INSTALL
author Florian Pose <fp@igh-essen.com>
Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:45:53 +0200
changeset 1533 bd150d066ea2
parent 1331 7cd33a77f926
child 1883 57b500c062fe
permissions -rw-r--r--
Fixed SDO upload segment response for 10 bytes mailbox length (thanks to Joerg
Mohre).
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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 complete build and installation procedure is described in the respective
section of the documentation available from http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat.

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For the impatient: The procedure mainly consists of calling

$ ./configure
$ make all modules

... and as root:

# make modules_install install
# depmod

... and linking the init script and copying the sysconfig file from $PREFIX/etc
to the appropriate locations and customizing the sysconfig file.

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

Make sure, that the 'udev' package is installed, to automatically create the
EtherCAT character devices. The character devices will be created with mode
0660 and group root by default. If you want to give normal users reading
access, create a udev rule like this:

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

Now you can start the EtherCAT master:

# /etc/init.d/ethercat start

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

Have fun!

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