5i25 with Probotix Bob

Hi, i ordered the 5i25 and the 7i76 combo from Mesa. The 5i25 arrived and i like to try it out since the 7i76 is back ordered a couple weeks.

I've installed in a Pci slot, and downloaded and unpacked the Mesa software for initializing the 5i25 but it appears to do nothing- No confirmation of install no lights on the 5i25 card, i tried using PnCConf for it but it appears it doesn't support the 5i25.

Is there a way to initialize the card in Ubuntu, the downloads from Mesa don't appear do anything. This is a dual boot machine, WindowsXP keeps asking me for the driver for the card, as far as i understand the driver is in Linux only, or am i missing something.

Just want to use the 5i25 with my Bob for now to get a feel of how it works.

Any idea's??

Thanx kindly in advance.

If the card was configured for a Probotix BOB there is no initialization required (see the label on the card)
if the card was configured for a 7I76, you will have to re-flash the card with the mesaflash utility
there are linux and windows versions of the utility

Note the HostMot2 configuration set is only supported by LinuxCNC

If you want pncconf to work with the 5I25, you will have to install the 5I25 XML files (see the pncconf section of the forum)

So i'am in Linux and i'm trying to flash the 5i25 and i get this error

Could not display "/home/john/Downloads/5i25/utils/linux/mesaflash

There is no application installed for executable files.

Even after giving Mesaflash permission to Allow executing file as program- i get nothing.

Nothing to say it flashed or did anything, all the lights on the board are still off. Any ideas?

The way you run mesaflash is from a linux terminal window

Flashing new firmware is probably not the best thing to do first if you are not familiar with linux and command line operations

Whats does the label on the 5I25 say? (it will indicate the factory installed firmware)

One of labels say 7i76 X2 BIT. Checked again at start up theres still no status lights on this board, so how can i tell if its working or not?

If it has no light its fine (red lights are bad)

Thank you Andy...just received the 7i76, and thought i'd run what you wrote to see if the 5i25 is recognized, which i believe it is.

[ 2411.894185] hm2: loading Mesa HostMot2 driver version 0.15
[ 2430.550235] hm2_pci: loading Mesa AnyIO HostMot2 driver version 0.7
[ 2430.550271] alloc irq_desc for 20 on node -1
[ 2430.550273] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[ 2430.550280] hm2_pci 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 2430.550283] hm2_pci: discovered 5i25 at 0000:05:00.0
[ 2430.550311] hm2: no firmware specified in config modparam! the board had better have firmware configured already, or this won't work
[ 2430.550688] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: Smart Serial Firmware Version 35
[ 2430.607147] hm2/hm2_5i25.0: 34 I/O Pins used:


However the 7i76 appears to be unrecognized, so far

Thought the 5i25 ran field power to the 7i76?