Access to CAN-Bus

[Thin Myrna]

Thin Myrna wrote:

Thanks for all your answers. 

I've just contacted the vendor for Linux support. If I went for an other
vendor (I'm on a notebook, so USB-hardware is needed): Does anyone have
especially good experiences with a particular one? Anyone I should stay
away from?

Kind regards
Thin 

> I'd like to access some drive hardware via CAN bus from Python under Linux
> (sending rec'ing PDOs). Googling around I couldn't find a Python package,
> but people who said that they are doing this, though. I guess they are
> using their home brewn software.
> 
> Any pointer to
> -  such software (anyone willing to share his experience?)
> -  how to write such software?
> 
> Under Windows, I guess, I could use some COM or ctypes functionality to
> access the hardware vendor's hardware. What if I wanted to access such
> hardware from Linux? Is there a package that allows that in a vendor (who
> doesn't support Linux) independent way?
> 
> Many thanks in advance
> Thin