A little help understanding what's going on with the pncconf wizard...

I think I should have prefaced the following errors with:

I am getting a "hm2/hm2_7i96s.0: error finishing read" error. I didn't notice this until after reloading Linux on this box. I just spent the last hour reading the back and forth forum.linuxcnc.org/27-driver-boards/4691...error-finishing-read  which I must say is very entertaining but not encouraging.  I've got a few things to confirm and check out on that box and then I'll get back to everyone on this.

OK that's different, that means the the Ethernet latency is bad enough to cause
multiple sequential dropped packets.

Did you run a standard latency test?

What does:

uname -a

report

Whats does

ping 10.10.10.10

report?

Take a gander.

That does not look terrible though you may be better off with a newer
(say 6.4 or 6.5) kernel.

Can you run LinuxCNC and print the results of:

halcmd show param *.tmax

cmorley wrote:

see my advice above.

units in Pncconf are in per minute
units in the INI are per second
960 Inches per minute = 16 inches per second x 60 seconds

Pncconf writes the INI from your selections.
Pncconf defaults to 60 inches a minute (if you are using imperial, something close in metric) which is 1 inch per second.

that's absolutely not a good thing and should be corrected

PCW wrote:

That does not look terrible though you may be better off with a newer
(say 6.4 or 6.5) kernel.

Can you run LinuxCNC and print the results of:

halcmd show param *.tmax

Not until tomorrow - not sure I would know how to install a different kernel...