
This is a   loadable module  for  a accton  ethernet parallel   pocket
adaptor. The adaptor  is made bu Accton in  Tawain, but  can be bought
under different names like 'Trust' 'Networld' and several others.

The  original sources were  provided by  accton.com.tw. Thank you very
much!

8390.c  and  skeleton.c were used as  starting  point Thank you Donald
Becker, excellent work!!

The driver was written by Volker Mayer Zum Bexten and me over a period
of several   months. This  version is  the  first  one  that is  being
released to the public. We hope that a lot  of people will find joy in
using the driver.

Driver   will find it's  own  IO address and irq,  but  if  you have a
strange one, you can give them as command arguments:
	insmod ethpk.o ethpk_io=0x378 ethpk_irq=7
There is a  debug level with ethpk_debug.  Turning  this on  will fill
your syslog file fast!!

The driver is at the moment still  a bit messy, but  it works.  unpack
the sources in an empty directory and compile  them by issueing 'make'
this will leave you with a loadable module 'ethpk.o'

IMPORTANT: At the moment the driver will only work when you initialize
the adaptor   first  from DOS for  example   by using the PEPKTDRV.COM
command  and then  starting  Linux by using   loadlin or  doing a warm
reboot.

What is to come?
 At the moment I have not tested the driver with 1.3.x kernels. Mainly
because I want to solve the initialization problem first. Furthermore,
some of the patches I have in the kernel (software cursor and APM-BIOS
or not yet in the 1.3.x kernel.

For problems, mail me Ron.Smits@Netherlands.attgis.com or Volker
vmzb@ediz-ulm.de.


	Happy netting!!


