Missing firmware for mesa 5i25 board

I am trying to get mesa 5i25 board working but it does not. After much work I got feeling that maybe I was missing a driver. I installed mesaflash to check board and it says "no hostmot2 firmware found". I kind of expected that.

I am running lmde2 on a amd64. I found a iso on this forum that installed 3.18.13-rt10mah preempt-rt and linuxcnc. after update I am at linuxcnc 2.7.7-21. I looked in the iso and under deb folder it installed these files.



I notice that no file for 5i25 and when I search synaptic also no 5i25 hostmot file found . I have searched internet and can not find firmware deb file for 5i25. Can someone tell me where 5i25 firmware file can be found or how to load it?

My linux is very poor, so if it is a big task to find firmware file I would need very simple instructions. Thank you.

If mesaflash says that no 5I25 is found its likely there a hardware problem of some kind

Are there any LEDS illuminated on the 5I25?

What does lspci | grep 5125 report? (note thats a 1 not an I )

i see no led lite on 5i25 board.

lscpi says : 03:00.0 DPIO module: Device 2718:5125 (rev 01)

This means the card was found

what is the result of:

sudo mesaflash --device 5i25 --readhmid

Mesaflash says-


crr@vertmill ~ $ sudo mesaflash --device 5i25 --readhmid
[sudo] password for crr:
ERROR: no HOSTMOT2 firmware found. FFFFFFFF
Configuration Name:

General configuration information:

BoardName :
FPGA Size: 0 KGates
FPGA Pins: 0
Number of IO Ports: 0
Width of one I/O port: 0
Clock Low frequency: 0.0000 MHz
Clock High frequency: 0.0000 MHz
IDROM Type: 0
Instance Stride 0: 0
Instance Stride 1: 0
Register Stride 0: 0
Register Stride 1: 0

Modules in configuration:

Configuration pin-out:

crr@vertmill ~ $ uname -a
Linux vertmill 3.18.13-rt10mah+ #3 SMP PREEMPT RT Sat Jun 20 00:51:55 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
crr@vertmill ~ $ ^C

Error message is why I am looking for help finding firmware.

This most likely means you have a bad or dirty PCI slot, or dirty 5I25 contact finger
If its not a contact issue or bad PCI slot, then its a bad or damaged 5I25
(one or more of the 32 AD lines does not work)

Also, theres a known bug in Mesaflash accessing PCI cards on 64 bit systems
It may be fixed in the latest Mesaflash so I would try installing that also