I’m trying to figure out how install a hostmot hm2_eth driver in pathpilot so I can talk to my hm2_7i80 card that controls a milling machine via Ethernet connection. After the 7i80 card is recognized I can work on the other issues that will show up.
I was trying to do this from a pathpilot install disk but I think I will need to work from source to do this to install the required mesa hm2_eth driver. I downloaded the available old source for pathpilot v1.8.2 and installed a clean version of Ubuntu 10.04-linuxcnc3 but so far the stock pathpilot source is not yet able to compile for me yet. I think I may have to install linuxcnc 2.5 first to satisfy dependencies from what I have read. Is that correct? I have read all three tuturials to help guide me along.
hi
what problem do you have with the pathpilot source ? ( email me )
you'll need to add the eth source and modify a few make files , as well as probably change from the rtai to uspace kernel changes , which will be the major headache .
the age of the pathpilot base code being based on ubuntu is the stumbling block , i would imagine
beware theirs a lot of code been removed from the pathpilot source compaired to lcnc .
as well as things such as redis and changes added .
My compile problem appears to be related to missing dependencies. The repository links that are on the computer that was configured with the Ubuntu (lucid) 10.04-linuxcnc3 cd are no longer valid and thus I cannot install the missing items. I have found some info on the internet that these links were changed to a archive of old versions Ubuntu lucid. That version is no longer supported and thus its use in my view is realty not desirable for new work.
I have been thinking about my goals and after some thought it turns out that I'm mainly interested in working on separating the pathpilot gui from pathpilot and interfacing it in a standard way to a current .dev version of linux cnc. This will be more useful for me and allow linuxcnc to be updated via git in a standard way for use or testing.
thats one of my goals , however pulling out the pathpilot GUI is the easy part ,
beware some of the changes are much deeper , pathpilot uses redis for communication for example
and there are changes such as the fanuc tools structure to the database
I got the gui pulled out so that I can start working on interfacing it to my configuration files and work on all the hidden issues that are bound to pop up. I have the gui running with latest version of linuxcnc-dev and use the run-in-place with uspace configuration to be able to access the mesa 7i80 board. Files used for capturing the gui were the 1.9.3 version and I did have to update psutil to a 64 bit version.
The operating system on the laptop I'm using runs on Linux Mint 2 "Betsy" - Cinnamon (64-bit) operating system with 3.18.13-rt10mah+ preempt kernel. Picture attached.
