Lab:B209

B209 Fitzpatrick is a computer lab used by EGR 53, EGR 119, ECE 141, ME 131, and occasionally ME 141 and ME 160.

Specifications

• 42 networked Windows XP with acpub.duke.edu credential logins split up into 21 lab banches
• 1 instructor station Windows XP - equipped with a SMART Sympodium
• Projection system with screen
• WolfVision document camera
• 22 National Instruments NI PCI 6014e cards (one at instructor station, one per lab bench)
• 20 Circuit Specialists PBB 272 powered breadboards
• 20 Circuit Specialists MS8264 digital multimeters

Problems Logging In

• If xterm will not work and if the error is something about "error in locking authority file"

  Go to the PuTTY page regarding Xauthority_file_locking

• If x-win needs a license,

  pick "floating node," and use this license

• If your password doesn't work or matlab "doesn't exist,"

  try logging in to a Teer machine

• If PuTTY claims that you cannot connect to localhost or some other graphical problem:
  1. Make sure the Teer or Hudson machine did not complain about an error in locking authority file - if it did, see solution above.
  2. Make sure X-Win 32 is running.
  3. Hover over the X-Win icon to make sure it is Display 0 - if not, see the X-Win 32 page for troubleshooting.
  4. Exit PuTTY, restart it, load the session you tried to open, go to X11 or Tunneling in the Category, and make sure X11 was checked
  5. If none of that works, find a TA or the instructor.

Software

Partial list:

Specifically for EGR 53

• Acrobat reader
• ePrint
• Matlab with toolboxes (esp. Simulink, data acquisition, controls)
• Microsoft Office
• NI Measurements and drivers
• PuTTY
• SSH (including file transfer)
• X-Win 32

Other courses

• SolidWorks (ME 131 / 141 / 160)

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