LinuxCNC Install using MX Linux 19.4 - Geared Toward New Users - Discussion

EDIT:

I split the install thread and the discussion thread to keep the amount of info new users had to wade through to a minimum.

A link back to the install guide is here: forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...red-toward-new-users

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Note this guide is not limited to Mesa cards. If you don't have a mesa card, from Section 4 you can skip steps 3 through 5 and also steps 11 through 13. Additionally you can skip Sections 5 and 6.

I can update these sections to make that more clear, thank you for the feedback.

The 5i23 should work fine.  I didn’t have to install anything additional to use the 5i25 that drives my table.  Are you encountering an error of some kind?

www.google.com/search?q=5i23+hostmot2+fi...CrAnAQ4dUDCA4&uact=5

Hostmot2 or mesaflash?
Pretty sure hostmot2 is just a copy/paste affair followed by loadrt in .hal, while mesaflash can be found as a binary and started as a normal program or downloaded from git, compiled and installed.

Mesaflash would make more sense... There are directions to install mesaflash in the docs here.