Hi Bryan, What serial driver initialization messages do you get from dmesg? Is the "MANY_PORTS" flag present in the list of enabled options? Which distribution and rev level are you using?
Ed -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Whitehead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: devfs + PCI serial card = no extra serial ports BTW, this is with 2.4.19 (kernel shipped with distro).... I'm willing to test any patches / rebuild kernel to get this working..... Bryan Whitehead wrote: > It seems devfsd has an annoying "feature". I bought a PCI card to get a > couple (2) more serial ports. The kernel doesn't seem to set up the > serial ports at boot, so devfs never creates an entry. However, post > boot, since there is no entries, I cannot configure the serial ports > with setserial. So basically devfsd = no PCI based serial add on? > > 03:05.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology 222N-2 I/O Card (2S+1P) > (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) > Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR): Unknown device > 0002 > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17 > I/O ports at ecf8 [size=8] > I/O ports at ece8 [size=8] > I/O ports at ecd8 [size=8] > I/O ports at ecc8 [size=8] > I/O ports at ecb8 [size=8] > I/O ports at eca0 [size=16] > > > mknod ttyS2 c 4 66 > mknod ttyS3 c 4 67 > setserial ttyS2 port 0xecf8 UART 16550A irq 17 Baud_base 9600 > setserial ttyS3 port 0xece8 UART 16550A irq 17 Baud_base 9600 > > I hoped after "setting up" the serial ports with setserial some magic > would happen and they would apear in /dev/tts... but I was wrong. > > gets me working serial ports... but it's not in /dev... :O > > Am I just screwed? > > If so, what would be a good add on PCI based solution for more serial > ports that WORKS with devfsd? (I don't want to disable devfs as this > opens up a different set of problems) > > Thanks for any replay! > -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
