ltpc.txt
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- This is the ALPHA version of the ltpc driver.
- In order to use it, you will need at least version 1.3.3 of the
- netatalk package, and the Apple or Farallon LocalTalk PC card.
- There are a number of different LocalTalk cards for the PC; this
- driver applies only to the one with the 65c02 processor chip on it.
- To include it in the kernel, select the CONFIG_LTPC switch in the
- configuration dialog. You can also compile it as a module.
- While the driver will attempt to autoprobe the I/O port address, IRQ
- line, and DMA channel of the card, this does not always work. For
- this reason, you should be prepared to supply these parameters
- yourself. (see "Card Configuration" below for how to determine or
- change the settings on your card)
- When the driver is compiled into the kernel, you can add a line such
- as the following to your /etc/lilo.conf:
- append="ltpc=0x240,9,1"
- where the parameters (in order) are the port address, IRQ, and DMA
- channel. The second and third values can be omitted, in which case
- the driver will try to determine them itself.
- If you load the driver as a module, you can pass the parameters "io=",
- "irq=", and "dma=" on the command line with insmod or modprobe, or add
- them as options in /etc/modules.conf:
- alias lt0 ltpc # autoload the module when the interface is configured
- options ltpc io=0x240 irq=9 dma=1
- Before starting up the netatalk demons (perhaps in rc.local), you
- need to add a line such as:
- /sbin/ifconfig lt0 127.0.0.42
- The address is unimportant - however, the card needs to be configured
- with ifconfig so that Netatalk can find it.
- The appropriate netatalk configuration depends on whether you are
- attached to a network that includes AppleTalk routers or not. If,
- like me, you are simply connecting to your home Macintoshes and
- printers, you need to set up netatalk to "seed". The way I do this
- is to have the lines
- dummy -seed -phase 2 -net 2000 -addr 2000.26 -zone "1033"
- lt0 -seed -phase 1 -net 1033 -addr 1033.27 -zone "1033"
- in my atalkd.conf. What is going on here is that I need to fool
- netatalk into thinking that there are two AppleTalk interfaces
- present; otherwise, it refuses to seed. This is a hack, and a more
- permanent solution would be to alter the netatalk code. Also, make
- sure you have the correct name for the dummy interface - If it's
- compiled as a module, you will need to refer to it as "dummy0" or some
- such.
- If you are attached to an extended AppleTalk network, with routers on
- it, then you don't need to fool around with this -- the appropriate
- line in atalkd.conf is
- lt0 -phase 1
- --------------------------------------
- Card Configuration:
- The interrupts and so forth are configured via the dipswitch on the
- board. Set the switches so as not to conflict with other hardware.
- Interrupts -- set at most one. If none are set, the driver uses
- polled mode. Because the card was developed in the XT era, the
- original documentation refers to IRQ2. Since you'll be running
- this on an AT (or later) class machine, that really means IRQ9.
- SW1 IRQ 4
- SW2 IRQ 3
- SW3 IRQ 9 (2 in original card documentation only applies to XT)
- DMA -- choose DMA 1 or 3, and set both corresponding switches.
- SW4 DMA 3
- SW5 DMA 1
- SW6 DMA 3
- SW7 DMA 1
- I/O address -- choose one.
- SW8 220 / 240
- --------------------------------------
- IP:
- Yes, it is possible to do IP over LocalTalk. However, you can't just
- treat the LocalTalk device like an ordinary Ethernet device, even if
- that's what it looks like to Netatalk.
- Instead, you follow the same procedure as for doing IP in EtherTalk.
- See Documentation/networking/ipddp.txt for more information about the
- kernel driver and userspace tools needed.
- --------------------------------------
- BUGS:
- IRQ autoprobing often doesn't work on a cold boot. To get around
- this, either compile the driver as a module, or pass the parameters
- for the card to the kernel as described above.
- Also, as usual, autoprobing is not recommended when you use the driver
- as a module. (though it usually works at boot time, at least)
- Polled mode is *really* slow sometimes, but this seems to depend on
- the configuration of the network.
- It may theoretically be possible to use two LTPC cards in the same
- machine, but this is unsupported, so if you really want to do this,
- you'll probably have to hack the initialization code a bit.
- ______________________________________
- THANKS:
- Thanks to Alan Cox for helpful discussions early on in this
- work, and to Denis Hainsworth for doing the bleeding-edge testing.
- -- Bradford Johnson <bradford@math.umn.edu>
- -- Updated 11/09/1998 by David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>