From ad2d7740e5a962bf5c8bb58ca5ee6d2fe9a6bcd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Pose Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:34:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated README etc. --- INSTALL | 10 ++++------ README | 14 +++++++------- README.EoE | 7 ++++--- TODO | 1 + 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index faebc717..afcf5a22 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -9,14 +9,12 @@ $Id$ Building and installing ======================= -The building and installation procedure is described in section 2.1 in the -EtherCAT master documentation available from http://etherlab.org/ethercat. +The build and installation procedure is described in section 2.1 in the +documentation available from http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -For the impatient: - -The procedure mainly consists of calling +For the impatient: The procedure mainly consists of calling $ ./configure $ make modules @@ -26,7 +24,7 @@ $ make modules # make install # make modules_install -...and copying the init script and sysconfig file from $prefix/etc to the +...and copying the init script and sysconfig file from $PREFIX/etc to the appropriate locations and customizing the sysconfig file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/README b/README index b479239d..a1c765ce 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ Contents: 1) General Information ====================== -This is an Open-Source EtherCAT master implementation for Linux 2.6. +This is an open-source EtherCAT master implementation for Linux 2.6. See the FEATURES file for a list of features. For more information, see -http://etherlab.org/ethercat. +http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat. or contact @@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ master. 2) Hardware requirements -The EtherCAT master needs a RTL8139 (or compatible) network interface card to -run. Drivers for other widespread devices (i. e. Intel PRO/100) will be -implemented soon. +The EtherCAT master needs a RTL8139 (or compatible), Intel PRO/1000 or nVidia +nForce network interface card to run. Drivers for other widespread devices (f. +e. Intel PRO/100) will be implemented soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ See the INSTALL file. Realtime patches for the Linux kernel are supported, but not required. The realtime processing has to be done by the calling module (see API -documentation). The EtherCAT master code itself is completely passive (except -for the idle mode). +documentation). The EtherCAT master code itself is passive (except for the idle +mode and EoE). To avoid frame timeouts, deactivating DMA access for hard drives is recommented (hdparm -d0 ). diff --git a/README.EoE b/README.EoE index 7afe871e..61635318 100644 --- a/README.EoE +++ b/README.EoE @@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ This file shall give additional information on how to set up a network environment with Ethernet-over-EtherCAT devices. A virtual network interface will appear for every EoE-capable slave. The -interface naming scheme is eoeXsY, where X is the master index and Y is the -slave's ring position. Please provide a network configuration file for any of -these interfaces. On SUSE systems, these can look like the following: +interface naming scheme is either eoeXsY, where X is the master index and Y is +the slave's ring position, or (if the slave has an alias set) eoeXaZ, where Z +is the (decimal) alias address. Please provide a network configuration file for +any of these interfaces. On SUSE systems, these can look like the following: /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eoe0s14: IPADDRESS=10.0.0.14/8 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 2d47e227..1487e3cb 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Version 1.4.0: * Remove ecdb.h and let lsec output PDO information 'cut-and-pastable' for applications. * Update documentation. +* Create table of supported network devices and add link inside README. Future issues: