Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:21:40 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-serial@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-computone@lazuli.wittsend.com Subject: ANN: Computone serial cards: drivers and mailing list From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com> This is announcing the availability of device drivers for the Computone Intelliport II family of multiport serial cards on the 2.2 and 2.3 series Linux kernels. There is also now a mailing list for the Computone drivers and boards under linux. Mailing list instructions are at the bottom of this announcement. What is supported: The Computone Intelliport II family of multiport serial cards on ISA, PCI, and EISA busses. Up to four cards are supported in one system. These cards can share a single interrupt or use individual interrupts on a card by card basis. Cards can each support up to 4 expansion interface boxes. Expansion interface boxs can support up to 16 ports. That gives a capacity of up to 256 serial ports when all four boards are installed and fully populated. Some of the boards and expansion interface modules support port speeds of up to 921,600 Baud. For more hardware information, see the Computone web site: http://www.computone.com What is NOT supported: MCA bus at this time (Is there any demand? See the mailing list.) Computone products prior to the Intelliport II line. The earlier ATvantage and Intelliport cards are not support. These cards are very very old and have firmware that can not be upgraded. Sorry... Versions: Computone has been suppling "BETA" drivers (1.0 series) for the 2.0 kernels from their ftp site for some time. These drivers have now been enhanced and have been updated to work with the latest kernels (1.2 series drivers). The current driver version as of this annoucement is 1.2.1. The 1.2.1 drivers are available in two forms. From the Computone ftp site, the drivers are available in their conventional *.dd format, which is really a tar file which they intended to be "dd'ed" over to a floppy. Download the driver bundle from the Computone ftp site and install per the instructions in the README.computone file. It does not extract into its own subdirectory and is intended to be extracted into the [...]/linux/drivers/char directory. The Computone drivers for Linux are available on their ftp site at: ftp://ftp.computone.com/PUB/Products/IntelliPortII/Linux/BETA The 1.2.1 drivers are also available in a patch file against the 2.2.10 kernel source tree. This patch has been tested against and will patch 2.2.10ac4 and 2.3.8. It will, most likely, patch any of the 2.2 and 2.3 kernels prior to those. This patch file will NOT patch the 2.0 kernels. The 1.2.1 Computone drivers in kernel patch form is availble from: http://www.wittsend.com/computone/linux-2.2.10-ctone.patch.gz Earlier drivers are NOT available in this form. The 1.2.1 drivers will install into the 2.0 kernels, but you must use the patch bundle from the Computone ftp site and follow the instructions in the README.computone file. You can use either method for 2.2 and 2.3 kernels, depending on your preferences. The 1.2.1 drivers have been submitted to Alan Cox and we are wrorking to have them appear in the kernel source tree eventually. Mailing List Instructions: linux-computone Submissions: linux-computone@lazuli.wittsend.com The linux-computone list is managed by majordomo. To subscribe, please sent an e-mail to "majordomo@lazuli.wittsend.com" with the following in the body: subscribe linux-computone [optional e-mail address] Subscription to linux-computone is "open+confirm". That means that you must "confirm" your subscription before it becomes effective. Majordomo will send two messages to you. One is a status message which goes back to the sender of the request. One is a confirmation request which will go back to the address to be subscribed (which may be different if you specified an e-mail address on the subscribe command). That second message will contain instructions and a majordomo command line. Follow the instructions! Send a new message back to majordomo@lazuli.wittsend.com with the single command line in the body of the message. Simply replying to the confirmation request will not work. This open, unmoderated, mailing list is for discussion of the Computone products and device drivers on the Linux Operating system. This includes boards and drivers for the Intelliport II family of multiport serial cards but may also include things like the Computone Intelliserver or other standalone products which may be accessed or supported by the Linux operating system. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/