On Wednesday 30 January 2019 11:48:45 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 14:04, <[email protected]> wrote: > > its not easy, to get motherboards with a parport. mesa-cards > > > are exotic and expensive, usb-parports not for reatlime-usage. > > I don't consider Mesa cards particularly exotic, and they are cheaper > than the popular Smoothstepper that the Mach boys use. > The cheapest Mesa card is $59 and offers 72 IO pins. > If refering to the 7i90HD, don't get it anywhere near a noisy 5 volt line without a triplet of 7i42TA's which contain the snubbers to protect its 3.3 volt fpga circuitry. They make it bulletproof AND supply very nice terminal connection facilities to wire it up with. Each 7i42TA handles 24 of its i/o pins on the 50 pin socket. It does run the price up though.
> if this driver works as expected, what I have to do, for integrating > > > it into the distribution? > > Make a pull-request at github.com > > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/code/contributing-to-linuxcnc.html#_ >overview_of_the_process Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
