[etherlab-users] generic driver generally not working

[Fabian Herb]

Am Donnerstag 08 April 2010 13:35:47 schrieb Mladen Knezic:
> Hi,
> 
> >Is there anything I have to do besides setting DEVICE_MODULES="generic"?
> 
> Probably stupid question but have you compiled EtherCAT Master for generic
> driver module (i.e. have you configured EtherCAT Master with the generic
>  driver option)?
> 
> ./configure --with-linux-dir=/path/to/linux/src --enable-generic=yes
> 
> Is the driver module loaded when master is running? What dmesg says?
> 
> Best regards,

This is not a stupid question, I'm glad for any hint. However I did compile 
the generic module before.

Now I removed two slaves and it works! I readded them and it still works. 
Yesterday I tried the whole day to no avail. I'll let you know if it works 
tomorrow. Right now I have no idea why it works or why it didn't. Maybe there 
was a physical problem, and the native driver did not care.

On a different machine there seems to be a problem with mixing a 64 bit kernel 
with 32 bit userspace, but that won't be limited to the generic driver, and 
this setup is not so important.

A third machine where the generic driver failed is not available to me 
anymore. The native e100 driver worked on the same interface.

Thanks for your time,
Fabian

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