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only one network port on this machine plus the wifi for the internet.
I *think* im using the right one. haha. I dont see how i cant be.

dmesg spits out 10000 things. last one mentions lan at 100base though

Mac address and generic driver.
Two network interfaces and you picked the wrong one? Has never happened to anyone...
Ethercat master prints in /var/log/messages. Have a look there or at the end of the huge output of "sudo dmesg" for signs of why it won't use the network interface

so yes, that would have included typing in the MAC in that file per instructions

checked that file again. seems fine. reran enable, start, status... nothing changes.

 

I did only what the instructions said up to the point of typing ethercat slaves.

Quick update and correction.

It seems that changing the Makefile.inc isn't necessary as it gets rebuilt as part of the run.

So looking at ./debian/configure I see the option for no documents is 'no-docs' and this works.

./debian/configure no-docs
dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc

-b option doesn't seem to matter.

I'll do some more digging into the fortify issue to see if I can find a better solution and to understand the DEBUG question lingering in my miind.

Cheers

Link down. Did you customize /etc/ethercat.conf ?

from ethercat master.... seems maybe its not working at the network card level. What did i break? haha

Master0
Phase: Waiting for device(s)...
Active: no
Slaves: 0
Ethernet devices:
Main: 00:23:24:3e:1b:ba (waiting...)
Link: DOWN
Tx frames: 0
Tx bytes: 0
Rx frames: 0
Rx bytes: 0
Tx errors: 0
Tx frame rate [1/s]: 0 0 0
Tx rate [KByte/s]: 0.0 0.0 0.0
Rx frame rate [1/s]: 0 0 0
Rx rate [KByte/s]: 0.0 0.0 0.0
Common:
Tx frames: 0
Tx bytes: 0
Rx frames: 0
Rx bytes: 0
Lost frames: 0
Tx frame rate [1/s]: 0 0 0
Tx rate [KByte/s]: 0.0 0.0 0.0
Rx frame rate [1/s]: 0 0 0
Rx rate [KByte/s]: 0.0 0.0 0.0
Loss rate [1/s]: 0 0 0
Frame loss [%]: 0.0 0.0 0.0
Distributed clocks:
Reference clock: None
DC reference time: 0
Application time: 0
2000-01-01 00:00:00.000000000

Try

So, I installed linuxcnc fresh, then began the ethercat install per instruction thread. It *seems* to have worked, but there are no slaves displayed when I type ethercat slaves...

So, for sanity I went into twincat, and it DOES scan the servo drives, however it triggers a communication error of wrong data type. I wonder if the 2 are related and something is set wrong on the drives.

Servos drives are omron R88D

Any thoughts on what may be wrong here?

Glad you got it. I'm using Basic Probe with QTDragon_HD. There is also Probe_Basic and Versa Probe which I think is what you are using. It looks like you are using the GMOCCAPY UI.