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	   ADVANTECH industial comunication cards device driver
                 Installation Guide  for  suse 9.3
	    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 |
   |----------------+----------------------+-------------+---------------|
   | suse9.3        | 2.6.11.4-20a-default |  3.3.5      | 2.3.4         |
   +----------------+----------------------+-------------+---------------+

2. Installation

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

2.2. Uncompress the driver
   # tar zxvf adv950_vM_NN_suse9.3.tar.gz
   # cd adv950_vM_NN_suse9.3

2.3. Install the driver module
   # make install 
   
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_suse9.3/adv950.ko" to
      /etc/rc.d/boot.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

