7I92TH Help

I managed to grenade my 7i92H board. I just received a replacement 7i92TH. I am running Linuxcnc 2.8.0 Debian buster. I tried to update Mesaflash using the steps at the bottom of the GitHub page, and get errors on every step. If I try apt-get install mesaflash, it says I am up to date with 3.4.0. 

What would be the best way to update mesaflash so I can flash the new board?

I am still cutting my teeth on Linux, but I can usually figure things out eventually.

Would I be better off just fresh installing a newer version of linuxcnc?  

Thank you in advance!!

Ken
 

Moved to "driver boards".

What errors do you get when you attempt to build mesaflash from source?

The first step returns "E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?"

The second returns "bash: git: command not found"

Is it possible you have the package manager open?

askubuntu.com/questions/1109982/e-could-...1-resource-temporari

Yes it was.

Now it returns "
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package pkg-config is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Unable to locate package libpci-dev
E: Unable to locate package libmd-dev
E: Package 'pkg-config' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package build-essential
E: Unable to locate package git

You might try:

sudo apt-get update

first.

Also, what does

uname -a

report?

 

ken@X3MesaCNC:/$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for ken:
Ign:1 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 10 _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20201002-19:09] buster InRelease
Err:2 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 10 _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20201002-19:09] buster Release
Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Hit:3 www.linuxcnc.org buster InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 10 _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20201002-19:09] buster Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure( manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Weird, it sounds like you don't have network access

uname -a returns:
Linux X3MesaCNC 4.19.0-11-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.19.146-1 (2020-09-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is it possible my hard drive looks like a live CD?

I burned a usb stick with 2.8.4 last night, maybe it would be best to start over?