7i96, LinuxCNC

Welcome to my attempt to gather all the needed information for a succesful deployment of LinuxCNC and a Mesa 7i96 card

Auto login

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/398880/remove-user-and-password-at-login-in-debian-9-stretch

Auto start X11VNC

http://nexsniper.blogspot.com/2017/06/enable-autostart-for-x11vnc.html

Cheap Wifi dongle

https://github.com/art567/mt7601usta

Autostart module: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-how-to-load-a-kernel-module-automatically-at-boot-time/

add a line to /etc/modules for your module (without .ko)
copy the module file to 

~~/lib/modules/~~

/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/):

sudo depmod -a

Bijna niet te geloven dit, maar echt waar (geldt voor Debian 9): https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg01045.html

ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link

This will prevent systemd to create the long network interfaces names. It seems some firmwares don't play well with them. You must unplug-plug the USB dongle (or restart of it is internal).