From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Geggus Subject: Re: ODB-II Interfaces and Linux CAN? Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4F9A6DEA.5050900@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail.gnuher.de ([78.47.12.54]:44182 "EHLO mail.gnuher.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750771Ab2D0LuN (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:50:13 -0400 Received: from ultimate100.geggus.net ([2a01:198:297:1::1]) by mail.gnuher.de (envelope-from ) with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) id 1SNjgi-0002zz-1t for linux-can@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:50:12 +0200 Received: from news by ultimate100.geggus.net (envelope-from ) with local (Exim 4.72) id 1SNjgh-0003HF-9y for linux-can@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:50:11 +0200 Sender: linux-can-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: linux-can@vger.kernel.org Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: > The webpage talks about a "327 Chip" when searching for it, I find: > http://www.blafusel.de/obd/obd2elm327.html > http://www.elmelectronics.com/DSheets/ELM327DS.pdf Jepp this includes a description of the serial protocol. > This chip converts ODB (and CAN seems to be part of ODB) to serial. T= he > question is how the 327 in the autodia-e327 is converted to USB. They > probably use a standard USB-Serial converter chip.=20 They almost certaily do. > There is support for serial attached CAN adapters in mainline (IIRC),= but > I think it talks a different protocol. You are talking about slcan.c right? Probably I should just get me one of these cheap Interfaces. Sven --=20 Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius =E2=80=93 or at any = rate a programmer =E2=80=93 to understand and appreciate the simplicity (Dennis M. Ritchie) /me is giggls@ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web