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Recent content by Wile E. Coyote

  1. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    For people playing along at home...I used every trick in the black bag to get Win XP on it but got nothing but BSOD, which is really strange because I can put XP on anything and everything else the same way. Didn't investigate further. I'll wait until the Bottle-of-Scotch network comes up...
  2. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    Lol yeah...ha. I've used Unix flavors back to the HP-UX days so if someone can get the touchscreen drivers to behave under some flavor of Linux -- I'll be all over it. Maybe I'll set up some dual-boot arrangement with Win 10. Messing with VM stuff is not something I'll be into while I still...
  3. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    Okay, so - a few weird things with the serial ports. Win 10 doubled up on the same names (i.e. two COM 1 ports, two COM 2 ports) in Device Manager even though they all got different IRQs. So, I went in and renamed them COM 1 through COM 7 in order. In the literature, 'COM A' is supposed to...
  4. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    No. I haven't looked into it too seriously yet. Based on what everyone else said I was thinking of installing XP to see if it would come up with working drivers and may still try that on another drive. I'll play with puTTY a bit too. Next thing I want to try is to see if it recognizes the...
  5. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    Got Windows 10 loaded on the SSD. Ethernet works fine (did all the updates) - USB works fine - and for giggles I set the disappearing taskbar, set the desktop icons to off - and am using an old screengrab I had of an FBCB2 in operation as a desktop :) Display resolution seems fixed at 800x600...
  6. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    The dumb thing is that with the hard-drives removed on the AN/UYK-128 family stuff, all you have left is a commercial-tier industrial computer. Nothing special about it. COTS flavored USB, drive interfaces, VGA display, keyboard - the works. It's like a 20 yr old Dell Optiplex wearing flashy...
  7. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    Yes, the earlier question was hoping you'd already figured out where to pick up 12V+ because it looked like a pain in the ass -- the rest of it I mostly had worked out. Turns out you can grab 5V+, GND and 3.3V+ right from the unpopulated 4-pin connector mount on the sub-board that contains the...
  8. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    Do you have a wiring diagram of how you hooked that up to run the SATA SSD? I'm just not paying what that Ebay vendor wants for a caddy. Not happening. If I have to remove the 132,456 little black screws again...I guess I will. Under protest. And probably cursing gods in languages I don't speak.
  9. Wile E. Coyote

    MAN KAT US owners?

    "Metallurgy not quite up to the demands of the task required over the expected service life of the vehicle." If I were writing my Yelp review.
  10. Wile E. Coyote

    Fair Radio Sales in Lima OH - going out of business - FOREVER

    I've heard from a number of others that the expected "closing out pricing"/ discounts basically...aren't. Maybe that will change as we get closer to May (or whenever) but if it were me trying to clear out that much inventory I don't think I'd wait that long to make the necessary adjustments.
  11. Wile E. Coyote

    MAN KAT US owners?

    Well some previous operator certainly didn't! All the pot metal in the accelerator pedal enclosure was just grenaded. It was a real mess. I have pictures somewhere of the wreckage. I wonder how many other KAT 1 trucks have suffered the same over the years? I guess one can either...
  12. Wile E. Coyote

    MAN KAT US owners?

    This is kind of thread-necromancery I suppose but we have this truck at work now and I have it running/ stopping properly. The three fun things were: 1) Serious asbestos removal. 2) Having to make up a replacement system for the accelerator pedal floor actuator. 3) Having to plumb in...
  13. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    Well...we have the Military Communications forum with a few similar topics already so I suppose it could all be moved there. Or we could just leave it as an anomaly secure in the knowledge people can skip *on* to the posts about injector pumps and 4L80E transmissions and why every hub seal...
  14. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    Bwahaha [mad scientist laugh] -- it's ALIVE! Thanks to Jake20's pathfinding - reprogramming the BIOS brought everything back to life. There were a few false starts with the Erase routine but one of the YouTubers got it figured out after running into the same problem (primarily because the...
  15. Wile E. Coyote

    HMMWV Blue Force Tracker Setup

    I've seen a couple. One looked like it was pulled out of a damaged/ rollover vehicle and had some case issues and I think the other looked okay less the hard drive and I think the door. That was probably 18 mos. ago or so. Haven't seen one since but also haven't searching too heavily lately...
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