a busted machine

I think I should order a

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091TZPQ1K/ref...d=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1

which happens to claim Linux (2.6.X and up) and is from StarTech. It is twice the price but I bought the cheap one, naturally.

I'm in California but thank you for your offer Clive S.

sears is still a company?

I think sears is gone but it was the only place on the web that I could find a reference to the parallel port I have.

I have found other aspects of my very old machine that are busted. I'm moving on and will assemble a new machine with a StarTech PCIe parallel port.

Whoops, I have my backup ini and hal files but I'll be damned if I can figure out where to put them.

It seems LinuxCNC wants to be "helpful" and only likes configurations it has created when starting a new installation.

I just want to install these files and move on... Help !

I can see that the original installation created a launcher with a command line that told LinuxCNC where the .ini file was located. The ini file tells the program where the .hal file is. So far so good. I put my .ini and .hal files in a new folder and manually launched LinuxCNC from the command line. I see there is an XML file that has a configuration specific name, which suggests that it is also a configuration file. If I want to back up the essential configuration information what are ALL the files I should select ? I see no reference to the XML file in the .ini file.

When I start LinuxCNC I get a message that there is a problem with trivikins.ko -- the file is however, present. There is an error message from line 4 in the .hal file (I think) which reads loadrt [KINS]KINEMATICS so a real-time module isn't being loaded...

The Mesa 7i92 uses a Xilinx FPGA. I worked for Altera for many years so it is out of the question.