Errors preventing LinuxCNC from starting.

It seem that the installer was looking for a site from which to download some patches / updates during the install process.
Was there a network available to it at the time? Clearly it will need to be able to connect to the internet if it is to make use of an of the mirror servers. (Mirror servers just hold exactly the same data as the main server, to share server load)

There was no internet connection at the time because I was unable to get it to connect to my wireless net work. It kept coming back with an error message asking for the password which it would not accept.

Thanks all for your replies. I bit the bullet and installed the latest version - this solved my problem. System now working.:laugh:

in order to start fresh, which package(s) do you suggest I download in order to get the MESA 7176E up and running on my system.

The easiest way is to download and install the Debian Stretch test ISO:

www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-rtpreem...-uspace-amd64-r8.iso

This has the advantage that it contains the required uspace version of LinuxCNC, plus a recent Preempt-RT kernel
so is an especially good choice if you have newer PC hardware. It has the disadvantage that there may be some problems with some LinuCNC GUIs that depend on Glade (gmoccapy is one example)

Another way is to start with a Debian Wheezy distribution and install the Preempt-RT kernel and LinuxCNC uspace package:

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/getting-started/g...th_preempt_rt_kernel

This is a better choice for older hardware, and should not have any GUI issues since is the same distribution
the current released version of LinuxCNC uses.

Yet another option is to install LinuxCNC from scratch on a Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Mint, here is a very long thread on this:

forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...-or-deb?limitstart=0

I have finally got the system up and running but the Ethernet board
lists an address of 192.168.1.121

According to the address on the machine it is "inet 192.168.10.101/24 and brb 192.168.10.255"

How am I able to change the address to match the board and allow Linux cnc created via the wizard to be operational?