You're right on the cusp, hang in there! From piecing together various posts I've managed to get mine working. I followed the stuff written here & got to the same point, an unresponsive shell that I had to Ctrl-C out of. Then I found this thread - RiPi's posts are very helpful. https://www.privatein...

<t>Hooking up a CAN interface is certainly something that I'm after doing with the rPi. I've hooked a MCP2510 to a MPC555 before & it was relatively straightforward. Not the most performant of CAN controllers but just fine for a lot of purposes as long as it doesn't have to deal with loads of me...