Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, March 30, 2012 04:48:08 PM Jeshua Lacock did opine: > On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > > The Oxsemi (well PLXTech now) OX16PCI954 does support EPP (I have one > > and it works with our EPP interfaced FPGA cards) > > Thanks Peter. > > So, how did you determine tha

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, March 30, 2012 04:46:05 PM Jeshua Lacock did opine: > On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Jeshua Lacock wrote: > > My new motherboard for EMC2 does not have a Parallel port on it - so I bought a PCI card for it in haste. Now it seems that I bought the wrong card for the job: > Actually, perh

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, March 30, 2012 04:39:35 PM Jeshua Lacock did opine: > Greetings, > > My new motherboard for EMC2 does not have a Parallel port on it - so I > bought a PCI card for it in haste. Now it seems that I bought the wrong > card for the job: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MY45WS/ref

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread John Stewart
Jeshua; > So how would that be specified? 0c090? The default is 0x378. It's in hexadecimal, so 0xc090 would be fine. (I'm no expert, but…) I just added another card to my system, and this card has 2 parallel ports on it. Each connector goes to a port; the issue is getting the correct address w

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Mar 30, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2012/3/30 Jeshua Lacock : >> >> On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: >> >>> >>> I guess that one of these c090, c080, c070, c060 or c020 is the port >>> address, which should be specified in the HAL file (sorry, I am not >>> th

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/3/30 Jeshua Lacock : > > On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > >> >> I guess that one of these c090, c080, c070, c060 or c020 is the port >> address, which should be specified in the HAL file (sorry, I am not >> that smart to know, which one exactly; trial-and-error method is my

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2012/3/30 Jeshua Lacock : >> >> Actually, perhaps I spoke too soon. On the box it states "Add a dual voltage >> high-speed parallel port (EPP/ECP) to your computer". > > EPP mode is needed only and exclusively for external fpga boards. > If

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 13:12 -0600, Jeshua Lacock wrote: > Greetings, ... snip > It doesn't appear to support EPP. So, can anyone recommend a card that > will work for sure? Or these appear to support EPP, but will they work > on Ubuntu 10.04? Well according to this datasheet: http://snebulos.mit.e

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > Whatever you have, it doesn't match the description in the Amazon link > you sent (a single parallel port incorporating an OX16PI952 chip). > > The OX16PI954 chip reported by lspci supports 4 uarts and a parallel > port. see > http://snebulos

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/30/2012 3:23 PM, Jeshua Lacock wrote: > On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Jeshua Lacock wrote: > >> My new motherboard for EMC2 does not have a Parallel port on it - so I >> bought a PCI card for it in haste. Now it seems that I bought the wrong card >> for the job: > Actually, perhaps I spoke to

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Jeshua Lacock wrote: > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:33:09 -0600 > From: Jeshua Lacock > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter >

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/3/30 Jeshua Lacock : > > Actually, perhaps I spoke too soon. On the box it states "Add a dual voltage > high-speed parallel port (EPP/ECP) to your computer". EPP mode is needed only and exclusively for external fpga boards. If Your goal is software step generation, then You do not need the E

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > The Oxsemi (well PLXTech now) OX16PCI954 does support EPP (I have one and it > works with our EPP interfaced FPGA cards) Thanks Peter. So, how did you determine that address to use for the stepper config? > Why do you need EPP? Perhaps I

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Jeshua Lacock wrote: > My new motherboard for EMC2 does not have a Parallel port on it - so I bought > a PCI card for it in haste. Now it seems that I bought the wrong card for the > job: Actually, perhaps I spoke too soon. On the box it states "Add a dual voltage

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Jeshua Lacock wrote: > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:12:20 -0600 > From: Jeshua Lacock > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: [Emc-users] Parallel Adapter > > >

[Emc-users] Parallel Adapter

2012-03-30 Thread Jeshua Lacock
Greetings, My new motherboard for EMC2 does not have a Parallel port on it - so I bought a PCI card for it in haste. Now it seems that I bought the wrong card for the job: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MY45WS/ref=oh_o02_s00_i03_details The output from 'lspci': 08:00.0 Serial controller