Ethercat installation from repositories - how to step by step

Not all Beckhoff modules are supported
You need to include them in your xml ref: github.com/sittner/linuxcnc-ethercat/blo...oe/ethercat-conf.xml
They should show with ethercat slaves
Have a browse on that repository and the source and you will see the supported drivers
Any further issues, please raise a seperate thread. 

hello,

all KL modules for ethercat can not work because they are in different comm standard - Kbus... from beckhoff from early days.. You have to use modules which starting with letter "E" - sortcut from ethercat ... they only will work for you.... check sascha´s github, which rod hooked up here for you above

regards Slav

Thanks.

Hello everyone, Hi Rodw

Many thanks for this thread, however i'm noob in C and all programming language. Can someone help me fixing Panasonic A6B Absolute servo with ethercat?

Here i tried to install Debian 12.1 and tried following instructions on this thread. Pl Pardon my stupidity. I'm getting below error when i try to install ethercat


sudo apt-get install linuxcnc-ethercat
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linuxcnc-ethercat : Depends: libethercat (>= 1.5.2.309.gc8a512a) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


 

marq_torque wrote:

Hello everyone, Hi Rodw

Many thanks for this thread, however i'm noob in C and all programming language. Can someone help me fixing Panasonic A6B Absolute servo with ethercat?

Here i tried to install Debian 12.1 and tried following instructions on this thread. Pl Pardon my stupidity. I'm getting below error when i try to install ethercat


sudo apt-get install linuxcnc-ethercat
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linuxcnc-ethercat : Depends: libethercat (>= 1.5.2.309.gc8a512a) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.



 

I think lib-ethercat is a dkms module. dkms must be enrolled in uefi or nothing will install. Please read the first post about this.

Previous installation was on Lenovo Thinkpad Laptop it looks whimsical in bios, so now installing on Gigabyte H61, I'm installing from scratch on intel i3 now stuck at

The repository 'cdrom://[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 12.1.0 xfce 2023-07-22T09:48:34Z] bookworm Release' does not have a Release file.,

marq_torque wrote:

Previous installation was on Lenovo Thinkpad Laptop it looks whimsical in bios, so now installing on Gigabyte H61, I'm installing from scratch on intel i3 now stuck at

The repository 'cdrom://[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 12.1.0 xfce 2023-07-22T09:48:34Z] bookworm Release' does not have a Release file.,

One post per problem. I have already replied elsewhere.

Hi Rod, Thank you so much for all of your effort putting together and updating tutorials... For the google drive link to your Linuxcnc live installer (with required third party repositories pre installed) in the "Ethercat installation from repositories - how to step by step" thread, the link appears to be down (says that the iso is in your trash). Is this the same iso in the index (linuxcnc.org/iso/)? Thanks again, - Sevan

Hello Rodw,

Pardon my multiple posts... I started fresh install on i3 H61 UEFI Motherboard, Debian 12, 6.3 Kernel

This first step "sudo apt install ethercat-master libethercat-dev linuxcnc-ethercat" is throwing below errors

[sudo] password for vcam:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ethercat-master
E: Unable to locate package libethercat-dev
E: Unable to locate package linuxcnc-ethercat

did you do
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade?

Did you install with my ISO in the first post? If not you will need to set up the repos manually per the spoiler