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This is the INSTALL file of the IgH EtherCAT Master.

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Building and installing

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The build and installation procedure is described in section 2.1 in the

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documentation available from http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat.

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For the impatient: The procedure mainly consists of calling

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$ ./configure

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$ make

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$ make modules

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(and as root)

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# make install

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# make modules_install

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...and linking the init script and copying the sysconfig file from $PREFIX/etc

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to the appropriate locations and customizing the sysconfig file.

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# ln -s ${PREFIX}/etc/init.d/ethercat /etc/init.d/ethercat

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# cp ${PREFIX}/etc/sysconfig/ethercat /etc/sysconfig/ethercat

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# vi /etc/sysconfig/ethercat

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The EtherCAT character device will be created with mode 0660 and group root by

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default. If you want to give normal users reading access, create a udev rule

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like this:

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# echo KERNEL==\"EtherCAT[0-9]*\", MODE=\"0664\" > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-EtherCAT.rules

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Now you can start the EtherCAT master:

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# /etc/init.d/ethercat start

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Have a look at the examples/ subdirectory for some application examples.

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Have fun!

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