PEAK-System Forum

Hi Michael,

By the way, there are two versions of Peak PCAN-USB: isolation and non-isolation.

What is the difference?

Which one should I choose?

Thanks.

Hi Michael,

This is the web of my CANUSB adapter:

https://gridconnect.com/usb-can-interface.html#

I thought it was from Peak. But it is not.

I think gridconnect offered Peak PCAN-USB adapter like this:
https://gridconnect.com/can-usb.html#

I have been using the manual of Peak's adapter for ...

HI Michael,

The status of LED after I plugged into my machine:
PWR : Solid green
COM RX: flashing green
Others: Off

The following is the dmesg outputs. It does not seem to recoginize the pcan device:

huihuili@huihuili-glaptop:~$ dmesg -T | grep pcan
[Tue Jul 17 03:02:38 2018] Modules linked ...

Actually I was not able to make successfully with only the command "make NET=NETDEV_SUPPORT":

huihuili@huihuili-glaptop:~/CAN/PCAN-USB/peak-linux-driver-8.5.1$ make NET=NETDEV_SUPPORT
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/huihuili/CAN/PCAN-USB/peak-linux-driver-8.5.1/driver'
Makefile:310: /usr/src ...

I think I got the the driver installed OK.

I ran "sudo modprobe pcan".

Then I ran cat /poroc/pcan and no device is not lised.


huihuili@huihuili-glaptop:~/CAN/PCAN-USB/peak-linux-driver-8.5.1$ cat /proc/pcan

*------------- PEAK-System CAN interfaces (http://www.peak-system.com ...

I was trying to set up the PCAN-USB adapter in my Ubuntu machine. I am plan to use SocketCAN. I was told that I dont need to install the driver because Linux comes with the driver for it. But when I plugged the PCAN-USB adapter to Linux machine. I cannot see it listed in /dev/*.

Then I tried to ...