Re: [Etherlab-users] Read/Write SDO during cyclic task

2024-05-16 Thread Ian Prochazka
Hello Clement, you should be able to call the SDO functions, but they must NOT be called from the cyclic task thread. AFAIR, they are blocking and they need several cyclic task thread cycles to execute. Best regards, Ian On 5/16/24 17:56, Clement Gaspard wrote: You don't often

[Etherlab-users] i225 driver?

2023-08-01 Thread Ian Prochazka
Hello All, do you know whether EtherCAT master driver for Intel i225 NIC exist ? Is anybody interested to update Linux legacy Intel driver for the EtherCAT ? We would be happy to pay for the work and keep the result in public domain. Thank you! and have a beautiful day :-) Ian --

Re: [etherlab-users] How to check if all slaves have reached operational state?

2018-10-04 Thread Ian Prochazka
Would user command from OS console give you the answer: x@x::~$ ethercat slaves The ethercat commands can be used while your application is running. Try 'ethercat --help' for other options Best regards, Ian

Re: [etherlab-users] waiting for received frames

2013-11-21 Thread Ian Prochazka
Sometime the issue is that etherCAT master loop does not need and should not be running as tight as possible, because the computer needs to do also some other tasks. But at the same time, the master needs to react to slave data as quickly as possible. So master initiates transaction with

Re: [etherlab-users] waiting for received frames

2013-11-21 Thread Ian Prochazka
Exactly!!! Thank you Shahbaz for great summary and reiteration. And even more useful than function ecrt_domain_received() that would need to be polled, seems to me or ecrt_master_receive() that would block and wait till data are available or any kind of asynchronous notification data are

Re: [etherlab-users] example code

2013-11-20 Thread Ian Prochazka
Yes, I would also be extremely interested in the patch. It would actually be very(!!!) useful to have available variation of ecrt_master_receive() that would block and wait till the transaction is done and then returns ASAP when it can. The other option would be some notification from master or

[etherlab-users] ethercat device reset ???

2013-10-04 Thread Ian Prochazka
Hello all, does anybody figured out how to reset EtherCAT device through EtherCAT master? The master needs to send 3 consecutive register (0x40) write frames. How to do that ? Thank you !!! Ian ___ etherlab-users mailing list