Digi is no longer maintaining the digiecpa driver. They have a 2.6 driver (dgdm)
available at http://www.digi.com, but only for the PCI cards.
Description: Update status of digiecpa driver in MAINTAINERS.
Apply against 2.6.9.
Signed-off-by: James Nelson <[email protected]>
diff -urN --exclude='*~' linux-2.6.9-original/MAINTAINERS linux-2.6.9/MAINTAINERS
--- linux-2.6.9-original/MAINTAINERS 2004-10-18 17:54:37.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.9/MAINTAINERS 2004-10-29 19:41:30.570556137 -0400
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@
M: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
W: http://www.digi.com
-S: Maintained
+S: Orphaned
DIGI RIGHTSWITCH NETWORK DRIVER
P: Rick Richardson
Description: Update status of digiecpa driver & fix broken links in Documentation/digiecpa.txt.
Apply against 2.6.9.
Signed-off-by: James Nelson <[email protected]>
diff -urN --exclude='*~' linux-2.6.9-original/Documentation/digiepca.txt linux-2.6.9/Documentation/digiepca.txt
--- linux-2.6.9-original/Documentation/digiepca.txt 2004-10-18 17:53:06.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.9/Documentation/digiepca.txt 2004-10-29 20:03:48.968948646 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+NOTE: This driver is obsolete. Digi provides a 2.6 driver (dgdm) at
+http://www.digi.com for PCI cards. They no longer maintain this driver,
+and have no 2.6 driver for ISA cards.
+
+This driver requires a number of user-space tools. They can be aquired from
+http://www.digi.com, but only works with 2.4 kernels.
+
+
The Digi Intl. epca driver.
----------------------------
The Digi Intl. epca driver for Linux supports the following boards:
@@ -64,9 +72,6 @@
this driver REQUIRES that digiDload be executed prior to it being used.
Failure to do this will result in an ENODEV error.
-The latest version of the tool package is available at:
-ftp://ftp.dgii.com/drivers/linux/released/async/
-
Documentation:
--------------
Complete documentation for this product may be found in the tool package.
@@ -74,14 +79,8 @@
Sources of information and support:
-----------------------------------
Digi Intl. support site for this product:
--> [email protected]
-Related information and information concerning other drivers supporting
-Digi Intl. products:
-
--> FTP: ftp://dgii.com
--> Webpage: http://www.dgii.com
--> Webpage: http://lameter.com/digi
+-> http://www.digi.com
Acknowledgments:
----------------
@@ -90,3 +89,10 @@
1994,1995 Troy De Jongh. Many thanks to Christoph Lameter
([email protected]) and Mike McLagan ([email protected]) who authored
and contributed to the original document.
+
+Changelog:
+----------
+10-29-04: Update status of driver, remove dead links in document
+ James Nelson <[email protected]>
+
+2000 (?) Original Document