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The PEAK-System PC-CAN interfaces product family is fully operational with any Linux OS.
Many Linux distributions, or rather the used Linux Kernels, already contain the drivers for PEAK-System's CAN interfaces. The CAN interfaces are then accessed via the common SocketCAN framework as network devices (aka netdev).
If you are using Linux environments missing a driver (e.g. minimized Linux environments, older Kernels) or you want to use our character-based driver (chardev) e.g. in connection with the PCAN-Basic API, you need our PCAN Driver for Linux package and compile the driver yourself.
Open a terminal and type: grep PEAK_ /boot/config-`uname -r`
All PEAK drivers are listed (y = included in kernel, m = separate module) but this may not work in every Linux environment.
Open a terminal and type: lsmod | grep ^peak
If, for example, a USB-based CAN interface from PEAK is connected and initialized, the output will be at least one line starting with peak_usb
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peak_*
mainline drivers you need.peak_*
mainline drivers that are out-of-date or might contain issues.We provide the PCAN-Basic API to allow the development of your own CAN applications for Linux. Programmers can use the languages C++, Java, and Python 2.x. More information about PCAN-Basic is available at its product web page.
PCAN-View is a simple CAN monitor software for receiving and transmitting CAN and CAN FD messages. PCAN-View for Linux is based on the NCurses library.
The pcanview-ncurses Debian package depends on the libncurses5 one. Thus, when pcanview-ncurses is downloaded from this website, libncurses5 should be installed first:
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5
$ sudo dpkg --install pcanview-ncurses-xxx.deb