The reply to all of course... Roland
Roland Tollenaar wrote: > Hi, >>> >>> Has a rt_nemesis driver been written? >> >> None that I'm aware of. What's the related Linux driver's name? > Simply nemesis if I am not mistaken. Found the link in > /sys/...../driver->nemesis and lsmod | grep "nemesis" confirmed the > existence of such a module. I would never have guessed. > >> >>> If not, how impossible is it to create one? >> >> Rarely impossible, only few hardware is so weird that you cannot >> convince it to send/receive deterministically given a non-chaotic >> network (like RTmac/TDMA, Ethercat, or other RT protocols ensure). > Sounds difficult if one has little experience with this. I am just > starting to read your paper "RTnet-A flexible Hard Real-Time Networking > Framework" so you can imagine that I am probably not quite up to the task. > > The intention was to set up a slave to test the rtnet installation which > works in loopback mode. To my surprise the laptop I was going to set up > as slave did not have a realtek chip. Goes to show how deceptive casings > can be it looks identical to my master laptop which does have a 8139 > chip. :) How reliable is the loopback test advised in the documentation > as an indication that rtnet is working perfectly? (The rtping test) > > I am in the process of getting EML running (well I have it compiled and > installed but have not incorporated it in my code yet.) I was wondering > how rtnet awaits its slave response from an Ethercat slave? Sorry about > the newbie question feel free not to answer it ;) > > Regards, > > Roland. > > > > >> >> Jan >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ RTnet-users mailing list RTnet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-users
