Windows 10 and EtherCAT

[stevem181]

Has anyone found a workaround to the problem of Windows 10 not supporting EtherCAT?

I'm trying to update a system with a cRIO that uses an NI-9144 chassis.

See the Hardware Driver section of the following:

National Instruments Product Compatibility for Microsoft Windows 10

steve

[Yin_W · Accepted solution]

Can you attach the MAX report here? Have you tried the EtherCAT 17.6?

[wiebe@CARYA]

I'm no expert, but looked at this a few times before.

As far as I understand, EtherCAT needs an EtherCAT device to enable deterministic EtherCAT. Ethernet (e.g. any network card) can communicate nondeterministic EtherCAT, but most drivers will refuse or disallow it.

I could be wrong a bit or completelly...

[stevem181]

Thanks Yin_W! You pointed me in the right direction.

I'm using LabVIEW 2015 sp1 so I installed version 16 CompactRIO drivers and EtherCat 16.1 and it worked.

The Windows 10 compatibility page is wrong (didn't see a way to report it).

steve

[Yin_W]

Thank you for the feedback. After checking, NI has already been aware of this issue. The Windows 10 compatibility page is under reviewing now.