Meilhaus me4000

Hi,

I do not know, whether my problem can be fixed or I reached the final
looser possition :-(

I installed RTAI (cvs volcano aka 3.3) (kernel 2.6.15-r4) and comedi
as well as comedilib (cvs) on a gentoo box successfully. Now the
problem is that some firmware is apparently needed by my meilhaus card
4660i.

As the readme for the binary firmware says the support is broken: 

The me4000_firmware.bin file should be uploaded to your 
Meilhaus ME-4000 family board using the -i or --init-data option of
comedi_config.  However, at the time of this writing (2005-03-18)
the driver support for firmware upload is broken.

Without the upload of the firmware it seems impossible to run the
driver. Does anyone have a clue how to make this card run?

I append some output from the shell for additional informations.

Thanks for help in advance
Petrik


fprak7 me4000 # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
radeon                 97440  1
drm                    60308  2 radeon
fprak7 me4000 # modprobe me4000
fprak7 me4000 # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
me4000                 19072  0
comedi                 32832  1 me4000
rtai_hal               29560  1 comedi
radeon                 97440  1
drm                    60308  2 radeon
fprak7 me4000 # ls -l
total 972
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    187 Mar 19  2005 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    243 Mar 19  2005 README
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 145027 Mar 19  2005 generate_firmware
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    293 Mar 19  2005 main.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 130028 Mar 19  2005 me4000_firmware.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 691997 Mar 19  2005 me4000_fw.h
fprak7 me4000 # /usr/local/sbin/comedi_config /dev/comedi0 me4000 -i me4000_firmware.bin
Configure failed!: Input/output error
Check kernel log for more information
Possible reasons for failure:
  Driver not found
fprak7 me4000 # cat /var/log/kernel/current
Feb 18 14:07:48 [kernel] I-pipe: Domain RTAI registered.
Feb 18 14:07:48 [kernel] RTAI[hal]: <3.3> mounted over IPIPE-NOTHREADS 1.2-00.
Feb 18 14:07:48 [kernel] PIPELINE layers:
Feb 18 14:07:48 [kernel] d087bc80 9ac15d93 RTAI 200
Feb 18 14:07:48 [kernel] c0313780 0 Linux 100
Feb 18 14:07:48 [kernel] comedi: version 0.7.70 - David Schleef <ds_at_schleef.org>
Feb 18 14:07:48 [kernel] rt_pend_tq: RT bottom half scheduler initialized OK
Feb 18 14:40:58 [kernel] comedi0: me4000: me4000_probe(): Found ME-4660i at PCI bus 0, slot 9
Feb 18 14:40:58 [kernel] comedi0: me4000: xilinx firmware unavailable due to licensing, aborting
Feb 18 14:40:58 [kernel] comedi0: me4000: me4000_probe(): Can't download firmware
Feb 18 14:40:58 [kernel] Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000ec00-0000ec7f>
Feb 18 14:40:58 [kernel] Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000e800-0000e8ff>
Feb 18 14:40:58 [kernel] Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000e400-0000e40f>
Feb 18 14:40:58 [kernel] Trying to free nonexistent resource <dfffff00-dfffffff>

Received on 2006-02-18Z15:43:15