MPO-700 installation

Installation

1. Install Ubuntu

The easiest way to get our ros packages installed is to use a longterm support ubuntu release (for example ubuntu 14.04).

2. Install ROS on Ubuntu

See this page to install ROS Indigo on ubuntu.

3. Install CAN Driver

Download the latest driver from this Page.

Extract the driver.

Build the driver:

    cd your_extracted_driver_files
    make NET=NO PCI=NO PCC=NO ISA=NO
    sudo make install

For further information take a look at the installation info from PeakSys.

Reboot your System.

Now your CAN devices should be listed in /dev/pcanXYZ (e.g. /dev/pcan0)

    sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-libpcan
    sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-libntcan