nismECATAdapter.dll Not Found Error - cRIO 9082 RT

[James.M]

Hello,

I am deploying to a cRIO 9082 Realtime system. During the startup, the console outputs the above error, but I can't find anything referencing this dll online. It's like it doesn't exist. My best guess is that it's an NI EtherCAT Adapter? Here is the complete startup Console output:

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Datalight Reliance v2.10.1053
Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Datalight, Inc.

LabVIEW Real-Time Executive
Build Time: Jun 5 2014 14:22:59
(C) Copyright 2002-2014 National Instruments Corporation

MAX system identification name: Chassis1
LabVIEW Real-Time SMP Kernel: CPU cores found: 2
Initializing network...
Dev|Op M|Link|Driver|MAC Address |IP Address /Mask|Adapter Mode
* 1|Int |U |i1000e|00802F17EE7A|10.0.1.241 /24|TCP/IP (static)
Dev|Op M|Link|Driver|MAC Address |IP Address /Mask|Adapter Mode
2|Int |- |nigev |00802F17EE7B|- -|Disabled
Time sync source: ptp now active
Device 00802F17EE7A is now connected
System Web Server started
Application Web Server started
Error! nismECATAdapter.dll not found! (dependency)
SoftMotion Module initialized.
NI Scan Engine initialized.
NI-RIO Server 14.0.1 started successfully.

Startup Application: c:\ni-rt\startup\startup.rtexe

NI-VISA Server 14.0 started successfully.

Welcome to LabVIEW Real-Time 14.0

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Hopefully someone out there has seen this dll before?

Thanks,

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

Looks like you need to install the EtherCAT driver onto the cRIO and/or your system.  Here's a link to EtherCAT driver for Windows: NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT 14.0 - Windows

[James.M]

Well I'll be damned. I would have thought one of the 50 searches I did would have come up with that. Partly I guess I wasn't sure exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you! Hopefully this topic will show up if others need to find that library.

[PaulRB]

This is in the SoftMotion known issues list (although the error needs to be updated). You can ignore the error if you aren't using an EtherCAT device.

Thanks,