Mesa 5i25 config for chinese BOB

pacman13b wrote: No go. I tried almost everything with pncconf.

What fails to work?

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

dmmbob.bit looks like this:

-- I/O 00 PIN 1 Spindle DAC PWM
-- I/O 02 PIN 2 X Dir
-- I/O 04 PIN 3 X Step
-- I/O 06 PIN 4 Y Dir
-- I/O 08 PIN 5 Y Step
-- I/O 09 PIN 6 Z Dir
-- I/O 10 PIN 7 Z Step
-- I/O 11 PIN 8 A Dir
-- I/O 12 PIN 9 A Step
-- I/O 13 PIN 10 Input 1 just GPIO
-- I/O 14 PIN 11 Input 2 (Quad A)
-- I/O 15 PIN 12 Input 3 (Quad
-- I/O 16 PIN 13 Input 4 (Quad Idx)
-- I/O 01 PIN 14 just GPIO
-- I/O 03 PIN 15 just GPIO
-- I/O 05 PIN 16 just GPIO
-- I/O 07 PIN 17 just GPIO

So if you can't swap the step and dir wires (as a minimum) then you will need to find a different bit file to flash the 5i25 with.

Why did you choose dmmbob.bit?

what other file can I flash to get close to what I need for the above setup??

take a look at the .pin files in the 5i25 distribution zip file
These show all the available configuration pinouts

5i25_g540x2.pin
5i25_hdbb2.pin
5i25_mx3660x2.pin
5i25_prob_rfx2.pin
5i25_r990x2.pin

are likely suspects

Thanks PCW , give me 5 minutes of your time...I'll take a quick peek..

I'll give 5i25_hdbb2.pin a go right now and I;ll let ya know..

PCW, I flashed it all ok but it's not comming up in the firmware for pcnconfig. I'mm using linuxcnc 2.7, do I have to copy some file over to a sub dir or something..?