Could not locate firmware "//lib/firmware/hm2/5i20/SVST2_4_7I47.BIT"

I recently acquired an old smithycnc1240.  Hard drive had crashed and I'm working on getting it going again.  I'm new to linux and linuxcnc.  Found good help on the forum, but I've run into a problem and I'm really puzzled.

New SSHD, I installed linuxcnc from these instructions (#1 ...#6) seemed to go smoothly:
linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/getting-st...etting-linuxcnc.html

Debian appears to start normally and I can start LinuxCNC

I have this line in my HAL file:
loadrt hm2_pci config="firmware=hm2/5i20/SVST2_4_7I47.BIT num_encoders=1 num_pwmgens=0 num_stepgens=4 sserial_port_0=0xxxxxxx enable_raw"

I get this output when starting linuxcnc:
Could not locate firmware "//lib/firmware/hm2/5i20/SVST2_4_7I47.BIT". (No such file or directory)

but I have confirmed the file is there:
/lib/firmware/hm2/5i20/SVST2_4_7I47.BIT

Any ideas?


 

That's strange, I would expect that with a path or capitalization issue.

I got it. Not sure exactly what it was, but I switched to a different hal file that referenced the same bin file. That one got beyond that error. Then I commented out that line in the original file, recreated it by typing each character and that worked.