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tommylight

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
unknown

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

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

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

05 Feb 2025 01:53

Replied by rodw on topic Mesa Suppliers

Mesa Suppliers

Category: Driver Boards

Chich2 wrote:
Thanks for a smooth transaction Brad.
To anyone interested, I still have 3 available.

Thanks
Chich.

Man, I should have charged commission!

rodw

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

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

unknown wrote:
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

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.

unknown
unknown

05 Feb 2025 01:21

Replied by unknown on topic The dumification of humanity through internet

The dumification of humanity through internet

Category: Off Topic and Test Posts

I think this may be appropriate.....

unknown
unknown

05 Feb 2025 01:19

Replied by unknown 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.
Tho it does piss me off that people at home call Solicitors lawyers, our political and justice system is based on the Westminster model, that when we have elections people think that like the US we vote for a leader, when in fact we vote for the candidate in our Electorate and whatever party gets the most votes win. Technically the leader of the winning party could lose his seat and said party would have to vote a new leader.

I don't use X but from limited experience of Facebook I think that is the epicenter of dumification (is that really a word lol). It replaced the viral emails of the late 90's and early 2000's, excpet it has a broader audience and the dumbness spreads quicker.

I having a conversation with a girl once and she thought she might be gluten intolerant, turned out she was eating 8 -10 slices of bread a day and feeling bloated.

There's more but I think I'll just go out and yell at the sky. I'm pretty sure that's what my son thinks I do all day......but he's a Metalhead so it's okay.

unknown
unknown

05 Feb 2025 01:02

Replied by unknown on topic Installing NoMachine Remote Desktop - Package installer issues

Installing NoMachine Remote Desktop - Package installer issues

Category: Computers and Hardware

Using the command line is like...........

Correct punctuation (including Commas) is very important ...

Punctuation! is the difference between …

Helping your Uncle, Jack, off a horse.

and

Helping your uncle jack off a horse.

unknown
unknown

05 Feb 2025 00:57

Replied by unknown on topic Newbe trying to run 7i92TM

Newbe trying to run 7i92TM

Category: PnCConf Wizard

What do you mean exactly by "when connected to internet" ?
What is your network setup, IP addresses ?
Do you have 2 ethernet cards or wireless & ethernet ?
Have you tried 10.10.10.xx network for the Mesa card ?