Biesse Rover 346 Retrofit

5Vdc power supply installed and connected to mesa boards. Everything seems to be working ok. All pins I can see on all boards.

andypugh wrote:

I prefer the alternative scheme.
You enable it in the "loadrt hostmot2" line in the HAL.

loadrt hostmot2 use_serial_numbers=1

Anything else I need to enable? I get an error when I try and load that.

Error could not insert module /usr/realtime-3.4.9-rtai-686-rtai-pae/modules/Linuxcnc/hm2_pci.ko: Invalid parameters
./BS_346.hal:8 exit value: 1
./BS_346.hal:8: insmod for hm2_pci failed returned -1

probably more like:
loadrt hm2_pci config="num_encoders=6 sserial_port_0=003xxx sserial_port_1=0000xxxx use_serial_numbers=1"

Ahh I wasn't aware that there were any hostmot2 command line options (aside from debug options)

andypugh wrote:

No the "use_serial_numbers" definitely goes in the loadrt hostmot2 line

What is the exact "loadrt hm2_pci" line?

loadrt hostmot2 use_serial_numbers=1

I also tried with quotes, loadrt hostmot2 "use_serial_numbers=1"

PCW wrote:

probably more like:
loadrt hm2_pci config="num_encoders=6 sserial_port_0=003xxx sserial_port_1=0000xxxx use_serial_numbers=1"

This doesnt work either.

at the halcmd: prompt, I can run the loadrt hostmot2 use_serial_numbers=1
Then when I try loadrt hm2_pci config=" num_encoders=6 num_pwmgens=0 num_stepgens=0 sserial_port_0=000xxx sserial_port_1=00000000"

I get the error.

Andys method works for me:

halcmd: loadrt hostmot2 use_serial_numbers=1
Note: Using POSIX realtime
hm2: loading Mesa HostMot2 driver version 0.15
halcmd: loadrt hm2_eth board_ip="10.10.10.10"
hm2_eth: loading Mesa AnyIO HostMot2 ethernet driver version 0.2
hm2_eth: 10.10.10.10: Hardware address: 00:60:1b:12:ab:cd
hm2_eth: discovered 7I92
hm2/hm2_7i92.0: 34 I/O Pins used:
hm2/hm2_7i92.0: IO Pin 000 (P2-01): IOPort
...

This is linuxCNC V 2.7.8

I am on 2.8 pre. IS it broken in 2.8 pre?