New LinuxCNC-Ethercat git tree

Thanks Bjarne,
@scottlaird, seems you have got a way forward now and I noticed your PR had been committed very cool!

When talking to the ETG, you need to be a comapny to join per 3.2 of their bylaws
www.ethercat.org/download/documents/ETG_By-Laws.pdf
This precludes linuxcnc from being a member.. But igh can be, and they are then able to distribute a master and use the logo.
So I think hosting the hal driver with igh is absolutely awesome and now there is a current maintained repo, its even better. By not including it in linuxcnc is an advantage becasue it can be updated outside of our release cycle

Linuxcnc are very risk averse having had to change their name in response to a cease and desist order in the past.

HI  rodw
I'm sorry, I don't know if the question is relevant
I can't compile to linuxcnc-ethercat/src
the lcec.h and lcec.c files of my device
are the current changes the cause???
Thank you

Why would you want to compile from source when its all in a repo now.
Install linuxcnc 2.9.2 and  you are good to go.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install linuxcnc-ethercat

the source code has been dodgy for years

rodw wrote:

Install linuxcnc 2.9.2 and  you are good to go.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install linuxcnc-ethercat

@Rod
Make a new topic with this info so i can nail it ... make it sticky
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Thank you and the others for all the work you have done to making it so simple to install and use EtherCAT devices with LinuxCNC.

@Rod Webster
Super Awesome work...   Glad you have kept this moving forward.

tommylight wrote:

rodw wrote:

@Rod
Make a new topic with this info so i can nail it ... make it sticky

 

There is no need because what is discussed here makes no difference to the installation process which already is documented in the users home folder on  2.9.1/2.9.2 ISOs via a README.md and in stickies already.

What has happened now is that the repositories hosting the hal driver have been udated with some improvements and now changes will flow through as they are made.

CORBETT wrote:

@Rod Webster
Super Awesome work...   Glad you have kept this moving forward.

Thanks., Bjarne has been super helpful getting this all sorted out since Linucnc 2.9.1 hase been released. I'm just the conductor joining the dots to bring it all together

Finally the hal driver and ethercat are available to any user without any stuffing aound

Ok, fantastic job done, thanks!!

Why would you want to compile from source when its all in a repo now.
Install linuxcnc 2.9.2 and  you are good to go.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install linuxcnc-ethercat
 

that's what I did,
after the update LCNC gives an error and doesn't see my FR4000 device, I was thinking of entering it manually like I always have, I think it's no longer possible.
Is there a solution??
Thanks again

What error? Open from the terminal and share the output. Best to raise a seperate thread though.