C10 Bidirectional Breakout Board

I'm completely new to LinuxCNC.  I have a kit from Automation Technology (www.automationtechnologiesinc.com/produc...r-2-axis-kit-small-2)  and it seems to me, with my complete lack of experience, that the first thing I need to do is get LinuxCNC configured to with this the breakout board (www.automationtechnologiesinc.com/produc...directional-breakout).
Does anyone have any experience with that breakout board/kit, and can you give me any help getting started with that kit.

Thanks,
Kent

Pretty good wiring diagram they give, if you need any more info on the C10 cnc4pc should have the user guides and what not. I've used a C35 from cnc4pc and I can say it's a quality product and the documentation is good.

Some really good info here

www.automationtechnologiesinc.com/produc...directional-breakout

Thanks for the replies. After watching hours of youtube videos (mostly about CNC, but with a cat video or two thrown in) I got my head wrapped most of the way around it all.

I have everything running well enough to do some basic testing. I still need to get limit switches installed and I would like to add a spindle encoder after that.

not to date myself, but I know full well what a parallel port is.

Yes, I have a PC. and I had already installed the ISO. Debian!!!! Argh!!!! I would have preferred Ubuntu, and even tried that on a different box but I had no success installing linuxcnc on it and gave up.

I have years of experience with Linux, I have worked in IT for nearly 30 years, so I know my way around a PC and Linux, but CNC is new to me.

PCs with built in parallel ports are as rare as hen's teeth. I bought a PCIe parallel port card and that is working. I would have gone with an ethernet card, but everything at Mesa seems to be out of stock.

krigby wrote:

not to date myself, but I know full well what a parallel port is.

Yes, I have a PC. and I had already installed the ISO. Debian!!!! Argh!!!! I would have preferred Ubuntu, and even tried that on a different box but I had no success installing linuxcnc on it and gave up.
 

Ubuntu only recently added  the required PREEMPT_RT kernel to their repos but it requires a paid license.
I guess you could build the kernel, its not hard. I have a guide somewhere if interested.
Building Linuxcnc from source is not hard. I did a video on a chromebook as proof/tutorial... 

 

I missed the personal option. I believe Ubuntu Pro uses the 5.15 kernel. 
Bookworm is on 6.1. A few of us have found that the network latency is generally unsuitable with the 5.x kernels if you use a Mesa card. PCW says the best he's used was 6.4 but there were some regressions in later versions. Hopefully its fixed.
Also with a parallel port, a 4.x kernel (eg. Buster) will perform better than 5.x and there is a RTAI option.
Even if you did go with Ubuntu I think you would be building the kernel before long. A RT patch has been released for 6.5. I would go with it. I'm not sure of performance with a parallel port.

There is a known path on Debian. Ubuntu seem like more work.