On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, 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 can
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:57:56PM -0800, Ed Vance wrote:
>
> Will Bryan get the proper devfs entries if he patches serial.c to
> recognize his card at kernel initialization, or is there more
> weirdness expected?
The point is that with devfs, it requires a kernel patch. And if you
have an IS
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 6:18 PM, Robert White wrote:
>
> I had a similar problem, but the actual problem had nothing
> to do with the
> devfs, the PCI serial card in question was not in the list of
> PCI devices.
> (It was a one-off P.O.S.. from CompUSA.) Neither the serial ports nor
> parallel
Whitehead
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:18 PM
To: Ed Vance
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Subject: Re: devfs + PCI serial card = no extra serial ports
> What serial driver initialization messages do you get from dmesg?
> Is the "MANY_PORTS" flag present in the list of
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 4:59 PM, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
>
> Quick question: What PCI serial port add on card works with devfs in
> kernel 2.4.19 out of the box? No pissing around?
>
> While I'm messing around with the one I got (that doesn't
> work) I need
> one that does... any suggestions??
Quick question: What PCI serial port add on card works with devfs in
kernel 2.4.19 out of the box? No pissing around?
While I'm messing around with the one I got (that doesn't work) I need
one that does... any suggestions??
Thanks to all for the help!!
Ed Vance wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 3
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:28:28PM -0800, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> I just found this:
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.2/0845.html
>
> Has this patch been accepted into the new kernel series? Or should I
> just toss this card (the NetMos PCI I/O card)?
No, and no. Try these
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 3:39 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:51:45PM -0800, 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
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:40:31PM -0800, Ed Vance wrote:
> Sure, go ahead and try the second patch that adds the Netmos cards to the
> serial driver's device tables. It is for a somewhat newer rev, but you might
> just get offsets with no failed hunks. It's worth a try.
Note that the second patch
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:51:45PM -0800, 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 th
mean that there is anything wrong with the card.
Good luck,
Ed
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I just found this:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.2/0845.html
Has this patch been accepted into the new kernel series? Or should I
just toss this card (the NetMos PCI I/O card)?
Bryan Whitehead wrote:
It seems devfsd has an annoying "feature". I bought a PCI card to get a
cou
2003 2:55 PM
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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
h 07, 2003 2:55 PM
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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 s
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
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. S
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