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General Mach Discussion / Re: Setting up a second parallel port card - NetMOS Nm 9805CV

« on: June 03, 2009, 11:51:28 AM »

The ITT 877  card has a driver that i used. It works great.

The port number on the netmos card was something like EC8F. 
Both cards on the packaging claim they are legacy cards.

I don't buy the driver answer. All cards have drivers, some are just pre-loaded into windows Xp..

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: June 02, 2009, 10:02:16 PM »

Hi everyone, I am based in Bedminster NJ

I am building a 6 axis robot out of printed plastic parts.
Here is my progress so far.  It works really well. Thanks for all the help!

http://www.alvarogil.com/cadcam/robot/index.html

It just came alive today, But in the upcoming weeks we will program it using Robotmaster inside of Mastercam.

Al

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Setting up a second parallel port card - NetMOS Nm 9805CV

« on: June 02, 2009, 08:20:40 PM »

I spent an entire day troubleshooting the card. I'm convinced its a bug in Mach3 that does not let it adress high port numbers.

I replaced it with a 15$ ITE 887x chipset card  and had it working in 3 minutes.  

Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Setting up a second parallel port card - NetMOS Nm 9805CV

« on: June 01, 2009, 07:19:05 PM »

Hi All,

I'm having trouble setting up my second parallel port card. It is a StarTech PCI1P_LP
Mach3 wont work with it at all, there is no signal to the charge pump on it and im dead in the water.  I have Two gecko 540s. One is working great, its plugged into the onboard port. The other I cannot seem to get running.

I searched and searched, installed the drivers from the netmos site, tripple checked my base adresses etc.. 

What can I do?  Is there a known working card I can buy?  I dont care if it costs over 100$, I need something that works.

Al