New machine setup

Hi. Sorry if this has been asked a million times but I have spent the last hour trying to search for an answer without asking....with no luck. I have just built my machine. All good. Love Linuxcnc. However, I can run the sim axis ngcgui. All good. I can run stepconf, save config, go back into it, make motors move etc. That's all good. But how on earth do a make axis ngcgui with my sub routines actually work the machine. Stepconf creates a new config but its a basic setup with no sub routine. My ngcgui has sub routines, runs perfect on screen, but does not move the motors as it seems to be in sim mode. Please help. If this has been asked before, please post link as I have searched but found nothing. Thanks again.

Thanks for pointing me in right direction. I edited my INI file and it all works great. Thanks again!!!