Need help with a serial port

[Thad Nielsen]

Steven W. Orr [steveo at syslang.net] 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
> 
You might need to activate the port in the BIOS.