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	   ADVANTECH industial comunication cards device driver
                 Installation Guide  for  Redhat 9 
	    Copyright (C) 2008, Advantech eAutomation Division.
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This README file describes the HOW-TOs of driver installation.

1. Test environment

   +----------------+--------------------+-------------+---------------+
   | Distribution   | Kernel version     | gcc version | glibc version |
   |----------------+--------------------+-------------+---------------|
   | Redhat 9       | 2.4.20-8.i686      | 3.2.2-5     | 2.3.2         |
   +----------------+--------------------+-------------+---------------+

2. Installation

2.1. Login as 'root' before executing the following instructions.

2.2. Uncompress the driver
   # tar zxvf adv950_vM_NN_rh9.tar.gz
   # cd adv950_vM_NN_rh9

2.3. Install the driver module
   # make install 
   # make node
   
2.4. Test driver and get serial port type configuration
   # make test

2.5. If you want the Linux bring up module at each boot,
   please follow the steps showing below.
   a. add "insmod /YOURLOCATION/adv950_vM_NN_rh9/adv950.o" to
      /etc/rc.d/rc.local

2.6. Enable quick response
   If you expect intervals between each character read form driver 
   is less than 3ms,please perform command:
   	# setserial /dev/ttyAP* uart 8250
   Note: to achieve this purpose,baudrate of this serial port should
   be set bigger than 9600bit/s.
   If you would like to restore dirver`s original performance,perform command:
   	# setserial /dev/ttyAP* uart 16C950
   
2.7. Uninstall the driver module 
   # make uninstall

