Hi, My upgrade to 2.7 is "still in process." I have a communication error from the 5i25 to the sserial 7i77 (see below for error from dmesg). I can start linuxcnc 2.7, make a jog, and after about 5-10 seconds I get a slew of communication errors and the sserial card is shut down.
I had 5i25 firmware 33 (1.33) and needed to update that to 34 or higher. I bought the 5i25/7i77 combo and wasn't quite sure which bit file to use. I chose mesaflash --device 5I25 --write 5i25_7i77x2.bit. In the dmesg output it shows this: [ 63.884444] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart Serial Firmware Version 43 So that seems to be at least at the correct version now. Correct bitfile, not so sure? Also, I think I updated the firmware for the 7i77 okay, here's the command line response: mill@dlinux:~/linuxcnc/MESA/Update_7i77_FIRMWARE/utils/linuxcnc$ ./update7i77 move 7I77 W4 and W12 to right hand positions cycle 7I77 field power and 5V power and hit return updating 7I77 field I/O . updating 7i77 analog out . now move 7I77 W4 and W12 to the left hand positiona and cycle field power and 5V power mill@dlinux:~/linuxcnc/MESA/Update_7i77_FIRMWARE/utils/linuxcnc$ Broadcast message from root@dlinux (Sun Oct 4 00:29:04 2015): The first time I did that, I hadn't recycled field power and it didn't work. The full dmesg file can be found here: http://www.ijohnsen.com/dmesg_errors_20151004.txt Here's the tail end of the dmesg file w/ the communication errors: [ 87.825896] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (13 ) Communication error [ 87.825904] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (4) Extra character [ 87.826893] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (13 ) Communication error [ 87.826900] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (4) Extra character [ 87.827892] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (13 ) Communication error [ 87.827899] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (4) Extra character [ 87.828896] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (13 ) Communication error [ 87.828903] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (4) Extra character [ 87.829894] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (13 ) Communication error [ 87.829901] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (4) Extra character [ 87.830895] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (13 ) Communication error [ 87.830902] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart serial card hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0 error = (4) Extra character [ 87.831899] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart Serial Comms Error: There have been more th an 1 errors in 10 thread executions at least 200 times. See other error messages for details. [ 87.831908] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: ***Smart Serial Port 0 will be stopped*** HAL FILE Modifications I don't think there would be an issue w/ the Hal file mods, I commented out the lines per the instructions here: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/getting-started/updating-linuxcnc.html I had originally used pncconf to get the base Hal files and then edited them. I commented out the pet_watchdog line and loadrt probe_parport. I didn't add anything else (there's no loading of a parport function) and also checked and didn't find anything for parport_pc in /etc/modprobe.d/linuxcnc.conf. Not really sure what I did wrong:-( Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
