Ethercat installation from repositories - how to step by step

Goodwood wrote:

Hi Rod, I am reinstalling because I made a bit of a hash of things.In your setting up notes:
If you are using cia402 compatible drives: cd ~/dev did you mean ~cd /dev ?(there is no dev in ~). Under ethercat slaves only the EK1100 comes up and not the i/o modules. Is that usual?

I used to make a folder in my home directory called ~/dev but I now call it ~/devel. This is the folder I install all of the custom stuff that has to be built to keep the home folder clean.

I found ~/dev was easily confused with /dev so I now use ~/devel.

Thanks for that. I'm quite sure all is working, the sigma7 drives come up, the EK1100 shows up but the attched modules do not(KL1408,KL2408 &KL9010).I've just got them on ebay and have no experince. If I ignore them and try to get the drives going. Can you sugest a starting point? Thanks for your help.

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.