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Hi all,<br>
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I am working with latest Ubuntu Natty 11.04 64bit
2.6.38-11-generic kernel<br>
and the generic driver built from the latest mecurial sources.</tt><br>
<pre wrap="">Four slaves are connected to the bus, which I have verified temporarily plugging in a different machine with ethercat running.
I built ethercat with
./configure --enable-generic --enable-cycles --disable-8139too
Just as a side note, I had to create a symlink in the kernel images to
make it compile
cd <i class="moz-txt-slash"><span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>lib/modules<span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></i>$(uname -r)/build/include
sudo ln -s $(gcc -print-file-name=include)/stdarg.h
Seems like this is a general Ubuntu issue, see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/830550/comments/1">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/830550/comments/1</a>
Then, everything built fine.
sudo ethercat master
now gives me
Master0
Phase: Idle
Active: no
Slaves: 0
Ethernet devices:
Main: bc:30:5b:de:2d:07 (attached)
Link: UP
Tx frames: 1858
Rx frames: 1857
Lost frames: 0
Tx bytes: 111480
Tx errors: 0
Tx frame rate [1/s]: 100 85 26
Tx rate [KByte/s]: 5.9 5.0 1.5
Loss rate [1/s]: 0 0 0
Frame loss [%]: 0.0 0.0 0.0
Backup: None.
Distributed clocks:
Reference clock: None
Application time: 0
2000-01-01 00:00:00.000000000
Unfortunately, sudo ethercat slaves does not show anything (there are definitely four connected to the bus).
However, log messages indicate that there is some kind of connection at
least.
dmesg | tail
[18508.614344] EtherCAT: 1 master waiting for devices.
[18508.616967] ec_generic: EtherCAT master generic Ethernet device module devel afb40fd6018e
[18508.616975] EtherCAT: Accepting device BC:30:5B:DE:2D:07 for master 0.
[18508.616981] ec_generic: Binding socket to interface 2 (eth0).
[18508.664917] EtherCAT 0: Starting EtherCAT-IDLE thread.
[18555.646315] tg3 0000:05:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[18555.646318] tg3 0000:05:00.0: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
[18555.648596] EtherCAT 0: Link state changed to UP.
[18555.658577] EtherCAT 0: 4 slave(s) responding.
[18555.658581] EtherCAT 0: Slave states: INIT.
Just for your information, here is also ifconfig (the ethercat cable is
attached and configured to the eth0 card)
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr bc:30:5b:de:2d:07
inet6 addr: fe80::be30:5bff:fede:2d07/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:75446 errors:42 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:75492 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4828544 (4.8 MB) TX bytes:4838673 (4.8 MB)
Interrupt:17
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:21:a2:29:ca
inet addr:192.168.17.157 Bcast:192.168.17.255 Mask:255.255.254.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:fea2:29ca/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:146992 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34851 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:65508600 (65.5 MB) TX bytes:4651450 (4.6 MB)
eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr bc:30:5b:de:2d:07
inet addr:169.254.5.88 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:17
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2150 (2.1 KB) TX bytes:2150 (2.1 KB)
Note I have also tested configuring the other network card in the same machine, with the same result.
I believe the bus scanning is for some reason not working.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Andre
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