Ethercat HAL driver

Hello Billie

Have you downloaded the etherlabmaster-dev from

repo.modusoft.de/linuxcnc/wheezy/

as described in the EtherCatDriver documentation

wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EtherCatDriver

in the Building section?

Allan

Hi Allen,

Thanks for the tip, that seemed to be the problem.
I got that working now, only I can't seem to find any ethercat slaves.

When I load a template config in my Linuxcnc program I get this error:
I'll add my config templates.

Hello Billie

In the EtherCatDriver documentation

wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EtherCatDriver

in the Building section have you cloned and made
the driver?:

If you like to build the driver by you own, you could just clone the git

# git clone github.com/sittner/linuxcnc-ethercat.git linuxcnc-ethercat
# cd linuxcnc-ethercat
and do a

# make
and
# sudo make install

Allan

Dear Allan,

Seems like the Ethercat driver is working now, I can find my Ethercat slaves.
Still can't connect to my drive tho. When issuing the 'show pins ethercat' it gives back 0 pins.
Guess it's a problem in my xml or hal file but I followed the tutorial exactly as described.

Hello Billie

I noticed that the XML file you attached to your post on 14 March does not contain a <masters> </masters> entry whereas the XML file attached to your post on 9 March does. The current version Ethercat HAL driver produces errors if the <masters> </masters> is omitted.

Are any errors generated?

Allan

really？thank you for all . i will do something like with you and control one servo driver with ethercat.
i encounter some questions :
while i try to start linuxcnc ,there are two errors:
1.failed to set SAFEOP state,slave refused the state change;
2.AL state message 0x001E,invalid input configuration;
so,i try to execute hal file in hal cmd line, i found when i run "addf lcec.write-all servo-thread ",the error are alredy coming.
please tell me the answers of this question .
thank you again.