7i95t firmware flash

Hi

I do not succeed in flashing any firmware to my 7i95T mesaboard.I can ping it under adress 10.10.10.10. Its debian 13, linuxcnc should be 2.10, I replaced 2.9 to master in etc/apt/sources.list.d. and reinstalled according to post from RodW in this forum. ( I would have to look for the exact thread) Mesact lets me select 7i95t board and ip adress 10.10.10.10 in Machine. Verify board says device found at 10.10.10.10 is not a Mesa Board, not surprisingly Find IP board Results: No ETHER board found.  In terminal mesaflash (version 3.5.11) answers No 7I95T board found . Same behaviour with adress 10.10.10.1. No firmware found, I copied firmware according to instructions in window I/O Map in mesact. Thanks for any assistance

cheers geebee

 

thanks, forgot to mention I already tried these hints also.

I repeated them anyway

board adress changed to 10.10.10.11 and ping to 10.10.10.10 gives destination host unreachable. Ping to 10.10.10.11 is successful.

Netmask for board connection reads 24,( I entered 255.255.255.0 )

I checked " use this connection only for resources on its network" in routes
Nothing shows in this window "Editing ipv4 routes for 7i95t" under Address. Netmask, Gateway and Metric. 7i95t is the name I gave to this connection. I did not add anything here since I have not (yet) been advised to.

For both addresses (10.10.10.10 and 10.10.10.11) mesaflash answers no board found.I am in germany. I remember rumours different regions or countries might require specific ip addresses in order for this to work

The procedure you suggest in this thread does not work for me.
Further aid will be appreciated

thx and best regards

geebee

What does the command:

ip a

return?
 

copy from terminal :

eebee@debian:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp8s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 9c:53:22:48:4a:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enx9c5322484a55
inet 10.10.10.1/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global noprefixroute enp8s0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 2003:ca:745:4b0:8af0:56c3:81dc:59d1/64 scope global dynamic noprefixroute
valid_lft 172796sec preferred_lft 86396sec
inet6 fe80::1f98:abff:6d07:69fe/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 50:46:5d:6f:50:7c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enp0s25
altname enx50465d6f507c
4: wlp7s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 6a:9d:f2:44:dc:7d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr 64:70:02:18:5d:b8
altname wlx647002185db8
geebee@debian:~$

OK so the next question is which Ethernet interface is the 7I95T connected to?
(enp8s0 or eno1)

(quick way to check is unplug the 7I95T RJ45 cable and see which interface shows "NO-CARRIER"

I just try to set the card to work.

For the beginning, I want it to get a single stepper motor to turn with nothing else connected to it. For this, I need to configure some hal and ini files. I can use mesact but not pncconf for this.Later, I will analyze and try to understand these first files according to linuxcnc docs. What i intend to do is retrofitting a lathe to cnc (two, maybe three axes) , an additional axe for an attached lathe and on for a dividing head and some encoders /DRO This is all I might need in the (far) future.

Right now, I would just be happy to get linuxcnc, mesact ,board and stepper (driver) "Talk to one another".

cheers

geebee

mesaboard is on 2. enp8s0 (see alsö static inet/inet6 addresses) It does show no carrier when unplugged.

eno1 (internet) has automatic connection method.

wlan has been turned off in order not to get confused.

I changed lan cables and now it behaves as it should mesact/machine finds the board and readhmid provides the information as expected.(mesact and terminal)
I wasnt aware of that since I did have acces to the internet anyhow(???).

so thank you very much for the moment This particular problem is solved.


Have nice days

geebee