How start Config Yaskawa Servo

The interface card uses clk/dir to mean the same think as the Yaskawa drive manual calls pulse.
The Yaskawa drives do _not_ use pulse/dir, they use either CW/CCW pulses or quadrature pulses. LinuxCNC supports these pulse types too . Step type 1 is CW/CCW and step type 2 is quadrature. You need to configure the Yaskawa drives to work in this mode.

It seems that Stepconf does not understand step types other than step/dir so the open-loop tests won't work. Once you have created a config with pins allocated to step/dir you will need to manually edit the HAL file to change the step type to 1 or 2 to make the drives function. (only one line to change)

Todd wrote:

Sure they do step/dir, page 8-48 of the manual you referenced, says that it is the default setting for position control.

So it does. I only got as far as the table on page 4.4. And I mis-read that.

I have to say that running expensive Servopacks open-loop from a parallel port seems an odd choice.

The drive appears to have opto-isolated inputs, do you know if your break-out board has opto-isolated outputs?
You might need to wire things in a slightly unexpected way.