having trouble flashing my mesa 7i92...

by configuration tool i'm referring to the jethornton configuration tool.

You might post with a title the reflects your issue
(because I suspect JT will be the one who understands his configuration tool the best)

(you could also try pncconf as an alternative)

Ok, Thankyou...

the reason i didn't go with pncconf was that i couldn't find the G540 option in the drop down menu... I logged on and found ethernet mesa card support was limited...and/or discontinued...

I've just been looking at jethorntons configuration tool again and it too doesn't have the G540 in a drop down list(it has the bit file in it's flash utility but the daughter board file doesn't seem to be there).Making it seem as though I've been left out of the loop.

So at this point I'm looking at following anything that works.
I wen't back to the Pncconf to try the 5i25 method(you suggested), and all the pinouts are unpopulated, with none of the pin numbers in order , and not all of them entered.... can these be entered automatically? and/or how do you do it manually?

Note the for a single G540 you would use I/O connector 3
The numbers are the channel numbers for things like pwmgens and stepgens
and the GPIO number for GPIO pins

So the first step is probably assigning which stepgens are mapped to each axis
This is done with the drop down menus in pncconf. Note that standard firmware assigns
stepgens in the G540 order so stepgen0 is connected to G540 X. So selecting stepgen 0
in the IO connector 3 tab, you would select Axis --> Main Axis --> X Axis stepgen

I went back to pncconf like you said and plugged in (to the best of mu ability) the stepgen info. I feel that it should be ok. I set the number of stepgen's to four and no pwm or encoders. I was a still a little bit confused as to the numbering I couldn't tell where the pinouts where going, but i'll be able to edit it later...

But I still seem to still be getting errors...
It now complains about a IPV6 thing and that it is missing a line with 5i25 in it... (I couldn't find and replace anything in the hal.file that had any mention of the board number, i only edited one line with the hm2_eth reference and the ip address)

1. Depending in the pncconf version the card name may be distributed in the hal file or in a single
place in the .ini file, so its likely you are using a newer version of pncconf that has the card name in the .ini file

2. the "avahi" error means that you have not setup the a host static ip address properly
(the hm2_eth manual page has an example of how to do this)

man hm2_eth