Sanitycheck my plan: ethercat + stepperonline A6

I didn't do anything too special compared with this guide  other than selecting "USB_CDC" for communication and then scanning on the available "Serial Port" options until the driver showed up. If yours doesn't, try a different cable.

Do you use a USB to RS232 adapter cable? Not all of them work properly. This one does

www.amazon.de/dp/B08B6C1XQN?th=1

According to the description, a standard USB cable is required.
After installing the software, the USB-to-serial driver apparently needs to be installed.
There are several in the program folder, but which one is the correct one?

Forget my post about the adapter cable. I mixed up the servo types.

You need a USB-C cable with data transfer. Some can only charge.

I know the kind of driver you're talking about, but this was literally a freshly installed windows 10, and all i did was install the stepperonline software and forward the usb device to it and was able to find it in the scanner. i didn't install anything else.