Enabling a four-port serial card

[Tod Merley]

On Dec 6, 2007 4:51 PM, David Scriven <davidwriter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm trying to enable a four-port serial card (you'ld be
> surprised how many pieces of equipment still have
> RS232 interfaces). I'm using Fedora 7 on a  quad-core
> Intel Q6600 machine with 4GB of memory.
>
> #/sbin/lspci -vvvx shows the following:
>
> 07:01.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9845 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
>     Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 0P4S (4 port 16550A serial card)
>     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>     Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
>     Region 0: I/O ports at 1030 [size=8]
>     Region 1: I/O ports at 1028 [size=8]
>     Region 2: I/O ports at 1020 [size=8]
>     Region 3: I/O ports at 1018 [size=8]
>     Region 4: I/O ports at 1010 [size=8]
>     Region 5: I/O ports at 1000 [size=16]
> 00: 10 97 45 98 03 00 80 02 01 02 00 07 10 20 00 00
> 10: 31 10 00 00 29 10 00 00 21 10 00 00 19 10 00 00
> 20: 11 10 00 00 01 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 04 00
> 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
>
> when I do a setserial I get this:
>
> # /bin/setserial -avg /dev/ttyS*
> /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x1030, IRQ: 21
>         Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
>         closing_wait: 3000
>         Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>
> /dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: undefined, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
>         Baud_base: 921600, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
>         closing_wait: 3000
>         Flags: spd_normal skip_test auto_irq
>
> /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x1028, IRQ: 21
>         Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
>         closing_wait: 3000
>         Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>
> /dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x1020, IRQ: 21
>         Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
>         closing_wait: 3000
>         Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>
>
> Clearly /dev/ttyS1 is not OK, but I've no idea how to
> set it up so it is OK  - I'd be grateful for any help.
>
> Thanks,
> David Scriven
>
>
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Hi David Scriven!

Googling "NetMos Technology PCI 9845 Linux" yeilded many hits.
Following are a few quickly chosen:

http://osdir.com/ml/serial/2005-03/msg00010.html

http://osdir.com/ml/serial/2005-03/msg00025.html

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/netmos-9835-controller-343063/

Would love to hear what you find!

Thanks!

Tod