LinuxCNC on Linux Mint 20 quick and nearly easy install

Did you attempt to run the commands I suggest ?

This will let me know if eifvars has been mounted.

What wifi adapter are you using ?

Best option is to reboot, open a terminal and run lsusb

or run copy the file, attach it here and I'll have look, it maybe just a case of rebuilding the ISO with the correct driver & firmware in there.

BeagleBrainz wrote: Did you attempt to run the commands I suggest ?

This will let me know if eifvars has been mounted.

What wifi adapter are you using ?

Best option is to reboot, open a terminal and run lsusb

or run

Code:

sudo dmesg > dmesg.txt

copy the file, attach it here and I'll have look, it maybe just a case of rebuilding the ISO with the correct driver & firmware in there.

No, I did not. By the time I saw the post about it I was already installing Tommy's 19.3 with 4.9.x kernel.

Ok no prob I’ll leave you to it.
Good luck

Happy to report that I did get 20.0 with the 4.9.x to work on my tiny BRIX PC. I came back to v20.0 because it didn't give me any issues with the graphics (screen res) like that kernel on 19.3 did. It did not work on this pc until I installed linux, then the kernel, then rebooted and opened with the RT kernel, then proceeded from there. Otherwise it kept running Linuxcnc in simulator mode only, not sure why this was the case...maybe something with this PC I reckon.

So far no thread errors popping up, and the machine is cutting a dry-run without issue thus far. I had no idea that this PC was going to be so particular with the Linux version, etc.

Edit 22SEP2020 after running updates on the dist, the latency shot up to 5M+. Had to reinstall everything again and that got it back to about 50k. Just noting in case someone else is going down the same road.

Nicely done.

Thank you and Beagle and everyone that has shared their expertise here. Otherwise I'd be screwed!