First time configuring ethercat

Hello everyone, 

I have been working the past couple days on getting ethercat working and installed for my first linuxcnc project. I got ethercat working and the slave is showing the master command etc works so that is amazing but now i am stuck with the configuration part. I have not used linuxcnc before and i can't seem to find any well quite basic tutorials on how to set up a single axis and just get it to show in linuxcnc i have tried to make a config using a old tutorial but i just can't seem to figure it out. I am currently using a raspberry pi with Leadshine EL8 driver and the ethercat between these works just dont understand the config part. 

So if there is someone that would be able to help get me started that would be amazing.

There isn't a stepconf or pncconf equivalent for ethercat so what I do is to configure the machine using one of these tools and then replace the connection to hardware. Editing by hand. Can be a bit of a handful for a first tine linuxcnc project.
Here is what other people do, including a link to rodw's example ethercat config. forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/51016-what-d...recommended-hardware
 

Thanks for the suggestion i will read in to it and try to go from there!

Here is someone with Leadshine EL8. forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/51139-leadshine-el8-configuration
Come back here if you get stuck.