Dan wrote: > I have a PCI express rs232 card made by these people: www.softio.com. In > particular I am using several ic0658kb in several machines. Dell > Poweredge 850s to be precise, using the A02 bios firmware. > > The softio people say their cards are supported in Linux, but I suspect > the 2.6 kernel's serial driver does not know/recognize the device id of > this card. > > Here is what lspci says: > <------------------[ SNIP ]----------------> > > When inspecting dmesg I notice the following, which seems relevant at > this point: > > 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 50 > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:01.0 disabled > > The softio people suggested i manually try configuring the devices with > setserial but i did not think this would work: > > setserial /dev/ttyS4 Port 0xecf8 IRQ 169 UART 16950 baud_base 115200 > setserial /dev/ttyS5 Port 0xecf0 IRQ 50 UART 16950 baud_base 115200 > > However the device nodes did not exist. > > Bit of googling shows the chip used on this card has been used in pcmcia > serial controllers, but thats of little help as this device is PCI > express. > > What do I need to do to get this card to work? Anyone know? > > Cheers, > > Dan > You can try using /dev/ttyS2 and /dev/ttyS3 instead of /dev/ttyS4 and /dev/ttyS5. Unless you have 4 serial ports on the motherboard and/or ISA cards, they are probably free. Otherwise you can create udev rules to create the device nodes. If that does not work, you may have to load the parport_serial module. I know I need it for the PCI 2 serial/1 parallel card I have before the serial ports work. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
