computer / linuxcnc unable to detect mesanet 6i24 board

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18 Apr 2020 20:36 #164509 by PCW

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Does the 6I24 configure itself at power up? (both red lights out)

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18 Apr 2020 20:42 #164511 by owhite

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no LEDs go on during the boot up sequence.

one flashes for ~200ms when the computer powers down.

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18 Apr 2020 20:46 #164512 by PCW

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Hmm you should get a red LED briefly at power up (not boot related)

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18 Apr 2020 20:58 - 18 Apr 2020 20:59 #164515 by owhite

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okay sorry I was looking for the lights flashing as it was booting up - but it DOES flash one red, one orange briefly exactly when I hit the power.

still no joy. I'm still getting the "Error: BootSector is invalid" however.

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18 Apr 2020 21:02 #164516 by PCW

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Is the 6I24 jumpered for 33 MHz? (default to 5I24 firmware)

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18 Apr 2020 21:08 #164517 by owhite

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yes - I checked again. That's the default jumper settings as shown on page 8 of:
www.mesanet.com/pdf/parallel/6i24man.pdf
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18 Apr 2020 21:28 #164520 by owhite

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is it relevant that lspci -v is reporting:

02:00.0 DPIO module: Device 2718:5124 (rev 01)
           Subsystem: Device 2718:5124
           Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
           Memory at f7c00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]

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18 Apr 2020 21:33 #164523 by PCW

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That looks OK except the "disabled"

What does
sudo mesaflash --device 5i24 --readhmid
report?

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18 Apr 2020 21:39 #164524 by owhite

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ERROR: no HOSTMOT2 firmware found. FFFFFFFF
Configuration Name: 

General configuration information:

  BoardName : 
  FPGA Size: 0 KGates
  FPGA Pins: 0
  Number of IO Ports: 0
  Width of one I/O port: 0
  Clock Low frequency: 0.0000 MHz
  Clock High frequency: 0.0000 MHz
  IDROM Type: 0
  Instance Stride 0: 0
  Instance Stride 1: 0
  Register Stride 0: 0
  Register Stride 1: 0

Modules in configuration:

Configuration pin-out:

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18 Apr 2020 21:43 #164525 by PCW

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OK so its possibly a BIOS issue disabling the card for some reason

Does
halcmd -kf
halcmd: loadrt hostmot2
halcmd: loadrt hm2_pci
get any further?
(I know at one time the pci driver enabled disabled cards to work around BIOS issues)

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