Recent changes: July 3, 1997 

Richard Krakhofer (Austria) made the necessary modifications to compile 
under 2.0.x but could not test the driver because he did not have the
device. But he inspired us to debug the driver ...

Michael Engel (University of Siegen, Germany) re-adapted the driver to  
kernel 2.0.30, debugged and tested it on his and my notebook computer. 
The driver now seems to work without prior initialization from DOS. Please
report ...

Questions about the driver to: engel@informatik.uni-siegen.de

Greetings from Siegen, 
             Matthias Kasimir (kasimir@4u.net)

If anyone knows Ron Smits' recent email, please tell me.

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The original README follows below.
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This is a loadable module for a accton ethernet parallel pocket
adaptor. The adaptor is made bu Accton in Tawain, but can be bought
under different names like 'Trust' 'Networld' and several others.

The original sources were provided by accton.com.tw. Thank you very
much!

8390.c and skeleton.c were used as starting point Thank you Donald
Becker, excellent work!!

The driver was written by Volker Mayer Zum Bexten and me over a period
of several months.  This version is the second one that is being
released to the public. We hope that a lot of people will find joy in
using the driver.

The driver will find it's own IO address and irq, but if you have a
strange one, you can give them as command arguments:
	insmod ethpk.o ethpk_io=0x378 ethpk_irq=7 
There is a debug level with ethpk_debug.  Turning this on will fill
your syslog file fast!!

The driver is at the moment still a bit messy, but it works.  unpack
the sources in an empty directory and compile them by issueing 'make'
this will leave you with a loadable module 'ethpk.o'

This second release is made for 1.3.35 kernel, it works like a
charm. The source for 1.2.X kernel can be made available if you want,
just mail me. The source is still a bit messy, but it works fine.For
porblems with this driver please e-mail me at
Ron.Smits@Netherlands.attgis.com


	Happy netting!!





