Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board
06 May 2017 19:54 - 06 May 2017 19:55 #92754
by Zacharius
Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board was created by Zacharius
Hi guys!
First of all i'm from Poland and also newbie on this forum, however using linuxcnc for quite long time.
Recently i bought 7i96 card and planning to play around with it first. (only LPT experience before).
From what i understood 7i96 doesn't fully supported yet by linuxcnc so hopefully this thread will grow and be useful for other 7i96 users.
From myself can't bring much to community as a developer, but have some hardware which can be used for testing linuxcnc and 7i96.
That's enough for intro , time for questions.
From what i get here my first steps should be installing Debian 7 with preempt kernel and manual for that is quite clear so planning to play with that soon.
Is there anything else i can do with my 7i96 and installed as above linuxcnc at this moment? Was looking for other threads about this card and not much found.
First of all i'm from Poland and also newbie on this forum, however using linuxcnc for quite long time.
Recently i bought 7i96 card and planning to play around with it first. (only LPT experience before).
From what i understood 7i96 doesn't fully supported yet by linuxcnc so hopefully this thread will grow and be useful for other 7i96 users.
From myself can't bring much to community as a developer, but have some hardware which can be used for testing linuxcnc and 7i96.
That's enough for intro , time for questions.
From what i get here my first steps should be installing Debian 7 with preempt kernel and manual for that is quite clear so planning to play with that soon.
Is there anything else i can do with my 7i96 and installed as above linuxcnc at this moment? Was looking for other threads about this card and not much found.
Last edit: 06 May 2017 19:55 by Zacharius.
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09 May 2017 00:22 #92894
by andypugh
Replied by andypugh on topic Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board
Once you have linuxCNC installed, you can quickly try connecting to the card from the command line. (I don't know if this will work, but it probably will)
If that all works thenwill show your HAL pins
This might, or might not, work. I can't find "7i96" anywhere in the source code, so it's probably best to stop guessing what happens next at this point. I could easily imagine the card appearing as a 7i90 or similar.
halrun
loadrt hostmot2
loadrt hm2_eth board_ip=192.168.1.121
If that all works then
show pin
This might, or might not, work. I can't find "7i96" anywhere in the source code, so it's probably best to stop guessing what happens next at this point. I could easily imagine the card appearing as a 7i90 or similar.
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10 May 2017 19:11 - 10 May 2017 19:13 #92986
by Zacharius
Replied by Zacharius on topic Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board
Last edit: 10 May 2017 19:13 by Zacharius.
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10 May 2017 19:13 #92987
by PCW
Replied by PCW on topic Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board
It should still work (I have a 7I96 working here with linuxcnc)
The only thing that will not work yet are the 6 isolated outputs
The only thing that will not work yet are the 6 isolated outputs
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10 May 2017 19:16 #92989
by Zacharius
Replied by Zacharius on topic Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board
PCW,
is there any trick?
i don't have 7i96 on the list in PNCconf
is there any trick?
i don't have 7i96 on the list in PNCconf
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10 May 2017 19:25 #92992
by PCW
Replied by PCW on topic Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board
Probably the easiest thing to do to make a hal for a simple step/dir system and edit it by hand
for example you could use pncconf and choose a 5i25/probrxf2 config, set up the step timing and whatnot and the edit the resulting
hal file by
1. Globally changing "5i25" to "7i96"
2. Changing the
loadrt hm2_pci line to
loadrt hm2_eth board_ip=10.10.10.10
for example you could use pncconf and choose a 5i25/probrxf2 config, set up the step timing and whatnot and the edit the resulting
hal file by
1. Globally changing "5i25" to "7i96"
2. Changing the
loadrt hm2_pci line to
loadrt hm2_eth board_ip=10.10.10.10
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10 May 2017 19:35 #92994
by Zacharius
Replied by Zacharius on topic Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board
ok, that's the clue, thank you.
will try that in next free time slot
finishing machine now so any free time is eaten by that
will try that in next free time slot
finishing machine now so any free time is eaten by that
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12 May 2017 14:32 #93090
by andypugh
That is just a warning that the port names in the listing that follows will be wrong.
(The ?? in the pin list would normally say P2 or P3 or similar).
Replied by andypugh on topic Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board
card is talking, however it says unrecognized :/
That is just a warning that the port names in the listing that follows will be wrong.
(The ?? in the pin list would normally say P2 or P3 or similar).
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06 Jun 2017 11:57 #94139
by microsprintbuilder
Replied by microsprintbuilder on topic Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board
I just ordered a 7i96 and THCAD from mesa before reading this. Do you any idea when the 6 isolated outputs problem be corrected or should I send it back and get the 7i76e? I'd love to fix it myself but just don't know this stuff well enough. I'm building a CNC Plasma table and should be ready for the control part in about 2 weeks. Thanks!
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06 Jun 2017 12:06 #94140
by andypugh
Can you explain why they won't work? Are they not smart-serial interfaced?
Replied by andypugh on topic Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board
The only thing that will not work yet are the 6 isolated outputs
Can you explain why they won't work? Are they not smart-serial interfaced?
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