5i25t firmware screwup

okay I am now trying to figure out what I need to do to make the 7i74 communicate to the 7i84. it has a pwr LED on and nothing else.

You likely need a sserial_port_1=0000XXXX or similar in your hal file

It seems as if the internal port p1 is not showing up in my pins... I'm not sure why that is

Because P1 pins are all assigned  to sserial_port_1, I would not expect
them to be enabled unless sserial_port_1 is enabled in the hal file,

something like:

loadrt hm2_eth board_ip="10.10.10.10" config="num_encoders=6 sserial_port_0=000 sserial_port_1=00000000"

I added port 1 and it did t change anything, I also tried getting rid of the port call-out as I read in another forum post that if you don't specify then all ports are available. Neither changed the results

Some versions of LinuxCNC require the sserial_port_n stanza or the port is not enabled  (for ports 1,2,3)

Is the 7I84 red LED illuminated?

Do you have field power supplied to both A and B 7I84 field power sections?