adaptor for ethernet to usb

[tcpbob]

i have had my simrad halo working nicely displayed on my trusty old lenovo thinkpad until it finally died of old age and beer spilled on the keyboard...
now i find that new laptops rarely come with a ethernet connection which the radar apparently requires. i have bought an adaptor that the vendor swore would work, as vendors do.. i can not get past a display that says radar is, "initializing," "no radar". and the radar icon on my tool bar displays the "s" shape on the radar icon. i took the nav machine to a pro who installed a driver he said and an ehternet driver for the adaptor does show up on "device manager" in windows 10.



i am running radar plugin v5.3.4 as advised by an opencpn developer, on opencpn 5.6.2. either i miss something or my radar is in trouble, more likely the former. can anyone out there help? advise appreciated.

[smac999]

have you tried the port with something else? plug it into your internet router and see if the laptop gets internet via network. (with wifi off)

[tcpbob]

thank you for your reply but i use no such apparatus as you describe. the only possible solution is a direct connection from the radar to the computer.



some time ago i received a very good, detailed instruction of how to set the system up from a cpn developer and have been careful to duplicate that instruction. but it seems apparent that the problem is the lack of ethernet port. where i am now the least expensive machine i have found with ethernet is $800 usd...which in my crappy austrlia $ translates into a wheel barrow full.. all this caused by one moment of gross stupidity... maybe i should consider drinking my beer from a baby bottle.

[markcouz]

Have you set the correct IP address for the LAN adapter to communicate with the radar.

For my Garmin HD (similar to the Halo I believe) i needed to set the IP address to 172.16.1.1

[tcpbob]

this is something that was not necessary for the set up on my old machine but perhaps it is worth a shot for this one. i have no experience in setting an IP, could you describe how to?

[tcpbob]

wait a minute... i think you are talking about a wifi connection to my radar? whereas i am trying to do a wired connection?

[tcpbob]

i have just got hold of a machine with ethernet, loaded onencpn and plugin and it does not connect. i checked power to the cable and it has power but i am getting nothing back. time to examine a new direction.