Linuxcnc 2.9.4 and Mesa 7i97T

Hi 
Coming from my safe world of Mach 3 and 4 I have now made the jump into Linuxcnc. 
OMG its complicated!
I have spend almost a week trying to set up Linuxcnc 2.9.4 (and a couple of other versions) on the mesa 7i97T card. 
Is there anybody out there who has made this work?
I can make it ping but thats as far as I can get. From here there is only "board not found"

Is there any known challenges in this setup and will it ever work?

Best regards

Nicolaj Hvid

What IP address is selected on the 7I97T?

What does the command:

ip a

return?

 

The ip is 10.10.10.10
I can ping it.

return of ip a:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp4s2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:01:02:f1:ea:a1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.10.10.1/8 brd 10.255.255.255 scope global noprefixroute enp4s2
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::74db:6330:9bad:59ef/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 90:2b:34:64:01:44 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.85/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp3s0
valid_lft 3522sec preferred_lft 3522sec
inet6 2001:2012:18ac:2400:a697:d340:a244:6b59/64 scope global temporary dynamic
valid_lft 288sec preferred_lft 288sec
inet6 2001:2012:18ac:2400:922b:34ff:fe64:144/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute
valid_lft 288sec preferred_lft 288sec
inet6 fe80::922b:34ff:fe64:144/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

What program does not recognize the card?

I am not sure I understand your question?
This is my last attempt to make it work after having spend days trying to figure out how to configure Linuxcnc to work with my Mesa 7i97T.

So far it has been a nightmare -expensive in time and money.

Does mesaflash see the card ?
Usually in these situations it is help to attach your ini & hal files and the error reports from when Linuxcnc fails.

I was asking  about:

From here there is only "board not found"

What program printed that message?

As Unknown mentioned, posting your hal and ini files would help diagnosis.

Note that pncconf cannot currently make configuration files for the 7I97/7I97T
so the options are to use MesaCT or start with a sample 7I97 configuration
and modify it to suit your hardware:

 
 

Correct me if im wrong here but as far as im informed there will be no ini nor hal file before the configuration?
Since im not there yet i have none of them - or at least from what i can see
I can ping the board and mesaflash sees it but thats about it.

I'm really curious to hear if my setup with a Linuxcnc and a mesa 7i97T is a dead end street. If so I would rather stop now and go back to my safe world of PLCs and Mach

Here are some (random) results

ping 10.10.10.10
PING 10.10.10.10 (10.10.10.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.10.10.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.124 ms
64 bytes from 10.10.10.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.089 ms
64 bytes from 10.10.10.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.092 ms
64 bytes from 10.10.10.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.096 ms
^C
--- 10.10.10.10 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3060ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.089/0.100/0.124/0.013 ms

---

mesaflash --device ethernet --addr 10.10.10.10 --readhmid
No ETHERNET board found

---

ls /lib/firmware/hm2/
3x20-1 4i65 4i68 5i20 5i22 5i22-1 5i22-1.5 5i23 7i43 7i43-2 7i43-4 7i97t_d.bin

---

mesaflash --device ethernet --addr 10.10.10.10 --readhmid
Unsupported ethernet device 7I97T at 10.10.10.10
No ETHERNET board found

What version of mesaflash are you using ?

forum.linuxcnc.org/27-driver-boards/5285...-by-mesaflash#302114

Maybe of some help