Ethercat HAL driver

Hello Sirop

I tried this steps in Debian Jessie with RT-Preempt:


1st Download ethercat master from IgH from here:
www.etherlab.org/download/ethercat/ethercat-1.5.2.tar.bz2

2nd Open a shellTerminal, and go to the folder that contains the ethercat master, and Untar the file

3rd download debian folder from sittner from here:
github.com/sittner/ec-debianize/archive/master.zip

4th Unzip the file "ec-debianize-master.zip"

5th copy debian folder (the was produced in 4th step) to /ethercat-1.5.2/ (that was produced 2nd step)

6th Now I edited the configure File as you told me

7th now in the shell terminal, use the following instructions:
cd ethercat-1.5.2
cd debian
./configure -r -> configuration succesfull !!
cd ..
sudo apt-get update
dpkg-checkbuilddeps -> everything here
(I was missing dpatch package)
dpkg-buildpackage

with buildpackage following error occurs:



Sorry I could not copy past this ..

I think I need to reconfigure something else ?

Seems to be that there are no drivers yet for 3.18:
sourceforge.net/p/etherlabmaster/code/ci/default/tree/devices/

I need to use generic driver for my network source anyway, on igh homepage I found out that generic works with preempt. Can I somehow disable them and only enable generic ?

Change to
in configure .

Thank you really much Sirop, I will try this out

Iam really happy that there are people willing to help so much.

Hi again,

Sirop, I just tried out what you told me I only enabled generic in configure script.

I got the same error again.

This is how the configure-stamp in rules script looks like:

configure: configure-stamp
configure-stamp: unpack-stamp patch-stamp
dh_testdir
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-linux-dir=/lib/modules/3.18.13-rt10mah+/build --enable-generic
touch $@


He is somehow trying to enable the others anyway.

Do you find out why ?

is configure -r okay or should it be configure -a ?

If you need any further information just tell me.

Thank you !

configure -r should be ok, but I do not know what to tell you now
but advise to build the master following etherlab.org/download/ethercat/ethercat-1.5.2.pdf , Chapter 9.

Thank you Sirop,

I did the following to install etherlab:

# hg clone hg.code.sf.net/p/etherlabmaster/code ethercat-hg
# cd ethercat-hg/
# hg update stable-1.5
# ./bootstrap
# ./configure --disable-8139too --enable-generic
# make
# make modules
# sudo make install
# sudo make modules_install
# sudo /sbin/depmod
# sudo ln -s /usr/local/etherlab/bin/ethercat /usr/local/bin/
#


--disable-8139too this was the key !

But Iam not sure what to do now ?

Can you help me ?

1. Make a simple test with a slave you have just to know that the master works.

2. Proceed with github.com/sittner/linuxcnc-ethercat .

Didn't I miss anything ?
how can I run the master ?