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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.
- The driver simultaneously supports PCA-200E and SBA-200E adapters on
- i386, alpha (untested), powerpc, sparc and sparc64 archs.
- 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,
- or PCI+EISA).
- 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.
- Firmware Copyright Notice
- -------------------------
- Please read the fore200e_firmware_copyright file present
- in the linux/drivers/atm directory for details and restrictions.
- Firmware Updates
- ----------------
- 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.
- 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.
- You can also get the latest firmware images from FORE Systems at
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORE_Systems. Register TACTics Online and go to
- the 'software updates' pages. The firmware binaries are part of
- the various ForeThought software distributions.
- Notice that different versions of the PCA-200E firmware exist, depending
- on the endianness of the host architecture. The driver is shipped with
- both little and big endian PCA firmware images.
- Name and location of the new firmware images can be set at kernel
- configuration time:
- 1. Copy the new firmware binary files (with .bin, .bin1 or .bin2 suffix)
- to some directory, such as linux/drivers/atm.
- 2. Reconfigure your kernel to set the new firmware name and location.
- Expected pathnames are absolute or relative to the drivers/atm directory.
- 3. Rebuild and re-install your kernel or your module.
- Feedback
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- Feedback is welcome. Please send success stories/bug reports/
- patches/improvement/comments/flames to <lizzi@cnam.fr>.
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