Documenting my journey through ethercat config.

My background:
 i am working as electrical panel maker for cnc machines for wood routers since 2 years for a company near me as a part timer, or you can say whenever they have a new order. they have been using cheap parallel port card with mach3. Now the computers with parallel ports being scarce they wanted me to find them something that is cheap, reliable, and something somewhat latest in technology.
 This is how I came across linuxcnc. although i knew about it long ago, but never had the chance to work on it. also i couldn't acquire mesa cards till today. so i decided to work on ethercat instead of going for specific hardware.

Hardware i am using:
XINJE DS5C1                                             Drives for axis
EK1100, EL1008, EL2008, EL4002            Beckhoff ethercat modules for input output.

I too have started a journey through EtherCAT.  I am using an EK1100, EL1008, & EL2008.  Along with a LiChaun CL57E-4A closed loop driver.  I struggled for some time with getting the driver to go into OP mode.  If you are at all familiar with VS Code it can be an invaluable tool when used with Copilot.  I was able to use AI to build my entire configuration.  The problem I had turned out to be how my ethernet card was configured.  The key was to disable DNS on the ethernet card.  DNS does not play well with EtherCAT.  Once I did that everything just worked.  All the configuration file built by using Copilot.  If you find that your driver is getting an error when it tries to change to OP mode.  Try disabling DNS on your network card.

Hope this helps.

 

Another AI leading you up the garden path. An IP address is not required on the Ethercat NIC and without a IP address, there is no ablity to use DNS.

Please read the installing Ethercat sticky and follow what it says. Installing Ethercat becomes easy.