EtherCAT Master does not show up in Labview after reinstall

[Lysandros]

Hello,

I recently had to reinstall Labview on my host notebook, because the SSD was formatted.

Although the PXI is recognized in the project tree, the EtherCAT-Modules (NI-9145 in this case) cannot be found.

Furthermore, the FPGA inside the NI-9145, seems to be recognizable, because the FPGA-Module shows up when I try to find it on the PXI target.

There must be an issue with a driver or that a driver is not correctly installed. However, in the MAX, there is no compatibility issue between the host notebook and the RT target, since and all software modules are on the same version. Does anybody have an idea what the cause is? Following software is installed:

Labview	2017, 32-bit
NI-DAQmx	17.6.0
NI Device Drivers	2018.01
PXI Platform Services	17.5.1
NI-Motion	17.0
NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT	2.4
VeriStand	2017
SoftMotion Module	2017 f1
LabVIEW Real-Time Module	2017
LabVIEW FPGA Module	2017 SP1

Thanks alot

Lysandros

[Karl-G · Accepted solution]

The EtherCAT driver is too old. EtherCAT 17.6 adds support for LabVIEW 2017 SP1.

http://www.ni.com/download/ni-industrial-communications-for-ethercat-17.6/7180/en/