When I make updates to the Config.txt causes Azteeg X5 mini v3 not to boot. If I put the original sample Config.txt for this board back on the SD card it does boot. Any idea what is going on here?
One example is if I turn this line’s value from false to true the Azteeg wont boot up.
network.enable false # enable the ethernet network services
Thanks
Imported from wikidot
is it only this line, or do others do it so ? If yes, please tell us the other lines. Do some lines not cause the problem ? What software are you using to edit the file ?
Changes to other lines we causing it not to boot also; however on this sample line it appears to be the white space in between the 160 and the # character causing the issue:
alpha_steps_per_mm 160 # Steps per mm for alpha stepper
I solved that issue by copying the white space from an unchanged line to any line I updated a value. I am using Notepad++, I also tried using plain old notepad and got similar results.
So I don’t know why the white space is causing an issue, however I was able to successfully update all the values I need, except for the network enable line. This on still causes it not to boot when set to true.
network.enable true # enable the ethernet network services
The documentation says in like 7 different places NOT TO USE NOTEPAD++
*PLEASE* read the documentation before asking for help. Window’s default notepad isn’t a proper text editor either ( though I think they recently said they were going to fix that. can’t wait ).
Please try again with a completely fresh config file, and Gedit ( see documentation )
i have the same issue time and time again.
Some times cutting and pasting the whole new config and pasting it in a new file fixes it.
There seems to be no syntax check at boot up, if you have one single character wrong, will cause a no boot issue.
There is absolutely syntax check at boot up ( which is why it won’t boot up if there is a syntax problem, leading to the user checking the last change they did ), there is just no error messages because at boot the board can’t talk to anything yet, and the USB/MSD definitions don’t allow us to both access the SD card from the PC, and have a log file. This will be fixed in v2 ( with months worth of work ).
About this issue, if you search the forums you’ll see that this is very rare, and as far as I know can be tracked down in most cases to just not using the recommended editor.
All is working now. Thanks arthurwolf.
Awesome jjlink.
See Lukas ?
There is one oddity which maybe with the Azteeg X5 mini WiFi. Setting the network.enable to true still causes the unit not to boot. This is after successfully configuring the WiFi network using the panucatt specific instructions. So I took out the SD card and disabled the network, and now it boots and the WiFi network is active and working with the ESP3D for Smoothieware. Also from the command prompt, I give it the “NET” command and it says “No network detected” even though it is working.
This sounds just like the azteeg documentation failed you : “network” in the config refers to the ethernet interface on a smoothieboard. if you don’t have that interface and try to enable it, the board will crash. the wifi thing you have on-board isn’t really a network interface, it’s more a very miniaturized computer that talks to the smoothieboard over serial, and to your computer over wifi. it’s not the same thing as what the configuration means by “network”.
Cool, Thanks!