Upgrading Windows® Embedded Standard 7 Drivers - Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE Series Configuration Manual

Configuring and Using the RUGGEDCOM APE
2.3 Upgrading Windows® Embedded Standard 7 Drivers
Note
The GAiA firewall is offered as an alternative to the default firewall that comes on all
RX15xx devices. The GAiA firewall is a widely used and accepted firewall used in en-
terprise and industrial applications and offers easy-to-use management capabilities
for deployments where many firewalls must be set up and maintained. The GAiA fire-
wall may be installed by the factory at the time of ordering or installed in the field us-
ing software obtained from https://www.checkpoint.com/.
Note
Shorewall firewalls are used for Linux distributions. For more information about con-
figuring Shorewall firewalls, refer to http://shorewall.net.
As a one-armed firewall, the external network is supplied by an Ethernet or WAN port
on the RX15xx device. The traffic on this port is restricted to a VLAN shared with the
RUGGEDCOM APE firewall. Traffic inspected and allowed by the RUGGEDCOM APE
firewall is returned to the RX15xx device on other VLANs.
2.3 Upgrading Windows® Embedded Standard 7 Drivers
Windows® Embedded Standard 7 drivers for the Atom-e6xx chip set used on the
RUGGEDCOM APE module can be obtained from Siemens. For more information, con-
tact Siemens Customer Support.
Note
Updated drivers are typically provided with each Linux distribution.
To upgrade the Windows® Embedded Standard 7 drivers, do the following:
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Obtain a copy of the drivers from Siemens Customer Support.
Extract the files and transfer them to a temporary directory on the RUGGEDCOM
APE module.
Log in to Windows® on RUGGEDCOM APE as an administrator.
For each driver, run setup.exe and follow the instructions provided.
Note
If warned that a driver has not been digitally signed, ignore the warning and
continue with the installation. This is expected behavior.
Reboot the device.
Log in to Windows® on RUGGEDCOM APE as an administrator.
Open Device Manager. A list of detected hardware devices appears.
Verify the new drivers appear in the list of detected hardware devices.
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