Yes, Dont solder Rx-serial to Rx-CAN-bus. The email/posts above are
concerning the RTS pin and allocating another BeagleBone to it: the DMA one
and not GPIO one

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 6:46 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello
> may be there is wrong hardware design with Waveshare RS485/CAN Cape. I
> don't think is good idea to connect RS485 driver RX pin to CAN driver TX
> pin. if you desolder can driver rs485 should work fine.
>
> br
> harry
>
> On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 3:52:07 PM UTC+3, Matthew Bezuidenhout wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For days now, I've been attempting to get the Waveshare RS485/CAN Cape to
>> work on Beaglebone black.
>>
>> I've used kernels 4.4.x and 4.9.x-ti mainline, and encountered the same
>> problem.
>>
>> The cape can use any UART (have been trying with one), and requires the
>> use of pin P9_42 (0x164) as an RTS pin.
>>
>> The dtbo (standard from https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays
>> which uses pin P9_27) loads fine using
>>
>>    echo BB-UART4-RS485 > /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/slots
>>
>> A "cat /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr" reveals the slot has been
>> loaded correctly.
>>
>> The HDMI has successfully been disabled.
>>
>> Three problems arise:
>>
>> PROBLEM 1:
>> The wavheshare cape requires the pulldown of both UART pins (I used
>> UART4), as it leaves the pins floating through the RS485 transceiver if
>> left standard. Now, the tricky thing is, if I enable BB-UARt4-RS485 in the
>> /boot/uEnv.txt file, it loads the cape fine, but will not do pulldowns. If
>> I allow the beaglebone to boot, then echo the BB-UART.... at slots, the
>> pulldown works and the transceiver can send a signal through, which is
>> curious as it is exactly the same dtbo it loads, whether from uEnv.txt or
>> echo.
>>
>> PROBLEM 2:
>> Once loaded using echo after start, if I "cat /proc/tty/driver/serial"
>> immediately after loading UART RS485 overlay, the flags I'm presented with
>> are as below:
>>
>> 0: uart:8250 mmio:0x44E09000 irq:158 tx:8304 rx:0 RTS|CTS|DTR|DSR
>> 1: uart:unknown port:00000000 irq:0
>> 2: uart:unknown port:00000000 irq:0
>> 3: uart:unknown port:00000000 irq:0
>> 4: uart:8250 mmio:0x481A8000 irq:198 tx:0 rx:0 CTS|DSR
>> 5: uart:unknown port:00000000 irq:0
>>
>>
>> Showing UART4 (the one I'm using) has not loaded the CTS and RTS flags
>> appropriately. However, if, before performing the cat, I screen into ttyS4
>> or ttyO4 or echo some characters at the port, and then I perform the "cat"
>> as above, the RTS and DTR flags are both raised on 4. Thereafter, if I
>> screen in on ttyO4, and then quit, the RTS flag disappears after a cat.
>> Weird.
>>
>> However, regardless of these results, I'm left with the following main
>> problem,
>>
>> PROBLEM 3:
>> Regardless of the flag position or whether I use the default
>> BB-UART4-RS485-00A0.dtbo from the source, the RTS pin does not switch (both
>> P9_27 and P9_42 are unresponsive to any efforts to communicate on the
>> UART4, where the UART transmits as evidenced by the oscilliscope, but the
>> oscilliscope shows that the RTS pin P9_42/27 does not move at all). I need
>> to get pin 9_42 to switch for RTS during uart, else this cape (and the
>> beaglebone) are useless to me.
>>
>> After copious amounts of time reading up on this, it seems that its a
>> common problem, and something to do with the OMAP serial driver vs the 8250
>> driver malfunctioning? If someone could provide some insight to the
>> problem, or a guide on how to get RTS working on this Beaglebone I'd be
>> very appreciative.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Matt.
>>
>>
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