Ethercat HAL driver

First off, great work with beckhoff's ethercat support in linuxcnc - love the modularity of the bus ... it's great that it's supported by linuxcnc.

I'm interested in adding support for the IL2301 B110. In particular I'm after using the IP Link to control Festo valve blocks.

I have multipoint valve blocks hooked up to my Linux cnc box, but would prefer to save the 16 digital ports (only really using 8 now) - besides it so much more elegant to control it via ethercat.

Could not find anything on the web, any pointers?

Thank you

plopes9000 wrote: I'm interested in adding support for the IL2301 B110. In particular I'm after using the IP Link to control Festo valve blocks.

It detects the connected modules and automatically allocates the input and output data to the process image.

www.beckhoff.de/default.asp?fieldbus_box/il230x_b110.htm

So just write an XML description in order to try this slave out.

sirop wrote:

mngr0 wrote:
it said "Enable to open shared memory, err=2, segmentation fault"

What should be enabled? Do you quote ethercat or linuxcnc log?

I meant "Unable.. sorry for the horrible typo

today i installed igh master and then linuxcnc-ethercat driver using this commands:
when i type the answer is
what did i do wrong?
still, thank sirop for the patience

Maybe, you installed more than 1 EtherLab master?

it may be, because while installing linuxcnc-ethercat he told me that the file /etc/default/ethercat was already existing, and asked me what to do (replace, or keep the file, i kept the file)

so i don't have to install the ethercat master?
this is what i tried the first time, but i didn't know where is the file to configure the master and the one to start it.

A network device can be used only by one master at atime.
So there should be only one master.