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Hello,

building the current PCAN driver 8.3.1 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel 3.0.101 fails when netdev mode is required.


be23723@test2:~/driver/pcan/peak-linux-driver-8.3.1> make NET=NETDEV_SUPPORT
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/be23723/driver/pcan/peak-linux-driver-8.3.1/driver ...

The restart-ms option is only provided by the Linux mainline driver.
The PEAK Linux 8.x driver does not provide all 'ip' functionalities you can get from the mainline drivers.


Ok. I assumed driver 8.1 was now able to support all. But, as Stéphane always said, the documentation will be updated ...

Hi,

fortunately it is still possible to set the CAN baudrate by using: echo "i 0x0014 e" > /dev/pcan0 No option for setting bitrates would make the new pcan driver unusable for us.

But about the "restart-ms" option. It is also only available for newer kernels? We miss this option sadly, because we ...

Hmm

regards
F.Benad

Hello,

We have problems to configure the new peak linux driver V. 8.1 compiled in netdev/SocketCAN mode with the RTNETLINK interface. For some reasons we want to use the Linux SocketCAN interface for our CAN environment. We use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-SP4 with kernel 3.0. This kernel ...