5i25 - 7i76 support testers wanted

Wow, I now have a TB4 TB5 and TB6 showing !!!!!!!

Still no idea why the build downloaded but failed to install the newest vesion. It installed the one a few months old. Nothing I did, it is supposed to be a automated process.

Oh well, we got there anyway. It was just a bumpy road.

Well great finally got it!

I pushed the fixes for spindle override just now so thanks for that!

oh i bet it didn't work properly because it says:
sudo apt-get install emc2

it's not called ems2 anymore !

cmorley wrote:

oh i bet it didn't work properly because it says:
sudo apt-get install emc2

it's not called ems2 anymore !

AhHa Somebody did not update the buildbot instruction text on the webpage !!!

Now we know why my installed update was from january, that was the last one before the name change!!

People love to fun me! I am bruised but surviving LOL

Hello there,

I have just installed my brand new mesa 5I25 - 7I76 combo in my 10.04 RT Ubuntu system. I have pointed synaptic at the build bot repository

deb buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ lucid master-rt

and made sure to get, as of today, the latest version (2.6-pre0-3092).

I have followed this procedure to get the 5i25 and 7i76 firwmare

www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/compo...mit=6&start=42#16133

And, for a reason that escapes me right now, PNCConf still refuses to give me 5I25 as a choice for the card. Anyone know what I am doing wrong ?

Regards

J Blain

use these files/procedures instead:
www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/compo...ew&catid=39&id=20043

Thank you for the info,

I have made some progress, I followed the procedures you gave me. I still did not have a choice for 5I25 in PNCConf, I then realised that the folders I had copied into usr/share/doc and lib/firmware with sudo nautilus did not have the same user permissions as the ones already present. So i corrected that and now:

PNPConf gives a choice for 5I25. Please note that I have not yet connected my 7I76 board, I need to buy a cable for that today. So right now, when I select 5I25 in PNCConf I get to Mesa I/O setup screen but :

The 7I76 checkbox does not show up in the sanity check, checkbox window. The 7I33 checkbox is selected instead ?

Is that normal ? Should I configure only with the 7I76 physically connected ?

Regards

JBlain

I have gotten my hand on an IEEE1284 certified cable. When I plug the 7I76 and start PnCConf as before, I am able to select the 5I25 card as the PCI card. PnCConf indicates that it is loaded with the 7I76 firmware (the two cards were ordered as a set from Mesa). But the sanity checkboxes on the right do not include the 7I76 ??

What sould I do from there ?

Regards

JBlain

A little more investigating and I found that the 5I25 was not configured to supply 5 volts to the 7I76 ??!!

So I fixed that and just went ahead and unchecked all the sanity checkboxes in PNCConf. Proceeded to the end and I now seem to have a configured mesa driven stepper machine.

At least I hope i do. Now for some more testing