This had me for the whole morning. I solved it eventually by reading the 
schematic - thanks for making that available.
I've posted a message to the maintainer of the google doc with a suggestion 
on how to make the setup clearer with regard to the necessity of either 5v 
barrel jack or J4.


On Monday, 15 June 2015 17:21:51 UTC+2, Bruno Luiz wrote:
>
> After the BBB CANTX worked (as I reported above), I tried some other 
> things to discover why the transceiver was not generating any output. The 
> main issue which was causing trouble is that the CBB needs an 5V power 
> source connected to the BeagleBone. Now all is working fine and I did some 
> scripts and a small guide for other devs, available at 
> https://github.com/brnluiz/bbb-can-installer.
>
> Strange that 5V power source requirement was not alerted at the CBB-Serial 
> cape manual. I discovered that checking the electrical diagram, which took 
> time and could be alerted by the manufacturer.
>
> Other thing is that I tested the device without any CAN Device or 120 ohms 
> resistor at the CANH and CANL and it worked (I used an oscilloscope to 
> check it). The cape already provides a 120 resistor (R10). After that I 
> tried with some CAN devices here and it worked too.
>
> On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 6:21:02 PM UTC-3, Bruno Luiz wrote:
>>
>> I put BBB to send data via DCAN_TX but the problem is that the CBB-Cape 
>> don't output nothing (and I have other BBB with the same cape, running 
>> candump). To make the BBB send something I used the RobertCNelson guide 
>> (above) and created this script:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> wget 
>> http://www.pengutronix.de/software/libsocketcan/download/libsocketcan-0.0.10.tar.bz2
>> tar xvjf libsocketcan-0.0.10.tar.bz2
>> cd libsocketcan-0.0.10
>> ./autogen.sh
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> wget 
>> http://pengutronix.de/software/socket-can/download/canutils/v4.0/canutils-4.0.6.tar.bz2
>> tar xvjf canutils-4.0.6.tar.bz2
>> cd canutils-4.0.6
>> ./autogen.sh
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> It installed the most "recent" version of both. The canconfig was:
>> canconfig can0 bitrate 1000000 ctrlmode triple-sampling on loopback off 
>> listen-only off restart-ms 50
>>
>> Without the restart-ms the BBB DCAN always go to BUS-OFF state. In 
>> loopback tests it didn't happen.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Bruno Luiz <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> I checked that when I run any "cansend" or "cangen" the interface go to 
>> BUS_OFF state (with ip -details link show can0). I tried to install 
>> libsocketcan, but it didn't worked too. How I check if my kernel is 
>> configured rightly for SocketCAN?
>>
>>
>> On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 3:50:55 PM UTC-3, Bruno Luiz wrote:
>>
>> I ran "candump can0" in one BeagleBone and, at the other BBB, "cangen 
>> can0 -D 11223344DEADBEEF -L 8". Both BBB had the same disk image (I just 
>> changed the device IPs) and use the same cbb cape model. Each cape is 
>> connected with a cutted ethernet cable, so the only thing that is not in 
>> the bus is the 120 ohms parallel resistor. Well, after the commands it, 
>> didn't worked (no logs or some output on osciloscope).
>>
>> ifconfig log:
>>
>> ############### candump device:
>> 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:182 
>>
>>
>> ############### cangen device:
>> can0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
>> 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
>>           UP NOARP  MTU:16  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:3 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:24 (24.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>>           Interrupt:182 
>>
>>
>> The strangest thing was the "cat /proc/net/can/stats". When I was running 
>> the "cangen device" it increases TXF, but the "candump device" change 
>> nothing. I can't figure out what could be happening. The stats logs:
>>
>> ############### cangen device:
>> 5363 transmitted frames (TXF) # This increases
>> 3 received frames (RXF)
>> 0 matched frames (RXMF)
>>
>> 0 % total match ratio (RXMR)
>> 5 frames/s total tx rate (TXR)
>> 0 frames/s total rx rate (RXR)
>>
>> 0 % current match ratio (CRXMR)
>> 5 frames/s current tx rate (CTXR)
>> 0 frames/s current rx rate (CRXR)
>>
>> 0 % max match ratio (MRXMR)
>> 5 frames/s max tx rate (MTXR)
>> 3 frames/s max rx rate (MRXR)
>>
>> 0 current receive list entries (CRCV)
>> 0 maximum receive list entries (MRCV)
>>
>>
>> ############### candump device:
>> 0 transmitted frames (TXF)
>> 0 received frames (RXF)
>> 0 matched frames (RXMF)
>>
>> 0 % total match ratio (RXMR)
>> 0 frames/s total tx rate (TXR)
>> 0 frames/s total rx rate (RXR)
>>
>> 0 % current match ratio (CRXMR)
>> 0 frames/s current tx rate (CTXR)
>> 0 frames/s current rx rate (CRXR)
>>
>> 0 % max match ratio (MRXMR)
>> 0 frames/s max tx rate (MTXR)
>> 0 frames/s max rx rate (MRXR)
>>
>> 1 current receive list entries (CRCV)
>> 1 maximum receive list entries (MRCV)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:58 PM, evilwulfie <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> Not much good to play with can with no other can bus things on the bus. 
>> If your writing
>> software use Vcan and simulate your can device so you can get a jump 
>> programming your application
>> until you have a device on your bus.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/2/2015 5:19 PM, William Hermans wrote:
>>
>> *Meanwhile, as your setup is almost the same of mine, could you run the 
>> cangen and test the output (canh + gnd or canl + gnd) with an oscilloscope 
>> to see if it transmits something without any CAN device?*
>>
>>
>> No can do. The board is hooked up to an external CAN device. Logging 
>> data. 
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Bruno Luiz <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> My "dmesg | grep cape" seems right 
>>
>> [    3.373227] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: Baseboard: 
>> 'A335BNLT,000C,4014BBBK3429'
>> [    3.373249] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: 
>> compatible-baseboard=ti,beaglebone-black
>> [    3.433139] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #0: No cape found
>> [    3.493138] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #1: No cape found
>> [    3.553156] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #2: No cape found
>> [    3.583214] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #3: 
>> 'cape-CBB-Serial,r01,Logic Supply,cape-CBB-Serial'
>> [    3.583478] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: initialized OK.
>> [    3.602192] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #3: dtbo 
>> 'cape-CBB-Serial-r01.dtbo' loaded; overlay id #0
>>
>> and my "lsmod" too
>> can_raw                 5383  1 
>> can                    26347  1 can_raw
>> omap_sham              18661  0 
>> omap_aes               12035  0 
>> usb_f_acm               6692  1 
>> u_serial                9442  3 usb_f_acm
>> usb_f_ecm               8898  1 
>> g_multi                 5722  0 
>> usb_f_mass_storage     40017  2 g_multi
>> usb_f_rndis            21091  2 g_multi
>> u_ether                11080  3 usb_f_ecm,usb_f_rndis,g_multi
>> libcomposite           43102  5 
>> usb_f_acm,usb_f_ecm,usb_f_rndis,g_multi,usb_f_mass_storage
>> omap_rng                4188  0 
>> c_can_platform          6169  0 
>> rng_core                6965  1 omap_rng
>> c_can                   9105  1 c_can_platform
>> can_dev                11344  1 c_can
>> uio_pdrv_genirq         3169  0 
>> uio                     8006  1 uio_pdrv_genirq
>>
>> My "/sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/44e10800.pinmux/pingroups"
>>
>> registered pin groups:
>> group: pinmux_clkout2_pin
>> pin 109 (44e109b4.0)
>>
>> group: pinmux_uart0_pins
>> pin 92 (44e10970.0)
>> pin 93 (44e10974.0)
>>
>> group: nxp_hdmi_bonelt_pins
>> pin 108 (44e109b0.0)
>> pin 40 (44e108a0.0)
>> pin 41 (44e108a4.0)
>> pin 42 (44e108a8.0)
>> pin 43 (44e108ac.0)
>> pin 44 (44e108b0.0)
>> pin 45 (44e108b4.0)
>> pin 46 (44e108b8.0)
>> pin 47 (44e108bc.0)
>> pin 48 (44e108c0.0)
>> pin 49 (44e108c4.0)
>> pin 50 (44e108c8.0)
>> pin 51 (44e108cc.0)
>> pin 52 (44e108d0.0)
>> pin 53 (44e108d4.0)
>> pin 54 (44e108d8.0)
>> pin 55 (44e108dc.0)
>> pin 56 (44e108e0.0)
>> pin 57 (44e108e4.0)
>> pin 58 (44e108e8.0)
>> pin 59 (44e108ec.0)
>>
>> group: nxp_hdmi_bonelt_off_pins
>> pin 108 (44e109b0.0)
>>
>> group: pinmux_mmc1_pins
>> pin 88 (44e10960.0)
>>
>> group: pinmux_emmc_pins
>> pin 32 (44e10880.0)
>> pin 33 (44e10884.0)
>> pin 0 (44e10800.0)
>> pin 1 (44e10804.0)
>> pin 2 (44e10808.0)
>> pin 3 (44e1080c.0)
>> pin 4 (44e10810.0)
>> pin 5 (44e10814.0)
>> pin 6 (44e10818.0)
>> pin 7 (44e1081c.0)
>>
>> group: user_leds_s0
>> pin 21 (44e10854.0)
>> pin 22 (44e10858.0)
>> pin 23 (44e1085c.0)
>> pin 24 (44e10860.0)
>>
>> group: pinmux_i2c0_pins
>> pin 98 (44e10988.0)
>> pin 99 (44e1098c.0)
>>
>> group: pinmux_i2c2_pins
>> pin 94 (44e10978.0)
>> pin 95 (44e1097c.0)
>>
>> group: nxp_hdmi_bonelt_pins
>> pin 108 (44e109b0.0)
>> pin 40 (44e108a0.0)
>> pin 41 (44e108a4.0)
>> pin 42 (44e108a8.0)
>> pin 43 (44e108ac.0)
>> pin 44 (44e108b0.0)
>> pin 45 (44e108b4.0)
>> pin 46 (44e108b8.0)
>> pin 47 (44e108bc.0)
>> pin 48 (44e108c0.0)
>> pin 49 (44e108c4.0)
>> pin 50 (44e108c8.0)
>> pin 51 (44e108cc.0)
>> pin 52 (44e108d0.0)
>> pin 53 (44e108d4.0)
>> pin 54 (44e108d8.0)
>> pin 55 (44e108dc.0)
>> pin 56 (44e108e0.0)
>> pin 57 (44e108e4.0)
>> pin 58 (44e108e8.0)
>> pin 59 (44e108ec.0)
>>
>> group: nxp_hdmi_bonelt_off_pins
>> pin 108 (44e109b0.0)
>>
>> group: cpsw_default
>> pin 66 (44e10908.0)
>> pin 67 (44e1090c.0)
>> pin 68 (44e10910.0)
>> pin 69 (44e10914.0)
>> pin 70 (44e10918.0)
>> pin 71 (44e1091c.0)
>> pin 72 (44e10920.0)
>> pin 73 (44e10924.0)
>> pin 74 (44e10928.0)
>> pin 75 (44e1092c.0)
>> pin 76 (44e10930.0)
>> pin 77 (44e10934.0)
>> pin 78 (44e10938.0)
>> pin 79 (44e1093c.0)
>> pin 80 (44e10940.0)
>>
>> group: cpsw_sleep
>> pin 66 (44e10908.0)
>> pin 67 (44e1090c.0)
>> pin 68 (44e10910.0)
>> pin 69 (44e10914.0)
>> pin 70 (44e10918.0)
>> pin 71 (44e1091c.0)
>> pin 72 (44e10920.0)
>> pin 73 (44e10924.0)
>> pin 74 (44e10928.0)
>> pin 75 (44e1092c.0)
>> pin 76 (44e10930.0)
>> pin 77 (44e10934.0)
>> pin 78 (44e10938.0)
>> pin 79 (44e1093c.0)
>> pin 80 (44e10940.0)
>>
>> group: davinci_mdio_default
>> pin 82 (44e10948.0)
>> pin 83 (44e1094c.0)
>>
>> group: davinci_mdio_sleep
>> pin 82 (44e10948.0)
>> pin 83 (44e1094c.0)
>>
>> group: pinmux_bb_uart2_pins
>> pin 85 (44e10954.0)
>> pin 84 (44e10950.0)
>>
>> group: pinmux_bb_uart4_pins
>> pin 28 (44e10870.0)
>> pin 29 (44e10874.0)
>> pin 16 (44e10840.0)
>> pin 34 (44e10888.0)
>>
>> group: pinmux_dcan1_pins
>> pin 97 (44e10984.0)
>> pin 96 (44e10980.0)
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 5:32:48 PM UTC-3, Bruno Luiz wrote: 
>>
>> Well, testing it with the oscilloscope, following the Robert Nelson 
>> guide, it didn't worked. It is very strange that nothing is outputted while 
>> I am probing the CANH/CANL/GND channels, as I did with the DSP (with the 
>> DSP it worked). I am going to try to find some CAN device here to test it, 
>> but I still think that is strange.
>>
>> Meanwhile, as your setup is almost the same of mine, could you run the 
>> cangen and test the output (canh + gnd or canl + gnd) with an oscilloscope 
>> to see if it transmits something without any CAN device?
>>
>> PS: the buffer didn't got full when without CAN devices, as the manual 
>> said that would happen. Although, in earlier tests, when I was without the 
>> cape (I tested right off the DCAN1 pins) this problem happened.
>>
>> On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 9:28:38 PM UTC-3, William Hermans wrote: 
>>
>> According to the Logic Supply serial cape manual . . .
>>
>> *Important:*
>>
>> *You cannot just test the CAN Bus software without connecting the 
>> CBB-Serial hardware to another CAN device.  You need to be connected to a 
>> receiving CAN device so that ACK (acknowledge) packets get sent and the CAN 
>> sender can mark it as sent (i.e. stop buffering it), otherwise the buffer 
>> gets full after a short period of time and all future writes to the CAN Bus 
>> will fail.*
>>
>>
>> We've pretty much duplicated the exact steps you've done with the 
>> exception of connecting the beaglebone + serial cape to an external CAN 
>> device. We've also tested kernels 3.8.x, 3.14.x, and 4.1.x( most recently 
>> ). They all work. Most curious though . . 
>>
>>
>>
>> *I am working with a BeagleBone Black rev C for a project using CAN. I am 
>> using the CBB-Serial-r02 cape because we need the UART features too*
>>
>> We're using  . . .
>>
>>
>> [email protected] <javascript:> password:
>> Last login: Mon May 11 20:23:49 2015 from 192.168.7.1
>> debian@beaglebone:~$ cat /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/slots
>>  0: 54:P---L *cape-CBB-Serial,r01,Logic Supply,cape-CBB-Serial*
>>  1: 55:PF---
>>  2: 56:PF---
>>  3: 57:PF---
>>
>>
>> Curious because you say you're using an r2, where we're using and r1. Is 
>> this a Logic Supply board ?
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:16 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I am working with a BeagleBone Black rev C for a project using CAN. I am
>> > using the CBB-Serial-r02 cape because we need the UART features too. The
>> > problem is that CAN is not working. I did a lot of things to test it on 
>> a
>> > 3.8-rt kernel from RobertCNelson (which is only PREEMPT), but it didn't
>> > worked at all. Some things that I did:
>> >
>> > 1) Always modprobe the can modules (can, can-dev, can-raw)
>> > 2) Compiled and installed canutils, always using the "cangen can0" to 
>> test
>> > the can output
>> > 3) Always run "ip link set can0 up type can bitrate 125000; ifconfig 
>> can0
>> > up" to activate can0
>> > 4) Installed the CBB-Serial-r02 dtbs from the official repository, even 
>> that
>> > the debian image that I used already includes it
>> > 5) Test the output with an osciloscope. I did the same test with an 
>> EzDSP
>> > 28335 and it worked, so it is not a problem with this part of the method
>> > 6) I tried to do a candump can0 with the DSP generating random data, 
>> but the
>> > candump didn't show any data
>> >
>> > I recompiled 3.14 kernel using the dtb-rebuilder (instructions on this
>> > tutorial:
>> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/beagleboard/_9u1B6ZkgCU/K2ARgwfC490J) 
>> and
>> > enabling the DCAN1 (because DCAN0 disables the I2C used for capemgr) 
>> and it
>> > didn't worked too.
>> >
>> > Well, I ran out of options here. Some one is having problems with the 
>> rev C
>> > and CAN too or that is some problem with my method?
>>
>> No reason to double post to the group. ;)
>>
>> can0/can1 works on 3.14/4.1.x
>>
>> Right now i'd recommend you use v4.1.x and utilze cape overlays..
>>
>> Step 1: update kernel:
>>
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.1.0-rc6-bone5
>> sudo reboot
>>
>> Step 2: clone overlay repo:
>>
>> git clone https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays
>> cd ./bb.org-overlays
>>
>> Update dtc:
>> ./dtc-overlay.sh
>>
>> Install overlays:
>> ./install.sh
>>
>> reboot..
>>
>> the CBB-Serial-r02 cape should be auto-detected..  if not, please reply 
>> with:
>>
>> dmesg | grep cape
>>
>> So i can add it..
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
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>> https://rcn-ee.com/
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