On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Keil Hillman wrote: > > Peter, > > Thanks for additional info. I made up 26 lead ribbon cable with two > IDC26F connectors tonight and did some more testing. > > 1. New cable did not make any difference in firmware loading or > communication b/w host PC and 7i43 card. Snip...
> > 5. So, has anyone got 7i43 200K board working with hostmot2 firmware, > SV8S.BIT or SVST4_4S.BIT? At least Sebastian and I have got working parallel setups with the 200K 7I43 Can you verify that your parallel port supports and is configured for EPP version 1.9 (1.7 will _not_ work) After a little thinking, your symptoms (parallel port firmware load works but communication with FPGA fails) suggests the possibiolity that your EPP port is in 1.7 mode... > > Thought I'd dig into the xilinx webpack tonight, but wow! version 10.1 > is now at 2.2GB download. Grabbed it anyhow. Read thru the cable stuff > and Peter, now I understand what meant by "Parallel Cable IV or parallel > cable III or Xilinx USB cable". Last March I grabbed ISE webpack 9.2, > started installing to debian, got bogged down and never learned about > the "cables". Thanks for the offer on the PCB. I'll try to get the > webpack installed and get back to you. > > Keil > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your (")_(") signature to help him gain world domination. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
