NAME

       capiinit - start or stop CAPI-capable ISDN cards

SYNOPSIS

       capiinit [OPTIONS] start | stop | show | status | prepare | reload | activate | deactivate

       capiinit [OPTIONS] activate|deactivate  cardname

       capiinit [OPTIONS] activate|deactivate  driver [cardname]

DESCRIPTION

       capiinit is called with one of the following actions:

       start  Load  all  modules  and  initialize  all  cards  (loading  the firmware), which are
              configured in /etc/capi.conf.

       stop   Reset all cards and unload modules.

       show   Show the current configuration.

       status Show the current status.

       prepare
              Load all modules.

       activate
              Initialize all cards.

       activate cardname
              Initialize one card (i.e.: c4-ec00).

       activate driver [cardnumber]
              Initialize one card.

       deactivate
              Reset all cards.

       deactivate cardname
              Reset one card (i.e.: c4-ec00).

       deactivate driver [cardnumber]
              Reset one card.

       reload Reset all cards and initialize them again.

       Firmware  files   are   searched   in   this   order   in   the   following   directories:
       /usr/share/isdn/`uname -r`, /usr/share/isdn, /usr/lib/isdn, /lib/isdn.

       There is a sample config in /etc/capi.conf.

OPTIONS

       -c filename, --config filename
              Use filename as config file (default is /etc/capi.conf).

       -d, --debug
              Save patch values for debugging purposes.

       -s, --silent
              Don't show status information.

AUTHOR

       Manpage  written  from  C  source  by Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>, updated by Matthias
       Klose <m@klose.in-berlin.de>.

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