Schaublin 125-CNC retrofit.

I thought about starting a new topic, but I'm still evaluating if I'm able to retrofit it, so I thought I'd better create the new topic later.  I have some fear of not having enough knowledge to go all the end... 

You are exactly right about that being buggy Andy. First I had no icon, but my Linux Guru helped me open the network manager through a terminal. That got the board communications working. I have seen as many as 5 instances of the icon up in the Top right.
The 7i92 is working and "Show pin" outputs a normal lookin list with the SS interefaces and encoder pins I would expect with the 7i85SX2D bit file. I have thee 7i92 and 7i85 jumpered for the 7i92 to provide power, and get a power on light. Is it normal there are no 7i85 named pins shown? When I connect a SS daughter board to SS0, I only get a red watchdog fail, and no pins.Any ideas what I need to do there?


Alexandre, cool that you have a Schaublin, but that 32 CNC mill has nothing at all in common with the 125-CNC lathe. There is no point discussing it in the middle of this thread where any knowledge gained will get buried. Please create a new thread. To you quaestion "Without this manual is it possible to retrofit?" We believe any machine can be retrofitted with LinuxCNC. If you cant interface to those drives, you will probably need to replace the drives though.

Hi Andy,
What do you mean by setup mode? The 7i85 only has:
- W3 (5V external, or from the FPGA Card) I have it jumpered UP for FPGA Power.
- and a bunch of jumpers to select each encoder between TTL and RS-422. I have not touched them, they are all in the default DOWN = RS 422 position.

The 7i92 is jumpered:
-W5 and W6 UP - Breakout power to daughter card.
-W3 Down W4 Up- Fixed IP 10.10.10.10
Mark.

Thanks Andy. Any ideas why a 7173 connected to SS0 would only have a steady red LED (Watchdog failure)? I have checked the cable termination is correct with the multimeter. No pins show up. So far I am just working in the terminal with Halrun.
 

Thanks Andy, I appreciate your time here.
So far I have just been using:
halrun
loadrt hostmot2
loadrt hm2_eth board_ip=10.10.10.10
show pin

I just looked up my Minilathe HAL, and guess I need the config info.
loadrt hm2_eth board_ip="10.10.10.10" config=" num_encoders=1 num_pwmgens=1 num_stepgens=2 sserial_port_0=00xxxx"
I tried adding the Sserial_port_0=00xxxx to my loadrt eth_hm2 line. Now I have nothing show pins, so that was not the right syntax.
I will be using 3 Sserial ports, is the syntax then sserial_port_0=0000xx?

setp    [HMOT](CARD0).watchdog.timeout_ns 5000000 but it returns "INI Variable 8
but it returns INI_Variable [HMOT](Card0) not found. Should I replace this with "7i92"?

I also tried PNFConf, but there is no config for the 7i92 with 7i85sc2D bitfile.