Re: Any chance to get the Softing CAN-AC PCI card to run with socketcan?

[Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>]

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Hello,

On 08/09/2012 04:40 PM, Bernhard Thiele wrote:
> I wonder if anyone could give me an answer whether there is way to
> get the Softing-AC PCI card running with the current code base.
> 
> The card has an SJA1000 chip that seems to be supported by linux-can
> for some devices. However, for Softing devices I've only found
> support for the Softing PCMCIA cards in the source tree.

Have you tried to load the generic plx_pci driver?

> Is there are a way to get a Softing-AC PCI card running with linux-can?

If softing has attached the sja1000 with a plx pci bridge, it's probably
not to complicated to add support to the existing plx_pci driver. A
non-socketcan softing driver may be of help here.

> P.S.: I hope this post is not off-topic for this list that seems
> mainly to be used by developers. If there is an active forum or
> mailing list for users, I'll gladly take any pointers to that address
> and repost there.

This is the correct mailing list.

Marc
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