On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 16:05 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > My new 'puter came with no serial port. For $2.49 I bought a pci card that > has two serial ports and a parallel port. I plugged the card in and > rebooted. At boot kudzu ran but did not detect that anything new was > going on. When I try to hook up my palm to the serial port I get this > message: > Also, here's the output of lspci: > 05:08.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01) Hi Steven, The above device is, in all likelihood, your PCI serial card and a quick Google search turns up: http://winterwolf.co.uk/pciio which provides patches for older 2.4.x kernels. I don't know whether the driver you need is included in current Fedora 2.6.x kernels but at least you now know the names to look for using Google. I think your two options are: - [difficult] get help building a kernel or a kernel module that has the driver you need - [probably much easier] buy a serial card that has Linux support (a Google search for "+linux PCI RS-232 card" returns many suppliers who, if you read their card descriptions, provide Linux-compatible cards) Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: eh3@xxxxxxx ed@xxxxxxx URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ phone: 617-253-0098 fax: 617-253-4464
