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| FORE Systems PCA-200E/SBA-200E ATM NIC driver |
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| This driver adds support for the FORE Systems 200E-series ATM adapters |
| to the Linux operating system. It is based on the earlier PCA-200E driver |
| written by Uwe Dannowski. |
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| The driver simultaneously supports PCA-200E and SBA-200E adapters on |
| i386, alpha (untested), powerpc, sparc and sparc64 archs. |
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| The intent is to enable the use of different models of FORE adapters at the |
| same time, by hosts that have several bus interfaces (such as PCI+SBUS, |
| PCI+MCA or PCI+EISA). |
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| Only PCI and SBUS devices are currently supported by the driver, but support |
| for other bus interfaces such as EISA should not be too hard to add (this may |
| be more tricky for the MCA bus, though, as FORE made some MCA-specific |
| modifications to the adapter's AALI interface). |
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| Firmware Copyright Notice |
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| Please read the fore200e_firmware_copyright file present |
| in the linux/drivers/atm directory for details and restrictions. |
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| Firmware Updates |
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| The FORE Systems 200E-series driver is shipped with firmware data being |
| uploaded to the ATM adapters at system boot time or at module loading time. |
| The supplied firmware images should work with all adapters. |
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| However, if you encounter problems (the firmware doesn't start or the driver |
| is unable to read the PROM data), you may consider trying another firmware |
| version. Alternative binary firmware images can be found somewhere on the |
| ForeThought CD-ROM supplied with your adapter by FORE Systems. |
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| You can also get the latest firmware images from FORE Systems at |
| http://www.fore.com. Register TACTics Online and go to |
| the 'software updates' pages. The firmware binaries are part of |
| the various ForeThought software distributions. |
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| Notice that different versions of the PCA-200E firmware exist, depending |
| on the endianess of the host architecture. The driver is shipped with |
| both little and big endian PCA firmware images. |
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| Name and location of the new firmware images can be set at kernel |
| configuration time: |
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| 1. Copy the new firmware binary files (with .bin, .bin1 or .bin2 suffix) |
| to some directory, such as linux/drivers/atm. |
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| 2. Reconfigure your kernel to set the new firmware name and location. |
| Expected pathnames are absolute or relative to the drivers/atm directory. |
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| 3. Rebuild and re-install your kernel or your module. |
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| Feedback |
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| Feedback is welcome. Please send success stories/bug reports/ |
| patches/improvement/comments/flames to <[email protected]>. |
