tiglusb 1.07b review

tiglusb provides a driver for the the USB version of the well-known TI-GRAPH LINK cable. Installation: Type "make clean; make;

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 62K Developer: Romain Lievin

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tiglusb provides a driver for the the USB version of the well-known TI-GRAPH LINK cable.

Installation:

Type "make clean; make; make install" for this. This will copy the module (tiglusb.o) to the correct modules directory, and will creates the special device files in /dev as well as links for insuring compatibility with 'tidev' nodes.

You may then load the module by typing the command "insmod tiser.o" as root or by typing 'make load'. You may have to adjust permissions on character devices.

Nodes are assigned as follow (independantly of their hardware address):
/dev/tiusb0 first link cable
/dev/tiusb1 second link cable
... up to 16 link cables !

If you have enabled the automount support, the module can be automagically loaded by the kernel whenever a program try to use it. For this, simply add the following line in your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modutils/arch/i386 (depending on your Linux distribution):

alias char-major-61 tipar
alias char-major-62 tiser
alias char-major-180-225 tiglusb

Until I fix it, you will have to recreate the nodes in /dev/ whenever you restart your machine. Simply do a 'make devices'. If you have enabled devfs, you don't have to worry about this.

Limitations:
You can not load simultaneously more than 1 module between tipar/tiser/tiglusb.

What's New in This Release:
This driver support the Devfs (Device File System) capability which was introduced in 2.4 kernels but superseded in 2.6 ones.
This module has an official device number now.