<div dir="ltr">Thanks for your excellent suggestion Sebastien. I will start with PREEMPT RT to learn about EtherLab's API. <div>However, I think I haven't received an answer to my question. If I were to switch to RTAI after a while, which version of RTAI and kernel would you recommend?</div><div>I'm asking this since there are other students in our research group who might be able to start working on RTAI in the meantime.</div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div>Mohsen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 9:35 PM, Sebastien BLANCHET <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blanchet@iram.fr" target="_blank">blanchet@iram.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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For a first try, I strongly suggest to use PREEMPT RT instead of RTAI for a hassle free experience. When you gain more experience, you can switch easily back to RTAI.<br>
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EtherCAT Master 1.5.2 works perfectly with Debian 7 PREEMPT RT kernel (Linux 3.2)<br>
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If you want to use a more recent kernel, like 4.9 PREEMPT RT kernel from Debian 9, you have to download a more recent version of EtherCAT Master from the Mercurial repository.<br>
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<a href="http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat/index.php" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://etherlab.org/en/etherca<wbr>t/index.php</a><br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Le 23/09/2018 à 18:15, Mohsen Alizadeh Noghani a écrit :<br>
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Hello everyone,<br>
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I have recently decided to try EtherLab and I intend to use it on RTAI, with a Realtek (either 8139 or 8169) network card. I'm using an ordinary Intel CPU.<br>
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I'm not sure about the best combination of EtherLab, kernel and RTAI. My only constraint is for the installation process to be as hassle free as possible. I would appreciate sharing your experience with me.<br>
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Thanks in advance.<br>
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