[etherlab-users] EtherCat Master Problem

[Florian Pose]

Hi Dario,

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:26:52PM +0200, Dario Sottana (Nuzoo s.r.l.) wrote:
> I downloaded the Ethercat Master and installed correctly the master.
> It runs good but the master doesn't find the slaves.

could you please supply the following information:

- Master version
- Linux kernel version
- Ethernet driver
- Ouput of 'ethercat master'

> I try to communicate with my slaves using the Beckhoff software, this works
> but first of all I need to create the xml configuration file of the slaves.
> So I thought that I need to pass to the master the slaves configuration. Is
> is correct?
> How can I do that?

The bus configuration is done via the application interface. Have a look
at the ecrt.h header (or use Doxygen, as recommended in the
documentation) or try the minimal example file.

> I don't have any kind of error and all the messages of the system are the
> same of the
> Ethercat Master documentation.
> Anyone can help me? Is there something that I have to do after start the
> master to recognize
> the slaves?

No, it should begin to scan the bus by itself.

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Best regards,
Florian Pose

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