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hre wrote:

With Linuxcnc just Parport worked all the Mesa i bought do not work. In the beginning of January i send all the information which i send you first direct to mesastore but until today not one answer.

The 5i24 does work. I am using one with my lathe, and I am very happy with it.

You might have to hand-edit the configuration, though. Possibly start with the
linuxcnc/configs/by_interface/mesa/hm2-stepper/
config, and edit it to use the 5i24 instead.

PNCConf can sometimes be useful, but it doesn't cover all possible card combinations.

The problem is here;

[ 527.794579] hm2_7i43.0: EPP Timeout while sending firmware!
[ 527.794596] hm2/hm2_7i43.0: failed to program fpga, aborting hm2_register
[ 527.794599] hm2_7i43.0: board at (ioaddr=0x0378, ioaddr_hi=0x0778, epp_wide ON) not
found!
[ 528.051701] hm2: unloading

Are you sure that the parallel port card is at the 0x378 address, and that EPP is enabled in the BIOS?

cat /proc/ioports

Might tell you the parallel port address, or, alternatively

sudo lspci -v

hre wrote:

To 5i24: In wich 5i* configuration did you get the config, because 5i24 denied pcncconf.

If you tell Pncconf that you have a 5i23 (which is does know about) then you can edit the HAL and INI files and simply change all the "5i23" to "5i24".

You would need to choose a firmware that was similar for both boards, just to have the right type of HAL pins, but their physical arrangement on the daughter boards does not matter to LinuxCNC.

The 5i23 downloads a firmware on every boot. The 5i24 is flashed with the firmware to be used once when configuring. So you need to edit the "firmware=" out of the HAL file too.

If you just want to see the 5i24 work, though, it is very simple. Open a terminal and type the following:
To find what HAL pins you have (copy and keep this output for future reference)
And, if you want to see some action from the card, this will turn in and off one of the board LEDs.
When you have finished your halcmd session

The same will work for the 7i43, except that you would need "loadrt hm2_7i43" and need to provide a firmware and an EPP port address.

hre wrote:

Then i stacked because i do not know where the instruction "firmware" is located.

In the HAL file, part of the command "loader hm2_pci"

The halrun test with the 7i43 is shown in the attachment it seems to me that there is no connection to the parport.

With a 7i43 is it not "loadrt hm2_pci" it is "loader hm2_7i43"

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/drivers/hostmot2.html

Also, for the details: linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man9/hm2_pci.9.html
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man9/hm2_7i43.9.html

But note that for the 5i24 you do not need the "firmware=...." part of the conga string, and in fact probably want to start off with just "loader hm2_pci" when first setting up the 5i24.

In the 7i43 case you completely missed out the "loadrt" command. In the 5i24 case you mis-spelled the command as "loart"

However, both cases have a problem that you are not using a realtime kernel. How did you install LinuxCNC, and what version?