I have been using mesa Ethernet cards from their inception. I think I can count on one hand the number of times linuxcnc couldn't find the card. ( and they were probably my fault). Except for the really early days when you had to build rt_preemp - I mostly use the linuxcnc stretch livecd for my installs. I am also using the 7i92 on the pi4 and don't remember it not being found.
Sam On Tue, Jul 7, 2020, 7:06 AM Ken Strauss <ken.stra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Possibly it is a DHCP timeout issue. The 7i92 has three choices for IP > address: 192.168.1.121, BOOTP or configured in the EEPROM. The 192... > address is the usual choice. Consider how the host determines the address > if > it is set using BOOTP. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2020 11:57 PM > > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] PCIe vs Ethernet Mesa card? > > > > Could the delay be caused by DHCP? If the computer does a DHCP query and > > does not find a DHCP server it will re-try perhaps many times. The > > solution would be "don't do that" and assign a fixed IP address. > > > > Has anyone actually tried using the same Ethernet for normal uses and > > connected to Mesa at the same time or did you just assume it would not > > work? I wonder if a managed switch could make it work using a VLAN > or > > some other trick involving level of service priority > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 3:19 PM Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > > > > > On 07/06/2020 03:51 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: > > > >> From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] > > > >> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 21:22, Chris Albertson > > <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > >>> Is there any advantage to using a bus connected Mesa card like the > > > 6i25 vs > > > >>> using one of the Ethernet-connected cards such as 7i92M or 7i93 > > > >> PCI might be more reliable. Not so much during runs, but at startup. > > > >> It is quite easy to imagine something changing the network setup of > > > >> your machine, and finding that you just can't get it to run. > > > > No experience with the PCI cards but what I have noticed with my > 7i92H > > > is that after I boot and sign on into Linux it's important that I go > and > do > > > something else for a few minutes. Then come back and click on the > icon > > > that runs the actual LinuxCNC Axis program that uses the HAL file for > the > > > 7i92H. > > > > > > > > Seems otherwise the Ethernet connection to the 7i92H can't be found > for > > > the first few minutes. > > > > > > > > There may well be some parameter that can be set so the 7i92H > Ethernet > > > connection happens faster. > > > > > > > > > > > This may be due to connmanctl trying to figure out what > > > network is running on the port that is connected to the Mesa > > > board. There may be a way to tell connmanctl to not touch > > > that port. > > > > > > Jon > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Chris Albertson > > Redondo Beach, California > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
