I have a four RS-232 port PCI card in addition to the motherboards 2 RS-232 ports. It works fine with FC2. It's a Lava Quattro-PCI. It did require editing a config file, but the Lava website explains exactly how to do it (and it's pretty easy). What cards are you using? On Thu, 2004-21-10 at 17:11 -0700, Dave Close wrote: > I've recently tried to use two different brands of 8-port PCI serial > cards in an FC2 machine. It didn't work and I was forced to downgrade > the machine to FC1. This is a heads-up if you want to try anything > similar. > > The machine has two on-board serial ports, ttyS0 and ttyS1, and a PCI > modem card, ttyS4. When the 8-port card is added to the system, it fails > to notice the modem and starts numbering ports with ttyS4. But it only > goes to ttyS7 and then wraps around. It does notice that 0 and 1 are > already in use so it allocates ttyS2 and ttyS3. Then it stops, giving > me only six new ports and losing the modem. > > With cooperation from one of the vendors, we tried to work around the > problem using setserial. All attempts to assign any of the new ports to > ttyS8 and above failed. While the FC2 distribution creates device nodes > for ttyS8 and many others with higher numbers, it appears impossible to > actually use those nodes. > > If this is a known issue, is it expected to be fixed with FC3? > -- > Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA "You ain't goin' nowhere, son." > dave@xxxxxxxxxxx, +1 714 434 7359 -- Grand Ole Opry manager to > dhclose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Elvis Presley, 1954 >
