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0004 FORE Systems PCA-200E/SBA-200E ATM NIC driver
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0006
0007 This driver adds support for the FORE Systems 200E-series ATM adapters
0008 to the Linux operating system. It is based on the earlier PCA-200E driver
0009 written by Uwe Dannowski.
0010
0011 The driver simultaneously supports PCA-200E and SBA-200E adapters on
0012 i386, alpha (untested), powerpc, sparc and sparc64 archs.
0013
0014 The intent is to enable the use of different models of FORE adapters at the
0015 same time, by hosts that have several bus interfaces (such as PCI+SBUS,
0016 or PCI+EISA).
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0018 Only PCI and SBUS devices are currently supported by the driver, but support
0019 for other bus interfaces such as EISA should not be too hard to add.
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0022 Firmware Copyright Notice
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0024
0025 Please read the fore200e_firmware_copyright file present
0026 in the linux/drivers/atm directory for details and restrictions.
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0029 Firmware Updates
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0032 The FORE Systems 200E-series driver is shipped with firmware data being
0033 uploaded to the ATM adapters at system boot time or at module loading time.
0034 The supplied firmware images should work with all adapters.
0035
0036 However, if you encounter problems (the firmware doesn't start or the driver
0037 is unable to read the PROM data), you may consider trying another firmware
0038 version. Alternative binary firmware images can be found somewhere on the
0039 ForeThought CD-ROM supplied with your adapter by FORE Systems.
0040
0041 You can also get the latest firmware images from FORE Systems at
0042 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORE_Systems. Register TACTics Online and go to
0043 the 'software updates' pages. The firmware binaries are part of
0044 the various ForeThought software distributions.
0045
0046 Notice that different versions of the PCA-200E firmware exist, depending
0047 on the endianness of the host architecture. The driver is shipped with
0048 both little and big endian PCA firmware images.
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0050 Name and location of the new firmware images can be set at kernel
0051 configuration time:
0052
0053 1. Copy the new firmware binary files (with .bin, .bin1 or .bin2 suffix)
0054 to some directory, such as linux/drivers/atm.
0055
0056 2. Reconfigure your kernel to set the new firmware name and location.
0057 Expected pathnames are absolute or relative to the drivers/atm directory.
0058
0059 3. Rebuild and re-install your kernel or your module.
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0062 Feedback
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0065 Feedback is welcome. Please send success stories/bug reports/
0066 patches/improvement/comments/flames to <lizzi@cnam.fr>.
