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It's very rare you need to install drivers for a parallel port in Linux. Most Vendor supplied ones are woefully out of date, and are usually for the vendor specific capabilities of the serial port. These cards are usually supported by the pc_serial Linux driver. Both chipsets you have tried are well established and work fine on the x86 platform with the Linux drivers that come with the kernel.

To tell the truth I'm not even sure the RPi5 kernel that is in the image even has support for a PC parallel port. When built the image I just used the RPi5 default config and enabled the options for real time.

Now the real issue is that the RPi SOC doesn't support BAR, I misspoke and stated ARM64.
If you had read the links I gave you would have seen this stated. Unless there have been major changes to the way the RPi5 manages IO ports and mapping them, unfortunately a PCIe parallel port is not going the work with the RPi5.
Yes it will see the adaptor but will not be able to use it as a PC would.

FYI... tried a different Parport card. however appears the drivers are missing and I am struggling to get the them installed.

cnc@raspberrypi:~$ sudo lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2712 PCIe Bridge (rev 21) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 38
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: 80000000-800fffff =1M% [32-bit]cnc@raspberrypi:~$ sudo lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2712 PCIe Bridge (rev 21) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 38
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
    Memory behind bridge: 80000000-800fffff [size=1M] [32-bit]
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] [64-bit]
    Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [ac] Express Root Port (Slot-), MSI 00
    Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
    Capabilities: [160] Virtual Channel
    Capabilities: [180] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0000 Rev=0 Len=028 <?>
    Capabilities: [240] L1 PM Substates
    Capabilities: [300] Secondary PCI Express
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport

0000:01:00.0 Serial controller: Nanjing Qinheng Microelectronics Co., Ltd. CH382L PCIe Parallel Port Adapter (rev 10) (prog-if 05 [16850])
    Subsystem: Nanjing Qinheng Microelectronics Co., Ltd. CH382L PCIe Parallel Port Adapter
    Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 38
    Memory at 1b80000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32K]
    Expansion ROM at 1b80008000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=32K]
    Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable+ 64bit+
    Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting


 

halType="float-ieee" matches REAL type

Cool board, is there IO on the board as well?
I see you have this in the ESI fileYou might have a mixup on names, ESI file says ENC2RPM is at 0x0006:03
They are also specified here as UINT32. And you say float (Ethercat REAL type).
This doesn't match.
Make the datatype REAL for this variable, read it as a float in the processor and as float-ieee in hal (gous into a float type hal variable)

On the main menu, there is something like "startup" in the "preferences" submenu, use that for autostarting LinuxCNC.
Desktop entries will not autostart.

WKS-3D wrote:

 By the way, I've always wanted to ask you, what's with the goat in the picture? 

The internet uses G.O.A.T for "Greatest of All Times", and this is where it absolutely makes sense as PCW is the Greatest of All Times for support of it's products.
Asking for new firmware and having it in use in a single day, that is ultimate support.

Thanks 'unknown'. However, the post that you link to was prior to the pi5 release. The Pi5 now has a dedicated pcie port that the pi4 did not have.
I could be and am likely wrong here. However, Because this parport card is recognized, I do believe this is a permissions issue. Or a vendor ID issue. I am hopeful that getting this parport to work would open the door for me to use a parport along side the GPIOs and expanded capabilities of the pi5.

My Linux skills are rusty and lacking at best. So again any help is appreciated.

Axis can be modified a lot, this is Axis modified for PlasmaC by PhillC
www.youtube.com/shorts/ciVcxrlmMIA
This is Axis with PyVCP modified by me for a Mazak lathe

Hi , I am also trying to retrofit with Simodrive. Could you share the INI and HAL files, as well as the electrical connection diagram between Simodrive and the boards? Thank you, M Domingues 

Hello everyone 
We are currently trying to retrofit an EMCO CNC lathe with Simodrive 611
We have the 7i97T + 7i84 board with the basic GUI Probe. 

Has anyone successfully configured this  and can send me the .ini and .hal files? for comparison. 
The Simodrive drives, even electrically, are not very clear in terms of connection, the drive enable connections (ENA0+, ENA0- GND, AOUT0). As we only have one analog input, we will try to connect GND and AOUT0. 
We are trying to find the software to access Simodrive, but we haven't been able.

If anyone has successfully done this and can share, we would appreciate it.
MDomingues

Hey thanks for such a speedy replys i had the orange block wired wrong.

meister
That's what I like, on my way later today.
Thx a ton
greez
chris

github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/issues/54

Hello all,

I’ve been using nativeCAM for several years on my milling machine and I’m really impressed. I’m currently converting a CNC lathe, and it was planned from the start that nativeCAM would be used there as well. On closer inspection of the Screenshots in this thread I’ve realized that the turning version doesn’t have a “polyline” feature. I could hardly believe that. This one amazing tool would make the software unbeatable! Polyline + G71 could program the most complex turning parts with just a few clicks in a minute and replace 90% of CAD/CAM.
Do i miss miss something, maybe there is a good reason. Are there no Lathe useres for nativeCAM?


greetings Tom 

At the end it was easier for me to compile a new bit file without the pwm/dir (I/O 07 PIN 17) and use it as a GPIO. It is working now.
Many thanks to you Peter!


Another question is about my "26 HDR" internal port of the 6i25 , I wanted to do my own encoder pcb but now I found a used 7I52S.
How to modify my vhd-file to do so and how should the cable from 26 HDR 6i25 to the 50 HDR 7I52S look like?
I don't now if I can use all functionality of the 7I52S but at least the 6 encoders and the rest filled with (stepper)outputs?
Should I open a new thread for this?

Oh wait, Ua0 / Ua0 is the index.

 

So you need them on Mesa pins 7 and 8, swapping Ua2 / Ua2 onto pin 1 and 2. It doesn't matter which way around the phases are connected