[opensuse] CAN Bus users?
Is anyone using the CAN Bus with openSUSE? I see that a few of the drivers are available as modules on 11.2. I am exploring what it will take to use CAN Bus devices on openSUSE. Any feedback or suggestions for bus interface cards are welcome. There is some general CAN Bus info for Linux here: http://www.armadeus.com/wiki/index.php?title=CAN_bus_Linux_driver http://developer.berlios.de/projects/socketcan/ -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Dienstag, 14. September 2010, 11:48:36 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
Is anyone using the CAN Bus with openSUSE?
I am currently starting with project, that includes controlling servo drives using CAN bus. The customer primarily needs Windows software, but likes to have Linux support if isn't too difficult and using LGPL libraries is fine for him. Even opensourcing is an option.
I see that a few of the drivers are available as modules on 11.2. I am exploring what it will take to use CAN Bus devices on openSUSE. Any feedback or suggestions for bus interface cards are welcome. There is some general CAN Bus info for Linux here:
http://www.armadeus.com/wiki/index.php?title=CAN_bus_Linux_driver
The devices used for my project are already select by my customer, so I have no choice there. Fortunately, he has chosen CAN bus hardware from Peak System (http://www.peak-system.com). They provide properly licensed linux drivers and I already packaged them (home:hgraeber:drivers). There exists an openCAN project (http://freshmeat.net/projects/opencan), that tries to abstract from different CAN bus devices. It is based on Qt. I haven't done a deeper look into it, so I don't know if it is really useful for my project. So my plan is to use Qt for the gui and support both Windows and Linux. Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:07 +0200, Herbert Graeber wrote:
The devices used for my project are already select by my customer, so I have no choice there. Fortunately, he has chosen CAN bus hardware from Peak System (http://www.peak-system.com). They provide properly licensed linux drivers and I already packaged them (home:hgraeber:drivers).
Thanks for that. I see that they provide the socketCAN interface. I think I will investigate using that as our API. Have you used their products? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Mittwoch, 15. September 2010, 07:55:52 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:07 +0200, Herbert Graeber wrote:
The devices used for my project are already select by my customer, so I have no choice there. Fortunately, he has chosen CAN bus hardware from Peak System (http://www.peak-system.com). They provide properly licensed linux drivers and I already packaged them (home:hgraeber:drivers).
Thanks for that. I see that they provide the socketCAN interface. I think I will investigate using that as our API. Have you used their products?
No, I haven't used them yet, but my customer has used it with some test software made by peak system and their drive manufacturer. I will start with using the USB device next week. This is the CAN bus interface most important for my customer, because it is easiest to incorporate into existing systems. Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 00:07 +0200, Herbert Graeber wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 15. September 2010, 07:55:52 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:07 +0200, Herbert Graeber wrote:
The devices used for my project are already select by my customer, so I have no choice there. Fortunately, he has chosen CAN bus hardware from Peak System (http://www.peak-system.com). They provide properly licensed linux drivers and I already packaged them (home:hgraeber:drivers).
Thanks for that. I see that they provide the socketCAN interface. I think I will investigate using that as our API. Have you used their products?
No, I haven't used them yet, but my customer has used it with some test software made by peak system and their drive manufacturer. I will start with using the USB device next week. This is the CAN bus interface most important for my customer, because it is easiest to incorporate into existing systems.
I would be interested to hear how well the devices work for you. I am going to try the socketCAN API that seems to be the standard for Linux. I intend to use this with an inertial navigation system from http://www.oxts.com/. We are hoping to get at some of the low level data so we can replace some expensive 3D gyroscopes and inclinometers with those embedded in these devices. This secondary information from the device is available via CAN, among other interfaces. So, at this time we are merely exploring options. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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