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thanks Rodw,
I will try that I have been doing similar things in terminal and when get so bogged down I just comment them out and move on and will come back to them later.
I appreciate your help,
Thanks again,George

The way to push ahead is to note the error and comment out the line causing it with a #
Then when it opens, open halshow (eg. axis menu: show hal configuration)
Then review the pins. You might just have a minor typo. then edit the commented out line to use the correct pin name

LOL, i feel sorry for the keyboard!
It is hard for now, but after a while everything starts to fall in place and make sense.
Changing one single thing at a time and testing is much more productive and easy to roll back in case of failure.

Hi tommylight, thanks for helping me with that I very much appreciate it and all the knowledge you have. I am just a newbie who is flailing around knowing squat trying to learn linux and linuxcnc; and not killing my brain in the process (my head has a few bruises from bashing it against my keyboard.
Thanks,
George

Thank you Rod for your help it makes it alot easier to see where the errors are using geany was very helpful and good learning!

Well I have made a little headway thanks to your help but now I am stuck again after a few hours of banging my head against my keyboard I am back. I have encountered an error at hal 67 with limit inputs. I have the inputs on TB6 04-9 being first 4 limits xyy2z 8&9 estops. I have commented out any thing to do with the estops and spindle on both ini and hal files to try and get linuxcnc running without errors and then I will work on them. The is pin 04 does not exist and I'm sure I am going to get the same errors for the joints. I have updated my ini and hal files and and added a screen copy of the run of Linuxcnd with the exact error shown and you can see what else is loading.
thanks again,
George

Here is my working  wiring diagram

Thanks again Peter for you help! It is soo nice that the Linuxcnc community helps newbies like myself. This help is hopefully getting me to learn more about Linuxcnc so I can figure out how to fix things. I started of trying to use pncconfig and did't understand alot of the terms and settings info so I went to AI for some help and I can see now that it was not really helpful.
Thanks again,
George

Thank you Rod for that information! I am as I said just an newbie and really don't know squat about Linuxcnc, but with your and Peter's assistance I am learning these errors were at the early stages of the configuration so hopefully I will learn more to get me through. Thannks again
George

georgio wrote:

thank you Peter,
That got rid of the error there but it points now to an error on Hal line 25: empty variable name. I don't know how lines are counted no matter how many ways I counted them it did not make sense to me.
I so very much appreciate your help, I have spending days with AI trying to get this figured out to no avail, you forum experts know this stuff!!!!
Grorge

If you open the file with geany which is part of the linuxcnc ISO. the  editor will show line numbers.

In your hal file, under the addf it has
setp [HMOY] hm2_7i76e.0.stepgen.timer-number 1
setp [HMOT] hm2_7i76e.0.dpll.01.timer-us -100.

Notice the HMOY should be HMOT
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Editing config files at random never ever ends good.

thank you Peter,
That got rid of the error there but it points now to an error on Hal line 25: empty variable name. I don't know how lines are counted no matter how many ways I counted them it did not make sense to me.
I so very much appreciate your help, I have spending days with AI trying to get this figured out to no avail, you forum experts know this stuff!!!!
Grorge

Already replied on the other thread:
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...nc-2-9-8-mesa-7i76eu

This section of the hal file is broken in at least 3 ways:

loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]SERVO_PERIOD num_joints=[KINS]JOINTS
#loadrt [KINS]KINEMATICS
loadrt hm2_eth board_ip="192.168.1.121" config="num_encoders=1 num_stepgens=4 sserial_port_0=2"
#loadrt hostmot2

1. loadrt [KINS]KINEMATICS is commented out
2. loadrt hostmot2 is commented out
3. loadrt hostmot2 is in the wrong order (it must be loaded before hm2_eth)

It should look like what pncconf creates:

loadrt [KINS]KINEMATICS
loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]SERVO_PERIOD num_joints=[KINS]JOINTS
loadrt hostmot2
loadrt hm2_eth board_ip="192.168.1.121" config="num_encoders=1 num_stepgens=4 sserial_port_0=2"

Hello all,
I am a newbie and I might have posted this question on the wrong thread before so I apologize for my lack of knowledge and experience. I have got my board and pc communicatiing and I think I have fixed most of the error but until i get this one fixed I won't know. I have an error which seems to be misidentifiying my z axis. I have a xyyx router setup hopefully to get y  squaring. The error I am getting says an undefined kinematicsSwitch and it leaves my setup with undefined limit on z. All help will be greatly appreciated. I will post my ini and hal files for you to look at.
Thanks again,
George