Ethercat drive configuration woes

Yes I found that it easiest to do it headless via a VNC viewer I have two screens I set VNC with the pi on one and use the other one as normal you can copy and past etc makes it very easy

Ok, so with the EK1100, LinuxCNC won't start if Ek1100 is not connected. To get the system to work, the drive needs to be disconnected, and EK1100 connected then connect the drive after linuxcnc starts!

So EK1100 is '0'
EL1809 is '1'
EL2809 is '2'
drive is "3'

If I get time over the next few days, I will try to see if I can configure it step by step in the .xml as I first did with my mill 8 years ago. I think the setup has changed a bit since then, but I might try to configure it step by step and let the cia402 component do the rest. This should allow the drives to remain plugged in when I start linuxcnc (hopefully); otherwise, I will go shopping for a different drive