 'Task 1', do this now
3. Click on the 'Start' button in the lower left of the screen
4. Select 'Settings > Control Panel’
5. Double click on the 'Display' icon
6. Select the 'Tile image on background' tick box
7. Click on 'OK' to close the 'Display Properties' box
8. Shut down the 'Control Panel' by clicking on the 'X' in the top right of the panel
Note:
The 'Windows CE' logo will now be 'tiled' on the screen, but if the board were to be rebooted
at this time, the change would not have been saved, and a 'non-tiled' logo would appear.
The registry needs to be flushed to save these settings, as described below.
9. Click on the 'Start' button in the lower left of the screen
10. Select 'Programs > Windows Explorer’
11. Select ‘Flashdisk\Demo’ and double click on ‘flushreg’
12. Click on the button marked 'Flush registry'
13. When the 'Registry flushed' message box appears, click on 'OK' to close the box
14. Click on 'OK' to close the 'Flushreg' application
15. Click on the 'X' in the top right of the screen to close 'Windows Explorer'
16. Reboot the ELAN-104NC board. The backdrop will now be 'Tiled'
Note:
Windows CE can only be rebooted by 'Power Cycling' the board, or by momentarily
shorting the pins of the connector marked 'RESET PL19'.
You have now completed Task 2

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Installation of Microsoft’s Visual C++ Version 6.0
Microsoft Visual C++ Version 6.0 should be installed according to Microsoft’s instructions.
Installation of Microsoft’s Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ Ver 6.0
When installing the Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 6.0, not all processor types need to be
included.
Therefore at the installation options box, click the box marked ‘specific processors’.
At the ‘processors’ screen, only select:
‘x86 processors’ and ‘x86 emulation’
At the ‘SDK’ screen, only select:
‘Windows CE platform SDK (H/PC)’
When the Toolkit for Visual C++ 6.0 has been installed, make sure the Arcom SDK is installed,
as described below.
Note:
If using an ‘NT’ System as a host, the Windows CE Platform SDK (H/PC) can be used to
emulate applications that don’t use any ‘Arcom’ specific device drives.
Installation of the Arcom Platform SDK
When Visual C++ Version 6.0 and the associated toolkit have been installed, the Arcom
Platform SDK tool must be installed in order to build applications for the supplied Arcom
hardware.
To install the platform SDK on an NT System:
•Run the supplied Windows CE CD-ROM
•Click on ‘Install Windows CE platform SDK for Arcom boards’
•Click on ‘Install platform SDK’
•At the ‘File Download’ screen, click on ‘Run this program from it’s current location’. There
will be a delay before the software license agreement box appears.
•When the ‘setup.exe’ screen appears, wait for the message saying ‘The SDK was
successfully installed’
•Click the ‘OK’ button
To install the platform SDK on a non NT System:
•Copy the PhaseX.exe file from the Windows CE CD-ROM Platform SDK directory to host
systems \temp directory
•In the \temp directory, double click on the PhaseX.exe file
•When the ‘setup.exe’ screen appears, wait for the message saying ‘The SDK was
successfully installed’
•Click the ‘OK’ button

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Task 3: Setting up a COM port for the ActiveSync connection
Configuring a new connection
1. Click on the ‘Start’ symbol, then click on ‘Run’
2. Type ‘remnet’ then click on 'OK'
3. Double click the 'Make New Connection' icon
4. Enter a name for the connection, click the 'Direct Connection' option, then click 'Next'
5. Select 'Serial Cable on COM1'
6. Click on the 'Configure…' button
7. Set the Connection Preferences as follows
•Baud Rate 115200 (or other required speed)
•Data Bits 8
•Parity None
•Stop Bits 1
•Flow Control Hardware
8. Click on the 'OK' button to close the 'Device Properties' window
9. Click on the 'OK' button to close the 'Direct Connection' window
10. Click on the 'X' button to close the ‘remnet’ window
Selecting the new connection
11. Click on the ‘Start’ button
12. Select ‘Settings > Control Panel’ and open the control panel
13. Double click the 'Communication' icon
14. Select the 'PC Connection' Tab
15. Select the 'Change…' button
16. Select the name chosen for the connection made above
17. Click the 'OK' button to close the 'Change Connection' window
18. Click the 'OK' button to close the 'Communications Properties’ window
19.Click the 'X' button to close the ‘Control Panel’ window
Saving the changes to the registry
20. Click on the ‘Start’ symbol
21. Select ‘Programs > Windows Explorer’,and start Explorer
22. Select ‘Flashdisk\Demo’ and double click on ‘flushreg’
23. Wait for the 'Registry flushed' message box
24. Click the 'OK' button to close the message box
25. Click the 'OK' button to close the 'flushreg' application
The settings just configured will be used the next time the 'repllog.exe' application is used to
connect to the host PC that is running ActiveSync, as described in the next task.
You have now completed Task 3

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Task 4: Installing ActiveSync on a host system
Note:
Microsoft's ActiveSync 3.0 is needed for this task. It can be downloaded from the
'microsoft.com/windows ce' web site. A link is provided on the Windows CE CD-ROM.
NULL Modem Cable Connection
1. Connect the included null modem cable from the designated COM port on the host system
to COM1 on the CE system
ActiveSync Setup on host (NT /95 or later) System
2. On the host system, Double click the downloaded ‘Msasync.exe’ file
3. At the 'Set Up Microsoft ActiveSync 3.0' screen, click 'Next'
4. At the 'Select Installation Folder' screen, click 'Next'
Connecting to the CE System
5. When the 'Get Connected' screen is shown on the host system:-
•On the CE system, click on the 'Start' symbol
•Click on 'Run…'and type repllog (but don’t hit ‘OK’)
6. On the Host system 'Get Connected' screen, click 'Next'
•Click 'OK' on the CE system 'Run' screen (a ‘connecting to...’ box will appear)
If a connection was NOT made
7. If the null modem cable is correctly connected between the host system and CE system,
but no connection was made, indicated by a screen saying 'Get Connected Verify COM
Port Availability’, repeat the connection process by:
•On the CE system, click on the 'Start' symbol
•Click on 'Run…'and type repllog (but don’t hit ‘OK’)
8. On the Host system 'Get Connected' screen, click 'Next'
•Click 'OK' on the CE system 'Run' screen (a ‘connecting to...’ box will appear)
When a connection has been made
If a connection was made between the host system and the CE system, the 'ActiveSync' icon
on the Host system task bar will turn green, and a 'New Partnership' screen will appear.
9. Select the 'No' option that states, 'I don't want to synchronise information'
10. Click on 'Explore', then the 'My Computer' icon to explore the files on the CE system

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Note:
After this connection has been made, subsequent reconnections should only require typing
repllog on the CE system. (i.e. nothing has to be done with the host system)
If a connection cannot be established, open the ‘File, Connection Settings’ dialogue box
and check that ‘Allow serial cable connection to this COM Port’ is selected.
If a partnership has been made by clicking 'Yes' option in the 'New Partnership' dialog box,
to synchronise information (item 9 above) it will NOT be possible to establish a connection
between the host and CE systems. To remove the partnership, select File, Delete
Partnership, then reconnect.
You have now completed Task 4

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Task 5: Copying files using ActiveSync
1. Establish communications between the Windows CE system and host system, as
described in ‘Task 4’
2. Insert the ELAN-104NC Windows CE CD-ROM into the host PC's CD-ROM drive
3. Use the host systems ‘Windows Explorer’ to open the ‘\Demos’ folder on the CD-ROM
4. Copy ‘spintest.exe’ and ‘spincube.dll’ to the ‘\FlashDisk\Demo’ folder on the Windows CE
system
Note:
To see the ‘Spincube.dII’ file, the host systems ‘Windows Explorer’ has to be set up to
‘show all files’. This can be set up by clicking ‘View’, ‘Option’, then selecting ‘Show all files’.
The Windows CE System ‘\Flashdisk\Demo’ folder can be found by clicking through the
icons under the ‘Mobile Devices’ icon.
5. If a 'File Converter' dialogue box appears, click ‘OK’
6. At the Windows CE system, click on the ‘Start’ button
7. Use ‘Run’ and then ‘Browse’ to select ‘ \FlashDisk\Demo\spintest.exe’
8. Click ‘OK’ to run spintest
You have now completed Task 5

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Task 6: Rebuild, download and run a program
1. Establish communications between the Windows CE system and host system,
as described in ‘Task 4’
2. Launch Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0
Note:
Communications between the Windows CE System and host system need to be started
prior to launching Visual C++ 6.0.
3. Use the host systems ‘Windows Explorer’ to copy the 'app1' folder from the ‘Examples’
folder of the Windows CE CD-ROM to your host system
4. From the ‘File’ menu of Visual C++ 6.0, use ‘Open Workspace’ to open the 'app1' directory
just copied to the host system
5. Select ‘app1.dsw’, and click on ‘Open’
6. From the ‘Build’ menu, select ‘Set Active WCE Configuration’
7. Select the installed Arcom phaseX SDK, then click ‘OK’
8. From the ‘Build’ menu, select ‘Set Active Configuration’
9. Select ‘appl - Win32(WCE x 86)Release’, then click ‘OK’
10. From the ‘Build menu’, select ‘Rebuild All’
11.The host system will build and download the application
Note:
If a dialogue appears warning that the CPU and/or OS versions do not match, click ‘OK’.
This occurs because the platform SDK supplied was developed for Windows CE 2.11, but
will work OK with Windows CE 2.12.
12. Run 'app1.exe' that has just been downloaded to the root directory of the CE system
You have now completed Task 6

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ELAN-104NC Data Manual
for Windows CE

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The Boot Loader
The Arcom ELAN-104NC Windows CE build runs on a standard ELAN-104NC. The board
boots into ROM-DOS, and runs an executable, called ‘BOOTCE’, which loads the Windows CE
operating system from the ‘FlashFX’ filing system. It requires the following files to be present.
IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM, HIMEM.SYS, CONFIG.SYS
The supplied minimal ‘config.sys’ has the following lines:
device=himem.sys
shell=bootce.exe /D:2
BOOTCE has the following switches:
/D:n Set display resolution (as detailed in 'Video Modes')
/S Silent - doesn't display any information while loading Windows CE
/P Only displays progress bar while loading Windows CE
/V Displays extra status information while loading Windows CE
/W Wipes the registry before booting
/0 Zero's the RAM before booting
Video Modes
BOOTCE.EXE includes a command line argument, /d:n to select the video mode that CE will
run in. The modes available are as follows:
n Mode
0 320x200x256 (default)
1 480x240x256
2 640x480x256 (used in the pre-loaded config.sys)
3 800x600x256
4 1024x768x256
5 240x320x256
50 320x240x256
51 640x240x256
52 480x240x256
53 240x320x256
Note:
Modes 1, 5, 50, 51, 52 & 53 are implemented as reduced size active areas within a
640x480 mode.
If an ELAN-104NC BIOS which supports flat panel displays is used with Windows CE, then the
BOOTCE display mode switch should be set to correspond with the resolution of the flat panel.
It is essential that a modified BIOS be used to correctly switch the video mode for a flat panel.

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Touchscreens
Three touchscreen interfaces are supported by the Arcom touchscreen software. These are
Dynapro SC3, Arcom/Wasp TSOI30 and Gunze. These can be used by connecting them
directly to one of the RS232 COM ports.
Copy the ‘touchcon.exe’ and ‘touchs.exe’ files from the Touchscreen section of the Windows
CE CD-ROM to the ‘flashdisk’ of the CE system.
Calibration
•Plug the controller into one of the RS232 COM ports, and connect the touchscreen
•Run the 'touchcon.exe' application
•In the 'touchcon' application, select the type of touchscreen being used and the COM port it
is connected to (either COM1 or COM2)
•Use the mouse to click on the 'top left' button
•Press the top left corner of the touchscreen
Note:
The mouse pointer should move, but not necessarily beneath the position you pressed.
At this point you are working with the uncalibrated device.
•Use the mouse to click on the 'bottom right' button
•Press the bottom right corner of the touchscreen
•Use the mouse to click the 'save' button
•You will be prompted as to whether you want the registry to be flushed. In order for the
settings just entered to be available after rebooting, you must answer ‘Yes’. This will flush
the entire registry, saving any other settings that may have been changed
•Exit the ‘touchcon.exe’ application
Testing
Run the 'touchs.exe' application.
Moving a finger or stylus on the touchscreen causes the mouse pointer to move with it.
If the calibration is incorrect, re-run the ‘touchcon.exe’ application.
If double clicking with the touchscreen is difficult, it may be useful to use the mouse section of
the control panel to reduce the double click speed. In order for this change to be saved in the
registry it will be necessary to run the 'flushreg' program provided.
Installation
To make the touchscreen work automatically on power up, copy 'touchs.exe' to the
'\flashdisk\startup' directory.

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Storage Devices
The current build of Windows CE supports the on-board FlashDisk and IDE drives.
The FlashDisk has the Windows CE operating system loaded onto it, and can be used to store
files that need to be preserved across reboots.
In addition to the FlashDisk, IDE drives are supported, when connected to PL8 of the ELAN-
104NC board.
Note:
If an IDE drive is detected and has the operating system loaded onto it, the system will boot
from the ‘IDEDisk’ instead of the ‘FlashDisk’.
If an IDE drive is detected, but doesn't have an operating system on it, the system will not
boot.
To use an IDE drive, and continue to load CE from the Flash Disk, make the IDE drive
bootable, and add the following to your ‘config.sys’:-
device=HIMEM.SYS
shell=d:\bootce.exe /d:2 d:\nk.bin
Where d:\nk.bin is used to specify where the operating system image is stored.
When booting, the system will wait for 5 seconds to initialise an IDE drive. If no IDE is going to
be used, or if the 5 second delay is too short, the delay length can easily be altered. Please
refer to the ‘Support Software' section for more information.
Note:
Floppy disk drives are not supported in the current build of Windows CE.
However, floppy disk drives can be used to transfer files to the system, by booting into
ROM-DOS.
Please see the ROM-DOS section of the manual.

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Running files directly from startup
To run an application automatically when the system boots:
•Create a directory called 'startup' in the \FlashDisk directory (or \IDEDisk if CE is loaded an
IDE Drive)
Either
•Copy the applications to be started automatically on power up to the 'startup' directory
(Command line parameters cannot be used)
Or
•Create a file called 'startup.ini' in the startup directory, based on the sample below
(Command line parameters can be used in this case)
Example 'startup.ini' file to be placed in the startup directory
.delay 1500
\Flashdisk\app1.exe
\Flashdisk\demo\app2.exe /d /v:2
Note:
The .delay should only be included in desktop variants of the Windows CE operating
system.
It is used to delay the start of an application, giving the desktop and taskbar time to load
first.
A return character has to be added after the last line.
Ethernet
The current build of Windows CE supports the on-board 10 BASE-T Ethernet controller.
By default, the system is set to obtain an IP address via DHCP.
If the CE system is powered up without any IP parameters, after approximately 2 minutes a
dialogue box may appear saying ‘DHCP was unable to obtain an IP address’.
This is either because the Ethernet controller is not plugged in, or because a DHCP server is
not running.
To prevent this box from appearing, IP parameters must be modified.
To set IP parameters:
•Enter the 'Network' section of the 'Control Panel'
•Under the 'Adapters' section, select 'NE2000 Compatible Ethernet Driver'
•Click on 'Properties'
•Click the ‘IP Address’ tab and set the ‘IP Address’, ‘Subnet Mask’ and ‘Default Gateway’, as
required
•Click the ‘Name Servers’ tab, and set the ‘DNS’ as required
•Save the registry (see ‘Task 2’)
•Reboot the CE system
Ethernet Connection / Debugging
For information on how to connect to a host system, and debug applications over ethernet, please go to
www.arcomcontrols.com/wince_ether