bionic (8) actctrl.8.gz

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NAME

       actctrl - configure IBM Active 2000 ISDN adaptor

SYNOPSIS

       actctrl [-d Driver-Id] action options ...

DESCRIPTION

       actctrl is used to setup the IBM Active 2000 ISDN device driver and for downloading the firmware into the
       ISDN card.

       The use of actctrl makes sense, if you are using an IBM Active 2000 card only.

OPTIONS

       -d Driver-Id
              selects the S0 interface named by Driver-Id.  Driver-Ids are defined during driver initialisation.
              See  act2000(4)  for  a description of the syntax to be used for modularized and monolithic driver
              versions.  This option must be used to identify the S0 interface if more than one S0 interface  is
              existent.  If  a  single IBM Active 2000 is used, it may be omitted.  If using more than one card,
              support for the other cards is enabled with the add action of actctrl.  Ids  may  not  start  with
              digits  or  small x, because these values are misinterpreted as numeric parameters by insmod.  For
              loading the module, always the newest modutils package should be used  to  avoid  problems  during
              load.

       The following actions may be given to actctrl.

       add [bus[ port[ irq[ id]]]]
              enables  support  for  an additional card in the driver.  bus is is an integer describing the bus-
              type of the card. Currently, the only value which is allowed here is 1  meaning  ISA-bus.  In  the
              future,  the  values  2 (for MCA) and 3 (for PCMCIA) will be available.  port is either an integer
              describing the base port, or the string auto which enables autoprobing.  irq is either an  integer
              describing  the  IRQ  to  use, the string auto, which enables grabbing of the next free IRQ or the
              string none which enables polled mode for this card.  id is an arbitrary  string  for  referencing
              the card at a later time.

       dproto protocol [msn0,msn1, ... msn9]
              selects  the  D-channel protocol and defines MSN's if using Euro protocol.  protocol may be either
              the string 1tr6 or the string euro.  If selecting Euro protocol, a comma-separated list of  up  to
              10 MSN's may be appended. For defining an empty entry in this list, use a dash.

       load firmware
              downloads  the  firmware  into  the  card and starts operation.  Usually the images are located in
              '/lib/firmware/isdn'.  The firmware is named bip1120.bpl.

       dump   is available if the program is configured using the --enable-dump option  only.  The  contents  of
              internal driver variables is dumped on stdout.

FILES

       '/lib/firmware/isdn'/bip1120.bpl
              This is the image of the firmware designed for both the German 1TR6 protocol and Euro ISDN.

BUGS

       No bugs so far.

AUTHOR

       © 1997 by Fritz Elfert <fritz@isdn4linux.de>

SEE ALSO

       isdnctrl(8), act2000(4), isdnctrl(4), ttyI(4).