[etherlab-users] Machine freeze/reset on module load

[Florian Pose]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:53:21PM +0200, Felix Jirka wrote:
> After I adapted the rtai example code that is included with the master
> to my environment,
> I get the following output from the console:
> 
> [  351.804828] ec_rtai_sample: Starting...
> [  351.804923] EtherCAT: Requesting master 0...
> [  351.805010] EtherCAT: Successfully requested master 0.
> [  351.805095] ec_rtai_sample: Registering domain...
> [  351.805248] ec_rtai_sample: Registering PDO entries...
> [  351.805541] ec_rtai_sample: Activating master...
> [  351.805638] EtherCAT 0: Domain0: Logical address 0x00000000, 7
> byte, expected working counter 3.
> [  351.805744] EtherCAT 0:   Datagram domain0-0: Logical offset
> 0x00000000, 7 byte, type LRW.
> [  351.805873] EtherCAT 0: Master thread exited.
> [  351.805960] EtherCAT 0: Starting EtherCAT-OP thread.
> [  351.806105] ec_rtai_sample: Starting cyclic sample thread...
> [  351.806198] ec_rtai_sample: RT timer started with 31251/31251 ticks.
> [  351.806288] ec_rtai_sample: Initialized.
> 
> after the last message the machine does a reboot...
> 
> Could this be related to the use of the generic-ethernet driver?

Yes, as the documentation states, the generic Ethernet driver is not
usable with RTAI.

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Best regards,
Florian Pose

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