Re: [CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

2012-01-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/06/2012 12:10 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > I'll look into building it with DKMS to make it easier to support with > future updates. There is also kmod way of building driver modules, that uses weak-updates to be available for every future kernel with same ABI/KABI automatically. ElRepo re

Re: [CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

2012-01-05 Thread Alfred von Campe
Thanks for all the pointers. I've downloaded the driver sources and compiled/installed them, and the serial ports appear to be available upon reboot (according to dmesg). I'll look into building it with DKMS to make it easier to support with future updates. Thanks again, Alfred

Re: [CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

2012-01-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/05/12 2:26 PM, Gé Weijers wrote: > The magic is called DKMS. ah, I knew it was something like that but was too lazy to look up. too many eTLA's [1] [1] enhanced Three Letter Acronyms, eg, TLA's with more than 3 letters. old IBM joke. -- john r pierceN

Re: [CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

2012-01-05 Thread Gé Weijers
The magic is called DKMS. -- Gé ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

2012-01-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/05/2012 11:10 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > I installed CentOS 6 on a Dell Optiplex 790 with a StarTech.com dual serial > port card, and the serial ports aren't being recognized. According to dmesg, > only the built-in serial port is being recognized: > > # dmesg | fgrep ttyS > serial8250: t

Re: [CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

2012-01-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/05/12 2:10 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > What do I need to do to get these serial ports recognized? random googling from that serial controller name NetMos Technology PCIe 9922 Multi-I/O Controller seems to indicate you'll need to compile the kernel driver for it, its not supporte

[CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

2012-01-05 Thread Alfred von Campe
I installed CentOS 6 on a Dell Optiplex 790 with a StarTech.com dual serial port card, and the serial ports aren't being recognized. According to dmesg, only the built-in serial port is being recognized: # dmesg | fgrep ttyS serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O