Can the OPI5 be Configured to Run LCNC?

Great!

The armhf deb package installs it to /usr/bin/ so you could place it there or /usr/local/bin/

 

I want to thank all you guys for helping me get this old mill running.  I posted my configuration files in the HAL Examples folder, but this Boss3 is officially a LinuxCNC mill.

@royka can you please post your complete build instructions ? Image not working on my Orange Pi 5

@Donno Can you be more specific?
Which image have you tried? What does not work?

In case you've tried one of these images:
mega.nz/folder/78Z3UbRD#Pl8DdWmxLF3CDma21An8gQ

You would need to edit the dtb name in armbianEnv.txt
fdtfile=rockchip/rk3588-orangepi-5-plus.dtb
to
fdtfile=rockchip/rk3588-orangepi-5.dtb

And optional add this line:
extraargs="isolcpus=5,7"

With the Bookworm image you can install LinuxCNC with apt and for Jammy : mega.nz/file/ChwzHZiL#1ItFvunImetNeGEaZu...HPr1BxgGxswiw8_WtTJE

I was trying to get Verser's probe screen working with gmoccapy last night. It was too hot out there for me to try for long, but it was throwing errors in gladevcp, I think.
I'll work on it more tonight.

Word to the wise: LinuxCNC has a base presumption that all computers are network connected. This breaks things in spectacular fashion once you embed your newly configured into a big machine tool in a shop with no network access, and then you want to improve your installation. For instance you want to install Versa Probe or maybe QtDragon. Then you'll find that you don't have needed Python packages installed (I got numpy and scipy, but I'm blocked on PyQT5. . . and I had to break the system package manager to get that), or you'll need an additional tool, like halcompile.

The quick answer is 'apt-get install', but that doesn't work when the network is down (permanently). With just sneaker-net, it looks like I'll have to use my touch probe in manual mode.

Life would become easier if you grabbed a couple of ubiquiti nanostations and built  a wireless bridge to your workshop. These are cheap PoE radio Devices that come with a power injector so they just need a network cable  to them. In your workshop, attach a wifi router inside your workshop. We ran a 800m link this way for years...

Yup, updates are over a network or sneakernet and local repo similar to this

askubuntu.com/questions/170348/how-to-cr...local-apt-repository

www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-offline/

If you've got an Android phone, most of them has the option to share internet over USB and it will come up as an Ethernet adapter. Or setup a WiFi hotspot and plugin a Wifi USB adapter