Can bus shield set up

Can bus shield set up

[Kyle Crenshaw]

I have a canbus shield from elecfreaks.com and a pl2303 rs232 to usb cable hardware , and can-utils software installed.
I love would like to read the canbus data coming in through the shield by way of usb end of the cable.

Do I set this up with slcan as a can device (sudo ip link add dev slcan0 type can), ( slcand.....), or (slcan_attach...), or by another method I'm not aware of?

I'm running fedora 23 if it matters...

Thanks in advance.

Re: Can bus shield set up

[Oliver Hartkopp]

Hello Kyle,

I assume you won't have much fun with these parts:

The CAN bus shield has a SPI connected CAN controller MCP2515 which 
needs to be connected to a SPI capable CPU board (like the RasPi).

The pl2303 just makes a serial interface (no SPI).
The SLCAN protocol is 'more' high level than the SPI.

I assume the serial pins on the shield only connect the RasPi board.

Regards,
Oliver

On 04/04/2016 08:00 AM, Kyle Crenshaw wrote:
>
> I have a canbus shield from elecfreaks.com and a pl2303 rs232 to usb cable hardware , and can-utils software installed.
> I love would like to read the canbus data coming in through the shield by way of usb end of the cable.
>
> Do I set this up with slcan as a can device (sudo ip link add dev slcan0 type can), ( slcand.....), or (slcan_attach...), or by another method I'm not aware of?
>
> I'm running fedora 23 if it matters...
>
> Thanks in advance.--
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