From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Evans Subject: Re: Standard CAN over IP Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:50:22 +1100 Message-ID: <54D2BE4E.7090202@optusnet.com.au> References: <54D284B4.5050501@uni-bremen.de> Reply-To: tom_usenet@optusnet.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail110.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.97]:53588 "EHLO mail110.syd.optusnet.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966372AbbBEAuZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2015 19:50:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-can-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Mike Purvis , Armin Burchardt Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org On 05/02/15 08:38, Mike Purvis wrote: > Armin=E2=80=94 > > Fantastic, thanks for the pointer, this is just what I was looking > for. I've given it a quick try, and the binary in Ubuntu 14.04's > can-utils package appears to do what I want in terms of creating a ne= t > device. > > For future travellers, the protocol is documented in the slcan.c > source file, from the kernel tree: That Kconfig in drivers/net/can also has the following in it: config CAN_SLCAN As only the sending and receiving of CAN frames is implemented, this driver should work with the (serial/USB) CAN hardware from: www.canusb.com / www.can232.com / www.mictronics.de / www.canhack.de If your PC has spare serial ports, or if you want to buy some reliable=20 USB-to-serial converters, then you might want to consider the above-men= tioned=20 serial-to-can devices: http://www.can232.com/?page_id=3D14 Or the normal USB ones on the above site. They might be cheap enough fo= r you.=20 Or you could start here: http://www.mictronics.de/projects/usb-can-bus/ Tom