Creating custom configs for Mesa 7i80HDT

I updated my system to the master branch and now have
LINUXCNC - 2.10.0-pre0-2330-g292511db43

But when I run
mesaflash --addr 192.168.1.121 --device=ETHER --readhmid

I still get error
Unsupported ethernet device 7I80HDT at 192.168.1.121
No ETHER board found

Do I have to update the firmware on the device or should mesa flash recongnize it out of the box?

Also, when I run the Pncconf Wizard there is no choice for 7i80HDT, only the 7i80HD

You would need to update mesaflash to recognize the 7I80HDT

github.com/LinuxCNC/mesaflash
(build instructions at bottom of page)

Your older mesaflash version _should_ work for _reading_ with
the --device ether option so it may be there is a host configuration issue.

(what does "ip a" report?)

You do need to update mesaflash to correctly write to the 7I80HDT

I would think if there was an issue with my ip config then it would not even detect that the attached ether device is a 7i80HDT. It finds the board but says its not supported.

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether e8:6a:64:e9:68:f6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.2/8 brd 192.255.255.255 scope global noprefixroute eno1
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::ea6a:64ff:fee9:68f6/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

I don't think that host configuration will work to access the card reliably

I would set the host IP address to 192.168.1.100/24 and disable IPV6
or better still 10.10.10.100/24 and set the 7I80HDT card to 10.10.10.10
(W2,W3 DOWN,UP and power cycle)

And then update mesaflash (since the old version of mesaflash cannot write
correctly to the 7I80HDT)

I built Mesaflash 3.5.2. It now reads the HMID information. However, to use the --write command I have to use
--device=ETHER

if I use
--device=7I80HDT
it says the 7i80HDT is not supported.

Why is this? Seems odd to me.

Sorry broke name checking with recent more strict checking
Should be fixed now (3.5.3)