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Installation Guide
5.2
Real-Time Ethernet Driver
In order to use the standard PC network card of a PC as EtherCAT Master, an additional
Real-Time Ethernet Driver shall be installed.
The driver can be installed directly from the TwinCAT development environment. Open (the
most recent version of) Visual Studio from the TwinCAT icon located on the Windows task bar:
Select the menu
“TwinCAT” → “Show Realtime Ethernet Compatible Devices…”. All the
network cards of the PC where the Real-Time Ethernet Driver was not yet installed will be
listed either under “Compatible devices” or under “Incompatible devices”.
