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Notes from installation of ethercat on Raspberry Pi 4

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11 Oct 2023 17:07 #282760 by Cristian_g
Replied by Cristian_g on topic Notes from installation of ethercat on Raspberry Pi 4
The video looks great! Can you let me know please what components you use in set-up: motors, drivers, motion cards, etc. I have servo motors with Ethercat. Can you recommend a motion card that may work?
Thank you!

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01 Mar 2024 22:03 #294868 by AlexNet
Replied by AlexNet on topic Notes from installation of ethercat on Raspberry Pi 4
Sorry, newbie, but there is one question from the experience of forum members, because time has passed, and experience is power.
Is the Raspberry Pi4 network controller with Ethercat stable?
If so, on which versions of Linuxcnc and on which Linux kernel?
Thank you all for your responses and feedback.

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09 Mar 2024 01:07 #295484 by scottlaird
Replied by scottlaird on topic Notes from installation of ethercat on Raspberry Pi 4
I think it's supposed to be stable; the Etherlab folks have a specific driver for it, but I don't have any specific details on using it handy.
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05 Jun 2024 16:33 #302392 by Cristian_g
Replied by Cristian_g on topic Notes from installation of ethercat on Raspberry Pi 4
Hi, sorry for asking too many questions. In the linuxcnc downloads web page,there is this note";“linuxcnc-uspace” will also run on a standard Linux kernel for use as a simulator, but it should not be used to control hardware."
Does it mean that in order to actually run a machine, I have to use the “linuxcnc” with specific RTAI kernel?
Please let me know which package I have to download! Thank You! 
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05 Jun 2024 16:39 #302393 by tommylight
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“linuxcnc-uspace” will also run on a standard Linux kernel for use as a simulator, but it should not be used to control hardware."

This can be used to control machines when using the RT-Preempt kernel, it can not be used to control machines when using normal "generic" kernel.
RTAI version is more for use with parallel port.

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09 Jul 2024 06:55 #304732 by seyad
Replied by seyad on topic Notes from installation of ethercat on Raspberry Pi 4
Hi Hakan,
I am using Raspberry pi5. I build Linuxcnc from source code .now i started installing ethercat from source code following your notes but now i am facing some issues in etherlab master build ($make dkms_build) in this line.
i also attached output log. is there any other way for RP5 ..?    
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09 Jul 2024 08:06 #304733 by rodw
Replied by rodw on topic Notes from installation of ethercat on Raspberry Pi 4
3 years is a long time in this space.
I would try installing the Raspberry pi 5 image on the downloads page and then follow these instructions
forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/45336-etherc...-how-to-step-by-step

The ethercat repositories should be installed for you already so hopefully, you will find there is no need to build from source if iGh supports the pi5 now.
 
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31 Jul 2024 12:33 #306513 by seyad
Replied by seyad on topic Notes from installation of ethercat on Raspberry Pi 4
At the point of "Test ethercat with linuxcnc " i am facing issues like "lFound file(REL): ./ethercat.hal
lcec: dlopen: libethercat.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
But path my directory (path=$PATH:/usr/local/lib)

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31 Jul 2024 16:46 #306547 by bkt
Replied by bkt on topic Notes from installation of ethercat on Raspberry Pi 4
you check id uefi or not as rodw explain here: forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/45336-etherc...-how-to-step-by-step ??

In my case need (not uefi but have that error because not all libs needed was installed) to install libethercat 2 time second one using synaptic. After it goes ....

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31 Jul 2024 19:44 #306560 by rodw
Replied by rodw on topic Notes from installation of ethercat on Raspberry Pi 4
Thanks for reminding me of this. This is probably the issue I have with installing ethercat.
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