those who have been following the list closely may have seen my email requesting help for configuring the specialix card. Well I managed to solve the problem. This is how I did it. I have Red Hat 6.0 Kernel Version 2.2.5-15 which means that my kernel had the specialix driver as a module. Morover this distribution did not have the device file for the specialix driver. The device major number 75 & 76 has been assigned to the specialix I/O8+. So in case your distribution does not contain the device file entries you need to run the following script file cd /dev for i 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 do echo -n "$i " mknod /dev/ttyW$i c 75 $i mknod /dev/cuw$i c 75 $i done echo "" If you have only one card then you need to create only 8 device file entry but this script creates 32 entries. This is required if you attach 4 cards which is the maximum. If you are running the driver as a module then check your conf.modules file. If your distribution doesn't already have these lines in /etc/modules.conf (or the older /etc/conf.modules), you can add: alias char-major-75 specialix alias char-major-76 specialix to your /etc/modules.conf, to allow autoloading of the io8+ driver the moment that a reference is made to one of the ttys. You also need to add the following lines to your /etc/inittab file kd::sysinit:/sbin/kerneld This will load kerneld at system initilisation so that it can load the correct driver. If you are planning to connect virtual terminals to the multiport card then you need to add the following lines to your /etc/inittab l2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttyW0 ...so on... Prasenjit. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
