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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi</span><span lang=EN-US> at all<br><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In order to have the igb driver native for IGH ethercat, I have copied from etherlab repository the stable branch version with igb driver for 3.18 kernel. </span><span lang=EN-US><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Currently I am using the 3.5.7 kernel, for this reason i have migrate the modifications in 3.18 on 3.5.7 driver (I hope .....)</span><span lang=EN-US> <br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I am able to produce the .ko kernel module and I am able to use it (module ec_igb is loaded instead of igb module)</span><span lang=EN-US> <br><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The problem is that the ethernet interface appear always down and the master can not work. Before master starts the interface is up, after master start became down</span><span lang=EN-US> <br><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>have some one ideas about the problem ? Which are the driver functions probably involved in this problem ?</span><span lang=EN-US> <br><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>At the moment I'm using the ec_generic driver, but is not the perfect solution with xenomai patch (there are many xenomai promary-secondary mode switch), on other hardware platform I'm using native driver with xenomai (ec_e1000e) and I have better performance respect to ec_generic</span><span lang=EN-US> <br><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>regards, Antonio Righettini </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>