On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:00:06AM -0400, Clint Bach wrote:
> Michael,
>
> EMC is Enhanced Machine Controller. It is being developed by NIST
> (National Institute of Science and Technology, I think). It translates
National Institute of Standards and Technology.
> G-code files into signals on the parallel port to control motors on
> robots and machinery. It is currently written for rtlinux-2.0.36. That
> is why need version 2.0.36. I don't think it will work on any other
> version (It won't work on version 2.2.xx)but I'm not sure about 2.0.37
Should be fine. There are no interface changes there -- only bug
fixes.
> or 2.0.38. I've had a devil of a time getting rtlinux to load and run
> properly... Therefore I'm going to try a whole different source if I
> can. I need a bit of good luck about now!!!
NIST used to supply a pre-patched kernel on their web site if I remember
correctly. Send them email and ask them to upgrade to 2.2 !
>
> Will v1.3 work with 2.0.36?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Clint Bach
>
> Michael Barabanov wrote:
> >
> > Clint Bach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > I'm having way too much trouble getting rtlinux 2.0.36 up and running.
> > > Is there a cd-rom anywhere which I can get? I have tried downloading
> > > rtlinuxV1.2full.tgz from www.rtlinux.org several times and it won't
> > > unzip properly. It gets to /(something)/(something)/main.c and gives an
> > > input output error and quits with an unexpected gzip end of file. (or
> > > something similar to that) It just won't work.
> >
> > Please don't bother with 2.0.36. Get 2.0pre2 (2.0 final is due this week)
> > from ftp://fsmlabs.com/pub/rtlinux/v2.
> > Or, at least, use 1.3 from ftp://fsmlabs.com/pub/rtlinux/v1.
> >
> > > I need version 2.0.36 to run EMC.
> >
> > What's EMC?
> >
> > Michael.
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