Start PathPilot without a Mesa card connected

If you have a PCI driven 7i76 is there a way anyone has used to achieve a similar approach to this ping?  Maybe some halcmds that if fail can return a fail value that bash could use?

Cheers - J.

forum.linuxcnc.org/pathpilot/30222-setti...rt-3?start=70#206316

Gerrit

Thanks for these instructions, have made them but PP 2.0.0 does not boot without giving the "No ethernet link detected. check cabling between controller and machine." My original PC for my PCNC 1100-3 died, it used the PCIe mesa card, have switched to a small form factor Intel based PC and imaged the drive with my install/upgrade thumb drive but when I got it Tormach was on PP 2.0.0. With the new Ethernet based MESA 7i92T card I need to update PP before it can work with the newer card, but I can't get it to the PP GUI to do the update. Any ideas how to force it past the above error, note plugging in the card to the Ethernet port (direct) changes the behavior to display a indication that the card FW has been updated then reboots, this keeps happening with no sign of the PP UI. Not sure I am in the right files/folders for the above changes the files I tried modifying are in ~/tmc/configs/ with my selected mill type. the .bashrc file is in ~ directory.

You could order another thumb drive and request one with the latest PathPilot already on it. Dunno if they'd do it. The last one I ordered had 2.8.3 installed, but that was a while ago.