Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-08 Thread Ray Henry
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:55 -0500, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: No rush on finding that page. I'm just curious about the information that's out there, and whether it seems accurate and/or justifiable. Almost makes you wish for the old days of gatekeeper reference librarians, 'eh. Rayh

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-08 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Ray Henry wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:55 -0500, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: No rush on finding that page. I'm just curious about the information that's out there, and whether it seems accurate and/or justifiable. Almost makes you wish for the old days of gatekeeper reference

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Ayre
I can't find the site that told me this option should be disabled, so I removed it from the instructions. Andy Jeff Epler wrote: Hi. Thanks for documenting this process, it looks pretty similar to what I've done. I am curious why you chose this option: Loadable module support Module

[Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Ayre
I have posted the steps I used to install EMC2 CVS HEAD version on Ubuntu 7.10. There may be mistakes in it, and redundancies, but it appears to work - well, except it has to run as root to avoid halcmd segfaulting. If anyone has any comments or spots any mistakes I would love to hear them.

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-07 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Thanks! One comment - you could put this on the EMC2 wiki ;) http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/ - Steve Andrew Ayre wrote: I have posted the steps I used to install EMC2 CVS HEAD version on Ubuntu 7.10. There may be mistakes in it, and redundancies, but it appears to work - well, except it has to run

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Ayre
I'll do that when I have more confidence my steps will work for other people as well. :) Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Thanks! One comment - you could put this on the EMC2 wiki ;) http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/ - Steve Andrew Ayre wrote: I have posted the steps I used to install EMC2

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Ayre
Sigh...can't seem to find it now - but I didn't guess at any of the options, I know that for sure. So, it isn't a requirement for EMC2 or RTAI? Andy Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Andrew Ayre wrote: I think it is force module unloading - I will double-check tomorrow. Regardless it was a

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Ayre
With the stock Gutsy kernel my NIC works fine. With any vanilla kernel (with or without RTAI) my NIC does not work. By the time I realized this and switched my NIC for a 9 year old one, I was so far along in the source process that I wanted to finish it rather than switch to the debs. So in

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Ayre
I think it is force module unloading - I will double-check tomorrow. Regardless it was a recommendation from an EMC2 installation procedure from elsewhere (Fedora perhaps?). Andy Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Jeff Epler wrote: Hi. Thanks for documenting this process, it looks pretty similar

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-07 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Andrew Ayre wrote: Sigh...can't seem to find it now - but I didn't guess at any of the options, I know that for sure. So, it isn't a requirement for EMC2 or RTAI? Not that I know of. I generally turn it off anyway because I don't think it should be necessary. No rush on finding that page.

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff Epler
Hi. Thanks for documenting this process, it looks pretty similar to what I've done. I am curious why you chose this option: Loadable module support Module unloading (N) With this option, I would have expected that emc can only be run once per reboot, a pretty nasty limitation. Did your

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-07 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Jeff Epler wrote: Hi. Thanks for documenting this process, it looks pretty similar to what I've done. I am curious why you chose this option: Loadable module support Module unloading (N) I wonder if this is supposed to be the forced module unloading option. - Steve [snip]

Re: [Emc-users] Preliminary Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10

2007-11-07 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Andrew Ayre wrote: I think it is force module unloading - I will double-check tomorrow. Regardless it was a recommendation from an EMC2 installation procedure from elsewhere (Fedora perhaps?). Interesting. If you can find a link to that page, I'd like to see it. Forced module unloading is