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Its not often that this happens, but after careful consideration I have decided this is far beyond my reach at this time. There is a lot of things to learn about ethernet, etherCat, and how it all...

@ Dave (macracket), missed your post before, must have crossed posted. I looked quickly at the link, is that a SBC or something to hook to my SBC?

I had hair on my head as of yesterday, but now I seem to have it mostly pulled out. I am sure glad I have you guys here helping me with this. There is LOTS to read this weekend.

Ooh good stuff Walter!! Thanks for that. Not sure if I am reading correctly, but it seems the pic stuff has a 24 for them comm part then an 18 for the brain? Maybe something about the PHL(?) or...

Thanks for the in depth reply Henrik. I had to laugh at myself when you did the math for me, that is usually my first thing when looking at others stuff. It has been brought to my attention the 20Us...

I am using SBC. you can pic them up pretty cheap (<$100 in most cases), and they are plenty powerful enough to run the linux stuff. Typically they have 1 PCI slot and some built in's. ALWAYS they...

I have No problem with my desire to explain what I am trying to do, but clearly have a huge problem actually explaining it. Thanks Henrik for bringing some clarity to this for me. Here goes my next...

Been over to the mother site. I seems that the 18f87j60 may be just the ticket. :)

Ok, let me give this another go. In the beginning there was the ISA bus. It was quite simple to make a card to plug into it and have I/O using an 8255 or simular. Then that was replaced with the PCI...

Oh thanks Steve. More to say now, the PC side will be handled by linux/EMC2. On the PIC side, I need to get faster then 115K - I think. Really best case is a parallel output. So I guess I don't...

I have a need to use the ethernet port for I/O connection to the outside world. I have no need to gain access to any networks, I just want to be able to send and recieve data to a PC. Think of this...