Ethercat HAL driver

Hello manojpatil

for your information, my system was not going into OP as there was an error on the xml config file of my ethercat.

Nicolas

Hi all,
I was wondering if there was a slave number limitation on the EtherCAT configuration for linuxcnc. I am trying to run a new device, the config xml file works fine when I plug the device alone, but my system crashes when I put it after 15 other slave on my EtherCAT bus.

Is such a limitation exists, is it overall, or is it per master? My computer has two Ethernet port, so maybe I could use the other one as another master. I am just wondering how I would parametrize it in the /etc/default/ethercat file.

Thank you,

Nicolas

Hello everyone,

my name is Heiko and i am new here. I have an old Deckel FP2 and some servo motors inclusive servo controllers from Beckhoff.
Now I would like to upgrade the Deckel with servo motors and control it via LinuxCNC.

To test and try LinuxCNC I have here an EK1100, EL1104, EL2024 and an IndraDrive Cs (HCS01.1E-W0006-A-02-B-ET-EC-PB-NN-NN-FW) with an MSK030C-0900 servo motor. With these components i want to set up an test scenario.

So I try to install the ethercat hal driver. Therefore i followed exactly the instructions from Hawkeye from page 68. Everything is going well until i came to step 5.
The steps cloning the ec-debianize and dpkg-checkbuilddeps are running well.

but when i run the command dpkg-buildpackage i geht following error message:

root@linuxcnc:/git/ec-debianize/etherlabmaster# dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Quellpaket etherlabmaster
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Quellversion 1.5.2+20190904hg33b922p8ea394-1
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Quelldistribution lucid
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Quelle geändert durch Sascha Ittner <sascha.ittner@modusoft.de>
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Host-Architektur amd64
dpkg-source --before-build etherlabmaster
debian/rules clean
dh clean --with autoreconf,dkms
dh_testdir
dh_auto_clean
dh_autoreconf_clean
debian/rules override_dh_clean
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/git/ec-debianize/etherlabmaster“ wird betreten
rm -f ChangeLog
dh_clean
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/git/ec-debianize/etherlabmaster“ wird verlassen
dpkg-source -b etherlabmaster
dpkg-source: Fehler: unmöglich, mit Quellformat »3.0 (quilt)« zu bauen: unter ./etherlabmaster_1.5.2+20190904hg33b922p8ea394.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz} wurde kein Tarball der Originalautoren gefunden
dpkg-buildpackage: Fehler: Fehler-Exitstatus von dpkg-source -b etherlabmaster war 255

Now i am not able to do the next steps. when i try to execute sudo dpkg -i /git/ec-debianize/etherlabmaster_1.5.2+20180317hg9e65f7-2_amd64.deb the error is:

dpkg: Fehler: Auf das Archiv »/git/ec-debianize/etherlabmaster_1.5.2+20180317hg9e65f7-2_amd64.deb« kann nicht zugegriffen werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

Can anyone help me with the error messages? I have tried everything but nothing worked. Please give me a hint of what i am doing wrong.


05. Setup "ec-debianize"
06. Setup "LinuxCNC-Ethercat"
07. Further things to consider
- if you experience issues when starting linuxcnc (cpu high load), then try to change "BASE_PERIOD=0" within your ini-file (config of your machine)

08. .. this is know the part where I guess I can end this guide now.
.. further steps (setting up ethercat.xml, machine config, ... can be seen within the forum).
.. hope this helped you - thanks for reading.
.. please leave a comment whether you managed it to get your system running.

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Best Regards,
Ben[/quote]

Hi phoenix_83,
I remember facing similar issue at some point but cannot remember if it was exactly the same. What OS and distribution are you using (lucid on ubuntu apparently), but more importantly I think the RTAI and RTPREEPMT real time kernel version (do uname -a to check it quickly) could make the difference as RTAI is no longer supported for ec-debianize. You apparently also do everything as root so should not have any permission issues but might worth to have a look at it too.

I also remember that using previous version of the ec-debianize could help for some OS so reversing back to an older commit was somehow working.

Nicolas

Hello Nico2017

Can you guide me regarding the xml file .. as in where are the xml files stored and where should I make changes for my specific driver.

Thanks.