I think it would be very cool if EMC2/Axis could be made to work on an Asus eeepc. It doesn't have a parallel port, but perhaps one can be added and the power management disabled? That thing is small and would be ideal for a dedicated interface to a machine.
Andy Glenn R. Edwards wrote: > Hi Marcin, et al: > > I have two laptops running Linux and EMC2. One is a Dell 5000e and the > other a Dell M50. Both were high-end laptops at the time of purchase, > both have standard parports and both are running strong today (the 5000e > is eight years old). I am not a Dell junkie; my latest laptop is an > HP/Compaq nw9440 which is the best engineered laptop I have yet > encountered. To finish my background cv: the laptops are driving a > small, desktop CNC (Taig) Mill- NOT heavy metal, by any metric. > > Here are some URL's I found useful for running Linux on a laptop: > http://www.linux-laptop.net/ > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot > http://tuxmobil.org/distribution_linux_laptop_mandrake.html > http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/laptop/dell5000.html > > Things to watch for: > Graphics drivers (laptops come with video chipsets, not real video > cards, and can misbehave) > Power management (I always have trouble with waking up in Linux- so > never sleep ;-) > > Good luck, > Glenn > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Marcin > Jakubowski > *Sent:* Monday, March 03, 2008 5:44 PM > *To:* Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > *Subject:* Re: [Emc-users] LInuxCNC laptops > > Thanks for the responses on EMC laptops. But surely there must be at > least one specific laptop that does work? Is there any success story out > there at ALL for a working laptop? > > Marcin > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Jason Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Only problem is that Printer ports are not addressed the same on PCMCIA > cards and with EMC2 we talk direct to the address and not via a driver. > I dont think this solution would work. > Jason > > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:07 -0600, Jack wrote: > > In general, laptops are not a good idea. Many of the inexpensive > ones > > are doing away with 'legacy' ports. > > I would suggest, whatever you get, get one with a PCCard slot, > and get > > a PCCard that has a printer port on it. > > Actually, I would want two of the cards, just in case one gets > > fried :( > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing > list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Andy PGP Key ID: 0x67090A54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
