Ethercat build from source - full instructions

When I have different EtherCAT slave devices, like the MADLN05BE drive or an EtherCAT coupler from a different vendor, I face issues where the EtherCAT slaves are not being recognized. What should I do to resolve this?

I have a question about the realtime.mk file...
how do I get it perfect? everything went ok untill i can't make this file, some seperator missing
thx

I think you should be using the current version of the source to start with
github.com/linuxcnc-ethercat/linuxcnc-ethercat

tommylight wrote:

rodw wrote:

@tommy (or another mod) could you sticky this thread please? It's a gold mine of info!
Done.

I am not sure this needs to be stickied anymore as ther has been so much work by Scott Laird on the ethercat hal driver which also includes a buildbot that pushes the deb file across to the etherlabmaster guys who have agreeed to host it for us.
Today, you just need to:
Then follow the sticky in this forum section
forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/45336-etherc...-how-to-step-by-step

Some people have got tangled up by following this method and then trying to install from repositories.

My feeling is it should be unstickied but what do others think?

Done, thank you.

Rod, I was proud of that sticky... but you were the one that got it up there to start with.