Need help with a serial port

[Bill Perkins]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> 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
> 

Ok, for starters, the new card is the NetMos Technology PCI 9835 
Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01). You might want to google for "PCI 9835", 
or see if you can track down the website of the manufacturer.

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