Installation guide
PowerMAX OS Installation
CAN-API Installation
Manual • Doc. No.: C.2001.21 / Rev. 3.0 •
© 2000-2007 esd gmbh
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4.3.2 Sequence of Installation Under PowerMAX OS
1. Copy the tar-Archive vmecan4_v1.2.tar in the Home Directory
2. Unpacking the Archive
In order to unpack the tar-archive the following command has to be called:
tar xvf vmecan4_v1.2/ican4
Note:
‘
ican4
’ has to be entered for the VME-CAN4 module. For other modules the
character combination shown in the following table has to be entered. The same
applies to the following commands.
CAN Module Entry Syntax
VME-CAN2
ican2
VME-CAN4
ican4
Table 20:
Input syntax for unpack the archive
3. Generating the ‘inodes’ (as Superuser)
cd 4_2/vmecan4_v1.2/ican4/
or
cd 4_3/vmecan4_v1.2/ican4/
4. Only at the First Installation: Add Adapter Definition
At the first installation of the CAN modules the following lines hat to be added to the file
/usr/include/sys/adapt3er_vme.h/
:
#define ADAPTER_ICAN2 (AVB+0x12) /* 0x212 - esd ican2 */
#define ADAPTER_ICAN4 (AVB+0x13) /* 0x213 - esd ican4 */
5. Only if an Existing Driver is Updated:
If an existing driver should be updated, the following line is necessary:
modadmin -U ican4
6. Installation
- in case of first installation:
./install -f
with following reboot
- in case of an update:
./install -u










