Getting started with mesa 7i95?

I have linuxcnc 2.8.1 installed in my computer. I also have brand new mesa 7i95 card. I have read lots forum discussions, what I feel, there is no such thread like "getting started with mesa 7i95". Till now my experience says I need to edit .ini/.hal file for using 7i95 card because linuxcnc 2.8.1 does not support and don't have option to choose 7i95 card from config wizard. I also confuse about the steps/checklist for Hostmot2 driver for 7i95. there are bunch of tutorial for other mesa card but never seen full tutorial on youtube for 7i95 card. I am very new to linuxcnc and want to test the 7i95 card.

Please tell me the steps and checklist to use the mesa 7i95 card. And in further discussion I will ask my next doubts. Thanks.

suraj9735 wrote:

I have linuxcnc 2.8.1 installed in my computer. I also have brand new mesa 7i95 card. I have read lots forum discussions, what I feel, there is no such thread like "getting started with mesa 7i95". Till now my experience says I need to edit .ini/.hal file for using 7i95 card because linuxcnc 2.8.1 does not support and don't have option to choose 7i95 card from config wizard. I also confuse about the steps/checklist for Hostmot2 driver for 7i95. there are bunch of tutorial for other mesa card but never seen full tutorial on youtube for 7i95 card. I am very new to linuxcnc and want to test the 7i95 card.

Please tell me the steps and checklist to use the mesa 7i95 card. And in further discussion I will ask my next doubts. Thanks.

If I am not mistaken, you should be running master 2.9 using 7i95. I dont think they backported it to 2.8.

2.8.1 supports the 7I95 but there is no pncconf support (in 2.8.1 or master)

Thanks for your help,

I just want to run single steeper motor for trial of mesa 7i95 using 2.8.1 version and later will explore the different config wizard available. I want to make sure, I am able to establish ethernet connection, hostmot2 driver configuration for mesa 7i95. Today is my 12th day on linuxcnc, so I am very new to this and landed in a project for automation of 5 axis micro-milling machine.

Please tell me which config should I try first in 2.8.1 to run a single steeper motor using 7i95 card?

I would run either JTs 7i96 configuration utility or pncconf with a 7I96 selected
and then edit the resulting hal and or ini files and globally replace '7i96' with
'7i95'. That should get you a minimal working 7I95 configuration file set

As per your suggestion, I am trying pncconf for xz axis. I have just added two step generation for x and z axis, other things I kept default. I got a error on "x motor page". I am not able to apply the scale and move forward for next step.

I have attached the image of the error. Please help me to troubleshoot this error. Thanks.

Bevins, Thanks for your suggestion. Could you help to drop a thread link here, where I find the detail instruction for upgrading 2.8.1 to the master file of 2.9. I think, I may find it on buildbot page (buildbot.linuxcnc.org/dists/). but there are seven different Linux distribution files and am confused which one to select and required for my configuration. I am using Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS.

I changed my locale settings using terminal command "$ sudo localectl set-locale LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8". And it works for me.

As per your suggestion, I did everything. used pncconf, 7i96 card, generated file and launcher, edited two file (try3.hal and try3.ini) and replaced 7i96 to 7i95 everywhere. i did all without connecting the mesa 7i95 card to the pc, I planned to connect it after launching the wizard ( I'm not sure the error is related with this ). I was ready and very happy to launch the configured file, but unfortunately got a error again. and i am not able to launch my configured file. Please help.

I have attached my error and configured file.