Mikkel L. Ellertson said: > 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" The command is "lspci -v" not "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. > > Mikkel -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste > good with Ketchup! > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ------------------------------------------------ David Maina. Systems/Network Administrator. PdE-Kenya. P. O. Box 1239 - 20100. Nakuru, Kenya. Telephone:+254-51-850298/850333. Cell:+254-721-950073. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "By golly, I'm beginning to think Linux really *is* the best thing since sliced bread."
