[etherlab-users] EtherCAT Master on 2.6.18 with Intel PRO/1000 NIC

[Florian Pose]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:53:52AM +0900, Hideki Izumisawa wrote:
>  CC [M] /root/TOOL/EtherCAT1_4/tmp2/ethercat-1.4.0/
> devices/e1000/e1000_main-2.6.18-ethercat.o
> /root/TOOL/EtherCAT1_4/tmp2/ethercat-1.4.0/devices/
> e1000/e1000_main-2.6.18-ethercat.c: In function 'ec_poll':
> 
> /root/TOOL/EtherCAT1_4/tmp2/ethercat-1.4.0/devices/
> e1000/e1000_main-2.6.18-ethercat.c:3418: error: implicit declaration of
> function
> 'e1000_watchdog_task'

As you can read on http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat/hardware.php, the
2.6.18 version is not tested and stable.

> However, I have to run EtherCAT Master
> on kernel 2.6.18 with Intel PRO/1000 NIC.
> Do you have a track record of EtherCAT Master on
> kernel 2.6.18 with Intel PRO/1000 NIC?
> 
> I would be glad if you could give me some hints on
> which points i should set my focus.

You could try to back-port the changed from 2.6.20 to 2.6.18. It should
be fairly easy...

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Best regards,
Florian Pose

http://etherlab.org