Install fun with buster

G'Day Guy's,
                    Well I finally got a PCI parallel port card and installed LinuxCNC Buster, on the install it couldn't find the wifi card so it did a minimal install by by that I do mean minuim. This PCI card does come with a driver disk and yes there is a driver for linux but when unpacking it with tar it just kept failing saying the folder wasn't there and came up with the Error 1.

I did start to make the new folders then a mate came around so that was the end of the day, so today more fun trying to get this to see my cnc setup. My old parallel port cnc board just plain worked back in the days of XP and when I reset it up yesterday it came to life like old.

The only way I could get the net as both the ethernet and wifi wouldn't connect was use my smart phone with USB tethering and trying to do a upgrade showed nothing was available symantic package manager wouldn't work either so this is my last day off before my next shift and hopefully I can make some sense out of this.

Cheers Bryan

 

G'Day Guy's,
Well had a go this morning at at one time YES the F3 screen came to life and when I toggle the test run for the axis the controller was trying but no movement on any stepper. Now when I toggle my E-Stop it does show up on the screen as off so I do know that pci card is connected. But further tests had the F3 screen blanked out.

The ethernet connection connected to my wifi router played ball and just worked so no problem getting the net and when trying to do apt upgrade it said no packages were released for this distro.

so the fun continues

"when I toggle the test run for the axis the controller was trying but no movement on any stepper."

are you sure, the parport is working?

is there a partport in ?

lspci -nn

Just went and tried lspci -nn and the response can back with a serial parallel port PCI listing, now this PCI did come with a linux driver but it keeps falling down as shown in this picture. When I first tried it it fell down with no build folder in /dev so I did a mkdir and put a folder in and another link in /lib needed one too. 

 

No it's saying "no rules to make target " and aborts with an error so would I need to do a shell script with make=1 and put it in lib/......./build/ fix the error.



 

with

grep -i par /proc/ioports

you should see something like this:

0378-037a : parport0

if not:
your pci-card is not a real LPT-parport

Well today I finally got the chance to run those 2 commands and with the lspic -v it does comeup with this card and says it's assigned to parport/serial

Now when I run that second command it comes back with

0000-0000 : parport

So looks like this Chinese clone is no good so back to hunting for a real parport card

Well to cut a long story short I did just waste 2 days trying to win10 onto my shed computer and in the end went back to linuxcnc which did loadup straight away where noway would any of the 7 win iso's I used would bootup at all.

This time I had my cnc router turned on and when I did a lspci -v

 

That PCI parrallel port card is seen so went ahead with the re-install. While the OS was still loading the Z axis was jittery and going down past the limit. As it was late in the day in the morning I'll find the paperwork with all the config info and enter in the stepconf.

So it is looking good and a huge learning curve is now underway learning how to drive this cnc using linuxcnc.

Cheers Bryan