New ethercat / probe basic control for minimonster

I got mine set up using axis and then moved to TTS repeatable tooling and  went to QT Dragon because I could not get probe basic working on my hardware. Then I found none of the QTdragon screens worked for my 16" monitor so upgraded to a 16"  1080p monitor. It has probing and ATC. The manual tool change works well.
Don't Google, Its all well documented in the Linuxcnc docs.

Ah cool thanks.
my screen res is 1680x1050 right now (old cinema display) and my panel screen is 2k, 4:3. I'd rather not buy a new screen for any of this.

I'm installing linuxcnc 2.9.4 now.

Well now I'm stuck. its asking for non free intel drivers. I put them on a usb stick but linuxcnc installer cant find them. I'm sure ive done something simple wrong here, but i dont see it.

I'm not feeling authoritive here but Debian Bookworm split the earlier non-free  into non-free (not in the default) and non-free-firmware (included in the default). We include non-free in our apt sources but I don't know if the installer refers to that as it runs.

When I faced this earlier with the Odroid H3+, I had to install Debian without  a network driver and install it after installation and run the NIC installer. This will set your /etc/apt/sources.list to only use a CDROM so it will need editing to be something like this
 

From my last go linuxcnc does no install correctly without the network first installed. But last time I got the non free one separate from linuxcnc and not the official one. I was hoping the official one would make this all just work smoothly, but noooo.

What I don't get is why it asks for a usb but then does not recognise it when i put it in.

You could try installing Trixie CD  which is now in alpha release
www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Once you sort out your network install linuxcnc from their repos
 sudo apt install linuxcnc-uspace linuxcnc-uspace-dev
This should also install PREEMPT_RT
This will get you a very late version of 2.9.3 which is basically the same as 2.9.4

Then to hook up the Ethercat repos, try this script
forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/53785-instal...thercat-repositories
and click through to the install instructions in that link

This could be a bit experimental as Trixie is using the 6.12 kernel which was not supported by etherlabmaster. But I raised an issue with them that should have fixed the issue 2 days ago.
gitlab.com/etherlab.org/ethercat/-/issues/160
 

Yeah this seems like trading one problem for many more problems. haha.

I just need to figure out how to make it read this driver. can you not just stick it onto the installer usb like you do with windows drivers?

I have no idea. What is the driver? Link? is it supported in later kernels?

iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode

I did not know it was a wifi card. Why don't you just plug to a wired network until lts installed? I never use wifi for installations.
Trixie should support it as its up to 2024 version

sudo apt install firmware-iwlwifi should do the trick on Trixie.
packages.debian.org/search?suite=trixie&...mes&keywords=iwlwifi