Category: Computers and Hardware
Greetings everyone, I am starting a retrofit on an older maho MH800E following some of RotarySMP's documentation. I have purchased quite a few mesa cards (5i25 w/7177, 7i74, 7i73, and 7i84) I am just trying to get familiar with all of this stuff as I have never done a linuxcnc project before. I am good with wiring and I know enough about programming stuff but I am having a hard time getting the computer to talk with the 7i77. it appears to be seeing the 5i25 just not anything else. I bought the kit of both 5i25 and 7i77 so I assumed the firmware would be the right one but I have read elsewhere this may not be the case so possibly need to get some new firmware installed. I could also be doing the config wrong as I was a bit confused when it was asking about the 2x7i77 with one 7i77 that is what I picked. and before that it asked about parports I assumed it was asking if I was going to use a combination of parallel ports with the mesa cards? it could be referring to the ports on the 5i25 but again I was unfamiliar with this stuff. Any tips or suggestions would be very helpful
