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Added a section about EtherNet/IP incompatibility (#205)
* Added a section about EtherNet/IP incompatibility * Added missing colon * Attempt to get correctly rendering issue reference * Use relative link for issue reference * Added missing period Co-authored-by: G.A. vd. Hoorn <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: G.A. vd. Hoorn <[email protected]>
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**Note:** This error can also show up, when the ROS driver is not running.
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### When starting the program on the TP, I get a `C207A0` error.
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**Note:** With the current driver version this issue can only happen when the fieldbus is enabled
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*after* the ROS driver has been started. Otherwise you will run into [#204](../../issues/204) when starting the driver
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with an enabled EtherNet/IP fieldbus.
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Most probably, the EtherNet/IP fieldbus is enabled in the robot's installation. If your setup includes an
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Ethernet/IP fieldbus (note: EtherNet/IP != ethernet), make sure that it is
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connected properly. In the Ethernet/IP fieldbus Installation screen
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the fieldbus scanner can indeed be made). If you don't use EtherNet/IP
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fieldbusses at all, you can disable it in the same installation screen.
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### When starting the driver, it crashes with `Variable 'speed_slider_mask' is currently controlled by another RTDE client`
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Probably, you are running into [#204](../../issues/204). Currently, this driver cannot be used together with an enabled
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EtherNet/IP fieldbus. Disable EtherNet/IP to workaround this error. [#204](../../issues/204) contains a guide how to do
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this.
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### I cannot get a realtime kernel running together with an NVIDIA graphics card
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This is a known issue and unfortunately we don't have a solution for this. The Nvidia kernel module
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seems to not compile with every kernel. We recommend to use a multi-machine ROS setup in this

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