On 26.08.2010 20:00, Jason wrote: > I have a strong linux background (desktop,server,embedded) and I'm > interested in learning how my car works. I dug through the latest > kernel git source and saw a few devices under drivers/net/can/. > Unfortunately, I have no way of telling which are stable, available in > the US, etc.
Hi Jason, as Marc already pointed out usually the vendor of the specific CAN Hardware can be found in the Kconfig file or in the source :-) And the drivers that are in mainline can be seen as stable. > Can anyone here recommend and good starting out device? I'd prefer > something I can plug into my laptop, but a development board running > embedded linux is fine also. I'd like to stay under $100US if possible > but I can exceed that if necessary. 100$ is an ambitious price target ... > What do you folks use? For my Laptop environment i *personally* use PCMCIA cards from EMS Wuensche and PEAK System (also the new PCIexpress card with a PEAK_PCI driver from the SocketCAN SVN and a tiny HW patch). We also use PCAN USB adapters, which require the PEAK driver that's not in Linux Mainline. If you'd like to use mainline drivers there are two USB CAN interfaces from EMS Wuensche and ESD that support the latest netlink CAN configuration interface and should work excellent out of the box. There's also a low-cost USB CAN adapter (http://www.canusb.com) that is priced at $99 on it's website. This adapter uses an ASCII protocol via an USB-RS232 adapter integrated inside the hardware. This adapter requires the slcan driver from the SocketCAN SVN and some handling to switch the serial line discipline. There's no real handshake nor flow control on the serial line ... but i know people using it :-) > Thanks for any pointers, With hope that gave you some of them ... Regards, Oliver _______________________________________________ Socketcan-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-users
