Re: [Linux-ATM-General] Old ATM155 PCI card

[Mike W. <we...@cs...>]

The ATM tools can be made to work in a perfectly reliable manner
with Fedora Core 4,  (but as I recall I had to get a special 1 - off
distribution of one component from Eric Kenzie to overcome one
issue in one component that was gagging the gcc included in FC-4).

That may well be patched at source forge now.

More problematic is the performance of old cards in new hardware.

I developed and maintain a driver for the Interphase 5515. 

I have had troubles getting these old cards to work reliably
in either of a couple of one year old IBM/Lenovo desktops and
in a Sun i86 box acquired this year.   The ia5515's continue
to work fine under FC4 on 2 year old and older PC's also running
FC-4. 

The new systems work fine with Interphase 5575's and the HE
so if you have a really old card you might want to try it in a
really old system.

Mike





Goodhew, Miles wrote:

>Hi all,
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>>Dan Page wrote:
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>>>I have an old Forbe/marconi pca-200e PCI atm 155mb card
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>>that I've been
>>    
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>>>pulling my hair out trying to get to work.  All the
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>>information I can
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>>>find for it is for kernel 2.1, or older and for some reason
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>>this doesn't
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>>>seem to compile correctly on Fedora 5.   my current kernel
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>>is 2.6.17 and
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>>>i have atm-linux.i386 installed, and the kernel module (I think).  I
>>>don't wish to waste a lot of this mailing lists time, just a link to
>>>some helpful information would be great.  Thanks
>>>      
>>>
>
>	We have a few of these here at TransACT. I had similar problems using Redhat/Fedora due (if I recall correctly) to the arrangement/location of kernel source and headers under Fedora. Using Debian Sarge solved all my problems.
>	Note though that I just use the cards for reading/writing raw AAL5 data streams to PVCs. There's no higher-level protocols used. aread/awrite and br/bw are the only tools I use.
>
>M0les.
>
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