Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC BDI 2.20 Questions

reed_irion wrote:

>I have installed the BDI 2.20 CD, but there are some issues. The
>simulation mode appears to work fine. When I try to run it in a mode
>with steppermod.o (or any of the non-simulation drivers) I get (in
>the terminal):
>
>Current platform is linux_2_2_18
>Current real-time platform is rtlinux_3_0
>inivar = plat/linux_2_2_18/bin/inivar
>INIFILE = G1008.ini
>RS274NGC_PARAMFILE = G1008.var
>starting emc...
>Removing module steppermod
>rmmod: module steppermod is not loaded
>
>At this point it hangs for quite a few minutes.
>Eventually it coughs up:
>
>/sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.18-rt13.0/misc/rtl.o
>/sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.18-rt13.0/misc/mbuff.o
>/sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.18-rt13.0/misc/rtl_time.o
>/sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.18-rt13.0/misc/rtl_sched.o
>/sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.18-rt13.0/misc/rtl_posixio.o
>/sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/2.2.18-rt13.0/misc/rtl_fifo.o
>starting EMC MOTION PROGRAM -- steppermod.o...done
>starting EMC IO PROGRAM -- bridgeportio...done
>Version: 1.17
>Machine: Fugly Alien
>[EMC} IO_BASE_ADDRESS not found in G1008.ini; using default 278
>inispin Index = 3
>
>And then it comes up with tkEMC and apperas to work, though I have
>not verified that signals are coming out of the parallel port.
>
>So why is does it say it is removing Steppermod ?
>

Because it will be unable to install ANOTHER copy of steppermod.o
with the same name, it always tries to remove any old copies still
installed from a previous crash or abort. (Not that this happens much
except to developers.)

Jon