New User problems...Linuxcnc terminated with an error

Yes, that firmware is ancient:UNIT = 1A000005 means its the 5th
7I76E ever made and probably has never had its firmware updated,
the "hm2/hm2_7i76e.0: Smart Serial Firmware Version 42" does date from 2014 or so.

PCW wrote:

Yes, that firmware is ancient:UNIT = 1A000005 means its the 5th

 

For a long time I thought about what these numbers mean. Now i know I have number 2.
Who has number 1? 
 

Thanks again for your help everyone.

I suspected the 1A000005 might have been important...
How do I find and install the new firmware?
I assume there is a mesaflash function that writes it to the card?

I have also aquired a pcie wireless lan card to replace my usb wifi. Hopefully it might help with my networking issues. I will have a play after work.
Cheers,
Simon : )
 

Actually you have # 43 (0x2b hex)

2B | /2B?

Yes, you fetch 7i67e.zip from Mesa and extract 7i76e_7i76x1D.bit
from the configs/hostmot2 directory. Then from the local directory containing
7i76e_7i76x1D.bit, you run:

mesaflash --device 7i76e --addr 10.10.10.10 --write 7i76e_7i76x1D.bit

and then either power cycle the card or run:

mesaflash --device 7i76e --addr 10.10.10.10 --reload

Bingo! That went like clockwork.
Now all there is to do is everything...
Thanks so much for your time everyone : )
(I'm sure you will hear from me again)

Simon wrote:

I can now connect with mesaflash using 10.10.10.10. I wonder if my problems might be coming from Wicd network

Yes, very possibly. I suggest expunging it and installing "nm-tray" which will bring in network-manager to replace it. As soon as I did that on my test PC it started working with 7i80 and Widi siultaneously, which had previously been impossible.

But, linuxcnc is still not loading...I did just notice the line: "Note: Using POSIX realtime"
is this my problem? Does it need to be preemp rt kernel for the 7i76e?

POSIX realtime is good, that means that you are running the preempt-rt kernel.

Other options are POSIX non-realtime (standard kernel) and LXRT realtime (user-space realtime with an RTAI or Xenomai kernel. If you are running RTAI in kernel mode then there is no message at all.