[etherlab-users] RTL8168

[Uwe Hermann]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:02:40PM +0100, Florian Pose wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 04:48:54PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > Any news on this? I'm happy to test any pre-release version you might
> > have, doesn't have to be "finished".
> 
> Yes, the tarball I released today (see http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat)
> contains a development version.
> 
> One of my clients reported, that it runs perfectly on his hardware,
> whereas I am noticing rare frame delays in the receiving part. It would
> be great, if you could test this and share your experiences.

Quick update: The driver seems to work fine as of r1718. I had issues
with r1667 I think (no TX or no RX, don't remember), but that issue is
already fixed in newer tarballs.

The only thing I'm seeing now is some warnings, but they don't seem to
be critical, our robot base drives around happily regardless.

EtherCAT WARNING: 1 datagram UNMATCHED!
EtherCAT: Domain 0: 2 working counter changes - now 12/12.
omnidrive: Domain1: WC 0.
omnidrive: Domain1: State 0.
omnidrive: Domain1: WC 12.
omnidrive: Domain1: State 2.
EtherCAT WARNING: 1 datagram UNMATCHED!
EtherCAT: Domain 0: 2 working counter changes - now 12/12.
omnidrive: Domain1: WC 0.
omnidrive: Domain1: State 0.
omnidrive: Domain1: WC 12.
omnidrive: Domain1: State 2.
EtherCAT WARNING: 1 datagram UNMATCHED!
EtherCAT: Domain 0: 2 working counter changes - now 12/12.
omnidrive: Domain1: WC 0.
omnidrive: Domain1: State 0.
omnidrive: Domain1: WC 12.
omnidrive: Domain1: State 2.

I don't see these warnings on another box with e1000 driver.


Uwe.
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