LinuxCNC Install using MX Linux 19.4 - Geared Toward New Users - Discussion

Hostmot2 or mesaflash?
Pretty sure hostmot2 is just a copy/paste affair followed by loadrt in .hal, while mesaflash can be found as a binary and started as a normal program or downloaded from git, compiled and installed.

Mesaflash would make more sense... There are directions to install mesaflash in the docs here.

I can't make myself understood .. mesaflash is installed my setup has been running for years in wheezy, buster, Mint, etc. now with mx 19 it says hostmot2 is missing in usr / lib / firmware ..

This is from the man page for hostmot2:
"The hostmot2 firmware files are supplied by the hostmot2-firmware packages, available from linuxcnc.org and can normally be installed by entering the command "sudo apt-get install hostmot2-firmware-5i23" to install the support files for the 5i23 for example."

linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/hostmot2.9.html

 

the problem is that.
sudo apt-get install hostmot2-firmware-5i23
could not find hostmot2-firmware-5i23 package.

forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...2-in-synaptic#137160

billykid wrote:

the problem is that.
sudo apt-get install hostmot2-firmware-5i23
could not find hostmot2-firmware-5i23 package.

forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...2-in-synaptic#137160  

I've been thinking you are referring to trying to run linuxcnc, but I think you might be talking about pncconf?

Is this the error you are getting?:


If so, I think it's as "simple" as putting the firmware files in that folder. Firmware files are located here in the "Specification" tab:

store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=65

Though I am not exactly sure which files/folders go where, and how (it's not as simple as dragging and dropping into lib/firmware). Someone familiar with pncconf will have to provide better guidance here.

The other option might be to ignore the error, use 5i25 to make your config, and then manually change the config files to reference 5i23.