PEAK-System Forum

Hi all -

I have a PCAN-miniPCIe FD and I'm curious if anyone has a particular preference towards a specific Linux distro for running a production system with this device.

I tried using Ubuntu 19.04 but encountered difficulties with getting the driver to behave. I stepped my system down to Ubuntu 18.04 and the driver behaves now, however system startup is slow and I still have the overhead of Ubuntu. I was thinking about loading up Debian but wanted to check in to see if anyone has a preference towards a different distro that plays nice with the drivers.

Any thoughts?

Hi,

which distro is the best is a question which we can't answer, but if you want to use the kernel SocketCAN drivers, you need a kernel version 4.14 or higher, to have the PCAN-miniPCIe FD card directly supported by the kernel. If you want to use a distro with an older kernel version, you have to install our latest peak-linux-driver-8.x.

regards

Michael