hey Problem happens with intel e1000e as well as realtek. One way to bypass it is to boot the master while the ethernet-ethercat cable is disconnected, and once master claims the interface , connect this cable. This appears to work. So , There some sort of of initialisation error.
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Raz <[email protected]> wrote: > I still do not have a scenario. it "sometimes" happens. The > -DRTL8169_DEBUG is something i did not know, so i will check and see. thx > > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Jeroen Van den Keybus < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there a difference between cold and warm boot ? Does unloading the ec >> driver, loading/unloading the stock r8169 driver and then reloading the ec >> driver work better ? Same scenario but with Realtek drivers (r8168) ? Also >> perhaps compile with -DRTL8169_DEBUG ? >> >> Just some thoughts. >> >> J. >> >> >> 2013/12/2 Raz <[email protected]> >> >>> The timeouts happens after the system boots and not while slaves are in >>> in OP mode. So my transmit is irrelevant here, even though a transmit >>> happens only from a single thread of through an ioctl ( SDO reads and so >>> on..) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Jeroen Van den Keybus < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> 1. why do you disable the rtl8169_phy_timer timer ? >>>>> >>>> >>>> The rtl8169_phy_timer is regularly polled in ec_poll instead. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> 2. In rtl_hw_start_8168 : why do disable RTL_W16(IntrMask, >>>>> tp->intr_event); ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> The drivers are all non-blocking and interrupt-free. All work that >>>> interrupt handlers normally do is done in ec_poll instead. >>>> >>>> If you cannot send packets anymore, I suspect that you may have overrun >>>> the tx queue, i.e. sent a packet before the previous one has been >>>> completed. You're also not calling the ethercat transmission functions from >>>> different threads, right ? >>>> >>>> >>>> thank you >>>>> raz >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> https://sites.google.com/site/ironspeedlinux/ >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> etherlab-users mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> https://sites.google.com/site/ironspeedlinux/ >>> >> >> > > > -- > https://sites.google.com/site/ironspeedlinux/ > -- https://sites.google.com/site/ironspeedlinux/
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