Ethercat drive configuration woes

I forgot to ask, how could I go about debugging this?

I've got as far as understanding that lcec is the go between the Etherlabmaster, and LCNC. However I'm unsure how to go about trying to establish if the value not being transmitted is a lcec or etherlab issue. How could I go about viewing the various variables involved?

my 5cent ... if you slaves have a "strict" configuration, if you make some error on PDOs definition in xml file maybe related value stay at 0 without other messages or warning .... simply not work at all .... in that case if you try open a terminal and launch "ethercat slaves" command probabily you see your slave in PREOP or SAFEOP state .... so nothing work ....finally if your xml file contains "ek110" definition for sure linuxcnc not start (or start with some error and close) if you not connect it .....

regards

When you recently started where you left off, did you use the master from debs or the master from 1.5.2? 
db1981 suggested this back in december.

I'm struggling with statusword=0 too, and I wonder if I should go back to the 1.5.2 master, because I had these drives working several years ago. 

Reid

I used the master from debs, as I'm not sure how to get 1.5.2

My guess is some kind of issue between the master and lcec, as if you query the master via a terminal, it reports the correct statusword value, but that value doesn't make it to LCNC, so the cia402 module then doesn't do what it's supposed to in terms of triggering the process to enable drives.
However I'm not sure how to debug this any further, as Linux isn't my strong point.

sorry not understand previous .... so 1.5.2 not work properly where previous (mine version too) work perfect... these is the problem?

I was considering getting these drivers. Did you manage to get them to work, or should they be avoided?