Thats all good advice thanks i will try the and if that does not work i will try the idea that were presented my some of fine folks in the orginal posting.<br><br>Thanks all. I will report back so that other may also benefit from this experiance. ;-)
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick</b> <<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 31/05/06, brian boyle <<a href="mailto:homepvr@gmail.com">homepvr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hey folks.<br>><br>> I just recently replaced my backend server with something newer and much<br>> more robust (P4D 3gig with a gig of ram and
1.25 terabytes of storage). i am<br>> very happy with the system except the fact that many new motherboards only<br>> come with one serial port. this is the case for me and this is a problem as<br>> i am feeding my two PVR-250's from my two satellite receivers and i need the
<br>> second port to change channels on the second receiver. i bought a startech<br>> pci serial port card, but i am having trouble with it. I spoke with them and<br>> they did not have a lot to day about it and i am hoping someone here will be
<br>> able to help. when i do an LSPCI i get the following<br>><br>> 06:02.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller<br>> (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 not<br>> installing the drivers. i am including a list of /proc/modules just in case
<br>> it helps.<br><br>(Normally you may not see your own messages on the list until someone<br>replies to them. You can check the gossamer archives to make sure<br>though ;-) )<br><br>Are you seeing any /dev/ttySx devices being created?
<br><br>## ll /dev/ttyS*<br><br>What does your syslog say?<br><br>grep "ttyS" /var/log/messages<br><br>I might try disabling the onboard serial port and see if this helps at all.<br><br>Nick<br><br>--<br>MythTV Official wiki:
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