Machinekit PnCConf

Hey All,

I am a machinekit user. I am just getting started with my system (3 joint gantry, DM556 drivers, Mesa 7i76e, and an Intel J5005 running rt-patched stretch)
I have the card communicating via ping & get the correct mesaflash readhmi output. When I start pncconf with my vanilla machinekit build, the 7i76e is not available as a configuration option. My questions are twofold -

1) Does anyone have a quick solution in order to get up and running? Here BigJohnT mentions building a configuration based off of 5i25/7i76 and modifying. What would be the required changes?

2) Would it be worth it to trying to copy the linuxcnc versions and put them in their respective directories? What would be the proper way of updating the mk pncconf script to support the 7i76e out-of-the-box?

Thanks guys. I really appreciate all the help and support. I've always dug the tech community of open source software.

If i remember correctly:
at the "loadrt hm2_pci......" has to be changed to "hm2_eth........" and the correct ip board address has to be added, and maybe all the references to 5i25.0.7i76 something to 7i76e, but i am not sure about the last part, it was nearly 2 years ago.

I managed to get the linuxcnc version of pncconf to running by playing with the python module paths. I got it to run but none of the test windows worked, which was a real bummer. I also couldn't get the ini file to start via machinekit once the wizard configuration was complete

I'm new to linuxcnc but it appears that the kernel is not being recognized as real time capable?
The kernel has the preempt patch applied and is verified through uname.

I also tried launching the axis.ini file and while it seemed to initiate, no GUI windows appeared...

You are not clear if you are running PREEMPT_RT kernel the Mesa ethernet cards require. What does uname say?

Also the 7i76e is supported in PNCCONF. I know this as I tested it for Chris Morley who wrote PNCCONF. It certainly works in master branch. I thought he pushed it back to V 2.7. You may need to edit the IP address in your hal file.

But if you are trying to use LinuxCNC configs with Machinekit, you are not going to get support here. This is for Linuxcnc.

Rod is right. I have never done any work with machinekit for Pncconf.
I doubt they continued development for it.
I doubt that it would help much as AFAIK machinekit loads configs very differently.
They should probably remove it ( It's actually my intention in linuxcnc too)

Sorry

Chris M

you may see hat the line 6 in the HAL is saying to do

then you get a better impression on how the error is about

loadrt hostmot2
loadrt hm2_eth board_ip="10.10.10.10" config="firmware=hm2/7i76/7i76e.BIT num_encoders=1 num_pwmgens=0 num_stepgens=2 sserial_port_0=00xxxx"
setp hm2_7i76e.0.watchdog.timeout_ns 5000000