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Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/* Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult, the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated. Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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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
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to the Linux operating system. It is based on the earlier PCA-200E driver
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written by Uwe Dannowski.
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The driver simultaneously supports PCA-200E and SBA-200E adapters on
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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
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same time, by hosts that have several bus interfaces (such as PCI+SBUS,
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PCI+MCA or PCI+EISA).
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Only PCI and SBUS devices are currently supported by the driver, but support
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for other bus interfaces such as EISA should not be too hard to add (this may
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be more tricky for the MCA bus, though, as FORE made some MCA-specific
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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
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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
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uploaded to the ATM adapters at system boot time or at module loading time.
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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
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is unable to read the PROM data), you may consider trying another firmware
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version. Alternative binary firmware images can be found somewhere on the
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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
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORE_Systems. Register TACTics Online and go to
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the 'software updates' pages. The firmware binaries are part of
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the various ForeThought software distributions.
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Notice that different versions of the PCA-200E firmware exist, depending
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on the endianess of the host architecture. The driver is shipped with
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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
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configuration time:
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1. Copy the new firmware binary files (with .bin, .bin1 or .bin2 suffix)
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to some directory, such as linux/drivers/atm.
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2. Reconfigure your kernel to set the new firmware name and location.
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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/
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patches/improvement/comments/flames to <lizzi@cnam.fr>.
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