Appendix E Linux - Peak PCAN-USB FD User Manual

Appendix E
Depending on the Kernel version, device drivers for the CAN interfaces from PEAK-
System are already included in the operating system. The PCAN interfaces are
handled as network devices (SocketCAN, netdev). You can find the documentation
for SocketCAN under:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/can.txt
The following command lists the available drivers:
grep PEAK_ /boot/config-`uname -r`
Whether the required driver for the PCAN interface is present and loaded can be
checked with the following command:
lsmod | grep ^peak check
If the initialization was successful, the response line starts with peak_usb.
You can find a recent list of which PCAN interface is supported from which kernel
version onwards on our Linux website.
Attention: Since the end of 2022 there is PCAN-USB FD with a
different hardware version, which is only supported with kernel 6.x
and higher or with the peak-linux-driver-8.15.
If the required drivers are not listed, install the "Driver Package for Proprietary
Purposes". The download and documentation for the driver can also be found on:
www.peak-system.com/linux
This driver package is also needed to use the APIs based on the chardev driver, for
example PCAN-Basic, libpcan, or libpcanfd.

Appendix E Linux

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