[etherlab-users] Slave register access

[Florian Pose]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 07:51:20AM -0500, William Montgomery wrote:
> I have been using the mini example for a couple of weeks and recently 
> changed to the RTAI example since this is the target environment.  I now 
> have the rtai example running and am able to read and write process data 
> with a slave.  I have looked through the application interface 
> documentation and am not able to see how to access the slave controller 
> registers.  Do you have an example of this?

this is not implemented for the application interface, because this is
usually not necessary. Can you explain, why you want to do this via the
API?

> I should be able to write to the registers with an APWR or FPWR datagram 
> but I dont see any API functions for those lower levels.

It is possible through the command-line tool in the development version
1.5. If this is sufficient for you, you can test it:

http://etherlab.org/download/ethercat-devel-r1549.tar.bz2

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Best regards,
Florian Pose

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