XHC-WHB04b-6 freeze in issue fixed !!

Dear Linuxcnc Friends,
the WHB04b-6 driver has a big issue, if you are in Automatic mode and a cnc program in running and you use the jog wheel, will be freeze in the WHB04b-6. That issue is a bug in the hal.cc ! Every move on the jog wheel try the driver to switch into the manual mode and the WHB04b-6 freeze in. I have fixed this issue with AI and compiled the driver new in the Version of Linuxcnc 2.9.10
The Driver works very well and in my Version is the maximum of Jogscale 0.1mm ( to much Jogscale is a crash risk )
You can download here the zip file, unpack and copy with sudo rights to your System in /usr/bin/
Dont forgett to set the rights for execute the files.

The fixed hal.cc is in the attachment, for the guys they want compile by himself.
Best regards
Reinhard 

 
 
Please rename the attachment hal.c to hal.cc

I made a diff with the latest hal.cc from Github and got a 43 kB patch...
Can you make a patch from your sources?
 

A better solution should be to submit your changes to LinuxCNC as a PR.

I've encountered this bug many times. Thanks for posting.

Hello Linuxcnc Friends,
i abused the WHB04b-6 with a bad behavior and i found some smal bugs again.
Here are now the final and stable version of the drivers for Linuxcnc 2.9.10 and the hal.cc for the guys they want compile by himself to use in other versions

Best Regards
Reinhard