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So after throwing my ethercat stuff in the corner in disgust for six months or so ago, I pulled it out and finally fixed it!

I reset the drive to factory defaults by adding this into my xml filePowered up Linuxcnc, homed the drive and tried to move it which sounded awful, then unplugged the power supply to the ECT60 ethercat drive.
Closed Linuxcnc and deleted that code from the XML file.

Hey presto running as smooth as a baby's bum!

The manual says 
Sub-index of object dictionary 0x1011: 01 Write 1, and then power on again to restore the driver to the factory state. When restoring the factory setting, first stop the motor running, then save the parameters. Thats roughly what I did!

So for the time being I have shelved this idea. It turns out to be vastly more complex then
I had envisioned. The problems I had come across ,
1 Having to purge the inner chamber of all Oxygen while doing the job,
2 Making sure the components where sealed against dust and make sure no risk
of spark,
3 Metal dust inhalation hazard when the machine would be opened back to the atmosphere,
4 Post process handling of said metal dust still in the part.
5 Cost of consumables ( inert gas, powdered metals, filters, ECT)
And lastly not enough demand for that process for the amount of hassle it implied.
Oh well. It was an interesting idea.

i typed in "sudo apt-get install ethtool" in order to follow some things mentioned here

forum.linuxcnc.org/27-driver-boards/3868...rking-issues?start=0

Now if I type "sudo ethtool -c enp86s0"

I get a bunch of messages.
most items are marked n/a
rx-usecs: 0
tx-usecs: 0

I assume I switched off what you suggested.

The ping times went down from approx. 0.5 ms to 0.5 ms ?

"63 packets transmitted, 63 received, 0% packet loss, time 63476 ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.185/0.455/0.577/0.05 ms"

I am not sure what the conclusion is.

p.s. that I get anything at all is a plus.  From all packets lost to 0% is progress.

Do you outline your build on YouTube or elsewhere? I am curious on what you used or recommend
for nozzle / hot end.,

Thanks for the reply!

I actually did go through it all already and actually started doing something in that direction, but I got stuck on trying to install the Glade. Since I already did a lot of mess trying to install Qt and playing with QtPyVCP, I decided to try setting the fresh instance of linuxcnc following all the steps that I documented when I did it first time. Then I figured out that they no longer work and decided to actually ask for the help because it seems to be the endless loop of trials and error

I am at work now, but when I come home this evening I'll try again and c/p the errors that I am getting.

So I'm not the only one who felt like this was a subject headed towards gate keeping. But hey
if the end goal is to chase off new people then congratulations that's the way to do it.

Hi, I think I am progressing, but not completely.Enclosed my new M100 and subroutine files.The purpose is to assign to a macrobutton in QtDragon an o-word script with a MDI-COMMAND that would allow me to toggle on and off a laser. (I have a 10W from Creality), besides my spindle that will of course be switched off.The laser is connected to an output pin (hal_pi_gpio.pin-10-out) and this pin is connected to a signal (laser-on). In the subroutine, I want to check what the status of this output pin is and then switching OFF if it is ON or switching ON if it is OFF.Since the hal-pi-gpio is connected to a signal, I cannot use getp and are using gets. But since subroutines do not accept halcmd gets commandes, I made a macro (M100) to fetch the status of the hal-pi-gpio. So far so good.Now when pushing the button, M100 does his job and stores the status of the hal-pi-gpio in a variable (