Problems with Lichuan Ethercat servo drive

ooh, nice. you think you can help me config my ethercat setup. i have different drives, but im stuck at the "how do i even make ethercat work" part. 

i looked through your files a bit, but of course they dont start cause i got no mesa card in mine.

I'm new to this and was asking Chat GPT what the problems were with Lichuan drives. It says EtherCat Master stacks on Linux CNC expect drives to follow CiQ 402 correctly, but Lichuan drives lack full state machine compliance, and incorrectly transition from Ready to Switch ON to Operation Enabled, etc. Windows stacks are more tolerant of violations. So by plugging the drive in after they have done an illegal transition, Linux CNC stacks remain happy.

@John,

Maybe that's the case, but this is solvable.

I am writing some new code. We are free to change the state machine transitions for Lichuan.
Here you can see how to set states. In fact it's just a matter off setting a combination off bits in a sequence.

Currently i am waiting for a new servo drive, so my code is halted. I dont have a Lichuan here, so i can not write code for it
to solve any problems.
 

I guess ChatGPT looked at this thread to come to that answer.
I read more than half of this thread yesterday. Some 8 pages or so in there are many working configurations, and people with success.

Yeah this thread is really the only reference. The first post maybe needs a consolidation of "this is what we do".

I'm curious about tuning these things now that we know they "work". Would like to know how arduous or easy that turns out to be.