Mesa 5i25 config for chinese BOB

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a cute Forummember helps me to fit the 5i25 to Benezan bob and chinese bob too
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Hello to all, I have an identical chineese BOB board that I am running with linuxCNC for over a year now.
i just purchased a mesa 5i25 pci card so I can boost my system up a bit. I can't understand how to setup up the pci 5i25 for the correct
pinouts.

I flashed the 5i25 like this
# sudo mesaflash --device 5i25 --write 5i25_dmmbob1x2.bit
# sudo mesaflash --device 5i25 --readhmid > mypinout-bob.txt

so do I hook the bob with a 1-1 parallel port cable to the 5i25 and I am ready to go or do I need to do some more flashing or the HAL ini file to suite my needs. I am a little confused. Thank you ALL.

pacman13b wrote: so do I hook the bob with a 1-1 parallel port cable to the 5i25 and I am ready to go or do I need to do some more flashing or the HAL ini file to suite my needs.

You need to change the HAL a bit.

Mainly you need to change the references in the HAL from "stepgen,N.position-cmd" to "hm2_5i25.0.stepgen.N.position-cmd" and the same for the feedback equivalents.

Any mention of the parport has to go. You can probably get rid of the base-thread too.

It is actually probably best to start a new config using pncconf with all the settings the same as your stepconf parallel port config.

I'll give pncconf a try but I am still confused!! I give it a try and post back

Thanks...

No go. I tried almost everything with pncconf.

I need the following parallel port pins configured ...
pins 2,4,6,8 step - x,y,z,a
pins 3,5,7,9 dir - x,y,z,a
pin 10 estop
pin 11 probe input
pin 12 home x
pin 13 home y
pin 15 home z

pin 14 - enable drives
pin 16 collant on
pin 17 spindle on