Steven W. Orr [steveo@xxxxxxxxxxx] 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: > > 521 > pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttys0 -b . > Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttys0 > Please use --help for more information > > Same for ttyS1. > > Also, here's the output of lspci: > > 523 > lspci > 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev > a3) > 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3) > 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2) > 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2) > 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3) > 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio > Controller (rev a2) > 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2) > 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev > f3) > 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev > f3) > 00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2) > 00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) > 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) > 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) > 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) > 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] > (rev a2) > 05:08.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O > Controller (rev 01) > 05:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 > [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) > 05:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 > Controller (PHY/Link) > 05:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit > Ethernet Controller (rev 13) > > > Is there a driver I need to modprobe? Anything I need to do? > > I'm lost. :-( > > TIA > You might need to activate the port in the BIOS.
