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OK, add as PCW said for you Intel NIC, save and reboot, see if it works with Mesa, double check with ip a and ping.

/etc/network/interfaces has just

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

everything else I did outcomment for the moment, but I need to have the better performance for the intel card

What do you have now in etc/network/interfaces ?

No more Mach3!
You have to stop thinking about mach3 and how it does things, this is a whole new world with LinuxCNC.
BOB is a break out board used for parallel port to machine interfacing, cheap at ~10-15$ and it offers a bit of protection for the GPIO on the controller.
Up to a certain point, the SmoothStepper is similar to Mesa 7i96S, in that they both take commands from the machine controller or in this case the PC and send steps to motor drives, but it ends there as how they do the same thing differs a lot, mainly Mesa has usually 1ms response time (can be even faster) while smoothie will take quite a while to actually stop when commanded to stop due to buffering and ....
To put it simply, you can control happily an 16 ton machine with LinuxCNC for years on end 24/7/365, you can not do that with mach3...well you can but it ends up in tears and smoke and loss of will to live!

So, my last actions today summarized:
I deleted all wired connections.
I triet to find out which connection goes to what hardware. Cable put out from the MESA card, eno1 is definitely the internal Intel card, ip a shows "no carrier" on eno1, so that is quite clear and how I want it. eno1 has had much better pings when I did the sudo ethtool -C eno1 rx-usecs 0.
Confusion about that resolved.

enp2s0 is the RLT8111 card. I want to get Internet over this connection.
this means, I have to do what?

Q: Further configuration only in the etc/network/interfaces? Not in the network manager? Seems to be quite more complex to do all settings just in the /interfaces file. (newbie in Linux)  I can't find the doc where either/or is defined.

Confusion exists further about this:
Mesa Card has 10.10.10.10, Intel 82579LM card has 10.10.10.2    What is 10.10.10.1?

Suggestion in this thread was:
"auto eno1
       iface eno1 inet static
           address 10.10.10.2
           hardware-irq-coalesce-rx-usecs 0"

Suggestion in the google doc from PCW is:
"sudo geany /etc/network/interfaces

to append the following at the end of the file:

     auto enp2s0iface
          enp2s0 inet staticaddress 10.10.10.1 
         hardware-irq-coalesce-rx-usecs 0 
       Note, the last line is only required for Intel network cards."
Q: Besides the other connection enp2s0, what is the right configuration - 10.10.10.2 or .1 ?

Q: Do I need to have the loop in /interfaces to 127.0.0.1?

Thanks for any answers!
 
 

Hello Gentlemen,

I have encountered an issue with my installation of EasyProbe. After installation, I have taken care of all errors and was able to start LinuxCNC and when I go to calibrate the probe, I get the following error: Named Parameter #<_ini[probe]vel_fast> not defined

I know that vel_fast was a variable copied directly from the installation instructions and placed into the ini file.  Any help pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

-Sean
LinuxCNC ver: 2.8.4

@all

how do you implement differential signals?
i wanted to try it now with the AM26LS32, there are also some from MAX but they are extremely expensive

Hi,

I try to install the latest version of LinuxCNC on Debian Bookworm using the 'Debian 12 bookworm PREEMPT-MT ISO' from the web site. (LinuxCNC=2.9.3, linux image-rt. Build 2024-07-21 21:05:42, live build 20230502)

I have the ISO on an USB drive and can boot from it. Running live (amd64) is without any problems, I can run LinuxCNC and its test tools for latency testing.
Max jitter on servo thread/base thread is around 10000/20000. I should be able to use LinuxCNC on this machine (I think).

When I boot and select 'start installer' I run into problems.
During the boot, before entering the graphics screen I see lines like
moud: mounting /dev/sda on /media failed: Invalid argument
umout: can't unmount /media: Invalid argument.

Other devices that I see are /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda5 before the graphics screen removes is all and takes over the screen.

In the past I was able to install Debian 10 on this machine (still on it but can't use it at the moment), I don't think it is a hardware problem.

I tried several USB slots to see if it makes any difference, but all fails.

Does anybody have a suggestion how to fix this?

Kind regards

Yes, they do! As do VFD's. 

tommylight wrote:

Mesa 7i96S can do 10 axis just by adding a simple BOB (it can do without BOB, but wiring must be careful).
If you do not need much input/output pins, go for that one, later you can add whatever you might need, like 7i85S or 7i84 or even analog servo drives with 7i83.
 

Hi..thanks for reply....I am not really clear about exactly I will need so this looks like a good start that sets up for anything in future..some of what is foggy at this time is the difference between mach 3 and lcnc...obviously 9 axis are available in lcnc and not mach 3 but also different board is needed to match up  right?...then is BOB an extension of 7i96s? as opposed to mach3 goes to BOB first ,then ESS?...Thanks!!,

Rick

Anyone against deleting this topic?

Plasma makes a lot of noise...
And so do servo drives, but not nearly as much as plasma cutters.

new toy

   

www.amazon.de/dp/B07SSL1G18?psc=1&ref=pp...dt_b_product_details

works like a rotary-encoder, i think it should work in RIO

I thought so but not sure how that maps to A+ and B+

In case anyone needs it, here is the current link to the product:
aliexpress.ru/item/1005007328938566.html

And also attached the archive with documentation I found:
www.gzyanwei.com/upload/Files/2022/11/21/Ecat-IO_V2.zip

This board has one input for the encoder and two inputs for counters. The first input will definitely be occupied by the spindle. Do you think it is possible to use the counter input for the MPG?