============= Comedi Enabled Linux Kernel for EMAC OE ============= 

This is a Comedi enabled kernel for the EMAC-OE-i486 firmware.  Comedi
is a set of drivers  which can be used to connect  to a variety of DAQ
(Data Acquisition) boards.  The homepage for Comedi can be found here:

http://www.comedi.org/



Installation:
------------

The following steps must be performed to install this kernel on the target machine:

 * Boot the target machine and log into it as root.

 * Determine its IP address with the following command:

     $ ifconfig eth0

 * Ensure the / partition is mounted read-write:

     $ mount -o remount,rw /

 * Copy linux-2.6.30.10-EMAC-OE-i486.tar.bz2 from your workstation onto the target machine.
   For instance, with ssh, you would run:

     $ scp linux-2.6.30.10-EMAC-OE-i486.tar.bz2 root@TARGET_IP_ADDRESS:/root/

    NOTE: The $'s in this document just indicate the prompt, and
          should not actually be typed.

 * Unpack the image into the root directory, /

    On the target machine, type:

     $ cd /
     $ bzip2 -cd /root/linux-2.6.30.10-EMAC-OE-i486.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

    Watch for errors during the unpacking.  If any are observed, do the following:

     $ sync
     $ bzip2 -cd /root/linux-2.6.30.10-EMAC-OE-i486.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

    The second invocation of the bzip2 command will usually work fully if the first didn't
    succeed for every file.

 * Tell the bootloader, lilo, about the new kernel:

     $ lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf

 * Ensure the changes were written to disk:

     $ sync

 * Reboot:

     $ reboot

 * Tell the kernel to update its driver information database:

     $ depmod -a

That's it!  You should now have a working, Comedi enabled system.

To test loading the Comedi driver, execute the following commands:

  $ modprobe comedi
  $ lsmod | grep comedi

If the second command showed comedi loaded, then the procedure completed successfully.

To make use of the Comedi drivers, the Comedi libraries will have to be downloaded and
installed from the Comedi website.  The libraries aren't distributed by default by EMAC
because of the optional capabilities a user may wish to install alongside Comedilib.

The Comedi website has information about this at:

http://www.comedi.org/download.html




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All rights reserverd.