Ethercat HAL driver

Hello Robert,

why is your EM7004 not working?

This has been the first module that ever works.... For using an EM7004, linuxcnc-ethercat has been born.....

I believe lightning hit the power line... as it and the PLC that I bought were both no good....  

I have plenty of other setups using EL4132's, but wanted to use the EM7004 for one of our 4 axis mills for a nice compact setup.  Yeah I have always wanted one and too bad the very one that I bought was non-functioning....   Plus the loss of money on non-working unit.

 

I think it doesn't reach the op state.

When I try to start Linuxcnc with my configuration, I get the following error messages:
lcec_conf: ERROR: unexpected node syncmanager found
lcec_conf: ERROR: Parse error at line 4: parsing aborted
/usr/share/linuxcnc/hallib/ethercat.hal:1: waitpid failed lcec_conf lcec_conf
/usr/share/linuxcnc/hallib/ethercat.hal:1: lcec_conf exited without becoming ready

After that lcnc is shutting down.
I attached my .ini, my ethercat.hal and my ethercat-config.xml

I hope you can find what I am missing here (I am new to linux, linuxcnc and HAL)
best regards
Antonio

 

Hello,

-"syncmanager" hast to be "syncManager" ( M)

-as haltypes only exists (float, bit, u32, s32) you have to change this
uint = u32, int = s32

-at this stage for getting ethercat communication to work, your hal file works.
but for motion etc. it will not. search in this thread for "execution order" i have explained this a few times...

Okay, so if I got u right, I need to do your suggested changes in my ethercat-conf.xml.
But if UINT=u32 int=s32, what about DINT and SINT?
I guess that they are not float, but are they bit?