CANBus driver.

CANBus driver.

[Anders Peter Fugmann]

Hi.

Some of my fellow students and I, have started a project in which we 
have to implement a linux driver for a CANbus ISA card ( AROS: A-858D 
PCCAN -x ver. 1.12).

Does there exist any work on a CANBus driver for linux already?

Also, is there any interrest for this kind of driver, or would something 
like this end up on a useless outdated website?


Any comments welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Re: CANBus driver.

[Anders Peter Fugmann]

Hi Mark.

Thanks for your reply - its nice to hear the there is some interrest in 
out project.

Clayton, Mark wrote:

> I am always interested in CAN stuff on Linux.  Where can I find
> more info in the card you plan to use?  

See: http://www.kvaser.se

We will contact Kvaser to get the technical Specification. I cannot 
guarantee that we will be allowed to publish it, but if we are and you 
are interrested, i can send you a link when and if we get it.


I don't have many ISA
> slots left, so if decide to find a different card, make it PCI.
> I have a Infineon based reference board at home around which I 
> plan to develop a few software projects.

We have no influence on the card itself, I'm afaid. But we will stridt 
to make it very easy to change the hardware driver.

The driver we want to implement, is actually several drivers.
Since the CANBus is a bus, it is natual (for us) to implement it as 
such, so that it will be possible to load drivers on top of the hardware 
driver, which can communicate with specific hardware on the bus.


> 
> BTW, there are CAN drivers for several chip.  I have urls at home.
> I can send them to you in a few days.  Assuming I still have them.

I'm still very interrested.


> 
> Mark
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>

Regards
Anders Fugmann

 

Re: CANBus driver.

[David Woodhouse]

afu@fugmann.dhs.org said:
>  Does there exist any work on a CANBus driver for linux already?

See the Linux Lab Project at http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/

ISTR there were CAN drivers there at one point.

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Re: CANBus driver.

[Eric Sandeen]

Hi Anders - 

There is a bunch of code for Linux CANbus/DeviceNet drivers for SST
cards (sstech.on.ca) here:

http://home.att.net/~marksu/dn5136man.html

"This is a Linux driver and library of useful functions and utility
applications for the SST 5136-DN family of CAN bus/DeviceNet interface
boards."

SST makes these cards in various formats, pcmcia, PC104, isa...

Also found something here, not familiar with it though:

http://www.synergetic.com/linux/

Good luck,

-Eric

Anders Peter Fugmann wrote:

> Some of my fellow students and I, have started a project in which we 
> have to implement a linux driver for a CANbus ISA card ( AROS: A-858D 
> PCCAN -x ver. 1.12). 
> 
> Does there exist any work on a CANBus driver for linux already? 

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