Upcoming update for the Digi AccelePort drivers
I got a mail this week asking for an update of the Digi AccelePort drivers packages for Debian, which I maintain out of Debian due to license restrictions on the firmware files (if somebody from Digi reads this post, please get in touch with me so we can fix this — you only need to explicitly grant permission for redistribution).
It seems there’s a new (beta?) version out which builds on kernels >= 2.6.13. If you need to use the drivers on such a kernel, unpack dgap-source.tar.gz, do the changes to the code, and repack it. Then use module-assistant to build the modules as usual and it’ll work just fine. I’d happily provide the patch, but my development machine holding my spare AccelePort Xem died yesterday evening, and I can’t get it to work reliably for more than about 30 minutes.
I’ll package the newest version of the drivers as soon as I’ll have a replacement for this machine, which should happen RSN.
The packages can be found on http://debian.technologeek.org
PS: planet readers, sorry for the flood, my last post was my first post since I upgraded to WP 2.0. It seems to be unavoidable, crappy blogging software.