Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:18:00 +0000

Are both computers on the same subnet as the AIM? Do both have 1Gbit NICs, or is one 10Gbit?

Mark

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> On Mar 14, 2024, at 10:31 PM, Hank Ball via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> I've been working on building EPICS on a Debian 12 system with the latest releases of mca (7-10) and base (7.0.8).
> 
> I'm hoping someone can help me please with mca ethernet connection problem I'm having.
> 
> When I try to connect to a Canberra AIM 556 with nmcDemo I get this response:
> 
> root@debian:/home/hank/epics# nmcDemo enp2s0 0x205
> Using AIM-Module 205
> Calling nmc_initialize ...
> (nmc_initialize): waiting returned 1
> Calling nmc_build_enet_addr ...
> Calling nmc_findmod_by_addr ...
> 
> I get a similar result when using mcaAIM:
> 
> ......
> AIMConfig("AIM1/1", 0x205, 2, 512, 1, 1, "enp2s0")
> (nmc_initialize): waiting returned 1
> AIMConfig ERROR: cannot find module on the network!
> .......
> 
> It may be helpful to add that mcaAmptekApp does work correctly and communicates fine with an Amptek DP5.
> 
> As evidence that the AIM 556 is working, I have an older system running Debian 9 and built with base-3.14.12.4 and mcaR7-6 that has no problems with either nmcDemo or mcaAIM.  (This computer has a different ethernet interface name, enp3s0 vs enp2s0.)
> 
> root@lab1:/home/hank/epics# nmcDemo enp3s0 0x205
> Using AIM-Module 205
> Calling nmc_initialize ...
> Calling nmc_build_enet_addr ...
> Calling nmc_findmod_by_addr ...
> Calling nmc_buymodule ...
> Calling nmc_show_modules ...
> Module     Type  HW rev.  FW rev.  Owner name      Owner ID Status      Memory size Free address
> NI00801c    1       2        7                 00:00:00:00:00:00 Reachable     262140      00000000
> NI000205    1       0        6       lab1      90:2B:34:13:12:C0 Reachable     261116      00000000
> Calling nmc_addeventsem ...
> Calling nmc_acqu_setup ...
> Calling nmc_acqu_setstate(0) ...
> Calling nmc_acqu_erase ...
> Calling nmc_acqu_setelapsed ...
> Calling nmc_setstate(1) ...
> Waiting for event flag or timeout.  Should complete in 10 seconds.
> Calling nmc_statusupdate ...
> Calling nmc_acqu_getmemory_cmp ...
> Time for nmc_acqu_getmemory_cmp = 0.071970
> Calling nmc_acqu_getmemory ...
> Time for nmc_acqu_getmemory = 0.191984
> Total counts were 0; Real time = 10.00, Live time=9.99
> Calling nmc_freemodule ...
> Calling nmc_show_modules ...
> Module     Type  HW rev.  FW rev.  Owner name      Owner ID Status      Memory size Free address
> NI00801c    1       2        7                 00:00:00:00:00:00 Reachable     262140      00000000
> NI000205    1       0        6                 00:00:00:00:00:00 Reachable     261116      00000000
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> 
> Hank
> 
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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