Chinise mesa clone vs Original vs Ethercat

]Dear Colleges I what to share my experience on this topic.

I after several years I get a mesa card,
but Clone one, V2. (kind of clone of 7i92) have a look on picture attached, I get his one because was easy way to get it, at the beginning  I try to purchase the original one but was not available to send to my county and after, they were lack on cards, and after the shipping to my country  the shipping cost became  more difficult to get  that original  card, and after I was looking on amazon o other retail pages I found this one on aliexpress. I was thinking was the original but after some search I understood that it  was a clone of original one. but cheap and easy to get (shipping cost included) and for test propose I run the risk to get it

well now I use it with my PC box and I do not load any other bin file. ( I see on forum load a bin file is not a good Idea).

Supplier support = 0, but not need it jet 
Process to make it talk and work with linux cnc (debian 12). 
1.       Configure the ip on my dual Ethernet port pc box , card ip 10.10.10.10 my pc 10.10.10.11 port 2 and ehtercat on port 1.
2.       Install the mesa card utilities
3.       Install the ethernet utilities
4.        I discover the card io setup by maker
.5.        I use linuxcnc wizard (PnCConf) with discover option 
6.       end configuration and star running the Linuxcnc
7.        communication with card disconnect issues , solved by disabling the power save option on the realteck Ethernet com card and after not more issue by the moment
8.       If I do not have any other problem I will replace my old and good  PCIe parallel port card that make  my fadal cnc  run G0 at 200 IPM. 
fadal can run up to 600 IPM but this is not my goal to stress my cnc at that speed. ( perhaps I will test it with this clone card)

 About Ethercat  servos and I/os card I been testing,  I have  a hybrid configuration with ethercat, and parallel port and this configuration is working but realteck nic is having disconnect uses that the community say the intel nic is the good one for ethercat and servos but with IO ethercat cards this realteck nic do not notice me any issue, 

 I do not have a pc with intel NIC yet.

Please share your comments and experience.




 

 

MAke sure you have the Realtek R8168-dkms or R8125-dkms driver installed for your realtek card. It may fix it.