If I got it correct a sales person said there new modern drives could be 
equipped with a cheap modbus module so it might still be useful even though it 
is an protocol.

> The wiki for this is out of date.  
> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ModIO
> 
> First of course the folder linkages should now read linuxcnc rather than EMC2.
> 
> Also the document states:
> 
> Both Driver Directories Need
>     modbus.c 
>     modbus.h 
>     findbindir 
>     find-libdir 
>     find-modinc
> 
> But the linked folders to download these are either broken or wrong.
> 
> The driver code homann_modio.c is also missing LCD support so that needs to 
> be finished.
> 
> Since I have a ModIO, an MPG Encoder wheel and a cheap 4x20 line display 
> somewhere on route from China I'd like to take a stab at making it work on 
> LinuxCNC. 
> 
> Clearly the make files also need to be edited to fix path and filenames like:
>     emc/usr_intf/axis emc/usr_intf/touchy emc/usr_intf/stepconf 
> emc/usr_intf/pncconf \
> 
> Or has this all been done already by someone?
> 
> Thanks
> John


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