One for the hardware gurus

I knew they came from abroad, US was an assumption

1 Czech Krona = £0.0326328004

Happy calculating!!

I ran two CAT5 cables and an extra pull line in conduit out to my shop, works great. Much better in my case than wireless.

Rick G

Reply to ArcEye.

The LAN card from my friend in Yorkshire arrived today. After carrying out the hack to fit a full height card into a half height PCI slot it is up and running fine.

However many thanks for you kind offer anyway.

Rick G wrote:

I ran two CAT5 cables and an extra pull line in conduit out to my shop, works great. Much better in my case than wireless.

Rick G

I am a network guy and I only use wireless as a last resort.

Hard wired is the way to go

Harry_Y wrote:

I am a network guy and I only use wireless as a last resort.

Hard wired is the way to go

As a retired network guy I'm inclined to agree. I am aware of the robustness of a hard wired connection.

I'm now encountering a very strange phenomena. Having initially installed the 10.04 Live CD on the Gateway Flexatxstc BRO 600 it was working fine. Having now received and hacked the fully height LAN card provided by a friend I decided to download and update the patches to 10.04.3 (which took forever).

Bad move! It broke so I'm now putting the 10.04 Live CD back on, as is, and then try and find what my little BRO doesn't like and what of the patches could/should be omitted

Any thoughts from the panel?

I decided to download and update the patches to 10.04.3 (which took forever).

I presume you mean you ran the update manager.

Don't.

Ubuntu 10.04 with kernel 2.6.32-122-rtai is the basis of the whole EMC install and what it was built against.

If you 'upgrade' the kernel, it will not be a real time kernel, so EMC will no longer work.

If you upgrade individual applications, you will get away with it with some and not others.
If whatever prompted the new kernel number contained changes that directly affect an application,the new version will have been rebuilt against the new kernel and may no longer work.

If you want to upgrade EMC, that is completely different.

You can run whatever version of EMC you like with the current kernel, 2.4.7 is the latest fully supported release, 2.5.xxx is a pretty stable beta used by a lot of people for features which have not migrated to the 2.4 series and which are used by some setups.

regards

ArcEye wrote:

. . . . .Don't.. . . . .

And to prevent me making further stupid mistakes again I'm going to be remove the NIC to make it a stand alone machine. G code files can be delivered to the workshop on a pen drive.

It serves me right for trying to be clever.

Still it'll save having to dig that trench for the network cable I mentioned earlier.

Ho hum.