[Emc-users] Re: Univstepmod won't load - BDI 4.20

[Doug G. <dg...@co...>]

When EMC starts up, the following error message displays:

FATAL: Error inserting univstepmod 
(/lib/modules/2.6.10-adeos/extra/univstepmod.ko):  Operation not permitted
Can't install univstepmod

Looking at Dmesg:
(Everything fine with EMC startup)
.......
Finished configuring emcmotStruct
ppmc_encoder could not find an encoder module at IEEE-1284 address 0x 0
can't initialize motion hardware
........
(close everything and go away)

I'm wondering if this might be an issue with the parallel port on this 
Dell notebook.  This is a Latitude D800.  Looking at the BIOS settings 
for the parallel port, the default is ECP.  I also tried Bi-Directional, 
but same results.
I can swap the parallel interface cable back to my RH9 EMC computer and 
all starts up correctly.

Paul, you said this:
"Be warned, even if the module does load, you are missing the ppmc 
iocontroller - Without it, I don't think it will come out of E-stop..It 
is in the next release, and a short test at the recent codeFest 
demonstrated it worked."

Are you referring to the USC?

Doug