Originally Posted by
nash
Friends,
I bought a 4 axis CNC router from China with a Syntec controller. The controller is really a nice PC loaded with FreeDOS, a knock off of a geriatric OS (MS DOS). The machine was delivered with two CF Cards, and one USB drive. This actually put me in a tangent, it took time to figure out why the USB didn't work and why its drivers, which are loaded properly at boot time, failed to initialize! The bios of the controller computer has USB disabled. So I question, whats the use of that USB drive?
The only way I could use the machine was using the CF Cards. The CF cards are extremely delicate if popped in and out of inaccessible rear part of the controller panel. I changed the USER CF Card to a 1GB card from a 256MB card that was delivered as standard. Therefore, the only practical way to use the machine, for me was through the network.
After some teething issues, I've finally managed to connect my machine's syntec controller to a computer on the network. If there are many on the board who use Syntec and have not been able to use network access, I'll be happy to write a tutorial for you.
Warm greetings,
N