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  • ihavenofish
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05 Feb 2025 04:08
Replied by ihavenofish on topic New ethercat / probe basic control for minimonster

New ethercat / probe basic control for minimonster

Category: CNC Machines

That board is rather expensive. Can get beckhoff kit for less.

I laid out the terminal block rail, seems like everything will be fairly simple so far.
  • rodw
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05 Feb 2025 04:05
Replied by rodw on topic LinuxCNC on Raspberry Pi 5

LinuxCNC on Raspberry Pi 5

Category: Installing LinuxCNC

Once again thanks mate.

I'm going to play around with making an RPi5 image based on Trixie\Testing so I'll give it a whirl.

You might as well use the provided image becasue you basically end up with Trixie (with 6.1.2 kernel) and 2.9.4 already installed.
  • gwond
  • gwond
05 Feb 2025 03:08 - 05 Feb 2025 03:10
Replied by gwond on topic looking for a post processor to be used with Fusion 360

looking for a post processor to be used with Fusion 360

Category: General LinuxCNC Questions

I'm using the one linked in this post successfully so far.  forum.linuxcnc.org/plasmac/38438-plasmac...t-processors?start=0

I haven't tested the center-punch functionality, but did test the small hole functionality on 3/8" holes and they turned out pretty well.

A couple things I learned along the way:
  make sure merge circles if unchecked when posting
  if you have multiple setups, you have to go to the operations tab in the post window and select them all.  They aren't all selected by default.
 
  • unknown
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05 Feb 2025 02:36
Replied by unknown on topic LinuxCNC on Raspberry Pi 5

LinuxCNC on Raspberry Pi 5

Category: Installing LinuxCNC

Once again thanks mate.

I'm going to play around with making an RPi5 image based on Trixie\Testing so I'll give it a whirl.
  • unknown
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05 Feb 2025 02:34
Replied by unknown on topic The dumification of humanity through internet

The dumification of humanity through internet

Category: Off Topic and Test Posts

From memory there was some disparity between the English definition of billion and the US.
English was 12 zeros whilst the US was 9.

Look if NASA can have stuff ups with one team using imperial measurements and the other using metric any kind of stuff up and confusion is possible. Mars Climate Orbiter it was.

One thing I didn't know is that the definition of inch,foot,yard,chain,blah,blah is actually based on the inch being 25.4 mm. Tho once again different countries early in the 20th century had different ideas. From the doco I saw it was implied that the invention of slip gauges or "joe blocks" kind of pushed it to the front.
Carl Edvard Johansson the guy accredited with the invention of them modified his Wife's sewing machine to make the first set.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_block

Look under the bit titled history.
  • unknown
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05 Feb 2025 02:20
Replied by unknown on topic Ethercat installation from repositories - how to step by step

Ethercat installation from repositories - how to step by step

Category: EtherCAT

No you'll need to use the RPi with a 6.1.x kernel, which should work. Rod has raised the issue regarding Ethercat not supporting 6.12 (anything higher than 6.1 I'd guess).

That's the trap when releasing a new image, some will want the latest kernel and then some, like yourself will require an earlier version. Can't keep everyone happy.

Sorry for any confusion and such, Ethercat is too rich for me, but once it's all sorted I'll be sure to test the Ethercat install works, wont be able to test any actual hardware but the actual install and building of modules I'll test.

And a final thanks for actually supplying the messages and such, much much better than "doesn't work".

Cheers
Rob
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05 Feb 2025 02:16
Replied by tommylight on topic The dumification of humanity through internet

The dumification of humanity through internet

Category: Off Topic and Test Posts

Dang it, i forgot the metric-imperial war! Shame on me! :)
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We have the same silicium-silicon thing going on here with the milliard-billion nomenclature, and the strange thing is very few people actually remember that, despite being fully grown at the time that was used (milliard instead of billion, billion here had 12 zeros, milliard had 9), and it was a standard taught in schools from the first grade, now i have people older than me insisting that was never the case, while some luckily do clearly remember that as at one point in time we had a bank note with 9 zeros during the recession that never ended and the money was worth less than the paper it was printed on (yes i know it is not paper)!
It is astonishing how selective a human mind can be, probably coping system with bad-good memories and depending on what part the things in question got showed into.
  • unknown
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05 Feb 2025 02:13
Replied by unknown on topic The dumification of humanity through internet

The dumification of humanity through internet

Category: Off Topic and Test Posts

Yeah I thought imperial was a thing of the past, until I started to build my Myford ML7/Super 7 Franken Lathe. Turned out I had to invest in some weirdo Whitworth BA sockets & stuff.

Imperial spanners are easy to recognise, they are the ones bought when Sidchrome was actually good.
  • PCW
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05 Feb 2025 02:02
Replied by PCW on topic Mesa modbus and pktUart

Mesa modbus and pktUart

Category: Other User Interfaces

Finally got my cards and I should note (to save others some time)
that to run the Eletechsup modbus  25IOC32 card using the MODBUS
functions 2 and 15, You need to short solder jumper M0 on the card.

They seem to work as expected
 
  • PCW
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05 Feb 2025 01:57
Replied by PCW on topic Newbe trying to run 7i92TM

Newbe trying to run 7i92TM

Category: PnCConf Wizard

It suggested to use the 10.10.10.10 address for the Mesa FPGA card

Because the 192.168.1.121 is often part of a local network NAT range
(so packets get sent out to the local network rather the the Mesa card)

suggested host address is 10.10.10.100
 
  • rodw
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05 Feb 2025 01:53
Replied by rodw on topic Mesa Suppliers

Mesa Suppliers

Category: Driver Boards

Thanks for a smooth transaction Brad.
To anyone interested, I still have 3 available.

Thanks
Chich.

Man, I should have charged commission! :)
  • rodw
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05 Feb 2025 01:52
Replied by rodw on topic Verifying LinuxCNC ISO download.

Verifying LinuxCNC ISO download.

Category: Installing LinuxCNC

I woud not mind betting the checksum was never updated on the last release. I am sure checksums are unecessary today.
As said, just use it!
  • rodw
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05 Feb 2025 01:50
Replied by rodw on topic The dumification of humanity through internet

The dumification of humanity through internet

Category: Off Topic and Test Posts

Actually Tommy is was an interesting thing you raised, I had no idea of the different spellings & such. I think being in Australia and being so far away from the rest of the world we know that things are different outside the context of out borders.
Another thing is being a colony of the British Empire, and getting our independence without a war (they were probably happy to be rid of us), we still kept cultural links to Great Britain and later on had "the USA influence". And we have no issues with metric imperial system. But cmon the metric system makes more sense, doesn't have different values based on arbitrary values, geesh base 17 would have made more sense.

Well, we didn't have to fight for our independence because the British sent us over in chains. Australia adopted metric in 1966 and is regarded to have been the most succesful metricification project in history. About 12 years later I did some engineering at College and they were very pedantic about SI units. But it helped me fully adopt to metric. I can't even visualise an imperial spanner anymore! I used to have all of these conversion factors in my head but I am a bit slower retrieving them now.
  • jm_mt
  • jm_mt
05 Feb 2025 01:30 - 05 Feb 2025 02:33
Replied by jm_mt on topic Ethercat installation from repositories - how to step by step

Ethercat installation from repositories - how to step by step

Category: EtherCAT

Is it safe to say the Linux Raspberrypi 6.12.11 #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT doesn't work with Etherlab Ethercat Master version 1.6.2. Trying to setup EtherCat on Pi5 with Debian.

I have issues starting the ethercat service.
sudo systemctl enable ethercat

Job for ethercat.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status ethercat.service" and "journalctl -xeu ethercat.service" for details.

Here's what shows in the journal
Feb 05 12:13:12 raspberrypi ethercatctl[53739]: ERROR: No network cards for EtherCAT specified.
Feb 05 12:13:12 raspberrypi ethercatctl[53739]: Please edit /etc/ethercat.conf with root permissions and set MASTER0_DEVICE variable to either a network interface name (like eth0) or to a MAC addre>
Feb 05 12:13:12 raspberrypi systemd[1]: ethercat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Looks like some files are missing or can't be found when trying to install the modules?
sudo make modules_install

returns

cnc@raspberrypi:~/ethercat$ sudo make modules_install make -C "/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.11" M="/home/cnc/ethercat" INSTALL_MOD_DIR="ethercat" modules_install make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.11'   INSTALL /lib/modules/6.12.11/ethercat/examples/mini/ec_mini.ko   SIGN    /lib/modules/6.12.11/ethercat/examples/mini/ec_mini.ko At main.c:171: - SSL error:FFFFFFFF80000002:system library::No such file or directory: ../crypto/bio/bss_file.c:67 - SSL error:10000080:BIO routines::no such file: ../crypto/bio/bss_file.c:75 sign-file: ./certs/signing_key.pem   XZ      /lib/modules/6.12.11/ethercat/examples/mini/ec_mini.ko.xz   INSTALL /lib/modules/6.12.11/ethercat/master/ec_master.ko   SIGN    /lib/modules/6.12.11/ethercat/master/ec_master.ko At main.c:171: - SSL error:FFFFFFFF80000002:system library::No such file or directory: ../crypto/bio/bss_file.c:67 - SSL error:10000080:BIO routines::no such file: ../crypto/bio/bss_file.c:75 sign-file: ./certs/signing_key.pem   XZ      /lib/modules/6.12.11/ethercat/master/ec_master.ko.xz   INSTALL /lib/modules/6.12.11/ethercat/devices/ec_generic.ko   SIGN    /lib/modules/6.12.11/ethercat/devices/ec_generic.ko At main.c:171: - SSL error:FFFFFFFF80000002:system library::No such file or directory: ../crypto/bio/bss_file.c:67 - SSL error:10000080:BIO routines::no such file: ../crypto/bio/bss_file.c:75 sign-file: ./certs/signing_key.pem   XZ      /lib/modules/6.12.11/ethercat/devices/ec_generic.ko.xz   DEPMOD  /lib/modules/6.12.11 Warning: modules_install: missing 'System.map' file. Skipping depmod. make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.11'

This seems to the affect other command later like sudo modprobe ethercat. When this run it returns
modprobe: FATAL: Module ethercat not found in directory /lib/modules/6.12.11

Almost looks like the module never gets built or compiled correctly?
EtherCAT's kernel module (.ko) doesn't appear in the modules when trying to search for it
sudo find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -name "ethercat.ko"

This returns not found

I think tomorrow I'm just gonna try everything again with an old kernel version, just to get started.
  • rodw
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05 Feb 2025 01:22
Replied by rodw on topic New ethercat / probe basic control for minimonster

New ethercat / probe basic control for minimonster

Category: CNC Machines

You could try this IO board which has an A/B encoder and I think a counter for MPG
vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005001454590369....gatewayAdapt=glo2vnm

Your drives should have a fault/error output ( you would configure an output for this in the xml file) and connect it to jount.n.fault-in
That way Linuxcnc will konw when a fault occurs.
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