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ASTRIBANK_ALLOW(8) ASTRIBANK_ALLOW(8)

NAME

astribank_allow - License Xorcom Astribank (xpp) capabilities.

SYNOPSIS

astribank_allow -D device-path [ options ]
 
astribank_allow [-h]
 

DESCRIPTION

Modern Astribanks (with USB product id's 116x) contain capabilities that may be licensed.
 
astribank_allow is used to upload/download the licensing information to/from the device.
 
Uploading a valid license file to an Astribank, changes its capabilities. The change becomes effective after a firmware reset (either by powering the device off and on again, or via the astribank_tool full reset option).
 
Downloading license from the device, produces a valid license file for its current capabilities. This may be backed up, so the device may be later restored to its previous capabilities.
 
The license file contains both a human readable description of the device capabilities for the end user and a hash of the licensing information used by Xorcom to generate/modify licensed capabilities.
 

OPTIONS

-D device-path
Required. The device to read from/write to. This is bus_num/device_num, where bus_num and device_num are the first two numbers in the output of lsusb(8) or dahdi_hardware(8). On older versions of this toolyou needed a complete path to the device, which would be /dev/bus/usb/ bus_num/device_num, or /proc/bus/usb/ bus_num/device_num.
 
-w
Write capabilities to EEPROM, otherwise read capabilities
 
-f filename
License filename (stdin/stdout if not specified)
 
-v
Increase verbosity. May be used multiple times.
 
-d mask
Set debug mask to mask. Default is 0, 0xFF is "everything".
 
-h
Displays usage message.
 

SEE ALSO

fxload(8), lsusb(8), astribank_hexload(8), astribank_tool(8)
 

AUTHOR

Alex Landau
29 March 2009