| 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 | |
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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. | |
| 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>. |