Hello All, About me: I am new to the EtherCat/Etherlab world and not a long time user of RTAI. I have decent Linux experience however.
I installed and tested all the Etherlab-Bundle-1.6 on our future real-time system running Debian-stable. It was relatively painless experience except for few ftp download paths and finding the right linux and rtai config files. I hope things are now complete in this area. Tested the result with our Beckhoff I/O devices and they are correctly detected and reported as slaves in the syslog. I have a problem about the proper way to install the Simulink part of Etherlab. As suggested in the etherlab documentation etherlab-bundle-1.6/etherlab-1.2-rc4v/README we have the case when our Matlab/Simulink/RTW system is not the same as our real-time system. I do not have root access on the matlab server. I will have to make the RTW part of etherlab available to the Matlab path. The README file suggests compilation of the etherlab like this on the matlab machine: ./configure --disable-kernel; make; make install I had to add some prefix option to install in my user account on the matlab server, but I guess this is not a problem? However I get the message that no linux sources are found (correctly) and I suspect later I will get the message that no RTAI is found on the Matlab server. What would be the proper way to handle situation like this? One possibility would be to copy to my matlab user account all the linux source three from the RT machine to the Matlab machine and also the rtai part in /opt. This is possible, there is no space limitation. But is this the right approach? Other option I can imagine is to copy only the RTW path to the matlab machine, but I am not sure this would be sufficient and the paths will be different. I tried to search for such info in your web pages and mail list, but I found none. Any ideas and advice? Thanks! -- Julian Stoev, PhD. Control Researcher _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
