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List:       linux-atm
Subject:    Re: Linux drivers for FORE cards ...
From:       mb14 () irz301 ! inf ! tu-dresden ! de (Martin Borriss)
Date:       1996-12-02 8:56:15
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Matt Welsh wrote:
 > Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.epfl.ch> writes:
 > > Mike Flouris wrote:
 > > > We recently bought two FORE SBA-200 cards for our
 > > > PC's. They work just fine in Windows NT with our
 > > > switch but we want to expirement on Linux too.
 > > 
 > > Many people have expressed interest in a Fore driver, some even said that
 > > they'd work on it, but nothing has emerged from this yet :-(
 > 
 > By the way, anyone interested in doing such a driver for the FORE-200
 > boards should defintely check out the U-Net code. I have code there
 > which initializes board memory, downloades the firmware to the i960 RAM,
 > all of the tools used to communicate with the i960 over the 'soft UART'
 > interface, and so on. 
 > 

In case the original poster means the PCA-200E cards, this is what is worked
at here. Current status is that card initialization, firmware downloading
etc. work fine. The U-NET code is helpful, I agree.

Martin

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