No signal on Parallel Port

The loadrt command only works when you have HAL running. So you have to start HAL first. Unless there is something unusual your attempting to do the LiveCD is the easiest way to get get EMC up and running.

www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/hal_tutorial.html

John

triulzi wrote:

I try to follow instruction to install a parallel port, but when in a terminal I type "loadrt hal_parport cfg"
I have this message: "Command loadrt not found"
What must do to find the command "loadrt"?

Generally the "loadrt" command goes in a .hal file which is read by EMC2.

You _can_ run hal from the command line, if you want, by prefixing with halcmd "halcmd loadrt hal_parport….." or you can start up the realtime system and get a hal "shell" by typing halrun.

However, I don't think you really want to do either of those. I think you want to run stepconf and let the software set up your basic configuration for you.

(you can either type "stepconf" at the command line, or use the CNC menu.)

Can you post the output of dmesg?

You shouldn't need to load any kernel modules, it should all just happen automatically when you start Stepconf or EMC2.