It runs like a charm

Not just the setup with the device overlay got dead simple. Also the CAN interface looks much more reliable than with previous RPI distributions. That is perfect.

Everybody has a spare PI somewhere. Get the MCP2515_CAN Module and a 7 pole cable to get ir CAN ready.

pi@rpicanlog:~ $ ifconfig -a
can0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
          UP RUNNING NOARP  MTU:16  Metric:1
          RX packets:153196 errors:0 dropped:6 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:81423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
          RX bytes:841370 (821.6 KiB)  TX bytes:651349 (636.0 KiB)