Ethercat HAL driver

Hi Chimeno,
Did you get ethercat with stretch working?
I was trying with stretch-amd64 and ran into problems.
I have it working with Debian Wheezy and 3.4.9-rtai kernel. The motherboard is using rtl8139 drivers and ethercat works well with panasonic A5 and A6 series drives.
When trying to upgrade to debian stretch, I am not able to patch the network drivers and the exact error message is:
Do you have any how to guide or list of steps you used to get it working?
Regards,
-automata

Hello Automata,
I used the stretch version with core RT-PREEMPT, you have to use the "generic" driver, try to have it help you.

regards
Chimeno

I used the preempt-rt amd64 kernel. The only difference I am seeing right of the bat is you are using the i386 kernel instead of the amd64 kernel.
Still appreciate any guidance on getting this to work.
Trying with the i386 kernel with preempt-rt patch. Will report results soon.
-automata

hello Automata,
installed "strech RT-PREEMPT" from here?
www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-rtpreempt/

Igh Ethercat Master configured "--enable-driver-generic"

regards
Chimeno

So you used the generic driver all the time trying to sync your slaves?

Hi sirop,
Have you installed the Igh ethercat master on stretch with preempt-rt ?
Are there any other successful attempts (other than chimeno) at running the Igh ethercat master with debian preempt-rt kernel?
Regards,
automata

Actually, I use machinekit on debian 8 with xenomai, so kernel 3.8.

The official repo sourceforge.net/p/etherlabmaster/code/ci/default/tree/devices/ has adopted drivers 8139too for up to 3.16 kernel version.

The unoffical repo sourceforge.net/u/uecasm/etherlab-patche...default/tree/#readme has some device patches for up to 4.13 kernel version.
Please report if you succeed to use these patches.

sirop wrote: So you used the generic driver all the time trying to sync your slaves?

hi Sirop,
If I use generic driver because I did not find for e1000e, is not it a good idea?

well, generic driver always means higher latency.

sirop wrote: well, generic driver always means higher latency.

thanks, I will install debian again on a new hard drive and I will try to install the patches and re-compile everything if it works, I will inform you of the progress, thanks
Chimeno