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            Perle-Serial EEPROM programming utility for Linux
              Copyright (C) 2004-2006, Perle Sytems Limited.
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  Driver release    : 1.0.0
  Date              : April 2008
  O/S Compatibility : Linux with kernels at 2.6.x

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Introduction
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  The following Perle-Serial cards may be captured by the native serial driver
  in the Linux kernel:

    Speed1 LE 
    Speed2 LE
    Speed1 LE Express
    Speed2 LE Express
    UltraPort1 Express
    UltraPort2 Express

  This utility will reprogram the eeprom on these cards to change the PCI
  sub-class from "Serial" to "MultiPort Serial". The native serial driver will 
  no longer capture these cards and they will then work with the Perle-Serial 
  driver for Linux.
   
  
Installation and Use
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  The perle-serial utility is supplied as source code in a compressed tar file 
  with the following name:

     psutils-<version>.tgz

  Copy this file to a directory (i.e. /tmp) and perform the following 
  commands to compile and run the utility:

     cd /tmp
     tar -zxf psutils-<version>.tgz
     cd psutils-<version>
     make
     ./psutils
	

  The utility will detect all the affected Perle-Serial cards that are 
  installed on the system and update the eeproms from files included with 
  this utility.
	

Release History
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 Version     Description
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 1.0.0      * Initial release for Speed LE and UltraPort Express cards. 1 and
               2 port only.


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