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« on: July 12, 2014, 02:04:02 PM »
Galil.m3p is just a DLL renamed with the m3p extension. It has the m3p extension so that Mach can associate that extension with the Windows shell and make it install when you double click it. Nothing other than that! You can simply rename Galil.m3p to Galil.dll and copy it to the plugins directory.
It never helps to uninstall and re-install Mach to get a Galil running. People seem to do this all of the time though. Sometimes the registered action for the m3p extension gets messed up in Windows and re-installing Mach fixes the m3p extension association. But I can assure you that deleting Mach, re-installing, deleting registry keys, etc... does nothing for the Galil plugin. It is just a DLL.
If your Galil is configured with an IP address on your local network, then all you really need to do is copy Galil.m3p to the plugins directory and rename it to Galil.dll. There should be no other Galil plugin in the plugins directory. Then start Mach and choose the Galil plugin as the motion plugin. Then configure the Galil plugin and select your controller from the drop down list. If your controller is not seen in the drop down list, then suspect that the controller's IP address is not correct and/or missing.
Setting the IP address on the controller requires that you either let the controller get an IP address from DHCP or making a serial connection to the controller with Smart Term/Galil Tools/Galil Suites. Then enter the IP address with the IA command. e.g. IA 192,168,1,10 <enter>. Then you need to save the IP address with the BN command. That way the IP address will "stick".
Steve