On Sunday 13 April 2014 14:34:26 Chris Morley did opine: > > From: ghesk...@wdtv.com > > To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:09:40 -0400 > > Subject: [Emc-developers] pncconf? > > > > Greetings; > > > > Running it for practice just to see how it works, one thing I see, or > > more specifically don't see, is in the choice of BOB's there is not a > > quasi standard, parport bob such as the C1G available as a selection. > > And because the display isn't showing the actual pins on the db25 > > that are assigned to this or that (and both of the stepgens I > > selected had ghosted but identical names for the DIR pins), I wasn't > > able to intelligently assign some of my other functions for this > > lathe to the rest of that ports pins. Then at the end, it errored > > out and would not save because something wasn't specced (I think). > > > > So my first fuss is that the use of a std BOB, where the parport pins > > are 1/1 with the pins of a std parport in the manner of a C1G, is not > > available. Is it possible to fix this? > > > > Cheers, Gene > > Gene: > > What version of linuxcnc are you using?
That was 2.6.0-current-sim, running on this box, a useless machine for real LCNC. > The error message would be good I was going to re-run it, but decided to move the unpacked archive to the target box, but no clue where I put the utils subdir on that box. Without the utils dir copied over, it took pncconf about a minute to launch, and it doesn't seem to recognize the 5i25 subdir in hostmot2, it is not available. Did I mention some install README's would be nice? > to know. You also didn't mention which mesa board you are using. > I'll guess the 5i25 since you mention the db25. > What firmware did you order it with? Peter put prob_rfx2 in it. > Pncconf lists the HAL pin numbers not the physical pin numbers. > Because the possible combinations of mesa equipment, it isn't practical > to show the physical pin numbers. > You must look up the conversion in the mesa manual. > > The connector tab (page?) does divide based on the physical connectors. > and each of those pages have 17 pins on them (for the 5i25) so it does > represent the physical pins. It was using only the 3rd, db25 connector. I'll need to get connectors to make a 2nd connector cable. Cable I think I have. And likely get another C1G too. My NFS share is only to the /home/gene tree on those boxes. > While pre-selections for BOBs would be nice, I have limited time to > spend on this, and based on forum info, using the 5i25 without a > daughter board is rare. So yes possible, but not likely to happen > unless someone else patches it. > > If you select functions for the stepgens, then I think you will see the > direction pin name changes too. > > Chris M Thanks for any help Chris, right now I'm reading the manual again. And it doesn't say where to install the 5i25 stuff when unpacked. Here in this machine, I have a $PATH that includes ~/bin so that is where I put the flash burners in the utils/linux tree. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Put Bad Developers to Shame > Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration > Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment > Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Gene -- "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> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
