.TH "ASTRIBANK_ALLOW" "8" "29 March 2009" "" ""

.SH NAME
astribank_allow \- License Xorcom Astribank (xpp) capabilities.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B astribank_allow \-D \fIdevice-path\fR [ options ]

.B astribank_allow [\-h]

.SH DESCRIPTION
Modern Astribanks (with USB product id's 116x) contain capabilities
that may be licensed.

.B 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 \fBastribank_tool\fR 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.

.SH OPTIONS
.B \-D
.I device-path
.RS
Required. The device to read from/write to. This is
\fIbus_num\fR/\fIdevice_num\fR, where \fIbus_num\fR and \fIdevice_num\fR
are the first two numbers in the output of lsusb(8) or dahdi_hardware(8).
On older versions of this tool you needed a complete path to the device,
which would be /dev/bus/usb/\fIbus_num\fR/\fIdevice_num\fR, or
/proc/bus/usb/\fIbus_num\fR/\fIdevice_num\fR.
.RE

.B \-w
.RS
Write capabilities to EEPROM, otherwise read capabilities
.RE

.B \-f \fIfilename\fR
.RS
License filename (stdin/stdout if not specified)
.RE

.B \-m \fInum\fR
.RS
Choose the numeric code of license markers to generate.
This code select the type of \fIBEGIN\fR.../\fIEND\fR... strings
that delimit the license body.

Valid marker codes are listed with the \fB-h\fR option.
The default (and first) code is \fB1\fR. Zero is illegal value.
.RE

.B \-v
.RS
Increase verbosity. May be used multiple times.
.RE

.B \-d \fImask\fR
.RS
Set debug mask to \fImask\fR. Default is 0, 0xFF is "everything".
.RE

.B \-h
.RS
Displays usage message.
.RE

.SH SEE ALSO
fxload(8), lsusb(8), astribank_hexload(8), astribank_tool(8)

.SH AUTHOR
Alex Landau