On Sunday, Jan 15th 2006 at 15:29 -0600, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson:
=>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:
=>>
=>> 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
=>> 05:08.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O
=>> Controller (rev 01)
=>>
=>This is the I/O card.
=>>
=>> Is there a driver I need to modprobe? Anything I need to do?
=>>
=>> I'm lost. :-(
=>>
=>> TIA
=>>
=>The first thing you probably need is the parport_serial modual. When
=>you modprobe this modula, it may or may not create the serial ports
=>you need. I am using one on a Mandriva system, and at one time it
=>would set up the serial ports as well, but this no longer works for
=>me. I have to use setserial to set them up now. The other thing to
=>be aware of is that the ports may be /dev/ttyS4 and /dev/ttyS5.
=>Ports /dev/ttyS0 through /dev/ttyS3 are usually reserved for the
=>onboard serial ports. I am not sure how it would be handled in your
=>case.
=>
=>If you have to set the ports up by hand, you will need to run
=>"lspic -v" to get the port numbers and IRQ. You should see something
=>like this:
=>
=>02:0a.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835
=>Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01)
=> Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 1P2S
=> Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 21
=> I/O ports at 1090 [size=8]
=> I/O ports at 1098 [size=8]
=> I/O ports at 10a0 [size=8]
=> I/O ports at 10a8 [size=8]
=> I/O ports at 10b0 [size=8]
=> I/O ports at 1080 [size=16]
=>
=>The first 2 ports are the serial ports. What I did was create a file
=>/etc/rc.d/rc.serial that looks like this:
=>
=>#!/bin/bash
=>#
=>#Configure extra serial ports.
=>#
=>/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0x1090 irq 21 baud_base
=>115200 spd_normal
=>/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A port 0x1098 irq 21 baud_base
=>115200 spd_normal
=>
=>If you have to go this route, you will probably want to use ttyS0
=>and ttyS1 instead of ttyS2 and ttyS3.
Ok. Now we're talking. I do have parport_serial and parport loaded.
Knowing to look at ttyS[45] helped.
523 > setserial -a /dev/ttyS4
/dev/ttyS4, Line 4, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x8000, IRQ: 11
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
*524 > setserial -a /dev/ttyS5
/dev/ttyS5, Line 5, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x8400, IRQ: 11
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
525 >
I'm almost there. Now if I run
pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyS4 -b .
or also on ttyS5
instead of saying Unable to bind to port:
I now get the correct message:
Listening for incoming connection on /dev/ttyS5...
But if I then hit the button on the Palm, they both just hang there. Any
idea what I can do next? Is it still possible that this is not a supported
card?
TIA
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