EMC configuration?

Hi

Apologies if this has been asked before (I am sure it has), but I need
some help to start me off configuring EMC to work with my desktop CNC
machine.

Briefly what I have achieved so far:
I installed BDI-4.29 successfully and I can start EMC without any
problems, but my machine does not move at all. (It works fine under
DOS, I use a German programme called "PC-NC", and all worked straight
out of the box)

I think the next step now is to edit the generic.ini file in
/usr/local/emc to reflect my particular machine.

To begin with, the machine does not move at all. My guess is that the
pins of my particular stepper controller differ from what EMC uses, is
that possible? My controller card is called SMC1500.

I found somebody who claims on his website
(http://www.no-scene.de/index/cnc_linux/default/index.html) that pins
2/3 4/5 and 6/7 (respective for each axis clock and direction signal)
have to be swapped for my controller (a German website, he built a CNC
machine using the same controller card, and he drives it with EMC). On
this forum somebody had a
similar problem, that clock and direction for his controller were
different to what EMC uses. He was told to solder a converter, and one
reply announced that there will be a patch that allows setting these
pins in the configuration for EMC.

I could not find this patch, and I tried to solder a cable that swaps
the mentioned pins, but my machine still does not move at all.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Martin

(I am a computer programmer, I work with a colleague on CAM
algorithms, check out our work so far on www.freesteel.co.uk. Follow
the link to the blog and you should find pics of the machine I want to
use via EMC)