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Note these are early testing procedures, not used anymore. To use 7i76 and 7i77 with PNCconf look here:

www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/compo...ew&catid=39&id=20043
other then that feel free to read the thread - its just a little out of date.
Chris M

I have added support for the 5i25 with 7i76 firmware to the very latest 2.5 (as of tonight)
the only thing lacking is support for the spindle control and any mode besides mode 0

I don't have this card to test with so at the moment it is experimental.
If anyone who has this card is willing to spend an hour playing and giving feed back that would be great.

You must add a folder to your desktop for pncconf to read the 5i25 firmware from.
please un-zip the folder in your desktop.

when you start pncconf you should be able to select the 5i25.

on the mesa config page page you must make sure to add the sserial components
you must select the 7i76 card for sserial 0 and 2 ( I think - it could be 1 and 3 not sure)
The unused sserial is for adding sserial daughter boards to the 7i76 - I'm guessing sserial0 is used for the 7i76 and sserial1 is for expansion etc.

actually you should be able to deselect half the sserial components if you only have one 7i76.

the stepper tune test should work fine with the 5i25 / 7i76.

I am on holiday but will check here from time to time to help out if needed.

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Chris,

I'll test it out as soon as I get wireless connectivity back again and can pull the latest. I'm not sure but I think I pulled yesterday on that machine when I added the Polish Docs for micges. I have to use dialup from a winblows computer when the wireless goes down...

John

Sounds great John!

I remember dial up connections - a shiver runs down my back....

I'm getting an error and don't see the 5i25 in the drop down list.

john@D525:~/emc2-dev$ . ./scripts/emc-environment
john@D525:~/emc2-dev$ pncconf
/home/john/emc2-dev/bin/pncconf:3700: Warning: g_path_get_dirname: assertion `file_name != NULL' failed
self.xml = gtk.glade.xml_new_from_buffer(doc, len(doc), domain="axis")
/home/john/emc2-dev/bin/pncconf:3700: GtkWarning: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file: assertion `filename != NULL' failed
self.xml = gtk.glade.xml_new_from_buffer(doc, len(doc), domain="axis")
/home/john/emc2-dev/bin/pncconf:3700: Warning: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
self.xml = gtk.glade.xml_new_from_buffer(doc, len(doc), domain="axis")
john@D525:~/emc2-dev$ pncconf
/home/john/emc2-dev/bin/pncconf:3700: Warning: g_path_get_dirname: assertion `file_name != NULL' failed
self.xml = gtk.glade.xml_new_from_buffer(doc, len(doc), domain="axis")
/home/john/emc2-dev/bin/pncconf:3700: GtkWarning: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file: assertion `filename != NULL' failed
self.xml = gtk.glade.xml_new_from_buffer(doc, len(doc), domain="axis")
/home/john/emc2-dev/bin/pncconf:3700: Warning: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
self.xml = gtk.glade.xml_new_from_buffer(doc, len(doc), domain="axis")

Am I supposed to run from my home directory or something?

John

That didn't work either... just to recap I have the custom_firmware folder on my desktop so pwd returns /home/john/Desktop/custom_firmware

John

I went nuts and went for a gladevcp panel too and got this error.

Starting EMC2...
INFO CLASSICLADDER- No ladder GUI requested-Realtime runs till HAL closes.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/john/emc2-dev/bin/gladevcp", line 44, in <module>
import gladevcp.makepins
File "/home/john/emc2-dev/lib/python/gladevcp/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from hal_pythonplugin import *
File "/home/john/emc2-dev/lib/python/gladevcp/hal_pythonplugin.py", line 17, in <module>
from hal_gremlin import HAL_Gremlin
File "/home/john/emc2-dev/lib/python/gladevcp/hal_gremlin.py", line 21, in <module>
import gremlin
File "/home/john/emc2-dev/lib/python/gremlin.py", line 4, in <module>
import gtk.gtkgl.widget
ImportError: No module named gtkgl.widget
<commandline>:0: gladevcp exited without becoming ready
Embeded tab command "halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp gladevcp -c gladevcp -H gvcp_call_list.hal -x 62915044 gvcp-panel.ui" exited with error: 1
Shutting down and cleaning up EMC2...
Running HAL shutdown script
Cleanup done

The 5i25 part seemed to work...

John

Hi John

That seems like a gladevcp problem not a pncconf problem.
Are you using 8.04?
Can you use gladevcp without pncconf?
Did you try stepper tests?
Thanksfor testing.
Chris M

I'm using 10.04 and I've not tried to use gladevcp yet. I saw it there and thought I'd give it a try. I guess I'm missing something that gladevcp needs. Have you seen the latest page on the wiki about gladevcp? You might want to make a note that additional packages might be needed to run gladevcp.

wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?GladeVcp

I'll try the stepper tests here in a bit and report back.

John

I should be getting a set of boards shortly. I will let you know how i make out.

Thanks
JP

I have a set of 5i25 and 7i76 coming soon for my CNC lathe conversion. I'll be testing them out one way or another, so I'll make sure to relay my experiences and tests carefully.

-Sam