Ethercat installation from repositories - how to step by step

Hi Rodw, Thanks for all the incredible work so far on EtherCAT. I'm diving into both LinuxCNC and EtherCAT right now and excited by the possibilities. 

I ran into the same issues as discussed.  I tried your script on the Rpi 5 and it seemed to connect to their servers but it only seems to have grabbed 733 bytes. I may try some of the other methods mentioned previously.

 

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System: Raspberry pi 5 + Leadshine EL8 EtherCAT drives
LinuxCNC level: first timer
Linux level: noob noob

The script just adds the Ethercat repositories/
Just folllw the steps in post 1 to install Ethercat.

rodw wrote:

Refer here. Please restrict this thread to Ethercat installation only
docs.google.com/document/d/1jeV_4VKzVmOI...diY/edit?usp=sharing

No. 59 right ?
link sent back your first post
 

 

so far so good, got the first signs that the software is working ok on the first machine I have to retrofit, thank you to everyone for contributing... I think i really used something from everyone and I will ofcourse due time post my own track to the walhala of linuxcnc when i get to the point of managable cnc machine under total control (for all 3 machines !) ... if i don't die from carpal-syndrome , haven't typed this much since i left the plc/automation world   

carpal-tunnel syndrome maybe ?
anyway in my language we don't write it that way 

hi
i have upgrdded my kernel to 6.1.0-23-rt-amd64 from 6.1.0-13-rt-amd64
since then, i have to remove ethercat-dkms libethercat libethercat-dev ethercat-master and reinstall them and linuxcnc-ethercat on every boot
i have followed post 1 of this thread completely .
this is error code when i want to start linuxcnc
"Failed to open /dev/EtherCAT0: No such file or directory"