Help with Emco Concept Mill 55

So I have LinuxCNC running on an older desktop machine. I have never used Linux so please bear with me. I installed the 5i25 card and ran PNCCONF. When I get to the screen for select 5i25 from the Mesa0 PCI/Parport card there is nothing behind the colon.
I have run "lspci" from root terminal and do not see anything with "Mesa" or "5i25" listed. I have tried moving PCI slots but no difference. I know there is power because the 2 LEDs flash on the board at power up and the 7i76 board's LED is lit.
Any help would be appreciated. I have spent hours looking for an answer and I'm stumped.

I think that's normal ( I dont think pncconf accesses any hardware unless you use the "test/tune axis"' pane )
I would just page forward to the Mesa Card 0 page, select "5i25 internal data" and "7i76x2 With One 7i76"
select "Accept components Changes" and continue.

If the 5I25 is found by the system,
"lspc -nn" should show a pci device with 2718:5125 vendor:device ID

What version of linuxcnc are you using?
As Peter said: select '5i25 internal data' on the mesa0 page.

If that isn't an option then it sounds like you are using an old version of linuxcnc

Chris M

The card is recognized via "lspci -n" as 2718:5i25.

I am trying to use a TB6600 driver off of ebay and a stepper motor I had laying around. I am not having any luck so far. I previously used this driver and motor with a Raspberry Pi Protoneir hat and it was working. Has anyone used this driver? I would like to bench test this setup since the Mill is in the garage and testing will be a little challenging. I would also be willing to pick up another stepper driver for testing if someone can give a suggestion. Thanks for all of your help and patience.

I believe the firmware is up to date. I performed apt -get update and flashed with mesaflash. I may have a chance to work with it tonight as well. Any other diagnostics I can do to check the 5i25 and 7i76 are working?

What do you believe is not working?

Most common start up issues with step drives are wrong wiring (step/dir swapped for example) or too narrow step pulses

( Start with 10 usec (10000 ns) if you don't have drive specs)

Success! At least a little. I have movement while testing the X axis in pncconf. Stepper seems to be moving appropriately. Pulse (+), Dir (+), and EN(+) all need to be jumpered together. I had forgotten that when I last used this driver. Thanks for all the help. I’m moving on to using the Axis GUI.