Re: [Emc-users] New at mailing list, and seeking for some help with 7i43

2008-09-10 Thread Richard Acosta
El 09/09/2008 11:53 p.m., Kirk Wallace escribió: On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:14 -0300, Richard Acosta wrote: Hello, my name is Richard, and i´have bought a 7i43 board, wich i hope to use on a home made drilling machine. I´m stuck on the first steps, i have connected this board using parallel p

Re: [Emc-users] New at mailing list, and seeking for some help with 7i43

2008-09-10 Thread Richard Acosta
El 10/09/2008 03:04 p.m., Sebastian Kuzminsky escribió: Richard Acosta wrote: Hello, my name is Richard, and i´have bought a 7i43 board, wich i hope to use on a home made drilling machine. I´m stuck on the first steps, i have connected this board using parallel port cable, set jumpers acc

Re: [Emc-users] A little OT: Need advice on cable

2008-09-10 Thread Glenn R. Edwards
Hi Ed, I have used a high-flex ribbon cable to great success. Others have mentioned flex circuits which are great but can cost you with tooling. Digi-key should have it, or Google... Glenn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Sent: Wednes

Re: [Emc-users] A little OT: Need advice on cable

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan / Hydra
This may be completely obvious but for signal-level electric communications a kapton backed thin film (I'm not sure what they're called but they're typically used in harddrives for the read heads, inkjet printers for driving the ink cartridge among other things) cable has a very, very long lifespan

Re: [Emc-users] Another problem with Hostmot2 and m5i20

2008-09-10 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, >> Yep, sounds like all the HAL pins & params are set right. Just to make sure, you've added the hm2_5i20.read() and .write() functions to a realtime thread, and you've started the realtime kernel, right? << Yes. If I had not, then I don't think anything would work. As it is, my step

Re: [Emc-users] New error after upgrade

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Joni
Hi Steve, the culprit might be probe_parport, can you check if parport_pc shows up under lsmod (right after booting the machine, then after running emc2), and if you have loadrt probe_parport in your hal file. Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: "Steve Blackmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Emc-users] New error after upgrade

2008-09-10 Thread paul_c
Hi Steve On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Steve Blackmore wrote: > Thanks Paul - I do have the modules If anybody needs them, Thanks, but no - You get to keep all the broken pieces ;-) > what's the next course of action? Is it something I've done or an error in > the updates somewhere? It is no

Re: [Emc-users] Another problem with Hostmot2 and m5i20

2008-09-10 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Eric H. Johnson wrote: > The enable pin for the PWM is getting set. If I set the enable to true, and > then set the value to say 5.0, when I do a show pin I do in fact see that > the enable pin is true and that the pwm value pin is 5.0. > > Per your other email, I would think that this also proves

Re: [Emc-users] Another problem with Hostmot2 and m5i20

2008-09-10 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, The enable pin for the PWM is getting set. If I set the enable to true, and then set the value to say 5.0, when I do a show pin I do in fact see that the enable pin is true and that the pwm value pin is 5.0. Per your other email, I would think that this also proves that the scale is se

Re: [Emc-users] Need more help (New in emc2 & linux)

2008-09-10 Thread Floros Ioannou
Many thanks Alex. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:42:14 +0300Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Need more help (New in emc2 & linux) Hi, I have some older configs for a 540, so they might need updating (I think they worked with 2.1.x, but they might work with 2.2.x),

[Emc-users] A little OT: Need advice on cable

2008-09-10 Thread Ed
I am finally getting to work on my Hardinge CHNC and would like to repleace the old cables that run to the back side of the cross slide. These cables run in a track something like an Igus(sp) so they get flexed constantly. The cables would be for encoder, limit and home switches,turret position

Re: [Emc-users] Another problem with Hostmot2 and m5i20

2008-09-10 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > The pwmgen.XX.enable HAL pin gets initialized to 0 and sent to the FPGA > on module load. When the user changes the HAL pin, the new value is > sent to the FPGA. Eric, can you verify that the HAL enable pin for the > PWM in question does get set to 1? Another thin

Re: [Emc-users] New error after upgrade

2008-09-10 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:17:35 +0100, you wrote: > >Alex > >On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Alex Joni wrote: >> can you post a list of modules loaded? > >You don't need a list of loaded modules to diagnose the problem (actually, >there are two). > >> From: "Steve Blackmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > [

Re: [Emc-users] New at mailing list, and seeking for some help with 7i43

2008-09-10 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Richard Acosta wrote: > Hello, my name is Richard, and i´have bought a 7i43 board, wich i hope > to use on a home made drilling machine. > > I´m stuck on the first steps, i have connected this board using parallel > port cable, set jumpers according to what manual says, so, now i don't > know w

Re: [Emc-users] Another problem with Hostmot2 and m5i20

2008-09-10 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace wrote: >> I presumed the selecting of one PWM in the configuration set the direction >> of the GPIO, as it does for the step and direction outputs for the two >> steppers in the configuration. >> >> Regards, >> Eric >> > It should... > > Is the PWM pin high or low? > > Did you st

Re: [Emc-users] New error after upgrade

2008-09-10 Thread paul_c
Alex On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Alex Joni wrote: > can you post a list of modules loaded? You don't need a list of loaded modules to diagnose the problem (actually, there are two). > From: "Steve Blackmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [ 6204.322690] Pid: 5635, comm: insmod Tainted: GF       2.6

Re: [Emc-users] Netiquette: Trimming Messages

2008-09-10 Thread John Kasunich
Ed Nisley wrote: > A plaintive note from a lurker... > > When you guys hit "Reply" to fire off a one-liner message, > could you -please- trim off the 1300-some-odd lines of > diagnostic trace / dmesg dump / status log that accompanied > the original note? > Actually - if you have 1300 lines o

[Emc-users] Netiquette: Trimming Messages

2008-09-10 Thread Ed Nisley
A plaintive note from a lurker... When you guys hit "Reply" to fire off a one-liner message, could you -please- trim off the 1300-some-odd lines of diagnostic trace / dmesg dump / status log that accompanied the original note? I'd appreciate it if folks replying to digest messages would do th

Re: [Emc-users] Pin out for Wabeco lathe

2008-09-10 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:27 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > I am trying to convert a Wabeco CNC lathe from PC Dreh the DOS based German > package that it was supplied with to EMC2. > > I am having problems with the pinout to the controller, has anyone attempted > this before? > > I am

[Emc-users] Pin out for Wabeco lathe

2008-09-10 Thread neil_macintosh
Hi all I am trying to convert a Wabeco CNC lathe from PC Dreh the DOS based German package that it was supplied with to EMC2. I am having problems with the pinout to the controller, has anyone attempted this before? I am concerned that the controller will only work if I use PC Dreh and the dongle