Ethercat installation from repositories - how to step by step

rodw
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29 Nov 2024 10:47 #315526 by rodw

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endian wrote:
Hello,

is the any way to change the network card driver from default generic to my hardware native e1000e when I install ethercat stuff from responsitories please?

thanks regards

I think only the generic driver is supported in the deb install. If you build Ethercat master from sources I think you can build the Intel driver which will give better performance. Check the docs which outlines the build process. Its pretty easy.
etherlab.org/en_GB/ethercat

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29 Nov 2024 19:53 #315582 by endian

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I have built them form the source with

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/ --disable-8139too --enable-userlib --disable-generic --disable-eoe --enable-e1000e

but it has behaviour same same... after

ethercat master
Master0
  Phase: Waiting for device(s)...
  Active: no
  Slaves: 0
  Ethernet devices:
    Main: 00:01:05:xx:93:xx (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

but when I change to

DEVICE_MODULES="generic"

and did

sudo systemctl restart ethercat.service

it immediately works

it looks like it does not have disabled generic driver and still using it

regards

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29 Nov 2024 21:51 #315589 by Grotius

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Hi,

Following the doc, this looks a set to me :

--enable-e1000
--with-e1000-kernel

If kernel not specified, it uses current kernel.

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29 Nov 2024 23:23 #315595 by rodw

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don't forget to specify the driver in /etc/ethercat.conf

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30 Nov 2024 09:09 #315623 by endian

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Yes this all actions I did,

and I have some machines with custom drivers such ass e1000, e100,8139too ... but I did install 2.9.2 over rods steps and just reinstall ethercat master over thread and it works from first shot ... after

sudo systemctl restart ethercat.service

but now I tried everythnig what is in the my fantasy and it is still in the

  Phase: Waiting for device(s)...

regards

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30 Nov 2024 18:57 #315675 by rodw

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From your dump, is there a typo in your MAC address?

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30 Nov 2024 19:59 #315680 by endian

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Gentelmen, my bad...

I have 4 ethernet interfaces ... 3 are e1000e and 1 is igb hardware .....

can you guess on which hardware I want to install e1000e driver...

life is life..

Thanks for pushing me

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04 Dec 2024 17:43 #315974 by Rkatts

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Update ...
(After installing LinuxCNC 2.9.3 (Debian 12) and EtherCAT module (Master driver 1.6.2), I am unable to get EtherCAT communication working. These slave drives work fine with LinuxCNC 2.8. Something is different in 2.9.3. What changed?)

However, sometimes one or more slave drives come up in OP state. When a drive goes to OP, I can see position feedback, I can enable the drive, I can see the DS402 statusword (in drive software). But it seems to be completely random whether the drives go to OP or PreOP ERROR. Something must be working for the drives to sometimes go to OP, but I can't figure out what is causing the errors.

With only restarting LinuxCNC multiple times, I get different slaves erroring or going into OP state:

jim@cnc:~$ ethercat slaves
0  6:0  PREOP  E  AKD EtherCAT Drive (CoE)
1  6:1  PREOP  E  AKD2G Single Axis FS1 EtherCAT Drive (CoE)
2  1:0  PREOP  E  AKD EtherCAT Drive (CoE)

jim@cnc:~$ ethercat slaves
0  6:0  PREOP  E  AKD EtherCAT Drive (CoE)
1  6:1  OP     +  AKD2G Single Axis FS1 EtherCAT Drive (CoE)
2  1:0  PREOP  E  AKD EtherCAT Drive (CoE)

jim@cnc:~$ ethercat slaves
0  6:0  OP     +  AKD EtherCAT Drive (CoE)
1  6:1  PREOP  E  AKD2G Single Axis FS1 EtherCAT Drive (CoE)
2  1:0  PREOP  E  AKD EtherCAT Drive (CoE)

jim@cnc:~$ ethercat slaves
0  6:0  PREOP  E  AKD EtherCAT Drive (CoE)
1  6:1  PREOP  E  AKD2G Single Axis FS1 EtherCAT Drive (CoE)
2  1:0  OP     +  AKD EtherCAT Drive (CoE)

jim@cnc:~$ ethercat slaves
0  6:0  OP     +  AKD EtherCAT Drive (CoE)
1  6:1  PREOP  E  AKD2G Single Axis FS1 EtherCAT Drive (CoE)
2  1:0  OP     +  AKD EtherCAT Drive (CoE)

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05 Dec 2024 20:34 - 05 Dec 2024 20:51 #316044 by vibram

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Hello

My turn to request some help.
Brand new installation with the latest ISO from the Linuxcnc download section version 2.9.3 PREMPT-RT

paul@mill:~$ sudo apt install linuxcnc-ethercat
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linuxcnc-ethercat

and same for:

sudo apt install ethercat-master libethercat-dev linuxcnc-ethercatReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ethercat-master
E: Unable to locate package libethercat-dev
E: Unable to locate package linuxcnc-ethercat
I tried the mokutil stuff:sudo mokutil --import /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
EFI variables are not supported on this system

sudo mokutil --sb-state
EFI variables are not supported on this system

I also tried the ecat.sh script from the other topic:

paul@mill:~/Downloads$ sudo ./ecat.sh
[sudo] password for paul:
sudo: ./ecat.sh: command not found

paul@mill:~/Downloads$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 726 Dec 5 21:45 ecat.sh

Any idea of what should I do?

Thanks you in advance

Last edit: 05 Dec 2024 20:51 by vibram.

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05 Dec 2024 21:28 #316048 by Grotius

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Hi,

Looks your sources.list is not ok.

$ sudo thunar

Then find and edit the ~/etc/apt/sources.list

# See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information.
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# Fetch sources list.
$ sudo apt get update
# Check if source excists:
$ sudo apt-get install --dry-run ethercat-master

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