How to. 2 or more motors on one axis. Gantry

I turned off the "require homing " before movement option in pncconf before I modified the files.

I went back a created a very generic config and I can jog the motors from the Linuxcnc home page.

I have a lot to learn still. I am reading everything can but some of it is confusing because it is not my controller/ setup and it takes me down a path that does not work for me.

I do but I am sure it is not wired correctly. I really need to find some good schematics on how others have wired e-stop, limit switches, etc. I search the forums and get caught following some posts that don't really apply to my board/ setup. I will go in an omit all inputs since none of them are connected currently. Will let you know.

J Crowder wrote: I turned off the "require homing " before movement option in pncconf before I modified the files.

You should always home, else you will wreck your gantry (I know cuz I did once)

J Crowder wrote: I went back a created a very generic config and I can jog the motors from the Linuxcnc home page.

Try Big John's tool, you will be amazed!

J Crowder wrote: I have a lot to learn still. I am reading everything can but some of it is confusing because it is not my controller/ setup and it takes me down a path that does not work for me.

That's how we all learned, maybe you could take notes so you can help the next poor soul who wants to try this out?

Thanks. I will check out your files to see if I can see any obvious deltas. I appreciate everyone's input as I am slowly picking this up.

J Crowder wrote: I do but I am sure it is not wired correctly. I really need to find some good schematics on how others have wired e-stop, limit switches, etc. .

What about:

Straight from the io.hal file

When I go to install the tool from github I get the following error,
"joe@LinuxCNC:~$ pip3 install git+https://github.com/jethornton/7i96.git
Collecting git+https://github.com/jethornton/7i96.git
Cloning github.com/jethornton/7i96.git to /tmp/pip-_77qnkxs-build
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'

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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-_77qnkxs-build/

I am running Mint 19.2 mate, don't know if that matters.