Need help with a serial port

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Sun Jan 15 21:05:03 UTC 2006


My new 'puter came with no serial port. For $2.49 I bought a pci card that 
has two serial ports and a parallel port. I plugged the card in and 
rebooted. At boot kudzu ran but did not detect that anything new was 
going on. When I try to hook up my palm to the serial port I get this 
message:

521 > pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttys0 -b .
    Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttys0
    Please use --help for more information

Same for ttyS1.

Also, here's the output of lspci:

523 > lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)
05:08.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01)
05:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
05:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
05:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)


Is there a driver I need to modprobe? Anything I need to do?

I'm lost. :-(

TIA

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