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History of Mesa7i80 Driver For Linuxcnc On Xenomai
Installing the beta version of Hostmot2 driver for 7i80 board!! At this point tested only on realtek 8139 ethernet card, but should work the same with other support cards. Tests on other support cards will be soon. Supported boards by RTnet: Intel 8255x EtherExpress? Pro100 Intel PRO/1000 (Gigabit Ethernet) DEC 21x4x Tulip RealTek? RTL8139 RealTek? RTL8169 (Gigabit Ethernet) AMD PCnet32/PCnetPCI? VIA Rhine NatSemi? DP8381x MPC8xx (SCC and FEC Ethernet) MPC8260 (FCC Ethernet) MPC5200 SMSC LAN91C111 Required steps* installing the Xenomai realtime operating system * installing rtnet from source * fetching and compiling linuxcnc installing the Xenomai realtime operating systemFollow instructions on XenomaiKernelPackages to install Xenomai realtime kernel As of 07/01/2013 to build rtnet the kernel headers need to be installed $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.7-xenomai-2.6.2.1 and a symlink pointing to them in a 'build' directory $ sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.7-xenomai-2.6.2.1/ /lib/modules/3.5.7-xenomai-2.6.2.1/build installing rtnet from sourceDownload Rtnet source from git repository $ git clone git://rtnet.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/rtnet/rtnet rtnet-0.9.13 $ cd rtnet-0.9.13 Ncurses was also needed for the menuconfig (at least on 12.04) $ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev Configure: $ make menuconfig Make sure of this config changes --- Real-Time Extension ---> Variant (Xenomai 2.1 or better) --- RTnet Parameters ---> (/usr/rtnet) Installation Path of RTnet The hm2_eth driver assumes /usr/rtnet as installation path - adjust accordingly in the above menu. $ make $ sudo make install fetching and compiling linuxcncget source $ git clone git://git.linuxcnc.org/git/linuxcnc.git linuxcnc-rtnet $ cd linuxcnc-rtnet switch to linuxcnc under xenomai development branch $ git branch --track rtos-master-v0 origin/rtos-master-v0 $ git checkout rtos-master-v0 for 12.04 I needed these dependencies $ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libpth-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev tcl-dev tk-dev bwidget libreadline-dev python-tk python-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev libudev-dev libmodbus-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-serialization-dev libboost-thread-dev If apt-get cannot find libmodbus-dev and you don't need modbus, use the option --with-libmodbus=no when you run ./configure below patch it with upload: upload:hm2_7i80_support_on_rtos_merged_to_master.patch $ patch -p1 < hm2_7i80_support_on_rtos_merged_to_master.patch compile it $ cd src $ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure $ make edit linuxcnc-rtnet/scripts/start_net.sh --- on line 5 enter the rtnet module for the interface you are using for rtnet --- on line 7 enter IP address which your rteth0 interface will have --- on line 10 enter IP of your 7i80 board <comment - andypugh> I am not sure what the two different IP addresses are, but a 7i80 with W1 and W2 both down wants to be 192.168.1.121 To choose the driver module I looked in my modules list ( lsmod ) and found what my current, normal, ethernet driver was (e1000e in my case) and then chose the matching rtnet module (rt_e1000e) edit linuxcnc-rtnet/scripts/stop_net.sh --- on line 5 enter the rtnet module for the interface you are using for rtnet loading driverBefore run unload ethernet driver for board you will use with rtnet. If you have RealTek? RTL8139 board you must use command: $ sudo rmmod 8139too If you have Intel 8255x EtherExpress? Pro100 board you must use command: $ sudo rmmod e100 When you will load linuxcnc it will ask for root password Make sure that board ip address on start_net.sh will be the same as ip in loadrt line loadrt hostmot2 loadrt hm2_eth ip="192.168.0.2" config="num_encoders=0 num_pwmgens=0 num_stepgens=0" Rest of loading/operation is the same as with hm2_pci driver |
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The driver for Mesa ethernet cards in LinuxCNC 2.7 works with uspace realtime and regular linux kernel drivers (though not all network chipsets give acceptable performance). For current documentation, see http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man9/hm2_eth.9.html |