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ErwinCNC wrote:

Hello
I put my pi 5 into operation yesterday.
Unfortunately I get the locale error with Pconf

I tried to use the same settings as you.
My keyboard is german

Do you have an idea?
 

I *think* you have to set the localle etc from menu-config - mine was not set for me.

Good day,
Adding a voice here as I think I saw another user having this issue: RPI5 with a 7i96, and after some time I get a solid red INIT light on the mesa card, and obviously at that point have to reset the card to continue. I cant make heads or tails of this just yet, but it might be related to idle. It may be specific to the 7i96 given the other poster also commented on that. I have 7i76EU on its way so will be able to test this and post back whether I experience anything similar. Currently the Mesa is on a 5v3A wall plug, and the RPI5 uses a somewhat official USBC RPI wall plug.

There was a user having an issue with gmoccapy locking up, but this issue was related to zram, which was discussed earlier in this thread.
I've had my RPi 5 sitting there with Axis open connected to a "cobbled together" 7i92 and after a week and a half have only dropped one packet.
When I get a chance I'll look into the ethernet setup. For some basic advice, do not have a gateway nor DNS server entry for the NIC that the mesa card is connected to, it generates unwanted traffic on that interface.
TBH I'm not up on the meaning of the LEDs on the card you are using.
It maybe worth checking the manual and searching the forum for that answer.

RPI5 with a 7i96, and after some time I get a solid red INIT light on the mesa card, and obviously at that point have to reset the card to continue.

If the init light turns on when LinuxCNC is running, (with any Mesa Ethernet FPGA card)
it means you have a watchdog fault, likely because communications have been lost
for longer than the watchdog timeout setting. This is likely due to a network latency issue.
No reset is needed, though LinuxCNC will have to be restarted.

Here's the Mesa interface snippet from /etc/network/interfaces, note no DNS nor Gateway as mentioned previously.
Sorry for the delay in answering.

matn1 wrote:

Good day,
 Currently the Mesa is on a 5v3A wall plug

This is likely your problem. Replace with a Meanwell MDR-20-5 or similar.