Add a CAN device in CANdevStudio

Start a new project and grab a CanDevice from the left pane in the Device Layer section and drop it on the grid workspace. Right-Click on it and open its Properties. Here you have to set the backend and the interface name you'll want to use. Backend available are:

• socketcan: CAN stack present by default in the Linux Kernel. This use Linux socket and open source CAN device driver (More information here).
• systeccan: CAN bus backend using the SYS TEC CAN adapters.
• peakcan: CAN bus plugin using the PEAK CAN adapters.
• tinycan: CAN bus plugin using the MHS CAN adapters.
• vectorcan: CAN bus plugin using the Vector CAN adapters.

More details about CANdevStudio CAN bus support here.

Interface is the name of the device you want to use. Bring up your CAN device and use the following command to find out which one are available:

ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp0s25: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 90:b1:1c:6b:b2:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: virbr0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:56:86:80 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: virbr0-nic: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel master virbr0 state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:56:86:80 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: docker0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default
    link/ether 02:42:81:38:a8:75 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
12: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 72 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/can