CAN utils in TX2 without CAN transceiver?

I’m interested in using CAN in TX2. I read many topics in NVIDIA Jetson TX2 Forum. I followed the steps for setting the CAN environment. Now, I can see can0 and can1 when I type ‘ifconfig -a’ in Ubuntu terminal. The below is when I type ifconfig -a

nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ ifconfig -a
can0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:16 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:171

can1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:16 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:172

dummy0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ce:f4:6c:8d:13:0a
BROADCAST NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:4b:8d:17:c8
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:42

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:341 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:341 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:29129 (29.1 KB) TX bytes:29129 (29.1 KB)

tunl0 Link encap:IPIP Tunnel HWaddr
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:4b:8d:17:c6
inet addr:192.168.0.57 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2c70:964a:f665:6d06/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3758653 (3.7 MB) TX bytes:365182 (365.1 KB)

Also, when I type ‘ip -details -statistics link show can0’ I can see the below.
6: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 10
link/can promiscuity 0
can state ERROR-ACTIVE (berr-counter tx 0 rx 0) restart-ms 0
bitrate 1000000 sample-point 0.750
tq 25 prop-seg 14 phase-seg1 15 phase-seg2 10 sjw 1
mttcan: tseg1 2…255 tseg2 0…127 sjw 1…127 brp 1…511 brp-inc 1
mttcan: dtseg1 1…31 dtseg2 0…15 dsjw 1…15 dbrp 1…15 dbrp-inc 1
clock 40000000
re-started bus-errors arbit-lost error-warn error-pass bus-off
0 0 0 0 0 0
RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast
0 0 0 0 0 0
TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
0 0 0 0 0 0

I can’t convince that I did right. Is this right?
Also, I wanna send any signal to test the CAN. Is it possible to use the command cansend without any connection between TX2 and CAN transceiver? e.g. cansend can0 123#abcdabcd

Hi,

The basic theory of CAN says,
A CAN node consists of a CAN Controller and a transceiver.
Controller and transceiver together implements the full protocol stack.

Tegra:
TX2 has support of 2 CAN controllers as part of SoC.
Hence you will need to have CAN transceivers to do a full set-up for CAN communication.

Please refer to the below link for further connection between TX2 CAN controller and transceiver.

[url]OBD / CAN bus connector TX2 - BMW - Jetson TX2 - NVIDIA Developer Forums

Thanks & Regards,
Sandipan