On 5/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">yan seiner</b> <<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
brian boyle wrote:<br><br>> Hey folks.<br>><br>> I just recently replaced my backend server with something newer and<br>> much more robust (P4D 3gig with a gig of ram and 1.25 terabytes of<br>> storage). i am very happy with the system except the fact that many
<br>> new motherboards only come with one serial port. this is the case for<br>> me and this is a problem as i am feeding my two PVR-250's from my two<br>> satellite receivers and i need the second port to change channels on
<br>> the second receiver. i bought a startech pci serial port card, but i<br>> am having trouble with it. I spoke with them and they did not have a<br>> lot to day about it and i am hoping someone here will be able to help.
<br>> when i do an LSPCI i get the following<br>><br>> 06:02.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O<br>> Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])<br>> Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Unknown device 0001
<br>> Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17<br>> I/O ports at 1070 [size=8]<br>> I/O ports at 1068 [size=8]<br>> I/O ports at 1060 [size=8]<br>> I/O ports at 1058 [size=8]<br>
> I/O ports at 1050 [size=8]<br>> I/O ports at 1040 [size=16]<br>><br>> this makes me believe that the OS is aware of the card and it is just<br>> not installing the drivers. i am including a list of /proc/modules
<br>> just in case it helps.<br>><br><br>It probably doesn't have the drivers compiled. Did you look in your<br>kernel config to see if you have non-standard serial port support built<br>as a module? I would google for 'etMos Technology PCI 9835' and see if
<br>you get any hints on what driver you need. Also make sure you have<br>support for more than 4 serial ports enabled. Look in your log files; I<br>have two Siig CyberSerial cards and depending on the slot and kernel<br>
version they have shown up as ttyS56 and ttyS57 - so if you only have<br>support for 4 serial ports you will never see them.<br><br>Serial ports and multi-io cards should be pretty much no-brainers unless<br>it's an intelligent card, like an Eicon or Digi.
<br><br>--Yan<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br>You may have to turn them on manually using the setserial command and then put that in a startup file. We use this on some of our older systems to give you an example
<br><br>setserial /dev/ttyS? port 0x????<br>setserial /dev/ttyS? -v autoconfig<br>setserial /dev/ttyS? irq ?<br><br>You have the I/O addresses and IRQ above to use and you can look in<br><br>/proc/tty/driver/serial<br><br>
to see if it sees the port.<br><br>Allan<br>