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United 'ethercat slaves' and 'ethercat list' with a verbose flag.
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This is the INSTALL file of the IgH EtherCAT Master.
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$Id$
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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 fun!
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