Re: [Machinekit] Mesa 7I80 ethernet board issue

2017-01-27 Thread fairbanks-john
I was able to get my configuration working by adding loadrt tp (not sure what that does), and changing some joints to axis names, and also modifying some gmoccapy pin names from the newer 5 axis version that I was using with linuxcnc to the 4 axis version of gmoccapy that comes with machinekit.

Re: [Machinekit] Mesa 7I80 ethernet board issue

2017-01-27 Thread Johannes Fassotte
Thanks for your inputs. I will have a chance to do little more testing this weekend. I recall that I did have to reflash the 7i80 board a while back to get it to work with a newer version of linuxcnc-dev around the time when there was a change in the distinction between joints and axis. I will

Re: [Machinekit] Mesa 7I80 ethernet board issue

2017-01-25 Thread schoone...@btinternet.com
On 24/01/17 21:30, fair...@gmail.com wrote: I cleaned out my mill control computer, installed a fresh copy of Debian 8.7.1 and machinekit as a standalone dev configuration.The Bridgeport clone milling machine I’m

Re: [Machinekit] Mesa 7I80 ethernet board issue

2017-01-24 Thread Bas de Bruijn
> On 24 Jan 2017, at 22:30, fair...@gmail.com wrote: > > When my .hal file attempts to read line 35, ‘addf > hm2_[HOSTMOT2](BOARD).0.read servo thread’ it errors out. Before starting in the terminal do "export DEBUG=5" and after that start machinekit. Then when the error occurs, get the

[Machinekit] Mesa 7I80 ethernet board issue

2017-01-24 Thread fairngs
I have been using linuxcnc-dev 2.8 on a pc for some time with uspace and rt-preempt and it is working fine. Im looking into changing this configuration, in particular I’m looking into using zeromq for linking into the system with some custom gui's developed with Labview. To see if I