Help - 18 y/o bought 3040cnc

I am using a pci-e parrel port card. Is that a problem like with drivers? I know the card came with a driver CD, but I know in windows I can use device manager for drivers, but what about in linux?????? Or do i not need drivers.

Ok. So I downloaded the .iso, and on YT people say you need the board pin out.

Well, I opened up the controller box and I have a JP-382C board.

What is the pin out I tell linux CNC to use.

What is the Step Time, Step Space, I should use? Defaults of 5050, 5050, 500, 500 sound good ??


Also, I heard I need to know stuff about the leadscrew pitch and pulley teeth value. Anyone know those values for the 3040 cnc. If you dont, thats ok, I'll try and guess with calipers.

Yeah wait I forgot. It came with a rotary - A axis. So what pin would go to that, thx...

Do you have LinuxCNC installed and working OR do you have LinuxCNC downloaded and written to a USB flash drive and can boot the PC from it?
If you can boot Linux, open a terminal and type
sudo lspci -v
then look for parallel port or parport in the results, if it is there, you can continue to setting up the machine.
Timings should be 5000 for step and 20000 for direction .

ok this was the result. also i had to git the stuff cause somehow that didnt come with debian.
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04:00.0 Parallel controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd Device c110 (prog-if 02 [ECP])
Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd Device c110
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at d010
I/O ports at d000
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Device Serial Number 00-30-e0-11-11-00-01-10
Capabilities: [110] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: parport_pc
Kernel modules: parport_pc
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one of my big questions is does anyone know the pin diagram for the JP-382C board thanks

www.cnczone.com/forums/general-cnc-machi...96-cnc-software.html
Seems like a standard pinout, if it works with parallel port.

Not here.

You should be able to find that out from an existing Mach config or google a bit harder.

for the parport base adress, in terminal when I run the hardware discover command, I get

I/O ports at d010
I/O ports at d000

Should I type in 0xd010 in stepconf. I need the 0x part right, or just d010. Thanks

EDIT: never mind got linux cnc working. At first, the motors just went brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, but no moving. Had to invert the axis and now it moves.... yay!